Notices by Gregly, but unemployed (gregly@retro.pizza)

@dalias @bitsnpieces @futurebird Hell, you can go back further, to Ford pardoning Nixon. I’d argue Nixon getting away with his actions, combined with Reaganomics, plus Bush’s endless wars, all led to today’s Republiklan party.

@whitequark I’d be concerned about scams, but other than that I agree, it’s extremely cool

@sinvega @Bobbins

General failure reading drive G
Falling back to bitter cynical asshole mode

@m04 @gerbal @kjhealy Yeah. I don't care if the guy actually "rewrote it all from scratch" when he built Netscape as he claims; the fact remains he took work primary developed at a federal agency, housed at a state university, and used it to become a billionaire. He's fucking scum.

@steter I can believe it! My first 486 was around $2500 (although that included monitor/keyboard/mouse). The cost of systems today is ridiculously low compared to the old days.

She could probably get by just fine with an older system (albeit newer than her current one), but if she’s going to put money into building a machine I’d prefer she get something that will last her a bit longer. I may work out a deal with her to help her buy pieces over time. (At least the pace of obsolescence has slowed down since the 80s/90s!)

Honestly, I’m glad she’s considering the costs! She just turned 18 and is starting to deal with a budget of her own for the first time, and she wants to save for bigger things like a car, so IMO she’s doing a good job of figuring out what she wants to put money toward.

My daughter wants to build a computer! She’s a bit dismayed that a moderate machine that will do everything she’d like would run about $1k though.

In the meantime I can upgrade the CPU and RAM on her existing system, but it’s old — 7th gen Core — so the benefits would be pretty small.

I just saw someone on Mastodon who identifies herself as totally blind side with ICE against the protesters

And I’m like

You realize the disabled will be the next target, don’t you?

Have you not seen the eugenicist rhetoric spewed by this regime?

How can you be so ignorant?

He died in abject poverty, after all of his savings and benefits had run out. One of the most prolific, brilliant, amazing sci-fi and comic authors ever, and he died like that.

I fucking hate this country. I fucking hate it.
https://www.ign.com/articles/peter-david-acclaimed-incredible-hulk-and-x-factor-writer-has-died

@cwebber I love that whole album.

So my wife is saying 4chan was hacked so thoroughly that it may be a *site-ending hack*. Practically everyone who ever signed up on the site (i.e. non-anon users) has had their private info leaked, including emails and IPs in many cases.

(Warning: offensive language and slurs in the link below, it includes screenshots from 4chan after all)

https://xcancel.com/Priniz_twt/status/1911970751663448290

@magicalgirlsabrina We’ve been noting here how they’re *massively* leaning on nostalgia this year. Almost like a bunch of morons just voted for someone who promises to return us to an era of “greatness” that exists only in their fevered imagination!

@rootfake @GavinChait @dalias @marshray @cwebber After thinking about it a bit, I’d like to suggest “faith-based patterns” (or “faith-based coding/architecture/etc.”)

@directhex @goatsarah @eff Strong agree here. Too often the EFF has felt a lot more like the “Straight Cis White Techbro Freedom Foundation”.

It doesn’t have to be perfect.
It doesn’t have to be practical.
It doesn’t have to be useful or monetizable.
It doesn’t have to be spectacular, extraordinary, or even original.

Make stuff because you want to. Simply for the joy of making it.

(This is mostly a reminder to myself, to banish all these intrusive self-criticisms. But maybe you need it too.)

@CelloMomOnCars @cstross The article mentioned that the battery is modular, and I think *that* is the key to mass EV adoption. Five minutes to 60% charge is amazing, but people are generally impatient. Imagine if you could stop at a service station, swap out a number of standardized empty cells for full ones, pay a fee for the charge difference, and head out again? Long-distance EV travel could be as easy as gasoline-engine travel.

Re the whole “First Lady” “joke” about Elon:

Aside from it being bigoted, I’d argue it’s better to call him “the actual President” because Trump is an insecure paranoid narcissist who will *absolutely* drop him like a hot iron if he thinks Musk has more power and attention than he does.

Keep insinuating that Musk is the true power behind the figurehead that Trump is. Keep tweaking him until he stabs Musk in the back. Sow chaos between the enormous egos of this regime.

@cstross @iinavpov Realistically he’ll ban EVs for all companies except Tesla, granting him an explicit monopoly.

If you watch syndicated reruns of old shows on television, or on a streaming service like PlutoTV, you’re probably missing a ton of the original show’s content.

Take MASH, for example. I never knew just how cut-to-ribbons the show was on TV until I watched the DVDs. Entire plot lines were ripped out to jam more commercials into a half-hour.

Reject so-called “free” services like PlutoTV. They want to bring back advertising hell, except worse because now they can spy on your viewing habits.

@br00t4c @ReticentTurnip oh my god, they monetized the Dead Internet Theory

(ha ha only serious)