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Hah?

I miss making monthly trips to the local university library as a child. I would have some infatuation, often related to electronics or programming, and would get a big book on it and just dive in for a few weeks. There were magazines on microfilm. It felt like a privilege to get that information. You had to wait to get to it and would only possess it for a while. The ideas would simmer for long stretches without any ability to instantly cross-check your information or get clarifications or feedback on work. Trite, I know, but I feel joy just thinking about that whole experience.

We need the kind of populace that will care about - and demand - federated communications immune to censorship. Until then, we're entitled only to continue consuming garbage.

I'm genuinely curious. Can you elaborate?

Cite evidence.

It's never been a better time to start consuming less. Let's drive that demand way, way down.

You are an inspiration, Cliff! I also read your book as a child in the early 90s. I had dreams of hanging out in Berkeley and hacking on Unix. I eventually did both, and it has shaped my whole career. I've been blessed. My son is a big fan of yours, too. I'm going to show him this talk. Thank you for all that you do!

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The article seems to state as much minus the obfuscation. However justified they are to respond, this can be a slippery slope. We're bound to hear more reports of hidden user data exfiltration.

This show captures much of what I miss about computing in the 80s and 90s. You could get your hands on hardware, be able to largely understand what all the hardware and software was doing. You mostly used computers as tools, which only accepted commands and didn't try to affect your decisions or workflow (yes, there was Clippy). The leaps forward in computing power, memory and storage were more impactful to the everyday user. There was a sense of wonder, and it didn't envelop your and everyone's life. Most of all, we weren't yet slaves to our computers, and they weren't devices crafted to endlessly grab your attention by any means necessary.

The enforcement of read-only protection for pagecache pages (and the scatterlists and or other structures they point to) seems to be diffuse and incredibly fragile.

I was expecting to read about flame retardants in car seats causing infertility.

The imports themselves may be dynamic. I once did a little review of dependencies in a venv that had everything to run pytorch llama. The number of imports gated by control flow or having a non-constant dependency was nontrivial.

Two words: Fabrice Bellard

Much like you also have a robust choice of cereals at the supermarket.

I miss the people of her generation. I feel like we could use their perspective, experience and fortitude right now. I sure miss their music too...even though Bird Lives.

I might relate to this, but I also spent more time talking to friends on the phone 20 years ago. The perception of this greatness can't be disentangled from the experience of youth.

I like to think that the enthusiasm for retro computing can make a clearing for innovative things to happen. I imagine such an environment can support values that aren't normally represented in fashionable, modern, commercial technology of today.

That is impressive. It certainly shows what is possible _if_ you are familiar enough with the intricacies of modern C++. I'm not sure how I feel about a workflow where one needs to continually address "overhead" introduced by the language environment.

I've found adherence to C++ conventions in low-level software to be a rather contentious issue, mostly recently when working in an ML compiler group. One set abhorred the use of macros, the other any kind of polymorphism or modern C++ feature.

Coming from a background of working with OS kernels and systems software, I don't mind the kind of explicit "C++ lite" style used by the OP. Left to my own devices, I usually write things that way. I would think twice if I was trying to design a large framework, but ... I try to avoid those.

In such a case as this, yes. Not every systems product is designed to exfiltrate your data.

Is USD 1-1.2k for a clean, recapped Amiga 1200, with newest ROMs, updated PS and TF '030 accelerator horrifying? If so, call me a fool!

(FWIW, I acquired mine two years ago, and it looks like recent sales on ebay are in the same ballpark...)

> The beauty of this, despite the bad views on blockchain, is that they freaking sped up the cryptography of commonly used algorithms more than anything open or closed source that I personally am aware of.

For users that have AVX-512, which isn't widely available (AMD Zen 4 / Zen 5, Sapphire Rapids)...

Nice to see such an incredibly long and detailed writeup. Sounds like the 68k environment made a "good enough" VM for most applications.

You can still achieve this by saving video (configured either to be continuous or triggered by motion) to a micro SD card.

Incidentally, and naively, I have to ask: Is there a business model that can promise customers a product that's immune to eventual usurpation? It's a hidden cost to build your world around a product only to see it turn into pay-to-play.

What is the antidote to this trend?

Sadly, it seems the kind of caution you advocate is conspicuously absent from cable "news" punditry. Even worse, there are millions of viewers who feel that they are being informed by this kind of caustic debate.

There's a question of values here. VC may be the path for maximum monetary gain and maximum growth, but maybe it's not if you want to _make_ something that represents your values. Once your 50% slips to 49% and below, it's game over.

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The PineTime watch has this vibrate-on-the-hour feature:

https://www.pine64.org/pinetime/