VogonPoetry

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by VogonPoetry 24d ago
Another comment mentions a KryoFlux. A cheaper alternative is a GreaseWeasel (£30, $30). The 4.1 version even has USB-C as a connector. You will need an external power brick with a 4pin Molex connector for 5.25 drives. You can buy these sta
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by VogonPoetry 2mo ago
Your site does not currently seem to be reachable / responsive when I try to reach it from a US Comcast IPv4 address - you are not advertising IPv6. Edit / Update: It was Apple's Private browsing mode that causes it not to re
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by VogonPoetry 2mo ago
I wonder if "Piano Mover" is a reference to the Goon Show episode called "Napoleon’s Piano" [1] If you like absurdly silly comedy; Harry Secombe, Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan, you should track these down. These were
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by VogonPoetry 2mo ago
There are a lot of articles written about early machines available from the (British) Computer Conservation Society. The CCS journal is available online at [1]. One article (with a link to a GitHub) discusses making an FPGA version of Colo
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by VogonPoetry 5mo ago
It is still possible to adjust the speed in QuickTime Player: from .5 to 2x. Not available via Quicklook, but definitely there in the player, either in the menu bar or by clicking the >> in the video window.
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by VogonPoetry 6mo ago
This is fantastic info, thank you. I've now set mine to 5.
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by VogonPoetry 6mo ago
The post was fixed about 30 seconds after making it - due to the *s being interpreted as italics. It is a shame there isn't a preview button when composing posts.
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by VogonPoetry 6mo ago
Does this also mean only using "standard" parts? Or does the manufacturer have to over-produce the parts for, lets say 7 years, and then warehouse and ship those parts, probably multiple times. Or keep a low rate production line r
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by VogonPoetry 6mo ago
That 2mm uses at least (2*335 + 2*235) * 2mm * 1mm = 2,280 mm^3 more material for the case. (a wall thickness of 1mm)
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by VogonPoetry 6mo ago
Please can you explain the evidence that this is generated content. Yes, the site is new, but other posted articles are 100% consistent with the author wanting a guaranteed level of local inference with large models. What I read was written
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by VogonPoetry 7mo ago
I took the "granularity doesn't cut it" comment to mean there aren't enough entitlements to eliminate the need for custom SBPL. Followed by a sentence about apps that have temporary exception SBPL. Combining the two seem
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by VogonPoetry 7mo ago
I am not sure using sandbox-exec is a good security architecture for AI agents. It sure is convenient and available to everyone right now. I've made another comment elsewhere in this discussion about what I think "deprecated"
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by VogonPoetry 7mo ago
Does this mean you tried to ship an App in the Apple App Store but could not because of some restriction?
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by VogonPoetry 7mo ago
The Sandboxing and Entitlements mechanisms are very different. Sandboxing can only drop access to resources, it cannot grant access that was not already there [1]. Entitlements are all about giving additional selective privileges or to make
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by VogonPoetry 7mo ago
The runtime engine is not known to be turning complete. It has no expressions and cannot loop, only forward jumps are permitted.
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by VogonPoetry 7mo ago
"sandbox-exec" is deprecated in the sense of "please don't use this method to run sandboxes" rather than the mechanism going away. If you are using "sandbox-exec" then you are likely maintaining your own s
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by VogonPoetry 10mo ago
I have received feedback from Vox. The article has been updated with a new leading paragraph indicating the fictional nature of the article.
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by VogonPoetry 10mo ago
I have received feedback from Vox. The article has been updated with a new leading paragraph indicating the fictional nature of the article.
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by VogonPoetry 10mo ago
I've written to <voxmeditantis@gmail.com> about how deceptive it was to put the Editorial Note at the end instead of upfront. I stopped reading because sections felt fabricated - but it was presented as an oral history or actual
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by VogonPoetry 10mo ago
An Editorial Note is at the bottom (as others have now noted), it should have been at the top. Had I not seen other comments I would likely have believed everything was made up. This is a terrible way to recount the memory of Frances Allen.
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by VogonPoetry 10mo ago
There is something off about this piece. Particularly the section that starts "You passed away on your eighty-eighth birthday – 4th August 2020. Do you reflect on mortality?" I stopped reading after that.
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by VogonPoetry 10mo ago
Now that I've been recalling more memories of this, I do remember there being encoding or "escaped" character issues - particularly with brackets and parentheses. There was another device between the BBC Micro and the "V
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by VogonPoetry 10mo ago
Yes, mostly raw TeX, just plain ascii - not specially coded for Braille. This was quite a long time ago, mid 1980's, so not long after TeX had started to spread in computer science and maths communities. My friend was using a "Ver
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by VogonPoetry 10mo ago
I did a maths undergrad degree and the way my blind, mostly deaf friend and I communicated was using a stylized version of TeX markup. I typed on a terminal and he read / wrote on his braille terminal. It worked really well.
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by VogonPoetry 10mo ago
After writing this I decided to look at my shortcut. The action seems to have been a simple "get directions to <place>" and sent verbatim to Siri. I was not able to edit / update it! However, there was now a new "m
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by VogonPoetry 10mo ago
I have experienced some similar issues. I think some of it related to the "locked" state of the device. Siri needs context data to answer, particularly the mom or some destination questions. Specifically for contacts or recent pla
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by VogonPoetry 10mo ago
Perhaps using AI assistance is good OPSEC. It could help to shield the author from stylometry or author profiling.
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by VogonPoetry 11mo ago
I see a different error now - a 404 with "There isn't a GitHub Pages site here".
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by VogonPoetry 11mo ago
I agree that my comment about VM was imprecise and inaccurate. I do dispute your assertion that virtual memory was "disabled". It isn't possible to use V86 mode (what the Intel Docs called it) without having a TSS, GDT, LDT a
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by VogonPoetry 11mo ago
To get feedback / commentary you likely need to change the permissions on the repository, currently it seems to be private.

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