Dave.

Bit late now, but a tiny squirt of WD-40 into the ribbon cartridge often got you another few hundred pages out of it.

All hail laser.

No love for the 9 pin dot matrix?

Just use one of these tried and tested standard disclaimers from 2012, I’m sure they still have exactly the same legal weight as they did back then, right? That Rome Statute is something to not fuck around with, that’s for sure.

(/s , just in case)

Hi all. Don’t forget today starts the new Instagram rule where they can use your photo Don’t forget Deadline tomorrow !!! Everything you’ve ever posted becomes public from tomorrow. Even messages that have been deleted or the photos not allowed. It costs nothing for a simple copy and paste, better safe than sorry. Channel 9 News talked about the change in Instagram’s privacy policy. I do not give Instagram or any entities associated with Facebook permission to use my pictures, information, messages or posts, both past and future. With this statement, I give notice to Instagram it is strictly forbidden to disclose, copy, distribute, or take any other action against me based on this profile and/or its contents. The content of this profile is private and confidential information. The violation of privacy can be punished by law (UCC 1-308- 1 1 308-103 and the Rome Statute). NOTE: Instagram is now a public entity. All members must post a note like this. If you prefer, you can copy and paste this version. If you do not publish a statement at least once it will be tacitly allowing the use of your photos, as well as the information contained in the profile status updates. DO NOT SHARE. Copy and paste. Wondered why Instagram was so boring!

Deadline tomorrow !!! Everything you’ve ever posted becomes public from tomorrow. Even messages that have been deleted or the photos not allowed. It costs nothing for a simple copy and paste, better safe than sorry. Channel 13 News talked about the change in Facebook’s privacy policy. I do not give Facebook or any entities associated with Facebook permission to use my pictures, information, messages or posts, both past and future. With this statement, I give notice to Facebook it is strictly forbidden to disclose, copy, distribute, or take any other action against me based on this profile and/or its contents.

Better to be safe than sorry. An attorney advised us to post this. Good enough for me. The violation of privacy can be punished by law (UCC 1-308- 1 1 308-103 and the Rome Statute). NOTE: Facebook is now a public entity. All members must post a note like this. If you do not publish a statement at least once, it will be tacitly understood that you are allowing the use of your photos, as well as the information contained in your profile status updates. I HEREBY STATE THAT I DO NOT GIVE MY PERMISSION."

I do not give Facebook or any entities associated with Facebook permission to use my pictures, information, messages or posts, both past and future. By this statement, I give notice to Facebook it is strictly forbidden to disclose, copy, distribute, or take any other action against me based on this profile and/or its contents. The content of this profile is private and confidential information. The violation of privacy can be punished by law (UCC 1-308- 1 1 308-103 and the Rome Statute).

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If you’re out on a farm, you fit the intended use case for starlink.

The issue is that all them city folk see starlink as a way of escaping the locked in municipal ISPs. So they clog up satellite bandwidth when they have fibre/5G/HFC/wireless/xDSL options literally at their front door.

It’s worth nothing if it hasn’t been graded and placed in a sealed plastic box by a grading company that asserts that grading is awesome and things are worth nothing if they aren’t graded.

(sad \s)

Later versions of windows recognise that the device is removable and don’t cache writes. From the users point of view the copy dialog box only closes when writes are complete.

I’ve been working on updating all my old software projects lately, and as part of that process I feed the source code into a LLM for review.

The amount of simple security errors, logic flaws, and code smells that it reveals is quite embarrassing.

This was all “good functional code” that’s been used internally for years. Clearly it worked well enough, but a simple pass through a LLM reviewer made it a lot more robust and secure.

That’s why they used to restrict signups in certain geographical areas. But then people complained that they couldn’t sign up. So here we are.

Just run ‘sfc /scannow’, it fixes everything.

If you don’t believe me, just ask your friendly local volunteer Microsoft customer service agent, they’ll tell you.

