Seem in response to Kaja’s latest murderous post:

Which reserved IPv4 net block do you use for your internal network?

Always a good time these days to repost this slide from an IBM internal presentation in 1979.

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A computer can never be held accountable Therefore a computer must never make a management decision.

Print Floyd

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A spoof of the cover of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon album but with a Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Key/Black color model, commonly used in commercial printing, instead of the original rainbow prism colors.

We've all upped our "mask game" in the last half decade or so, but I'm curious, what was the best mask or respirator you wore with any regularity in the very early days of the pandemic, say, before fall 2020?

#covid #covid19

At what age would your being-you-ness have caused someone to burn you for being a witch?

there's this article about knuth and literate programming and word count with early unix shell tools which is echoing very much my sentiment or the article about "hello here's my awk script and it's 135 times faster than your hadoop cluster" and instead of really taking a deep look "what do you REALLY need" people are always "that never works in a PROFESSIONAL environment" and then you look at established companies and it's all dusty perl (or equivalent) in a dark corner running the business

I would like more

sharpsign

boost for breadth of opinions and timezones please.

Not that I will blindly listen but you could put it out there on the table.

https://screwlisp.small-web.org/

#programming #technology #lispyGopherClimate #lisp

Nobody on LinkedIn has ever had a bad day. Every setback is a "growth opportunity." Every firing is a "new chapter." Every complete professional disaster is framed as "excited to announce." These people would describe the Titanic as "a bold pivot to submarine operations."

and then the flippo crashed anyway, this computo disliked what i was doing

but i managed on uefi on another pc so it's actually not useless (cept for how it is)

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Flipper Zero emulating USB storage, showing that something is reading from an image called 9front-11554 at 69KB/s

[dark, intense industrial music playing]

It is now safe to turn off your web browser.

Ethernet frames per x-ray equivalent dose

poorly translated multi language signs like these are so charming and human. laughed whenever i saw them as a kid in a country-hopping family, appreciate them even more now that im older

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Chinese English translated sign says "no discunt"

Removing physical buttons from hardware was one of the worst product design decisions in history and everyone involved should be publicly shamed.

who the fuck is peer and why are they resetting this one's connection

I'm curious about the relationship between smoking/vaping, and wearing respirators.

So, do or did you regularly wear a mask or respirator to prevent virus spread, and do you smoke or vape?

Chewing tobacco is not considered smoking or vaping for the purposes of this poll (unless you also smoke and or vape, of course)

What is a computer?
A miserable little pile of circuits.

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

chat, i’ve installed lazyvim and now i can’t stop using it, it’s so good, what do i do, send help

Yop

• Build 77 should have fixed the markdown rendering issues
• Build 78 should have fixed the GoToSocial char limit issue

#MastoBlaster

mystified by how the very long wikiquotes page for Spinoza is 10% quotes from the works of Spinoza and 90% quotes of modern authors mentioning Spinoza in passing

one of those quotes is "Spinoza is a thinker far more famous than known."

You know what UI/UX option I'd like "put that fucking window back to where it was before it was accidently dragged"

Happy #Marchintosh to those who celebrate.

#MARCHintosh #notesart #mastoart #art #illustration

https://www.folklore.org/Mister_Macintosh.html

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A simple line drawing of a person with a large body and a small head. The person is wearing a hat with a brim. Their head is the blue Mac OS logo: the classic one that looks like a smiling face logo divided into two blue halves. They are carrying a suitcase with an icon of a small compact Mac on it. On the front of their shirt is a minimalist, colorful painting of a compact Mac. For the most part, though, the composition is a canvas-colored tan. This, as some might recognize, is Mr Macintosh, a drawing initially commissioned by Steve Jobs from the Belgian artist Jean-Michel Folon. He wasn't carrying a System suitcase in the original version, though. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

Ah yes, the forgotten ELP speed of VHS video cassette recording.

