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Last Notes npub1ej7hekvn4y55sxwljrfz6hth2jkf3wan95grdw4xq4u7ndecp36skrlss8 Clifton Royston Awww, that gives me the warm fuzzies. I'm happy just to hear people still use it. npub1ej7hekvn4y55sxwljrfz6hth2jkf3wan95grdw4xq4u7ndecp36skrlss8 Clifton Royston I have very fond memories of tin. npub1ej7hekvn4y55sxwljrfz6hth2jkf3wan95grdw4xq4u7ndecp36skrlss8 Clifton Royston I think it's getting rapidly to "underground railway" and "hiding Jews in the attic" time in the US. (We don't actually have an attic, unfortunately.) npub1ej7hekvn4y55sxwljrfz6hth2jkf3wan95grdw4xq4u7ndecp36skrlss8 Clifton Royston That is the most gorgeous pie crust I have ever seen. The rose design is incredible. npub1ej7hekvn4y55sxwljrfz6hth2jkf3wan95grdw4xq4u7ndecp36skrlss8 Clifton Royston I'd reject the phrasing that the United States is "slipping towards civil war" - it's not something that just happens by accident or that the public is being careless about. npub1ej7hekvn4y55sxwljrfz6hth2jkf3wan95grdw4xq4u7ndecp36skrlss8 Clifton Royston After a couple years working in tech support and sysadmin work next to a gay man, meeting his very likeable husband, attending company social events together, and so on, Mike had become an equally ardent supporter of full civil rights for gay people, full marriage equality, all of it. npub1ej7hekvn4y55sxwljrfz6hth2jkf3wan95grdw4xq4u7ndecp36skrlss8 Clifton Royston Back when I was running an ISP, I had one employee Mike who was an extremely earnest Christian brought up in the Plymouth Brethren sect (the guys who made up the Pilgrims, after they were kicked out of the Netherlands for their intolerance.) He firmly believed that homosexuality was evil, gay marriage was a sin against God, etc. npub1ej7hekvn4y55sxwljrfz6hth2jkf3wan95grdw4xq4u7ndecp36skrlss8 Clifton Royston I definitely don't recall any search engine called 'General Search' and I don't remember ever seeing something like that offer for lifetime dialup Internet either. npub1ej7hekvn4y55sxwljrfz6hth2jkf3wan95grdw4xq4u7ndecp36skrlss8 Clifton Royston OK, something small and relatively trivial in what's going on generally: npub1ej7hekvn4y55sxwljrfz6hth2jkf3wan95grdw4xq4u7ndecp36skrlss8 Clifton Royston "Over 50 years ago, NASA was able to get its Saturn V, a rocket nearly as large as Starship, to fly without ever having a failed launch over its 13-launch, six-year operational lifespan. This was a rocket designed with computers less powerful than a Casio watch, built with far less accurate techniques and materials, with check systems and procedures infinitely less sophisticated than anything today. Yet, engineers were able to ensure it never had a launch failure [...]" npub1ej7hekvn4y55sxwljrfz6hth2jkf3wan95grdw4xq4u7ndecp36skrlss8 Clifton Royston You're responding as if it's a real concern, rather than a pretext allowing them to commit atrocities with the camera off. npub1ej7hekvn4y55sxwljrfz6hth2jkf3wan95grdw4xq4u7ndecp36skrlss8 Clifton Royston That's OK, that would have been icing on the cake. npub1ej7hekvn4y55sxwljrfz6hth2jkf3wan95grdw4xq4u7ndecp36skrlss8 Clifton Royston These docks aren't Mac specific, right? Both I and my wife have been looking for something genuinely solid for use with arbitrary laptops or even desktops. npub1ej7hekvn4y55sxwljrfz6hth2jkf3wan95grdw4xq4u7ndecp36skrlss8 Clifton Royston Here's someone else I respect, talking about the same thing from a slightly different angle: npub1ej7hekvn4y55sxwljrfz6hth2jkf3wan95grdw4xq4u7ndecp36skrlss8 Clifton Royston We have, for now, lost our most crucial war before 99% of the country was even aware we were fighting one. And, mostly, we still aren’t. npub1ej7hekvn4y55sxwljrfz6hth2jkf3wan95grdw4xq4u7ndecp36skrlss8 Clifton Royston Among those, the disastrous effects the “banned word” list will have on the NSA or CIA, by banning words used technically in computer security, are fully intentional. If it wasn’t the primary reason for it, then they (and the FSB) would view it as a highly desirable secondary effect. npub1ej7hekvn4y55sxwljrfz6hth2jkf3wan95grdw4xq4u7ndecp36skrlss8 Clifton Royston As for Musk, he’s likely one of Putin’s assets too - he’s praised Putin repeatedly, he’s said he thinks Ukraine should just fork over their territory to Russia, and earlier in the war he personally ordered Starlink service cut to sabotage a Ukrainian drone mission using it for navigation. npub1ej7hekvn4y55sxwljrfz6hth2jkf3wan95grdw4xq4u7ndecp36skrlss8 Clifton Royston I don’t understand how anybody could be surprised that Trump has appointed a suspected Russian intel asset as head of US national intelligence, or that