Suzuran

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by Suzuran 5mo ago
That has always been the goal. There is, has, and always will be a powerful caste system to ensure that they are gods and we are trash. "Stay in your lane" / "Know your place" / etc. have been watchwords for th
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by Suzuran 5mo ago
Mainframes can LPAR dynamically. When you want to test if your production system will IPL cleanly, you clone your production environment to an isolated LPAR and IPL it. No impact to production and you get your test.
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by Suzuran 6mo ago
In my case, it's always been because the native terminal emulator had issues actually emulating terminals when connected to remote systems, it was intended to be only a terminal-shaped wrapper around the host system's shell.
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by Suzuran 6mo ago
America is not rich. A handful of Americans are rich. The rest of us are not, and can never be allowed to become rich because that would not be in the interests of the aforementioned handful.
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by Suzuran 6mo ago
Another thing I should point out is that the CSP instruction set was not documented to the customer. The CSP software was called "Microcode" and the customer was not told about the CSP's design or how it worked. The documente
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by Suzuran 6mo ago
You may not be looking for the right thing. On the aforementioned CSP, the instruction that performed XOR was called "XR" and not "XOR". My source is firsthand knowledge; I was a CE and performed service calls on the Sys
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by Suzuran 6mo ago
On some of IBM's smaller processors, such as channel controllers and the CSP used in the midrange line prior to the System/38, the xor instruction had a special feature when used with identical source and destination - It would in
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by Suzuran 6mo ago
Could be. You could also have been thinking of the 11/730, which was a cost-reduced 11/750 and thus the second-slowest VAX model DEC ever sold. The slowest would be the 11/725, which was a cost-reduced 11/730 that had a
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by Suzuran 6mo ago
It looks entirely made up because the procedure described is also entirely alien to me, and I had professional experience with both VMS and Ultrix when they were still supported by DEC. (And it's certainly not BSD...)
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by Suzuran 6mo ago
"We'll fix it eventually" is not good enough. If a human can find a flaw, then a bot can find the same flaw, and the bots are always watching and always testing. If someone can't commit to immediate security response whe
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by Suzuran 6mo ago
There was no 11/380 but there was an 11/780.
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by Suzuran 6mo ago
If you have relays, the easiest RAM is just a bank of latching relays and the easiest ROM is a resistor board. Core rope is only for density.
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by Suzuran 7mo ago
The company doesn't get the choice. If they fire you or cut your pay over jury service, or even just threaten to to do so, and you can prove it, they can be arrested immediately. I have personally witnessed a judge issue a bench warran
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by Suzuran 7mo ago
The problem is punishing the uploader doesn't remove the upload. Once the public has it, it has it forever. It doesn't un-contaminate a jury pool, and there's no later retraction if whatever that was uploaded is found to be l
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by Suzuran 7mo ago
Using HTTP does not guarantee your content can be read, since it can be modified in transit. Your content could be replaced entirely and you would never know unless someone reported it to you.
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by Suzuran 7mo ago
I must correct myself; The DNS challenge is indeed being discouraged in the future, but it is because the DNS-01 challenge is being replaced by the DNS-PERSIST-01 challenge which addresses deficiencies in DNS-01. The trust and security issu
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by Suzuran 7mo ago
But, as we learned with the telnet filter going into place, we exist on the network at the pleasure of everyone else. Their concerns must come before ours. The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.
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by Suzuran 7mo ago
It is my understanding that DNS challenges are discouraged and/or being deprecated due to the challenge results being less trustworthy than more stringent verification methods. There is also the operational overhead that arises as SSL
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by Suzuran 8mo ago
I meant rewriting it for IPv6 instead of IPv4.
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by Suzuran 8mo ago
If I am rewriting the network stack or making other substantial changes, that defeats the purpose of historical preservation.
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by Suzuran 8mo ago
Some of us still run historical systems for preservation's sake.
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by Suzuran 8mo ago
I run a PDP-10 during the colder parts of the year. It's for historical preservation reasons. There are others doing the same thing. We still offer telnet access because that's how it worked back then. I guess we aren't going
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by Suzuran 9mo ago
(This was supposed to be a machine name pun; "AI" was the name of a specific PDP-10)
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by Suzuran 9mo ago
In a lot of ways he is, despite witnessing a lot of how the sausage is made directly. Honestly, I think at at least half of it is wanting to convince himself that the world still functions in ways that make sense to him rather than admit th
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by Suzuran 9mo ago
My boss says it's because they are backed by trillion dollar companies and the companies would face dire legal threats if they did not ensure the correctness of AI output.
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by Suzuran 9mo ago
Just have AI translate it.
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by Suzuran 10mo ago
I am aware (of the Judenlettern decree). The reference to exactly this was intentional. (Edit to make this really obvious: The joke here is that "fraktur = nazis" became such a meme that the nazis themselves were annoyed by it a
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by Suzuran 10mo ago
Fraktur.
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by Suzuran 10mo ago
Turning the transponder off only prevents civilian ATC from knowing your identification and altitude. They will still see your position as a primary target on their radar.
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by Suzuran 10mo ago
Military aircraft mostly do not have civilian VHF radio, only military UHF radio. They can only communicate with civilian aircraft by using civilian ATC as a go-between, and only if the civilian ATC is equipped with military UHF radio. In t

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