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Maybe it depends more on the vicinity to others' back yards... ?

Every time I see a strandbeest[1] on the beach somewhere, I wonder to myself why it hasn't got an array of trebuchet included, also recharged by the wind, to pick up sand balls and throw at people.

Just for the fun of it. Pure whimsy.

[1] - https://www.strandbeest.com/

>the IDF put Israeli soldiers lives on the line to avoid civilian casualties.

Ah, I get it, you're talking about Israeli casualties, not innocent Palestinian children civilians.

They do need to put boots on the ground (which they've already carpet bombed), they do need to send warnings to the innocent people they are about to murder.

For the PR, which is necessary to the purpose of ethnically cleansing Gaza, unimpeded by the rest of the worlds' moral compass.

Why is it silly?

They've been convincing women that its empowering to smoke cigarettes for a long time, too.

> the IDF put Israeli soldiers lives on the line to avoid civilian casualties.

Nonsense.

People hate children being murdered more than anything else. The fact you can't see that is because, you yourself, have a hatred mask on.

Fact - he said exactly this:

“It’s no secret, I disagree with the prime minister," he said. “I think targeted assassinations should be carried out in Gaza, taking down 30 to 40 every night,” said the far-right Israeli lawmaker.

“Not just those who pose an immediate threat, there are people there who are not worthy of life. They shouldn’t live. They’re not even people,” added Ben-Gvir.

...

"Terrorist" is just the 21st century replacement for the n-word, which racists can't use openly any more, so they invented a new word.

The bodies of dead children speak for themselves.

They view certain components of "The West" as their enemy - indeed, the very organizations which conduct the same operations against the Russian people.

I like to think he's in some wealthy parlor somewhere, sequestered away, bringing mirth and humanity to an elite few who need it most of all.

The first really usable Linux release was way before 1999.

"cryptobro" is just a useless, troglodytic slur.

> Nobody makes money out of this

Not true, you can make money with any new technology if you apply your tool-using hat and dissuade the inner cannibal rage.

>Have yet to see one 100% vibe-slopped thing that features these criteria and isn't an abomination of maintenance.

Thats on you, homie. You won't see what you can't confront.

Putting it on my list - thanks for that, looks like a great watch.

AI/ML myopia is about as useful as Linux-myopia was in the 90's. Its here, its not going anywhere, it is getting widespread adoption.

Slop is real, but then so are accurate, timely, and well delivered products. Its up to the human, not the tool - same as it ever was.

You've made your decision. You're kicking your own ass.

In my collection I have an Oric Atmos which was used for 40 years as a membership and fuel-tracking terminal for a motorcycle club. It was in this capacity, extremely useful to 250 members of the club, who would ride their motorbikes out into the countryside, unlock the clubhouse, type in their name, their fuel use, their mileage in a few simple keystrokes, turn it off, lock up the clubhouse again, and go on their merry way. They did this for 40 years before someone suggested they replace it with an Android tablet, with a web page, and all the latest bells and whistles.

It was donated to my collection after the tablet was integrated .. but of course, the membership and fuel-tracking capabilities of the club are now radically degraded, nobody can get the web page working any more, no data is being recorded by the club, and the whole thing was a fiasco.

That Atmos is still quite useful for that function. It still works, just as reliably as it has, for 40 years. The only reason it was taken out of service was because the consumer-/consumption- culture was applied to it - it was not 'new', it was 'old', it therefore needed to be replaced with 'something modern'. Indeed, if the utility question was asked properly - as you have done - the machine would still be there, functioning just as well as it had for decades.

Its not a hobby. Its a bet that, in the future, 'old computers' will find new uses. Every single one of the systems in my collection can find new users. The users just have to discard the consumer-/consumption neurosis which afflicts everyone ruled by the "new bar of soap" conundrum.

>But there's nothing noble about using AI and expensive modern GPUs to get 5% more juice out of old hardware.

I disagree with you completely, but then I focus on the user, not the use. There's a distinct difference. It is entirely noble to use a computing system for which there is absolutely no possibility that it be subverted for displaying ads or piping the data through an unknown third-party entity, for example, to maintain a private membership database and associated data logging ..

On the other hand, the retro- computing scene is a perfect example of how AI/ML can really, really improve things - and anyone being myopic about it would get a serious kick in the ass if they take an honest look at the improvements being made...

I have every computing platform I've ever hacked on since 1978, sitting in my room in the form of a retro-computing collection - portions of which I have exhibited over the last few years, to the tune of a 40,000+ visitors.

As a systems analyst/programmer with 40+ years of experience, I have lived by the mantra that "technology doesn't get old - its users do", and that "every computer that was ever built is still just as useful as the very first moment it was ever powered on - all it needs is a user". These are radical maxims, its true - flying in the face of consumption culture - but it has resulted in another phenomenon, especially true now in the age of AI/ML: old computers can always become more useful through optimization.

