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Shameless plug : for those who plan to try out tapes, time to re-post my blog article "Managing tape drives and libraries with the Unix/Linux CLI" :)

https://blogs.intellique.com/tech/2022/01/27#TapeCLI

The earliest photograph is more than 10 years older :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nic%C3%A9phore_Ni%C3%A9pce#/me...

I currently have like 300 tabs open across 4 machines (two computers, a tablet and a phone). Some have been open for 2 or 3 years :)

Closing tabs open for too long would definitely a good idea. Then there are tabs that are open for years and years (like my nextcloud tab) and it's as it should be...

That's basically how convolution reverb has worked for 25 years.

Which is almost good, unfortunately, mostly because of terrible software.

A big city car. Interpret as you wish :)

From French media, it appears that more than 270 supermarkets lost most of their frozen and refrigerated goods. The losses appear to be in the range of 50,000 to 150,000 euros per supermarket.

If you're charging at home, that's not a problem. It still takes less time (20 seconds a day) than going to the pump once a month for 15 minutes.

There are industrial machines such as steam hammers that have been in constant use for more than a century.

Ah, it's flying Paris to Bogota in a 1 aisle, 4 seats per rank regional plane, pretty unusual if you ask me :)

I'm pretty baffled by people I hear here and there saying that AI is great because it saves them the hassle of human interaction. "I love Waymo, I don't have to chit-chat with the driver and bear his horrible music". Apparently people didn't get the memo : humans are social animals. Autonomous individuals simply don't exist. Nothing is entirely yours...

And AI precisely builds upon that large availability of our common data. That's a modern enclosure movement, at least it would be but fortunately, the Communist Chinese are there to enforce sharing.

Lots of things to think about in there. One of them : science (and technology) isn't neutral.

England is definitely a European country. I'm tired of people constantly making this political abuse of language of conflating "the EU" with "Europe".

(And yes, saying "America" for "US of A" annoys me too. First step towards losing an imperialist state of mind is letting people from Canada and Brazil be in America).

OTOH my OnePlus 5T is more than 9 year old now, and still perfectly usable (I changed the battery once).

Ah ah I'm also a NEdit fan. Still using XNEdit at times (the version that supports UTF-8, https://github.com/unixwork/xnedit ), because I've written so many small tools in its weird built-in language.

For several years I've even hosted the nedit.org website :)

Yep, it was a "pre-MSX" like a couple of other machines like the Spectravideo SV-328... My first computer was a Casio PB100 (with the 1.5KB extension, so much memory! :D ), then the Sony HB75 (an MSX).

Funny, I rode many steam trains and I love it. I even plan trip at places specifically to enjoy an obsolete, stinking, smoky ride :)

An excellent reminder Jancovici makes in his climate presentations, is that the difference between 1950 climate and the last Ice Age is only 4 to 5°C. Obviously, 8 billion humans wouldn't be able to live in the last Ice Age.

A more indirect analogy is body temperature : having your body temperature 2°C above normal is a pretty bad fever; at 4°C, your life is in immediate danger; anything over that you're seriously harmed or dead.

You don't even need to unscrew the motor : simply pull one-handed the seat release lever, and leave with both the seat and the motor attached.

I won't easily pardon the US and Israel for making me pine for Iran.

In France, where we have relatively cheap and clean energy, they plan to build GW DCs with GWs setups of diesel backup generators. When these will run, the pollution will be staggering.

ifconfig is still the standard on *BSD, MacOS and other Unixen. Plus its output is more readable on Linux than ip IMO, because it adds a blank line between interfaces.

In case it can help, you don't need to install Microsoft authenticator. FreeOTP+, Aegis etc will do just as well.

Annoyingly many useful tools like the "Page Assist" browser extension or "Murmure" are plug-and-play only with Ollama...

There is no autocompletion, that's not realist. I never type "apt-get install nginx" I type "apt-g<tab> ins<tab> ngi<tab>"

Being too poor to buy professional software, with Rodney Zack's book in hand I wrote myself a Z80 assembly in MSX BASIC in 1986/87 :) That was my first tough programming stint ever...

I think Slackware would have been a good fit, and much easier to install :)

I have one (ANKER IIRC?) that looks very much like this, but with two-position buttons that actually cut power, and USB3.0 level connection on all ports I tried. Also comes with the proper power supply for the barrel power connector. I suppose this one is a knock-off of mine :D

In the 90s, at SGI (at least in France) they had Macs as workstations for tasks that didn't require or weren't compatible with an expensive SGI computer (like running MS Office or sending faxes). They switched to SGI Indy and O2 (running SoftWindows95 to run MS Office) at some point around 95/96, but that was a pretty expensive option, and Softwindows95 was a dog unless you had a really fast R10000 O2.

In Aliens (the second episode), the automatic cannons are controlled by a pair of Grid Compass.