Notices by tom jennings (tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org)

@timbray

They can't. In 2026 it's not even a good fantasy.

The way these corps treat data, im gonna delete my acct now/soon, though it provebly won't ever be deleted in fact. And its an empty gesture anyway.

@psf

Interesting. I vehemently do not use computers like that, lol, the pop on, type one note, pop closed. I sometimes do such things on my phone, which i feel is a flaw in my thinking

Im very much sbout paying sttention to interruptions and worst, self interruptions snd devices invite this.

BUT! Yes, the double whammy, triple really, if you include no lid switch ( though the little keyboard lcd machine could do this) of no low power idle mode and the power curcuit leak -- doesn't even last a day off charger -- makes it a lot less useful.

I have taken it on trips and it is pretty good because my mobile workflow usually is sit down do extended work then stop. Then its just great. Get into work mode, exhaust it, stop go do the next thing or whatever.

The keyboard is too cramped for my long fingers. The orthogonal thing hasnt bothered me at all and i was surprised. But the keys -- just lovely to type on, the key mechanisms are amazing! make it not a good typong machine for me but this was known by me up front.

Its chonkness is cool.

Ive ordered, slightly reluctantly cuz is expensive, the rk3588 upgrade. The a311d though better than the original cpu bogs dpwn hopelessly with modest browser use and it cant Bluetooth audio reliably. The rk3588 should fix all that (plus the 16gb ram)

I kinda dont have a use-case for the pocket right now but its a lovely machine.

Also id hate to lose it so i have a used $300 eBay Stinkbook x13 i drag around for those scarce times i need to work not at home. Which are less and less, by design outside of computing. My computer use is increasingly outside of most peoples convention so take this all with eith s grain of salt.

Anyone here with ***specific factual technical knowledge*** that can tell us which phone models do or no not, actually power off, all electronics depowered and inert?

As far as I can tell my Pixel 7 actually powers off. But does it really?

Does AIRPLANE MODE actually disable all of the transmitters?

In AIRPLANE MODE is it safe to assume that the phone is still tracking/logging it's location (using whatever facilities are on gps, wifi, towers, Bluetooth)?

To me these are crucial things to know, impossible to web search, buried in all the novice phone questions. Or maybe no one knows.

@lanodan

more than one a day! lol!

no thing means anything at all.

@mattblaze

I think human activity on the net is driven by two major drives: porn and righteous indignation.

Another day, another data breech.

OMFG Pluribus is hilarious!

Don't want to spoil it but in episode 2, oh my what a flip.

Holey krap it looks like MAXIMUMROCKNROLL is not in the Internet Archive!

It was print-only until relatively recently, and well past it's prime; but is hands-down the center of the literate punk world for 20 year, a monthly 100 pages of dictionary-density letters (so many letters!), columns, reviews, and rigorously-regulated ads.

It was newsprint, stapled, I can only guess but amongst the worst shit in the world to scan.

Gonna have to ask around to see if anyone's got scans. or collated copies.

@mhoye

Lol I'm not a lock geek in the slightest, but yeah I know there's only N combinations and in 1960s cars, N is like 100.

Junkyards usually had huge keyrings and some low status employees job was to take the big blob ring out the the latest acquisition and figure out which key it was.

@deviantollam

@riley

Well homeless folk have a lot to be angry about. We just need to cut people more slack.

@riley

Oh, I'm with her. One of the things about being homeless, that I can observe, and have been told, is you're not treated as human -- don't exist.

I've made it a point to at least say hello to every person on the street, homeless or not. It's the literally-least thing we can do. Even begging, just saying "no, sorry" at least is human.

I've found that even the ranting crazy folk, yelling at god (mostly themselves), on an anguished rant, if yhou loudly say "HELLO!" half of them pause and say hi back, then go back to yelling. Which is actually kinda funny and revealing.

If once in a while you get an angry response, whatever. Everyone has bad days.

@lanodan

@lanodan

But there's the bootstrap of writing code on the machine to bring up fancier code on the machine, then compiling the code on the machine, the unix thing, the most impressive form of immortality computing has achieved so far.

