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Embedded Linux wrangler & GP R&D lab rat

daryl.bunce@gmail.com

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Rediscover··on Docker is weird
Referencing bicycles and Dr. Albert Hofmann?
Rediscover··on OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router
About the Nintendo Switch 2: Maybe try perusing https://www.reddit.com/r/NintendoSwitch/comments/1l3vqkv/sol...

Uni has an adapter for USB to Ethernet (if wired is an option) that works with those Nintendo devices, I have one that an extended family member borrowed (unknown if the Switch was a 1 or 2).

Rediscover··on Nearly 50 Years Later, WKRP in Cincinnati Becomes a Real Radio Station
WKRP's handling of the Who concert at Riverfront Coliseum (Cincinnati, 1979) really sticks out in my memory.

The radio station was portrayed as promoting a big concert through most of that episode, barely mentioning The Who by name that I recall, and it seemed like a "normal" installment for the first part of the television programme. The latter minutes somberly dealt with the tragedy and tried to bring attention to problems with "festival" (general admission) seating for such venues.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Who_concert_disaster

A search says WKRP "In Concert" episode is viewable at https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qSeWECDb3YM

Edit: s/never/barely/;s/20 minutes or so/part/

Rediscover··on MacBook Neo Deep Dive: Benchmarks, Wafer Economics, and the 8GB Gamble
OpenBSD has had support for a bit over four years (v7.1, though the earlier v7.0 had /some/ support).

OpenBSD 7.1, 2022-04-21 -- https://www.openbsd.org/71.html

R/AsahiLinux posting from around that time, only one comment -- https://www.reddit.com/r/AsahiLinux/comments/u8rb2o/openbsd_...

Rediscover··on Michigan 'digital age' bills pulled after privacy concerns raised
I thought I read something similar in Levy's book "Hackers" but the following is from https://www.gnu.org/gnu/rms-lisp.en.html

"It was Bernie Greenberg, who discovered that it was [2]. He wrote a version of Emacs in Multics MacLisp, and he wrote his commands in MacLisp in a straightforward fashion. The editor itself was written entirely in Lisp. Multics Emacs proved to be a great success—programming new editing commands was so convenient that even the secretaries in his office started learning how to use it. They used a manual someone had written which showed how to extend Emacs, but didn't say it was a programming. So the secretaries, who believed they couldn't do programming, weren't scared off. They read the manual, discovered they could do useful things and they learned to program."

Rediscover··on Ode to the AA Battery
The NITECORE UM10 is an "in/out" charger too - it handles various sized LiIon batteries one-at-a-time. A switch on the end determines if it is charging or discharging. Their site says it's discontinued, but I thought I recently saw them at a shop in Seattle. Time to pick up a spare.

https://charger.nitecore.com/product/um10

Rediscover··on OpenBSD-current now runs as guest under Apple Hypervisor
Who else was rdev'ing the Linux kernel to tell it where the root ext2(?) partition was long before they were using RAM disks? Like with SLS or MCC?
Rediscover··on Assorted less(1) tips
Maybe I missed it, is there no love for the piping to an external command?

I set a mark, move to somewhere else, then save the area between where I am and the mark: ma(assign mark "a" to position), jjj(move three lines away), |a(pipe from current-position to the "a" mark then a ! prompt appears so enter...) cat >somefile (which dumps the selected text, cur-pos to mark "a", into somefile).

That was great for saving snippets of news or emails.

Also, the -j setting. Sets the line position for searches so context is available, eg using -j8 means the search is 8 lines from the top of the screen.

Rediscover··on Texas is suing all of the big TV makers for spying on what you watch
I've been led to believe those video thumbprints exist, but I know the hash of the perceived audio is often all that is needed for a match of what is currently being presented (movie, commercial advert, music-as-music-not-background, ...).
Rediscover··on Who still uses cash?
Cash-only here. I have not (generally) accepted pennies since the mid 1980's.

Many of the local places (Seattle - Belltown & the Market) are cool with rounding transactions to the nearest dollar, so that helps. It might also be part of being an active participant in the local society.

Rediscover··on KDE Connect: Enabling communication between all your devices
> Why Slackware specifically?

To me, coming from Unix, it's mostly sane.

Rediscover··on Study of 1M-year-old skull points to earlier origins of modern humans
> ... vocal cord development ...

I've read, from a few separate sources that were not research papers, something similar that claimed the development was a result of existing in semi-aquatic environments such as home on land but swimming for food/safety. I neither agree or disagree (not my field, I don't possess appropriate background/information), but I do think of it when evolution of vocal cords is mentioned.

I don't recall the sources ATM, possibly something out of CoEvolution Quarterly or Bucky Fuller. Again, not research papers.

