Su Tissue

Underwater
Does it matter?
Antimatter
Nuclear reactor
Boom boom boom boom

I'm a janitor, oh my genitals
Oh my genitals, I'm a janitor

~ 1981

His love of VAXen

My longtime friend and acquaintance, Dr. Bernd Ulmann, Once had so little space in his home that he had to sleep on top of the machinery he had rescued. Dubbed, "The VAXMAN" by a visiting friend of his, the name stuck, and to this day we have an awful lot of history that would otherwise not exist - but at great personal sacrifice and expense I might add.

Here's but a taste of the vagaries that cometh your way when you indulge yourself in a (worthwhile) labor of love, one that is now shared with people worldwide, but nevertheless not without great, unforseen difficulties:

Since the warehouse was quite filled with computers I asked the company to place the tiles into the cellar and decided to bring them up into the first floor when I began to glue the supports to the floor. I never thought that 5 tons of floor tiles would be so heavy! One tile weights about 13 kg and at the beginning I carried two tiles at once (by the way - to bring something up from the cellar one has to walk around the warehouse - there is no direct in-house connection) - after some time I carried one tile at a time and after two days I could barely walk with a floor tile in my hands. By the way - the special glue to fixate the support stands to the floor is a fantastic glue - it glues shoes as well to the floor as gloves, hands to gloves, everything to everything.

We won't even go into the precarious rebuild of the roof or subsequent repairs, or the catastrophe that resulted in a hockey rink in and around dozens of vintage computer systems when a water main broke whilst he was away attending a conference in the United States (Ouch!).

You can indulge yourself in the magic that resulted in his Computer Museum HERE

There's got to be one of those laws that goes something like, "Everything always runs just fine until you close and lock the door behind you for the weekend getaway"

If there's truly an attribution for that phenomena (that everyone of us knows all too well) then do let me know!

Needles to say, he know longer sleeps atop PDP-11 systems, and I think his wife Rikka had something to do with being the motivational force in the commissioning of the wonderful computing museum, effectively putting an end to his bachelor life sleeping with VAXen.

Today, Prof Ulmann is a Professor of Business Informatics at FOM University in Frankfurt, Germany (FOM Hochschule für Oekonomie und Management). His computer museum is located in Heidenrod-Kemel, in the state of Hesse, and I believe it is still welcoming visitors by appointment.

In 2023, Dr. Ulmann founded anabrid GmbH in Berlin, continuing the pursuit of his decades long passion that predates his undergraduate years - analog computing, and even its place in the application of future AI, as demonstrated in his most recent published paper HERE. As a semiconductor company, One of the obvious missions of anabrid is the manufacturing of analog computers on a chip - beyond the bleeding edge, actually.

You can browse his Analog computer collection online HERE - it's a truly amazing accomplishment, even for the lay-person to behold. Truly.

Bernd Ulmann, a remarkable steward of computing history and visionary pioneer in the applied sciences of analog computing.

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#tallship #analog_computing #Bernd_Ulmann #FOM #computer_museum #VAXMAN

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@marathon @begsby

Okay sounds great. If cloud storage is the biggest deal, then you should be able to find a $5 or $10 #VPS in the country of your choice that will certainly be performance enough. A few bucks more for a decent amount of storage:

https://github.com/nextcloud

If you need more than that, and you're self-hosting NextCloud, then #Wasabi can extend your NextCloud space with #S3 compatible storage buckets that you can literally just plug into your #NextCloud server for dirt cheap terabytes:

https://wasabi.com/#free-trial

This is also an excellent solution for your on demand videos (VoD) that you self-hosted on your own #PeerTube instance (You can run that PeerTube server on the same VPS as your NextCloud insurance too) 🤠.

#Degoogling.... Awesome 👍

There's several major choices and even more services that offer solutions. Some turnkey.

My two favs are #GraphineOS and #CalyxOS. I don't tend to pay too much attention to the rivalry and apparent enmity between these two camps, because they're both trying to support the same thing with respect to #freedoms, so if you already have a #Pixel I think I'd recommend:

https://grapheneos.org/ and there's literally boatloads of videos at your disposal for the DIY. I will say, that although it's quite marginal, my experience has been that this is slightly faster (responsive), but the last time I benchmarked was on a Pixel 3XL that I still enjoy as one of my daily drivers.

The #Calyx_Institute is a well known long-time champion of freedom and protections from #industrial_surveillance #dystopia and I do recommend that folks use the "MiFi" membership service. Here's a little known privacy fact #ProTip - their mobile service anonymizes you - your name appears nowhere in the 5G cellular service plan with the carrier, so you're only one of thousands of 5G devices that's identified by only, "Calyx Institute".

