Being a BSD user/admin/advocate/contributor is weird.
You help enterprises use FreeBSD, you set OpenBSD firewalls at small ISPs, you patch code here and there and upstream, you run advocacy meetups at universities, you might even do fundraising for a small tool or a large conference...
Then someone comes and says "tHen wHy iS yOuR LaPToP a mAc Bro? y u sTill NEed LinUx drivers Bro? BSD sUCks my mannn"
#introduction
Son of a partisan smuggler. Been writing open source digital signage software for 15+ years. Apparently I'm the only one in that niche who actually talks about it.
Currently somewhere. Move when the mood hits.
Looking for FOSS developers and nomads.
The morning when the technician came to carry out the inspection for my last FTTC line, it became clear that COVID would not be a contained problem.
This morning the technician came to carry out the inspection for the activation of the FTTH.
I’m not activating any more fixed connections...
“The internet is not dying. A commercial veneer glued on top of it is dying.”
by @tg
@rebeccawatson I was looking at Turing's paper about the "imitation game" a few days ago, and found out Turing was making a much more limited claim than was ascribed to him, and it wasn't about consciousness. I still was getting it a bit wrong, in that I thought it was still about whether machines could be said to think.
It's interesting that the original form of the "imitation game" he uses as a model is about determining a person's gender.
I had to share this spam after seeing the first line
"Subject: ***Spam*** Your C0STC0 HexClad Hybrid Pots are waiting, Claim by tomorrow
Costco Wholesale
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I looked over the outline you sent, and I think the simpler version is the right call for
+now.
It feels easier to maintain, and I can follow the flow without stopping to decode every
+little step.
I would keep the opening short, put the key instruction earlier, and leave the extra examples
+until the end so they do not interrupt the path forward.
I also noticed one detail in the middle where the tone shifts a bit, which might confuse
+someone seeing it for the first time.
Maybe smooth that transition and keep the wording more direct.
I tried reading it aloud and that helped me catch the places where I paused too long,
+especially around the section where v58XVR6JcaE the explanation doubles back on itself.
If you want, I can make one cleaned-up pass tonight and send it back in a tighter format. "
*snicker*
And no, it is obviously not from COSTCO.
A tribute to Mike Karels..
In Memory of Mike Karels In Memory of Mike Karels We are deeply saddened about the passing of Mike Karels, a pivotal figure in the history of BSD UNIX, a respected member of the FreeBSD community, and the Deputy Release Engineer for the FreeBSD Project. Mike’s contributions to the development and advancement of BSD systems
This post
https://fosstodon.org/@deshipu/116510956431897662
tongue in cheek as it is, idly got me wondering if building a 5 bit computer would have ever made sense. The PDP-8/S was a *ONE* bit computer in the sense it reused the ALU one bit at a time cycling the bits through. It had also earned the nickname the PDP-8/Slow for this reason.
A University school mate of mine owned one!
The minimum 'byte' was 6 bits and it used RAD50 for this reason. So no a 5 bit computer would not have made sense, to save RAM as jokingly put, but we come close.
Ancient Romans wrote everything in upper case, and wrote numbers with letters, because they could only use 5-bit encoding due to severe RAM shortages.
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