Rediscover··on IBM Intellistation 185 AIX workstation (2016)
> crappy java UI wizard

Nicely put (oof!). I believe it also enforced a minimal color depth, which none of our machines could directly support on their own hardware, forcing the use of remote X11 displays.

Rediscover··on CATL launches LFP battery with 470 miles range and 10-minute charging
OLPC XO1 and the MNT Reform both use LiFePO4.
Rediscover··on The Onion brought back its print edition and the gamble is paying off
Print subscription - $99 (or pay more) / year:

https://membership.theonion.com/

Rediscover··on RIP Shunsaku Tamiya, the man who made plastic model kits a global obsession
Jack Parsons' Lab?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Parsons

Rediscover··on My Lights Run on Bash
It's time for me to re-read the man page for bash. I was not aware of BASH_REMATCH, wow. It's in the first snippet on the linked page, and would save the hassle of using multiple var expansions of the %% and ## et al sort.
Rediscover··on Why do all browsers' user agents start with "Mozilla/"? (2008)
And all heavy lynx users know about changing that on the fly to Mozilla for screwy websites that claim they won't work with lynx. I'm happy that I am encountering such behavior less and less over time.
Rediscover··on Why do all browsers' user agents start with "Mozilla/"? (2008)
There's a better explanation in the last comment on the page You linked.

ISTR that Netscape used to have in it's README or INSTALL (or maybe an "about"-like menu entry) a note that the name of the browser is pronounced Mozilla while only being spelled N-E-T-S-C-A-P-E.

Rediscover··on Curate your shell history
Thanks for the formatted/expanded:) repost!
Rediscover··on Android 16 is here
Or maybe like when the virtual desktop is larger than the viewport? OLVWM-ish.
Rediscover··on Curate your shell history
Two prehensile thumbs up - your HISTCONTROL or

HISTIGNORE='m:??:info STARHERE:info:[bf]g:exit:[bf]g %[0-9]:help STARHERE:date:cal:cal ????:exec env ENV\STARHERE' (replace STARHERE with an asterisk)

generally works for me in bash(1).

Rediscover··on The curious tale of Bhutan's playable record postage stamps (2015)
Interesting! Now I'm wondering if Leighton or Feynman was aware of these stamps (my ddg/google-fu is bad today).
Rediscover··on Fan Service
> ...survive repeated spilling of drinks on their keyboard...

Panasonic's "Let's Note" series, too. Their machines from ~2002 were quite impressive to me.

Rediscover··on Internet in a Box
The closest I found, which partially matches my memory, was from SOS Children that claims "This selection of articles from Wikipedia matches the UK National Curriculum ..." and "... we’ve checked all the articles, tidied them up a bit, ..."

https://web.archive.org/web/20171022101730/http://schools-wi...

Rediscover··on Internet in a Box
Didn't England or GB do (does?) a curated dump precisely for that purpose? I'll pull up the info tonight if no one else chimes in.
Rediscover··on Emacs Lisp Elements
Lynx is a web browser, bookmarking a page is done by hitting "adX" as in (a)dd (d)ocument to file (X). Or (a)dd (l)ink to (X). Nice and quick. The X is usually a lower case ASCII letter corresponding to a file. You can enable this mode (and the specific bookmark files) in lynx's config file. The Emacs extension uses the same keystrokes and, optionally, the same files.

Alleviations are (I'm intentionally vague here) for getting rid of finding a link, clicking through, repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat, just to get to where I need to be (like adding an update to a ticket). I usually only automate processes that are intended for use by mouse/pointer-driving users with an ability to comprehend what (and where) icons are - I have a self-imposed problem withe former and a physically/mentally imposed hard time with the latter.

Rediscover··on Emacs Lisp Elements
> What are the things you’ve written in elisp that have helped you?

Usually tools to alleviate working with dumbass web-based (supposedly needing the corporate-approved browser) stuff for $DAY-JOB.

Oh, and an extension to allow emacs-w3m to handle lynx-style multibookmarks.

Rediscover··on I maintain a 17 year old ThinkPad
Older ThinkPad (pre-2008) snob checking in. The only recent laptops with decent keyboards (that I have found) are from MNT Research.

https://mntre.com/

Rediscover··on Why I run FreeBSD for my home servers (2024)
Yes. Boeing Onboard Network System (ONS) running on the Network File Server (NFS)?

It and its 787 sibling are highly customized Linux distros.

Aircraft include the 747-8, 787, some 737, ...

http://www.b737.org.uk/flightinstsmax-maint.htm

https://www.teledynecontrols.com/en-us/Product%20Brochures/T...

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