It's pretty much the cheapest plan available anywhere too, and gets even cheaper the second year:

https://calyxinstitute.org/membership/internet

You can also purchase a brand new degoogled phone at a great price too with CalyxOS preinstalled:

https://calyxinstitute.org/membership/calyxos - this is my personal fav, but like I said, GraphineOS and CalyxOS are both phenomenal and GraphineOS is prolly a bit more anal where you're privacy is concerned.

And there's also https://Brax.me - Rob Braxman, he sells degoogled phones and is a great resource for privacy education, but I think I'd opt for one of the previously mentioned #ROMs to flash my #Android.

If you get some time, you might be interested in reading up a bit on Nick Merrill - imagine being in the position of not even being able to attend your own court hearings because that would be a felony❕❕❕ Your attorney can go and represent you, but you cannot. You cannot even tell your own wife ❕❕

He was the first man to fight the injustice of an NSL and to my understanding, to date being the only successful person to do so, which is the only reason we are aware of it today.

It's a very scary thing and he has blogged about his fight and dilemma extensively. It's worth a deep dive and will reinforce why you are doing the right thing by eschewing Google services.

https://calyxinstitute.org/about

I hope that helps!

#tallship #fOSS #privacy

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Big BOOM 💥 a few minutes ago. I was staring off toward the south and into the sky when I saw the huge flash; 180° off into the horizon, from my comfy chair on the back patio.

One thousand one, one thousand two, thousand three, one thousand four, thous...... 💥 BOOM ❕❕❕

So, geez. Pretty fricken' loud for that distance. Not as far away as the harbor itself, so maybe some crystal methodists dispatched themselves to Valhalla.

In the olden days I'd hit up Twitter coz it was the best for "just happened", local events. People actually understood that kind of democratized power, to disseminate information his before it was possible to even enter a news cycle.

X? It's certainly better than it was before #Elon, but lost had been that hyper local community vibe that made real time distribution such a beautiful possibility in a non commercial distribution channel. I suspect that things will heavily coalesce between spontaneous local... Hubs, for lack of a better term, in a global search enabled environment (again), after this current madness constricting almost all other information through the next couple of weeks.

But then again, this is Los Angeles. Land of 💥 boom and doom (and I mean that in the most real sense). It's almost a bloodsport and aspects do exist where you can place wagers in some pretty heinous categories. I'm just being matter of fact here.I grew up here.

Shit happens around here. It always has. 💥 Booms aren't really anything new around here lolz.

I remember a particular big BOOM 💥 I was standing in the living room one afternoon at my buddy's 'luxury apartment' (The Willow Tree, in Torrance, on PCH, next door to my highschool).

I was stoned out of my mind (on weed, teenager, duh!) and I was facing a sliding glass door (open) mostly occluded by drapes, when suddenly, the drapes activity flew up from the carpeted floor, half way to the ceiling.

Then, as they softly fell back towards their positions in front of the glass in the sliding glass doors themselves, spanning I dunno, 12' maybe, they began violently rattling like a motherfucker! I thought both huge panes were going to shatter, like just eight feet in front of me, standing there like the stoned idiot I was.

I dunno recall exactly how many seconds had passed, at least 8 or 9 I figure but memories actually get warped over time, blyet I've always known distinctly, and I recall, instinctively, that it was an obscene amount of seconds passing before the BOOM 💥 was to be followed by those drape lifting gusts of wind hitting me in the face.

And it was the biggest BOOM 💥 that I had ever witnessed, still to this day; and the Port of Los Angeles maybe six or more Miles behind me, when a big ass ship (a really big ass ship) in the harbor was vaporized, lives indelibly within my very Carcass - I shall never, ever, EVER forget that.

Well that's all I really wanted to share. But I would like to ask everyone to take just a moment, no matter what country you're in/from, to reflect with thanks for all the men and women in uniform serving our countries so our children can sleep all comfy and shit at night, with their little Teddy Bears, autobots, ninja turtles, or Peter Rabbits.

Peace be to all, bitches 🤘 🤠🤘 Truly 🙂

#tallship #observations #musings #please_boost You can haz #Cheezburgerz! 🍔

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@streams

Brilliant! Yes thanks a kazillion $$$

Easy Peasy #Fediverse with actual #Fedizens that aren't brain dead morons❕❕❕

#tallship #sans_masto #sane_fedi

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