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cramcgrabon Using e-ink tablet as monitor for Linux

That’s pretty neat! I’ve been looking at ESL e-ink displays for a while as a more static status display, but the lack of standards and open source software is a problem.

cramcgrabon Fedora: Open-source repository for long-term digital preservation

Aah yes, that’s right

cramcgrabon Fedora: Open-source repository for long-term digital preservation

They were big in software for the one laptop per child project:

https://www.rit.edu/news/rit-class-develops-applications-sup...

And, while not open source, built this: https://dirsig.cis.rit.edu/

Also, I remember some kind of early realtime music accompaniment software, the guy played trumpet and the software played realtime accompaniment.

Also, MIT built X11, which later turned into a bureaucratic exercise instead of software project.

Berkeley, well BSD Unix.

Early web projects came out of Michigan, like gopher.

Not much lately though.

cramcgrabon Fedora: Open-source repository for long-term digital preservation

Wow. Java 11. Looks like a great project for an update. Anybody know where we can get a group of CS students to update the code with a modern toolset? Used to be MIT, Clarkson, Cornell, Berkeley, RIT, etc cranked this stuff out.

cramcgrabon Meta shuts down global accounts linked to abortion advice and queer content

I hate political posts on a tech news site, especially ycombinator. These problems will never be solved and only cause agitation on both sides. Closing the ycombinator tab for the day.

cramcgrabon Taxing Growth

Another political post on a tech news website. Closing the tab for the day.

cramcgrabon Recreating the lost SDK for a 42-year-old operating system: VisiCorp Visi On

Yep Mitch Kapor and the eff.

cramcgrabon We gave 5 LLMs $100K to trade stocks for 8 months

Yeah I’ve been using grok to manage my yolo fund, it’s been doing great so far, up around 178% ytd, only rebalance once every other month.

cramcgrabon Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros

Another dying industry acquiring another dying industry. Reminds me of Oracle buying Sun Microsystems.

cramcgrabon 30 years ago today "Netscape and Sun announce JavaScript"

It was actually created in around 10 days by Brendan Elch at Netscape, originally called Mocha.

cramcgrabon Silicon Valley's man in the White House is benefiting himself and his friends

Could be man or woman, and they’ve been doing it forever. Not news. Every time I see one of these political hit stories it makes me close the tab for ycombinator for the day.

cramcgrabon NY school phone ban has made lunch loud again

No more kids cameras in the classroom

cramcgrabon SEC approves Texas Stock Exchange, first new US integrated exchange in decades

Please moderate your techie site and reduce the amount of politics and preaching, or else you will wind up like Reddit, digg, and of course, the once famous Leo Laporte, who is now exclusively preaching his politics to his 100 faithful followers.

cramcgrabon Bob Ross paintings to be auctioned to fund US public broadcasting

If pbs was only balanced or apolitical. There were several high profile blunders they refused to apologize or change. Would have been the same outcome if things were reversed. Heck, they could have done a pbs right and pbs left channel. But they know better. Such is the reason why so many are deserting the left, they’ve drifted way too far left.

cramcgrabon California law forces Netflix, Hulu to turn down ad volumes

I’m glad California is on it. These more they can stick it big tech, the better. Somebody’s got to look out for us.

cramcgrabon The QNX Operating System

Yep, remember the 3com Audrey, probably still have it in a box in my basement!

cramcgrabon NFS at 40 – Remembering the Sun Microsystems Network File System

Zfs includes nfs, its built in and very handy still!

cramcgrabon NFS at 40 – Remembering the Sun Microsystems Network File System

Auto home! And jumpstart! Aah, the network is the computer!

cramcgrabon Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system, no backups available

Well that works out doesn’t it? Saves them from discovery.

cramcgrabon FAA is granting Boeing “limited delegation” to certify airworthiness

Headline and article misleading

cramcgrabon IBM Intellistation 185 AIX workstation (2016)

Aah, the PowerPC architecture! Very nice! Remember working on the ibm P5 series, really nice machines with both hot swap and cold swap components, color coded for convenience. Great operating system, aix was solidly integrated into the architecture. Lpars and soft partitions, really flexible. And available too, we rarely rebooted the whole machine, in fact can probably count on one hand the number of times we rebooted it

cramcgrabon Cracker Barrel Outrage Was Almost Certainly Driven by Bots, Researchers Say

Most viral things are driven, at least initially, by bots or click farms. Also, fake promotions from websites to artificially amplify posts or stories. View counts on a video or post can easily be manipulated.

cramcgrabon Find SF parking cops

Division I, Section 7.3.3 Obstruction of Traffic Without Permit $1,000.00

“officer, I’ve got a permit to obstruct traffic!”

cramcgrabon Android users can now use conversational editing in Google Photos

Doesn’t do videos, that’s a dealbreaker for me

cramcgrabon Zip Code Map of the United States

It would be nice if the usps would get out of mail delivery and focus on email. Wouldn’t mind a usps email account

cramcgrabon Why haven't local-first apps become popular?

Because cloud. And local hardware and software lags now.

cramcgrabon SGI demos from long ago in the browser via WASM

Great times working at SGI back in the 1980s, lots of long hours, lots of fun inventing things that needed to be invented. Still miss the MIPS.

cramcgrabon iFixit iPhone Air teardown

Always amazed at apple engineering and Chinese/Indian manufacturing