@riley

@lanodan

The sort of bootstrap I was referring to was the old kind, which all the 8bit micros adhered to, and all of the early 16 bits, to.....

The CPU designer causes the hardware to come up, after POR, with its tiny legs attempting to execute instructions at address 0, or fffe, or whatever, and also to have some sort of Rom at that address. And you bring up the machine state by state.

Before that most or many of the minis came up in the halt state, something that most CPUs don't actually do any more. Like not exercising tiny legs (CPU buss) looking for anything. Halted. 0 Hz.

The DG novas, you'd push all the address switches down (0s) then toggle in (16 opcodes bits, press store and advance) rest again for address 0, press run. There was a macho thing of how fast one could toggle in the memorized bootstrap.

The DG one I recall (barely) was less than a dozen that read bytes assembled words from the tty tape to core right above the manual bootstrap, and the tape sp read was the rest of the bootstrap; you only had to toggle in those first few instructions then it extended itself.

I read that EDSAC used the same kind of boot but they you had to literally run upstsirs and back down during various steps. Lol.

If one face more money to DG then my cheapskate employer did, you could get a tiny PROM to solder on that contained a bootstrap. DG did the same gimmick with the RTC; these guys bought the chips and soderedcin the enabling missing etc chips. Shit work that I did.

@riley

@riley

Unless bootstrap now has some meanings attached I don't understand, lol, all I do is write bootstrapping code. Ok I haven't bothered to look up the ARM hardware reset to run code cold start stuff, but I could. And my entire professional life was inserting burned eproms into dubious prototype hardware.

But today, I'm not sure I want to exert the effort to understand my desktops uefi boot process, or what an i7 needs st power on. I'm sure it will depress me.

@lanodan

@riley

Never heard of it. But I have a copy of what's allegedly a working PL/M compiler, 8080 code. For ISIS, the Intel machine. But it's been disassembled; I suspect cp/ms OS conventions are very compatible.... And so a mod tp it to run on CPM would not get that hard.

It seems like a nice language for CPM system tools but it is one of those one pass languages and so you need to structure your source smallest first, like pascal; I think and write top down. Can't use it.

BDS C is superior to all cuz it's so perfectly adapted to the limitations of the machine. I see formal beauty in computer texts; but I'm not an academic and if I can't apply it, it's not a holistic and I stop caring about that fleeting beauty.

A shitty language implemented well beats a theoretically beautiful one, to me. My goal is to make the machine dance.

@lanodan

@riley

I didn't know they book was one of a series.

It's lovely, a gift from a friend.

@lanodan

@lanodan @riley

I wasn't clear: that's about the only C++ stuff I really like. Restrictions on static data in classes annoys me; most of my classes are instantiated in place, once. For libraries the objects are really great! I hate all the annoying constructor blah blah but I bet others move that shit.

Scope control would be enough for me.

@lanodan @riley

I'm writing 8080 assembly! OMFG it's awful!

But at the other end of my life I've found s new flow to it, and not worrying about performance at the bit level but at the strategy level (old and treacherous).

I use perl for system goo, but less so these days, more bash.

Lol I chose perl when it and python were new. Pythons indentation nonsense reminded me too much of fortrans positional bullshit, but I used it until python 2 or 3 changed how integer math worked and said fuck this, perl it is.

I like perl. Writing scripts that look like transmission line noise is a choice I reject.

@lanodan

I totally love and use C++ for namespace control and modularity. My recent fZ80 is badly done on this way; too many of the existing packages did their own instantiation of objects so I couldn't embed them in my own objects/classes (arduinoism) unlike my usual practice.

I fully embraced source code control but found I rarely used it myself, lone programmer, and hourly incremental backups solved lost-data etc. And it would need to be integrated into the IDE I use.

@riley

@lanodan @riley

The other part of this (eg strcpy) is, know a language and compiler really well, and not following every "better" language. They are, better. Really. But I no longer need to care!

I know though that's a lot of fun for many people. Not knocking that! Just not my deal. My codes embedded; if I do my job no one has to see it but I know it's there.