Well, from a technical standpoint they now routinely do weekly what was never ever done before by anyone. Both in launch cadence of their booster fleet and the recovery of them, and they’ve pretty much fully transitioned to only making their Stage 2’s and just using their existing fleet of boosters. So from a rocket company perspective, SpaceX is a legitimate company, and they’ve made legitimate advances in the field of rocketry, and now they outpace the rest of the global market combined in tons to orbit.

Then you fold in Starlink, which needs those weekly launches to maintain the constellation… and then you fold in Starship, which is the next generation launch platform, and it’s like “Ok… that’s still rocket-y, that’s cool”.

And then along comes xAI tacked onto the side like a 100 billion dollar dead weight and that is where things get a bit wobbly.

Every large AI startup is racing to be the last one standing. They are all gobbling up compute resources to ensure that they have the best competitive advantage when others go broke. That includes soaking up all the future supply they can to restrict their competitors ability to do the same. In < 5 years time there is only going to be one commercial AI company left, and all the rest will just be skeletons picked clean of all their resources.

Be prepared to live with whatever hardware you have now for about 10 years. If you’re lucky things will be back on an even keel by then.

“Sorry boss, quota resets this evening at 8. See you tomorrow!”

“But it’s 9am!”

*shrugs* “Quota. Got none. Seeya.”

Roflcopter?

Hey hey hey hey hey whoa whoa let’s just keep the big guns in reserve for now, ok?

Yet another reason not to buy that unhealthy trash.

ButButBut it’s part of this complete breakfast!

Gestures broadly at the huge array of breakfast items on the table of which the cereal is a minor component

Statistically your weird internal corpo program that was made bespoke over a decade several decades ago …

Won’t work at all because it lives on a shared drive that needs your windows login and your PC to be joined to the domain to reach it, and IT just said “lol no” to your request to join your home made windows VM to the domain.

Get some M-Discs and burn a couple of copies of your docs and photos. The theoretical lifetime of M-disc is ~1000 years. Good luck finding a Blu-ray drive in the 30th century though.

“It’s just physics.”

AI slop detected.

For some reason LLMs just looooove that “It’s just physics” phrase. Its not just physics. Internal combustion engines are an unholy mix of nearly every field of science known to man. If you want to try and explain how awesome they are, you can’t handwave it all away in the first paragraph with three words.

In any case, I side with their “devil’s advocate” on every statement they try to assert.

Added comment: Modern EVs require the use of semiconductors / ICs in their drivetrains that are near the peak of semiconductor technology. Chip fabrication is hands-down absolutely the most complex manufacturing process humans have invented so far, with less than a dozen facilities worldwide capable of making the components needed for a modern EV.

Checkmate, atheists gearheads.

That’s quite an odessy. I put MX Linux on my 13 year old dell laptop, and there was an option in the MX utilities app to install the NVIDIA 340 drivers for it, and it merged them into the 7.0.something kernel that I had in about 3 minutes.

This isn’t meant as snark. Get settled into things for a few months with what you’ve got and then boot a few distros off USB and see if there’s something that better suits you or your hardware. You’ll have a good idea by then if what you really want/need.

Your ISP can theoretically use your home Wi-Fi router to track your movements.

This requires ancillary hardware that isn’t present on wifi routers, and then it also requires wifi devices spread around the place to provide a signal source for human bodies to distort, and then it requires significant computational hardware that also isn’t present in common home wifi routers.

Not to say that the general method can’t be used for basic presence detection - Philips Hue ZigBee devices can use the variations in the background signal strength of ZigBee devices they can see around them to infer that someone is in a room, so they can switch lights on/off automatically. But it requires multiple devices in a room for it to work reliably and they need calibration as well.

Not so much when you understand that Hook doesn’t just want to kill Pan , he wants to make him suffer for losing his hand. It was all a game to Pan, but Hook was the one with the hook for a hand now.

So after what seems to be an eternity of him chasing this idiot, insufferable, man-child, the now-quite-crazed Hook has broken into his mortal enemies home, and now spots him asleep in his bed.