Mr Least

@luskebux@oldbytes.space
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Likes high level abstractions and low level bit twiddling. Spends spare time on ASMotor, gateware and retro computing.
Current favorite languageOCaml
X-member ofAnarchy, Melon Dezign
Amiga scene handlesSlammer, Surfsmurf
GitHubhttps://github.com/csoren

What a great video about a 25 years old MMORPG called Dark Ages. Lovely pixel art and what seems like a welcoming and friendly community.

Apparently it is now also free to play for the first 99 levels.

#retrogaming #mmorpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIFty-O4rOE

I Spent 30 Days in a Dead MMO (and it was amazing)

YouTube
I might have to leave my girlfriend if she keeps calling YouTube The Tube of You", and Facebook "The Book of Faces".

Facebook got caught exploiting Android again to track you:

https://localmess.github.io

Covert Web-to-App Tracking via Localhost on Android

Holy, holy shit. This is why you don't use LLMs. For anything. Ever.

Update: Getting some so-smart reply guys "explaining" how LLMs work. I KNOW THEY DON'T THINK. I know what they are, and that IS WHY I've always told people to stay away from them. This is just an amazing example I wanted to share. You don't need to explain anything to me or assume I'm an idiot who doesn't know what an LLM is or does.
k thx bye.
#AI #LLM #ChatGPT https://amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-ex-machina

Diabolus Ex Machina

This Is Not An Essay

Everything Is A Wave

I try to keep politics out of this account as much as I can. But, right now, in light of the UK Supreme Court ruling, I am ashamed of being from the UK.

FWIW, whatever gender you are, I really don't care, but will treat you well and address you by whatever pronouns you prefer. Unless you're a bigot, in which case, don't expect to be treated well at all.

#TransRightsAreHumanRights

This is my Motorola StarMax 3000 that I bought back in the 90’s. It’s one of the Mac clones from the short period where Apple had a clone program. It has the Apple designed Tanzania board that the 4400 also used. The 4400 is generally regarded as the least “Mac” Mac, so the StarMax is even less of a Mac I guess. It was my first “Mac”, and I got it pretty cheap when they were getting rid of the old stock.
The StarMax was universally criticized for its obscene noise level, and it is really is very loud, to the point of being unusable.
I’ve worked a little on mine recently.
It has two fans - a 92mm in the PSU and a 60mm in the front, which takes care of the CPU. Yes, really. 60mm.
I have replaced those with Noctuas.
Another noise source, which is perhaps even worse, is the obscenely loud OEM IBM hard drive. I have replaced it with a CF card in the back, also making getting files across easier.
The StarMax has also been fitted with a Sonnet CPU upgrade, which replaces the L2 DIMM and needs an extension to activate.
All in all, this is a delightfully quirky system.

#retrocomputing #mac #powerpc

THREAD: When Chris Krebs and his workplace, SentinelOne, was singled out by Donald Trump on Wednesday, I thought it was an opportunity to weigh the cybersecurity industry's rhetoric against their real world actions.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-signs-orders-targeting-two-ex-officials-who-criticized-him-2025-04-09/

win11 is so fuckin bad and Microsoft so untrustworthy at this point I will exit the Windows software ecosystem I've stuck with for nearly 30 fuckin years over it.

Time to start testing out different linux distros on my desktop to find one I like.

This poll is important.

Please boost.

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Wanted: a patched phone operating system which instead of having permissions for apps returns them all random data, unless I have allowed them access to the real thing.

Randomly generated address books, location coordinates, WiFi network names, picture folders full of noise, battery levels that fluctuate wildly.

Fucking poison the data gathering well. Make it looks pretty realistic. My phone has enough storage and compute to create realistic looking names and telephone numbers. Let the advertisers think I'm traveling back and forth on the Orient express.
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This is my Motorola StarMax 3000 that I bought back in the 90’s. It’s one of the Mac clones from the short period where Apple had a clone program. It has the Apple designed Tanzania board that the 4400 also used. The 4400 is generally regarded as the least “Mac” Mac, so the StarMax is even less of a Mac I guess. It was my first “Mac”, and I got it pretty cheap when they were getting rid of the old stock.
The StarMax was universally criticized for its obscene noise level, and it is really is very loud, to the point of being unusable.
I’ve worked a little on mine recently.
It has two fans - a 92mm in the PSU and a 60mm in the front, which takes care of the CPU. Yes, really. 60mm.
I have replaced those with Noctuas.
Another noise source, which is perhaps even worse, is the obscenely loud OEM IBM hard drive. I have replaced it with a CF card in the back, also making getting files across easier.
The StarMax has also been fitted with a Sonnet CPU upgrade, which replaces the L2 DIMM and needs an extension to activate.
All in all, this is a delightfully quirky system.

#retrocomputing #mac #powerpc

@luskebux Did you measure the noise before and after? Curious to see the difference 😃
@sardaukar I don’t have a reliable dB meter, so no. I can say that before, it was rack server level noisy. I used it back then, but I could not today, it is uncomfortably loud, and it’s sitting right in front of you on the desk. It is by a wide margin the loudest computer I have owned.
It’s not completely silent now, a 60mm fan at 2100 RPM does make some noise, but it’s a massive improvement.
@luskebux I suppose that CPU upgrade wouldn’t work on BeOS ?
@santiago @luskebux it works on my 6360CD under BeOS - different motherboard, but I have the same accelerator card
@kwramm @santiago Interesting! I have Linux on mine, and I’m pretty sure it doesn’t use the upgrade card.
@luskebux @santiago at least in BeOS’s case it’s the system compatibility chart that can appear misleading. It’s not a CPU but a motherboard issue. So Apple’s “Powermac G3” machines do not work because the mobo isn’t supported. But any other supported motherboard works, and then accelerators too should work, with BeOS reporting the CPU as PowerPC 750
@kwramm @santiago I don’t think I have tried BeOS on it after I got the CPU card, but it sounds like I should. I actually did get it back then also for running BeOS, still have the CDs.