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by aa-jv 3mo ago
Indeed. ;) I consider it a blessing that I grew up with computers. We both came of age about the same time, even ..
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by aa-jv 3mo ago
Then thats using other peoples computers. I want to use my computer, for my purposes. That needs permission.
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by aa-jv 3mo ago
The C64 didn't ruin anything. Apple removing the compiler from the supercomputer in everyones pocket did, however.
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by aa-jv 3mo ago
Great! Did you ever visit Austria? Maybe you can take some of the early impressions of German-language speaking with you ..
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by aa-jv 3mo ago
Kindred spirits, you and me. That PDP-11 put you on the right path, for sure.
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by aa-jv 3mo ago
Those of us who grew up with computers are truly a special breed, since we had to know how things work in order to do anything at all with the things. These days kids are served eyeball-bleeding chaos on the supercomputers in their pock
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by aa-jv 3mo ago
1977; I was with my Mum visiting one of her friends. Bored out of my mind I poked around her living room and peeked underneath a cover, expecting to see a typewriter - it was a teletype terminal with the earcup telephone/modem recepta
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by aa-jv 3mo ago
Everything you say is true, NUC's kind of ate this problem. Still, one of these days I'll get around to setting up a system like this, just for the fun of it. I can think of a few applications where it would be fun. Music-making,
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by aa-jv 3mo ago
In the early days of FM synthesis it was not uncommon to hear the refrain "FM synthesis can reproduce any sound you can hear on the radio" from some of the wilder-haired synth nerds of the time. Aphex Twins' MIDI Mutant came
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by aa-jv 3mo ago
True, they probably didn't read the article - but their claim is still relevant. We really don't have an easy way in the modern era to share our PC's in such a way that multiple users have their own keyboard/mouse/v
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by aa-jv 3mo ago
In that era (87/88'ish) I used Quarterdeck Desqview to provide multi-user capabilities on my (then) super-charged 486: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DESQview It was possible to wire things up so that multiple
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by aa-jv 3mo ago
Cool. What about porting this to pwnagotchi, then?
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by aa-jv 3mo ago
That was a delightful read - in those days I'd already been involved in starting a major ISP, and .. burned out from that .. dove straight into the web, founding one of SoCals' first web development agencies, in that same time per
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by aa-jv 3mo ago
3 hard things: you missed counting things.
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by aa-jv 3mo ago
Nowadays the only thing thats truly being pirated, is peoples' attention. Everythings been commoditized, nothing serious can be compiled onboard any more, everything needs permission. Bring back the compiler, you fuckers! Its a superco
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by aa-jv 3mo ago
Maybe you also didn't know that it was marketed as a web server and in that capacity, was quite a bit more widely deployed than you might expect for such a machine ..
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by aa-jv 3mo ago
The Indy was a very popular platform for building an early web presence. I know, because I used it for multiple, major media companies who were getting onto the train.
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by aa-jv 3mo ago
Er, yes. Many media companies onboarded to the web in the early 90's using SGI machines. The Indy was a very popular multi-host system for such things. It was not a graphics powerhouse and in many low-end configurations its primary
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by aa-jv 3mo ago
Maybe OS vendors should stop trying to sell ads and instead fix their operating systems so that parents can responsibly monitor their children's online activity in a way that promotes both parental responsibility, and children's h
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by aa-jv 3mo ago
OrangePi RV2 might qualify for fun? https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Linux-On-OrangePi-RV2
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by aa-jv 3mo ago
The early web was born on the back of Mac's connecting to SGI machines...
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by aa-jv 3mo ago
Hubris. And Microsoft.
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by aa-jv 4mo ago
I fully appreciate the desire to make a Dexed for the fun of it, however .. if you haven't dug into Zynthian yet, it won't be obviously clear that: >Boss SY synth pedal or something signal-processing-based like it .. is exactly
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by aa-jv 4mo ago
>Dexed Get a Zynthian and dive right in to all the FM synthesis you can possibly imagine, and more. Its pretty freakin' powerful. Plus, you can do all kinds of mad things with it, vis a vis oddball controllers and such.
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by aa-jv 4mo ago
All software is, eventually, rounding error.
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by aa-jv 4mo ago
Qualcomm are forever blacklisted in my environment, because of their fuckery with backdoors for the spook agencies which fund their research. I will definitely not be touching their Linux variant for that reason. I simply don't trus
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by aa-jv 4mo ago
DX7 had a dreadful keybed. Midi CC only up to 100 (instead of 127), wtf?! Fatar learned a lot of lessons from Yamaha in that regard. Looking forward to adding an Expressive E Osmose to my rig soon ..
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by aa-jv 4mo ago
Speech isn't enough. There has to be freedom of action, too. And yes, constant vigilance is required for freedom. >Just because you eventually go free after your life gets ruined by the government doesn't really make you bett
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by aa-jv 4mo ago
Thanks for that, putting it on my list - I think this industry is ripe for massive growth, personally. I concur that Mossy Earth can be a bit too slick .. but on the other hand, their projects are simply great. I live pretty close to one
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by aa-jv 4mo ago
You know, I was hoping for more dragon'y/pixy'ish things, though .. ;)

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