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PilotJeffon GPT-5.5

So exhausted from all this endless bs…. Keep releasing , this reminds me of all the .com software during that era where wow we are already at version 3.0 it’s only been 60 Days

PilotJeffon Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email

BRING IT ON

PilotJeffon Cyber.mil serving file downloads using TLS certificate which expired 3 days ago

Can you live without your immune system? Sure, for a little while. It’s the defense against man in the middle and many other things.

PilotJeffon Photos capture the breathtaking scale of China's wind and solar buildout

We are so done, and are going to be forced to instead fight the rest of the world for the remaining oil left if we don’t wake up. It may even be too late.

PilotJeffon Claude Opus 4.5

More blowing up of the bubble with anthropic essentially offering compute/LLM for below cost. Eventually the laws of physics/market will take over and look out below.

PilotJeffon Microsoft makes Zork open-source

I would love to see the Apple ][ source code made available for a lot of these classic games. In this case what I really want to see is the Z-Engine or interpreter itself not essentially the data files only.

PilotJeffon A gentle introduction to CP/M

This brings me back to the code I wrote in Paradox (an early 80s database, I used the version Borland put out just after buying the company that wrote it) for our family music shop rental billing.

For some reason my 16 year old brain thought the Dec Rainbow was a cool machine so we bought one despite the awful shopping experience that DEC provided for non large enterprises.

It was a cool machine in that it could run both CP/M (what Paradox would run on) and MS-DOS because it had a z80 as well as some early x86 variant. The drives could also read both formats too.

PilotJeffon At 17, Hannah Cairo solved a major math mystery

This math stuff is corrupting our youth.

Besides how can she just skip college and go right into a PhD? She hasn’t even taken intro to Sociology or poetry yet.

PilotJeffon Ask HN: Am I getting older or did typing on the iPhone become unbearable?

Something absolutely has changed in the last couple of iOS major releases. I have noticed it as well around iOS 14 or so. I also feel like Siri (voice recognition for dictation of messages, etc) has deteriorated as well. It is getting to the point where I am considering moving to Android just based on my experience with that.