Notices by a kilo of saucepans (rakslice) (rakslice@mastodon.social), page 3

I wasn't even aware compaq made one, i thought it was just a very brief heyday thing from grid and like the t3x00

LB: seeing oregon trail on a gas plasma laptop is the retrocomputing milestone I didn't know I needed to see

@whitequark i hear that increases throughput :P

@whitequark can github actions dispatch multiple reads i mean builds in parallel :P

@whitequark ~ video games ~

@thomasfuchs yeah, this gives the physical memory map incl memory size but it's an obscure basically IBM PS/2 specific one

LB: I may be irrelevant but I haven't started making int 15h ah=89h jokes yet

and see that's not even the right one, let's try int 15h ah=c7h

the peculiar combination of vanity and just not being in possession of all their marbles that leads them to not really try to keep up appearances is exploitable though, and the screenshot illustrates just how one might do it

LB: Like, for all his education, Vance comes across there as a two-bit hick dipshit who doesn't understand what job he signed up for,

but a crime is doing the crime, not whether you think it's a crime or not, and the US is not new to this sort of shit, not by a long shot

@foone @whitequark like there's no reason a video bios couldn't know how to draw text in a graphics mode the video hardware supports

@whitequark @alice @recursive the thing that gets me about it is: does the person who writes that just never spend like 30 seconds thinking about what might be of literally any relevance whatsoever to who they're writing to, or do they have just some truly totally bonkers ideas about that?

@whitequark I honestly can't parse why he brings that up, like what point there is it supposed to bolster? It reminds me most of somebody with a learned maladaptive response of saying something shocking to derail a discussion that is going in a way they don't like (but why do that in what amounts to an open letter?)

@whitequark I assume something must be broken in thunderbird imap; my world's most boring bone stock ISP e-mail setup with it also stopped working recently and I haven't bothered to figure out why

Like I have to wonder if there's a vector here for con artists to exploit people with psychiatric and personality disorders by _pretending_ to be chatbots of this nature

This is a little bit beyond what I was expecting, even in terms of the idea of selecting a specific kind of rube:
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ai-spiritual-delusions-destroying-human-relationships-1235330175/

@whitequark am I not understanding what LDR R0, [R0] means properly or is that last one just the usual rotation of data from unaligned reads on ARM7

LB x3: The dystopian future we live in where it's impossible to tell where the bit ends and the software hallucination begins

I was about to mention cyberpunk but I accidentally typed "cyberbunk" which is maybe more the right speed actually

Lots of recaps of commercial unixes say stuff like "IBM AIX is nearly as old [...] originating for the IBM RT PC in 1986, though early versions also ran on PS/2 systems and System/370 and /390 mainframes. AIX started as an early port of UNIX System V [...]" (oldvcr.blogspot.com/2023/11/the-apple-network-servers-all-too.html) giving the impression that there is a piece of software with a coherent lineage there