he’s preening himself about getting to be Putin’s errand boy in demanding Ukraine surrender. npub1ej7hekvn4y55sxwljrfz6hth2jkf3wan95grdw4xq4u7ndecp36skrlss8 Clifton Royston It was just some loser replying to a couple of your posts with a boilerplate request for *somebody* to help him move some funds out of this great big trust account he can't access... npub1ej7hekvn4y55sxwljrfz6hth2jkf3wan95grdw4xq4u7ndecp36skrlss8 Clifton Royston I think somehow that choosing @npub1lcc…lcye npub1ej7hekvn4y55sxwljrfz6hth2jkf3wan95grdw4xq4u7ndecp36skrlss8 Clifton Royston Can we count two-tone Ska in there with the voices of punk rock? npub1ej7hekvn4y55sxwljrfz6hth2jkf3wan95grdw4xq4u7ndecp36skrlss8 Clifton Royston Y'know, I was wondering how the media and FBI could be so quickly and confidently describing the New Orleans attack as 'terrorism'. Other instances of crazies - usually right-wing crazies - driving trucks into parades, pride marches, or pro-Black rights rallies have instead been met with extreme caution and warnings not to assume it's terrorism. npub1ej7hekvn4y55sxwljrfz6hth2jkf3wan95grdw4xq4u7ndecp36skrlss8 Clifton Royston Hey everybody, remember when Kristi Noem put into her memoir and then very vocally told the world that she'd wantonly and pointlessly shot a puppy to death, and "everybody" was horrified? npub1ej7hekvn4y55sxwljrfz6hth2jkf3wan95grdw4xq4u7ndecp36skrlss8 Clifton Royston Your second paragraph is an interesting perspective I haven't heard before. npub1ej7hekvn4y55sxwljrfz6hth2jkf3wan95grdw4xq4u7ndecp36skrlss8 Clifton Royston Or how his generals felt about him, either. npub1ej7hekvn4y55sxwljrfz6hth2jkf3wan95grdw4xq4u7ndecp36skrlss8 Clifton Royston From my reading, 18-bit and 36-bit architectures were popular through the '60s and early '70s. Computer designs didn't really settle down to power-of-2 word sizes until the mid-70s. npub1ej7hekvn4y55sxwljrfz6hth2jkf3wan95grdw4xq4u7ndecp36skrlss8 Clifton Royston People are worried about what inches of sea rise will do, but it could be a lot worse. npub1ej7hekvn4y55sxwljrfz6hth2jkf3wan95grdw4xq4u7ndecp36skrlss8 Clifton Royston 21? Hot damn! I'm impressed. npub1ej7hekvn4y55sxwljrfz6hth2jkf3wan95grdw4xq4u7ndecp36skrlss8 Clifton Royston Only 6 on this list - it's always been hard to get bands out here - but seen some others that should probably be on the list, including Violent Femmes (twice), Dead Milkmen, Porno for Pyros, Shonen Knife, and The Selecter (Paula Brown, OMG.) I can't remember who I saw at the Warped tour, haha. npub1ej7hekvn4y55sxwljrfz6hth2jkf3wan95grdw4xq4u7ndecp36skrlss8 Clifton Royston I am *very* fond of his translations of Han Shan (Cold Mountain.) I have his translation of the Platform Sutra, too. npub1ej7hekvn4y55sxwljrfz6hth2jkf3wan95grdw4xq4u7ndecp36skrlss8 Clifton Royston I think his real mission is to make trains look awesome by comparison with cars and driving. npub1ej7hekvn4y55sxwljrfz6hth2jkf3wan95grdw4xq4u7ndecp36skrlss8 Clifton Royston It always fascinates me that cats can get self-conscious when they realize someone's watching them do something. npub1ej7hekvn4y55sxwljrfz6hth2jkf3wan95grdw4xq4u7ndecp36skrlss8 Clifton Royston I got to get me a 3D printer one of these days. npub1ej7hekvn4y55sxwljrfz6hth2jkf3wan95grdw4xq4u7ndecp36skrlss8 Clifton Royston I guess Mastodon now needs a "What the absolute fuck?" button added, because boost or like seem utterly inadequate for this. npub1ej7hekvn4y55sxwljrfz6hth2jkf3wan95grdw4xq4u7ndecp36skrlss8 Clifton Royston It should not be surprising that news media overwhelmingly owned by the ultra-rich serve the interests of their owners, not the public. If they don't, the owners change that. npub1ej7hekvn4y55sxwljrfz6hth2jkf3wan95grdw4xq4u7ndecp36skrlss8 Clifton Royston Somehow I feel this whole broader discussion relates to some of the points discussed in this excellent thread, in a way I can't quite articulate. npub1ej7hekvn4y55sxwljrfz6hth2jkf3wan95grdw4xq4u7ndecp36skrlss8 Clifton Royston It won’t entirely make the nagging stop, but it will reduce it to a notification once every few weeks as a “security issue” for your system, that your Windows login is not tied to a Microsoft account. (I guess that means it’s *too* secure for their liking.) npub1ej7hekvn4y55sxwljrfz6hth2jkf3wan95grdw4xq4u7ndecp36skrlss8 Clifton Royston Very good way to put it! npub1ej7hekvn4y55sxwljrfz6hth2jkf3wan95grdw4xq4u7ndecp36skrlss8 Clifton Royston The catch is that it will change the script into the directory, but that’s running in its own separate process, doing its own thing, and your shell process is just sitting there basically unaffected and waiting for the result.