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Table from a 1982 magazine showing the different tape speeds of Beta and VHS video cassettes, including VHS's EP speed (a.k.a.) misprinted as "ELP".

capitalists: "without a profit motive, nobody would do anything. society would collapse."

my friends & acquaintances: "I implemented a SPARC emulator in pure CSS"

pov: you wake up to receive a package with a vacuum chamber and discover that the vendor is a crackhead and a menace to society

this is a vacuum chamber. the power supply that comes with it has a type-C connector and it puts 12V on Vbus unconditionally. the pump works off both 5V and 12V, so it can pull vacuum off a normal type-C power supply. but the solenoid release valve (that lets you open the chamber once you're done) requires their illegal type-C-shaped power supply. also, not only does the chamber not support PD negotiation, it does not even have a CC pulldown.

to add insult to injury, it's using a NEMA 1-15P plug.

"If confidence was torque, he'd have no drivetrain left."

Your snac posts can be fancy

Line breaks are respected and output as you write them.

Prepending a greater-than symbol in a line makes it a quote:

This is quoted text

All angle-prepended lines are grouped in the same blockquote

  /* this is preformatted text */
  struct node {
      struct node *prev;
      struct node *next;
  };

• One level bullet lists
• are also supported,
• by starting a line with a hyphen or asterisk followed by a space.

Links can also be written in standard Markdown style.

Some emojis: 😆 ❤️ 🍺 🤷 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Image URLs written in standard Markdown style for images are converted to ActivityPub attachments.

Three minus symbols in a line make a separator:

header level 1

header level 2

header level 3

These acrobatics are better documented in the snac(5) man page.

WHAT IS THIS SNAC THING?

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susie, snac's girl

One thing we know about the mass tech layoffs attributed to "AI" is that they follow a trend of mass tech layoffs that firms were formerly forced to admit were the result of their businesses contracting sharply after the lockdowns ended, when users didn't need nearly so many cloud services. By blaming the continuing layoffs on "AI," companies whose business continues to contract can tell investors that they are on the bleeding edge, not the contracting tail.

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Business idea that I’m working on:

Home appliances that are as analog as possible while being efficient.

My washing machine doesn’t need wi-fi.

My stove doesn’t require a subscription.

My fridge doesn’t need to have a screen shoving ads in my face.

And all of them should be trivially repairable.

I know there are enough people who have guns pointed at their printers in case the printer develops an attitude; I’m certain there are people who would go for this.

What if I could convince you that taking the same time to explain detailed requirements and carefully validate results with a junior colleague instead of a chatbot would not only give you two people who understood the code instead of zero, but if you do it a few times in a row you eventually get a senior colleague out of the deal for free.

pentagrams per password

RE: https://scholar.social/@gedankenstuecke/116140098318631474

«Technology culture used to celebrate technical competence. Not as gatekeeping, not as elitism — as genuine, infectious enthusiasm for understanding how systems worked. The BBS scene in the eighties ran on self-taught systems operators who understood their hardware and their network protocols well enough to build infrastructure that had never existed before. The early web had a “view source” ethos: you saw something interesting, you looked at how it was built, you learned from it, you made something of your own. This was the entire pedagogical model of the early web and it worked extraordinarily well.»

Bastian Greshake Tzovaras » 🌐 2026-02-27
@gedankenstuecke@scholar.social

«This is not about purity. Nobody is asking you to reject every managed service on principle or run Gentoo on everything. It’s about maintaining enough technical competence that you are a participant in the systems you depend on rather than a permanent subject of them. It’s about being able to make informed choices instead of having choices made for you by systems optimized for someone else’s revenue»

The Slow Death of the Power User — fireborn
https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/the-slow-death-of-the-power-user/

The modern mind is not able to comprehend how the Roman Empire was able to administer an territory all the way from Egypt to Hadrian's Wall without making use of Jira Sprint Planning.

I have an old mac mini intel box that I can wipe and do whatevs with.

What can I do with it that is in line with #permacomputing / #neighborhoodfirst / #solarpunk

My skillset for coding/dev is firmly in the “your worst cowboy QA engineer nightmare” but I am willing to learn to do things better.

Current aspirations would be to set up one of those digital prepper systems that could provide weather, agriculture, knowledge system/archive.

Thoughts? pointers? and even “learn to set up a linux server at tutorial N” etc is welcome.