A case in point, one of my favourite systems is the Oric-1/Atmos computer - an also-ran 8-bit system from the heigh days of personal computing, before the IBM PC took off. It is now possible, with AI/ML, to write extremely optimized software for this platform which really push its limits into new, creative territory.

As AI/ML make proton-/electron-basedknowledge less intangible, the actual atoms are useful again.

It is the physicality of the device, not the knowledge about it, which matters now.

I operate on an extremely elevated awareness of the idea of optimizing the bloat out of these older systems, using AI/ML tooling. Things are getting less and less sub-optimal, in the 'older technology hardware' department - we are able to really optimize software for these systems, now.

I think anyone with an interest in computing, should have a few retro computers in their collection - and they should be running modern software on it. Old computers do not die - their users do. There will always be a user for a computer, old or new. The distinction is entirely arbitrary, human.

See also, the influx of spooks into various hackerspaces during the Snowden/Assange era. I truly believe there was an effort to subvert these communities, and thats what happened.

This is excellent advice - do you have any more recommendations? I'd really love to dig deeper into this branch of cinema, it seems an opportunity for quite some cultural enlightenment.

What you describe is a distinctly Euro-centric, imperial viewpoint.

However 80,000 years of original caretaker habitation demonstrates that indeed, stasis with the landscape is attainable.

They took far better care of the land than we do, and they lived in multiple eras of plenty and prosperity. Scientifically demonstrable, even.

Wat, no SpectreVR?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectre_(1991_video_game)

An oversight. This was one of the very first viable multiplayer network games and it definitely belongs in the list ..

You will find the 10-line Basic Programming Competition quite useful in your endeavours, I'd wager:

https://gkanold.wixsite.com/homeputerium/rules-2026

Some seriously great stuff in there - take the time to go through the archives, set up emulators for the winning systems, and study the results. Its one great resource for the budding 8-bit coder ..

And if you're looking for modern hardware that will get you into the scene, the ZX Spectrum Next is pretty badass - has many cores for other systems available as well, so you're not just limited to Spectrum things ..

https://www.specnext.com/

They're geoglyphs, which are symbols encoded in the earth.

In the audio/synth world, the lower bound is 8ms, as in, anything above this can become bothersome to the musician. I've heard it stated that this is also the threshold for fighter pilot control systems providing feedback.

I see you are very uninformed about the original caretakers of the Australian continent .. who very definitely cultivated the land so that there was an abundance of food safety for all. They were a lot more altruistic, also, about how they prepared food - leaving things in place for any forthcoming caretakers that would enter the region.

See also, the Australian landscape - which early Europeans were certain had been cultivated by some lost tribe of Israel, since it was so pristine, plentiful, and food was abundant.

That lasted about 5 years after contact, and 20 years later it was all a waste.

The original caretakers were robbed of abundance and plenty.

If nothing else, this case definitely points out the flaws in various architecture decisions that Apple have made, in terms of iOS multi-user functions.

It is extremely smelly that Apple doesn't isolate personal versus business accounts in its HR practices. Its also pretty lame that a multi-user operating system has been lobotomized to sell more hardware in that sense.

I just took a bicycle ride on purpose-built paths across Vienna from one of its western most districts out to the Danube Island, and along the way I passed multiple parks, in full use by the residents of the city, escaping the sweltering heat ... from the small gardens around the Ring, to Stadtpark, and out into the Prater reserve .. I even saw folks riding their horses in a lake of the Prater reserve, something I haven't seen in a city in a while.

Last weekend there was a free concert (PopFest) put on for all to enjoy.

It struck me, as I was riding through one of the worlds' most livable cities, that the careful planning for all of these locations was done a hundred or more years ago .. and that the love of the city's planners for the city's population is clearly evident. Whether its the open fountains, fresh water supplies, well maintained and curated lawns and gardens, easy and accessible public transportation, or the incredible asset to city-dwellers sanity that is the Danube Island, its very clear that this is a city which cares about its people.

And I've seen it all over Europe, too.

In the USA, where I lived for 15 years before this - we had the benefit of enduring hourly commutes, twice a day, on elevated platforms above the concrete jungle, and dare you ever left that commute to explore the neighborhoods usually ignored, there is not much public space to be had that wasn't occupied by misery.

Its a stark contrast in care on the part of the governments involved. I'll take Vienna's park-loving social system over that of LA or SF, any day.

Just because its C++ doesn't mean it'll crash, come on, that's just lazy thinking. It could just as well mean that it will be rock solid and industrial strength. After all, a heck of a lot of very important life-critical systems run on C++ ..

.. so thats freely available, but the question is whether UNA are making that source available too .. would be fantastic if they did!