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SunOS 4.1.4 says it can't possibly be the year 2023: "WARNING: preposterous time in filesystem -- CHECK AND RESET THE DATE!"
sorry SunOS, there's nothing i can do to fix 2023.
Let's see: an investment firm in NYC wants to hire a security analyst with no training and/or no experience. What could possibly go wrong?
https://newyork.craigslist.org/brk/sad/d/brooklyn-information-security-analysts/7626451960.html
Towards the end of December 2019 I did a whole thread on Twitter, essentially reviewing the decade as ‘The Decade of Dishonest Technology’. It didn't start with that decade, and it hasn't stopped since, but it was the decade that got bought, and then sold everything about us under false pretenses, whether for state or corporate purposes.
It was the decade of technology that wasn't only biased, but straight up lied to us. Lies that most of us didn't really care about, as long as they didn't hit our own wallet.
Strap in, I am reviewing and updating the whole thread for the Mastodon Age.
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End qualified immunity
Disallow cops to be moved to another city when fired for misconduct
Mandatory emotional intelligence and empathy tests for police
End the war on drugs. No military hardware
Cities can no longer pay for civil suits against cops
Mandatory body cams for cops
Independent review board that can refer for prosecution
Mandatory reporting for police use of force for all precincts
Hire more social workers and drug counselors
House the growing homeless population
SunOS 4.1.4 says it can't possibly be the year 2023: "WARNING: preposterous time in filesystem -- CHECK AND RESET THE DATE!"
sorry SunOS, there's nothing i can do to fix 2023.
@zarbet @tubetime AFAICT the preposterous time message has been there since 4BSD (see clkinit at https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=4BSD/usr/src/sys/sys/machdep.c) and given both NeXTSTEP and SunOS are BSD-based it is understandable that they would carry the message...
Btw the message still survives even in modern descendants (e.g NetBSD has it here: https://github.com/NetBSD/src/blob/trunk/sys/kern/kern_todr.c#L197) 
@zarbet
> is there a "quote code block" here?
I don't think mastodon dot social has it, but there are instances running other fedi softwares (or modified Mastodon) that have it
Let me introduce you to the "Commodore Amiga" in Grand Rapids school system. 2015 Article.
I saw a location that took out original IBM PC's - in the '00s. Yes, still operating and finally being moved out as software finally updated.
https://www.woodtv.com/news/grand-rapids/1980s-computer-controls-grps-heat-and-ac/
@nickzoic @tubetime We ran ours a lot longer than sanity should have allowed.
Our last “production” Solaris box was retired in 2021.
"Production" is in quotes because it was used by ONE professor, who didn't want to let go. We finally convinced him he should migrate his stuff to Linux because we literally have no way to fix this machine if it dies and it'll be a lot easier while it's still running.
Thankfully he obliged.
I did a little obituary on the Other Site when it was shut: https://twitter.com/zorinlynx/status/1395094163029381122
@tubetime
One day it'll be 2023.
1994: Bah! That's preposterous!
Reminds me of this comment in leapsecs.txt in libtai:
"Note for parsers: Negative leap seconds will probably never happen, but the year 10000 will happen. Please don't contribute to the Y10K problem."
@tubetime This is probably the code triggering the warning:
https://github.com/csrg/original-bsd/blob/master/sys/sparc/sparc/clock.c#L403-L408
It seems to be checking for dates too far in the past (before 1975, by the look) rather than too far in the future. I wonder if it is reading a zeroed sector on the disk where a unix timestamp would be in a running system?
@tubetime mhm, seems this SunOS won't run until timer overflow...
Keep on and wish you best luck!
I mean.
That must be some really smart AI, if they have observed 2023, and they want out this bitch just as much as we do.
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