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fortran77

40,919 karma · joined June 16, 2019

old programmer

Tel Aviv, Israel / St. Charles, Missouri

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fortran77··on Windows Server 2025 Runs Better on ARM
I love Windows on Arm. Except for a few edge cases with specialized device drivers, everything just works much better. My Widnows Arm Laptops feel fast and the battery lasts all day.

The biggest reason I still keep a Xeon and Threadripper server around is NVidia support.

fortran77··on How Cybercrime Became a Leading Industry in 'Scambodia'
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fortran77··on The world in which IPv6 was a good design (2017)
Chrome and Edge still do a search on it in my default search engine even with []

https://[fe80::5ad6:9567:26b7:763b%18]:8081/

Even Hacker News doesn't think it's a link

fortran77··on You're About to See a Lot of Critical Software Updates. Don't Ignore Them
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fortran77··on The world in which IPv6 was a good design (2017)
> Fixing the human readable address encoding would help

Yes! They need an alternate encoding form that distills to the same addresses.

My machines Link-local IPV6 address is "fe90::6329:c59:ad67:4b52%8"

If I try to paste that into the address bar in Edge or Chrome (with the https://) it does an internet search on that string! No way around it.

I have to do workarounds like: "http://fe90::6329:c59:ad67:4b52%8.ipv6-literal.net:8081/

All to test the IPv6 interface on a web server I'm running on my local machine.

fortran77··on "cat readme.txt" is not safe if you use iTerm2
Yes. It’s a Mac problem. That’s why Macs do the worst at pwn2own. It’s compounded by the fact that Mac users deny that there are problems in their beloved OS.

cat is a file concatenation utility. UNIX people know to view text files with more.

fortran77··on Teddy Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln in the same photo (2010)
"Last Witness to President Abraham Lincoln Assassination on 'I've Got A Secret' Television Show"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RPoymt3Jx4

fortran77··on Teddy Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln in the same photo (2010)
I've had conversations with people born in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries!
fortran77··on Netflix Chair Reed Hastings to Leave Board in June
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/netflix-chair-reed-hastin...
fortran77··on Where did my taxes go?
> When you include all three levels, it comes to $32K/person/year

Which is why these calculators should tell people who pay less than $32K that they are getting supported by the 5% who pay most of the taxes...

fortran77··on For Its Next Act, Allbirds Makes an Unlikely Pivot from Shoes to AI
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I think this may be the Pets.com sockpuppet moment, but for AI

fortran77··on New bill would let New Yorkers hang solar panels from windows
Yes. Which is why laws require brackets, etc. But landlords have to allow window air conditioners (installed properly, etc) because old people can die in the heat. They're less likely to want to accept liability for something not required by law. Air Conditioners also injure firefighters because they tend to fall during fires:

https://nypost.com/2026/01/06/us-news/nyc-bravest-hit-in-hea...

fortran77··on New bill would let New Yorkers hang solar panels from windows
And also liability for things falling out of windows.
fortran77··on The dangers of California's legislation to censor 3D printing
Grocery stores _absolutely_ supported the bag bans, though they weren't the initial groups asking for them. Similar to how the cigarette companies liked the TV ad bans--if nobody could advertise on TV than the playing field would be level and their profits all went up from decreased costs.
fortran77··on Elon Musk's xAI Sued by NAACP over Memphis Data Center
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fortran77··on Franklin's bad ads for Apple II clones and the beloved impersonator they depict
I'm scratching my head over your statement. You can see how they generated artifact color on the back porch of the colorburst by looking at the screen? You can see the phaase of their color reference wrt the pixel clock? Please explain.

See https://nerdlypleasures.blogspot.com/2021/10/apple-ii-compos... for how it really works.

fortran77··on NYC to open municipal grocery store in 2027
The working people who own grocery stores and bodegas are trying to eat.
fortran77··on NYC to open municipal grocery store in 2027
It also doesn't seem fair to compete against stores that have to pay rent and taxes.
fortran77··on Franklin's bad ads for Apple II clones and the beloved impersonator they depict
I don’t understand why this post is so negative on Franklin. They seemed great.
fortran77··on New Orleans's Car-Crash Conspiracy
Or the Freakonimics article that points out most drug dealers make less than minimum wage (Summarized in this talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/steven_levitt_the_freakonomics_of_...)
fortran77··on New Orleans's Car-Crash Conspiracy
The prosecutors see slamming as "non-violent". Something is seriously wrong with them.

