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Kazriko | @kazriko@alcatir.com

The usual. Software developer, former BBS sysop. Atari XE, Dos, OS/2, BeOS, Windows 2000/7 former user, Linux/FreeBSD/Haiku/OpenIndiana current user. The various places I post are listed: https://arkaic.com/

The state of AM5 motherboard is a bit disappointing. The only brand that seems to have 8x8x with an extra 4x card on the chipset now doesn't support ECC...

I may have to start looking into boards without 8x8x splitting on the first two PCIe ports, and instead buy one of those 8-nvme 16x cards with an active hub. Especially since I'm already on a PCIe x4 10gbe card, so I don't have to worry about the integrated network being any good.

https://youtu.be/Nhz6vao13bs I'm tired of California being allowed to push their laws on the rest of the country.

@developing_agent @icm I used to run desqview on a 486, running a BBS on the system while I also ran some text-based utilities like GoldEd and such. I know of people who ran up to 4 lines on a single dos system with desqview.

Why Coal is less a part of the US mix

@Cheeseness @hankgreen I haven't watched the video, but I think Coal plants are actually getting pretty rare in the US, unlike in Germany (where they shut down the Nuclear plants and suddenly needed a LOT of VERY dirty bitumen coal plants to replace it) and China (where they need every watt they can get their hands on no matter how dirty.) Natural Gas in the US is nearly free, being a waste product of other processes, and Coal can't compete. What's left is mostly legacy ones where they have some deal where the operation costs are very cheap or they haven't had the funds to build new gas plants. Though, I imagine AI is pushing people to restart Coal plants in addition to re-commissioning Nuclear plants, so maybe that's the source of the talk? AI has basically slurped up every bit of excess electrical capacity and still thirsts for more go-juice.

Tech Conn
As for the rest of his rant, I disagree with a lot of the last segment, he obviously watched different videos than I saw, and I would direct him towards the Angry Cop videos on the subject.

Tech Conn
Wow, just watched the rest of that episode. Even though I agree that we should be having renewables built out, I highly disagree with his assertion that he's thinking long term. If he thinks that we'll eventually hit some amount of lithium batteries that we'll have enough and we won't need to mine any more lithium, he's definitely a earth-deadender who isn't thinking about us eventually expanding out of being a single planet and single system civilization.

Technology Connections
When he said "this burned half a tanker truck of gasoline in its life" I didn't say "boy that's a lot" but rather "wow, it did that much distance with that little fuel?"

@JessTheUnstill My open source projects always have at least one user. Myself. Why write something you're not even going to use? I wrote it for myself, and I use it. If anyone else uses it, that's just a bonus.

@zaitcev Saw your post on Livejournal. I actually shifted from site to site for a time, from LJ to Posterous to Tumblr... Hated most of them, finally settled on a Gitlab + Cloudflare hosted blog with Hugo. I bet with TinaCMS you could even make it seamless to post to, then you're almost entirely on tech that you can host anywhere...

That doesn't include a way to comment though. I should probably make it so I post to Pleroma everytime I make a blog post, and direct there for replies.

@stuff The rangers are probably all pretty old, right? So it would be ~100k miles maverik's against ~200k+ rangers?

@eevee @Gargron Could always contribute to one of the non-google non-mozilla browsers until they get up to the level to compete. Though, I chose the easier option of just going to a mozilla fork with no AI.

@fribbledom I'd be surprised if he ever enjoyed them, he's the one who was ranting about software piracy in the 70's, so it was probably always a business to him.

@fribbledom Eh, I'm still using tar, with either xz or gz.

@LordCaramac @fribbledom My own BBS used ARJ as its primary format, but I was the only one locally. Almost every other BBS used zip, sit, or lzh. sit and lzh were only used on 1 and 2 other BBSes respectively, and zip had the rest.

@futurebird @Cheeseness Since I just yt-dlp all the videos and drop them in a folder, click "watch later", then use a program to play them from smallest to largest, my equivalent to the next video button is to just close the mpv window. If a video isn't what I wanted, I have to go to my watch later list and delete the video. In order for the views to count, I launch a VM and have it consume my entire watch later list at 240p using the youtube web player...

Needless to say, the way that I watch youtube is very counter to what they designed because I'm trying to avoid this adversarial design. I actually just combine many video sites into one folder of videos.

4chan's Lawyer Talks to Lunduke

Preston Byrne, the attorney representing both 4chan and Kiwi Farms, talks with Lunduke about Ofcom and the United Kingdom's censorship campaign against Americans.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0igajfxGB-M

https://youtu.be/FMSgtViL2aw Some local band here. Not the worst thing ever.

@david_chisnall So, they can't just run an existing test on F77, then rerun the same test on F90 with old data? Silly.

@Cheeseness @LexGear All of them being one type or another is unrealistic. It's all bell curves, you'll always have outliers, and you can't judge any given goblin by the general goblin bell curve, have to look at the individual goblin because the individual variability trumps group identity.

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