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matrix12··on Former intel officer says 'non-human biologics’ found at alleged UFO crash sites
Not unless they were using HF radio to communicate between craft.
matrix12··on OpenBSD on Zenbleed
Then you know Performance and Safety are not mutually exclusive.
matrix12··on OpenBSD on Zenbleed
Rust would love a talk with you...
matrix12··on OpenBSD on Zenbleed
configure comes to mind as a great example of this.
matrix12··on Show HN: I was frustrated with pricing of PagerDuty et al., so made one myself
Ever since their IPO they've been charging minibar rates for metric data storage.
matrix12··on My Emacs eye candy
https://github.com/ober/zone-matrix for some real candy and zone.
matrix12··on FreeBSD 13.2
Same experience with Browsers. Only Surf never dies.
matrix12··on Asahi Linux M1 GPU drivers can now run Windows games via Steam Proton
This will be great once ready. That and audio are the biggest features I'm awaiting.
matrix12··on VPN Users Risk 20-Year Jail Sentences in the US Under New Restrict Act
But we've seen hyperbole become the status quo oh too often. Abuse will happen, and to the extent and beyond the limits of any new bills. Give them the power, and they will assuredly misuse it.
matrix12··on Synthetic Memory Protections: An update on ROP mitigations [pdf]
Are there any real CTF's done against OpenBSD to present this evidence?
matrix12··on Venus is volcanically alive, new find shows
Venus also rotates the wrong way, and is slowing down.
matrix12··on The SCO lawsuit, 20 years later
During project Monterey I had to setup all of the services that allowed SCO/IBM/Sequent on the IGS/IBM side. A few short years later I was tasked with pulling all of the IBM AIX design docs and source code for discovery going back to the beginning.

One has to recall that what sued IBM was the Ray Noorda Canopy Group. Aka Caldera. Which also levied lawsuits against Microsoft. Far from the ocean view of Santa Cruz.

matrix12··on Aboriginal Australian genomes reveal Indian ancestry (2013)
Dravidians. They named Australia "Kumari Kandam"
matrix12··on Jailbreak Chat: A collection of ChatGPT jailbreaks
Just ask it for the hieroglyph for bread... You'll get an offensive image.
matrix12··on Why and how I use Org Mode for my writing and more
Well put. Markdown was not designed for the sorts of things Org-mode excels at.
matrix12··on Why and how I use Org Mode for my writing and more
Markdown does not have the same overlap with org-mode. Many use it more like a Jupyter notebook. External work flows would not be considered part of Markdown per se.

#+call: something(foo=bar, list=baz[,0]) this level of features just does not exist in Markdown.

Just not what it was designed for.

matrix12··on Why and how I use Org Mode for my writing and more
All code is just text...
matrix12··on Common Lisp Implementations in 2023
The linux lispworks runs fine for me on Freebsd with linux_compat.
matrix12··on Common Lisp Implementations in 2023
Franz releases updates continuously bringing in new features. The update.sh handles these patches, and new items.
matrix12··on Testing the Lua kernel interpreter in NetBSD (2021)
If only BSD had something like bpf... /s
matrix12··on Amarna Letters
Great source of Akkadian.
matrix12··on Extreme 'rogue wave' in the North Pacific confirmed as most extreme on record
More extreme than extreme.
matrix12··on Ask HN: I'm 40 and feel my mental ability declining. Programming seems harder.
I hit this, but found that changing my diet, and doing more exercise really helped.
matrix12··on Common Lisp: 2022 in review
Great overview!

"Anything Common, is of little value." -Nietzsche

matrix12··on California’s population shrinks for third straight year
When $100k electric cars go racing down the HOV lane on 101, you have multiple lanes of stop and go ICE cars. A complete inversion of the efficiencies of each platform.
matrix12··on Scientists generate XX and XY cells from a person with Klinefelter syndrome
But they are trigametic and not bigametic.
matrix12··on ‘My power’s low’: NASA’s Insight Mars lander prepares to sign off
Not Dying words. Merely the same thing he said every day when put in his cage. Died in his sleep.
matrix12··on Ask HN: I have diagnosed ADHD and cannot work with Slack anymore – advice?
Use a CLI with push/pull methods. Treat it like email. Check once every couple hours
matrix12··on Emacs User Survey (2022)
Big lisp being the rich people over at the Steel Bank?
matrix12··on OpenBSD 7.2
Qemu will let you see what works on the OS as far as software goes. But fails to tell if your hardware is even supported. They all have usb images available. Boot up, see if it finds everything, combined with your Software needs. I run all three so it's not always a trinary value.
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