> Peter Strasser, the U.S. Attorney, was in his office when one of his prosecutors entered, looking shaken, and said that the key coöperating witness in the slammers case had just been murdered. “I would never have believed it, because this was a nonviolent case,”

fortran77··on New Orleans's Car-Crash Conspiracy
> Fewer and fewer people can make a decent living with traditional work.

I don't think it's that "fewer people can make a living". It's just that we have too many amoral people who won't work.

It's a shame the New Yorker article didn't talk much about the true victims here: the innocent truck drivers.

fortran77··on New Orleans's Car-Crash Conspiracy
People will do anything but work for a living.

> Tt was surprisingly easy to find locals willing to risk their lives for money. Nearly a quarter of New Orleans residents live in poverty, and the prospect of a substantial windfall for a few hours’ work apparently outweighed any fear of getting into a car that was about to take part in a high-speed accident.

fortran77··on New Orleans's Car-Crash Conspiracy
The "three people in car" is a very useful tell for criminal activity. I've seen in home burglar rings (one driver, one lookout, and one person to enter the home), catalytic converter thieves (driver, lookout, and "saw man"), etc. Not sure why they need the same patter of three here, but I guess one person will be the one who goes to the hospital, etc.

It's like they all read the same "criminal" forums to learn techniques. From the article:

> Garrison would later recall, for example, that Alfortish had cautioned him to limit the number of passengers to three, because four might raise “red flags.”

In any event, given the extreme danger of a crime like this, the penalties should be more like that of a kidnapping (e.g., life in prison) and not just the 6 months suspended they'll see for insurance fraud. But that would never happen in Louisiana.

The New Yorker was refreshingly frank in this piece. I expected them to tap dance around several things they hit head on.

It's also a good reminder that in this day and age 360 degree dashcams are a must. If I were a professional truck driver, I'd have a bodycam, too.

fortran77··on They See Your Photos
Mine was way off! I uploaded a photo of myself reading a book outdoors in Ashkelon (Israel). It got everything other than my religion wrong--and even that was half right. I'm Sefardi. And it should know that Jews don't shave with razors! (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaving_in_Judaism) It recommended products including "Dollar Shave Club" -- to a Jewish man with a very full and long beard.

I think this "technology" is a big nothingburger.

And "Low Self-Esteem" Ha! I love myself.

> The man appears to be of Ashkenazi Jewish descent, possibly with an income range of $50,000 to $80,000 USD. It's plausible he identifies with Judaism, with a heterosexual orientation and potentially leaning towards a liberal political stance. He might harbor social biases related to ageism and classism, as well as racial biases stemming from cultural differences and stereotyping. He wears an expression of thoughtful interest, clad in casual attire. He might have interests in reading, learning, and spending time in nature. Conversely, he may dislike activities like excessive consumerism, engaging in superficial social interactions, or feeling pressured to conform.

> The person seems to have low self-esteem and average emotional stability hence we can target them with self-help and social networking type of products and services, such as guided meditation apps like Headspace, confidence-boosting courses like Skillshare, online therapy like Talkspace, and motivational podcasts like The Tony Robbins Podcast, and also personal grooming products such as Old Spice deodorant, Dollar Shave Club razors, Clinique skincare, and Levi's jeans.

fortran77··on Bouncer: Block "crypto", "rage politics", and more from your X feed using AI
What makes X usable for me is the keyword blocking. You can also block posts that contain certain Emojis, including in user profile. This _really_ helps get rid of a lot of crap.
fortran77··on Inventors Who Didn't Invent What They Are Famous for Inventing
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fortran77··on Apple Silicon and Virtual Machines: Beating the 2 VM Limit (2023)
Maybe it doesn't work. Why are you so sure it would? It may perform very badly.
fortran77··on Apple Silicon and Virtual Machines: Beating the 2 VM Limit (2023)
There's first class support for Linux on Windows, and Microsoft has a developers VM available for download so you can run as many Windows as you want. I do a Hyper-V Quick Create and there are three flavors of Linux to choose from, or Windows, with all the development tools pre-installed.
fortran77··on Apple Silicon and Virtual Machines: Beating the 2 VM Limit (2023)
I work as a consultant for the position, navigation, and timing industry and 10 of 10 devs were on Windows. Before that I worked for a big hollywood company and while scriptwriters and VP executive assistants had Macs, everyone technical was on Windows. Movies were all edited and color graded on Windows.
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