dosman33

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by dosman33 2y ago
MSDOS 4 was reportedly an overall bad release and was not in wide circulation, in all my days I think I only came across it once. This is why DOS 3.3 and 5.0 were much more common to find in circulation together. I'm sure the source fo
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by dosman33 2y ago
While I do remember a vague connection between beepers and drug dealers in the 90's (probably from movies), I don't ever remember people just assuming you were a drug dealer just because you had a beeper in middle and high school.
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by dosman33 3y ago
I came to the conclusion a cats tail behavior is an evolved anti-predation behavior. We think of this as "I can see the gears in my cats head turning based on its tail behavior". The wider a cats "field of attention" the
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by dosman33 3y ago
IMHO, it was the correct pivot for them - from hardware to the OS. I remember the OLPC hardware was harshly criticized by industry, and even the audacity of the project was widely attacked. I considered it proof they were just ahead of the
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by dosman33 3y ago
I've been watching the Home Assistant scene for a few years now waiting for a time to dip my toe into the water. I'm fairly selective about what I would possibly even want to automate. During the stone age I was a user of X10 devi
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by dosman33 3y ago
Have an upvote, I am dumb.
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by dosman33 3y ago
I didn't say the radar was there to replace looking. All you do is set your mirrors correctly and then there's no more blind spot. That's the entire point of the radar system, to "fix" the alleged blind spot problem
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by dosman33 3y ago
What's funny is that so much effort is going into these radar systems for non-autonomous vehicular systems that can be resolved by teaching people how to correctly set their side mirrors to cover their blind spots. You eliminate your b
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by dosman33 3y ago
I think what's important here is not this first low-level stab at manipulating car radar systems. It makes a beach head on what adversaries can possibly do and demonstrates that manufacturers need to try harder.
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by dosman33 3y ago
I was meaning to ask, was the group of German hackers you encountered affiliated with the CCC/Chaos Computer Club at all? It's been a while since I read the book and NOVA didn't go into any detail there. I know some of the CC
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by dosman33 3y ago
Here here. I love Cliff and have my own Acme Klein bottle, a wedding present from my wife. I read the book ages ago of course, but I just discovered the NOVA documentary last week. It's quite amazing to see the original people involved
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by dosman33 3y ago
I remember this site from back in the day! Somehow the profile view of Flo's head/shadow was still taking up space in my cranium after all these years.
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by dosman33 3y ago
Usually starts with "this can't be THAT hard to add this to my project, let's try it". Six months later you've got a solid working knowledge of running a lathe and you've started teaching workshops to other hac
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by dosman33 3y ago
This is all amusing. Not that it matters, but when I said "expert" I really meant any user that understands how to use PGP. Those of us born during the construction of the pyramids know how to use it because it was the only option
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by dosman33 3y ago
These are all overt techniques. Subliminal techniques are still used if you are paying attention. For those that still consume traditional TV media you can sometimes spot these things. In 2021 I noticed yet another new car commercial runnin
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by dosman33 3y ago
This sucks. At the same time, only experts use OpenPGP so I guess maby it's not a big deal? I've been using PGP for decades at this point and I'm still somewhat surprised when I encounter security professionals that either ca
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by dosman33 3y ago
Amazing, I actually saw one of these today at a flea market. I noticed it was hydraulic powered but didn't suspect it was for use under water.
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by dosman33 3y ago
In the 2010's I had a project I'd do about once a year where I needed to print ~100 pages of directions that was mostly text with light-duty images mixed in for products I was selling. I was using my trusty inkjet printer, but ove
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by dosman33 3y ago
I was disappointed too, this article was very light on details about the subject matter. I wasn't expecting a blue-print, but what was presented was all very hand-wavy. In large systems (albeit smaller than S3) the way this works is th
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by dosman33 3y ago
HSM is a neat technology, and lots of ways it has been implemented over the years. But it starts with a shim to insert some other technology into the middle a typical posix filesystem. It has to tolerate the time penalty for data recovery o
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by dosman33 3y ago
Not trying to be an arse, but the guy spent a lot more time talking about himself and other unrelated stuff than about how S3 works. And I don't mind a good article on RAMAC, but that seems... out of place in a discussion about peta-sc
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by dosman33 3y ago
I miss using my Palm Pilot III. I still keep an emulator with the rom and my last data backup around, once in a blue moon I need to pull something off of it still. The graffiti input system worked great, I could enter data way faster than w
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by dosman33 3y ago
I got a sigh of relief when I finally discovered that Myers-Briggs is partly broken. It's designed to not offend anyone by avoiding measuring neuroticism so it's "work-safe". I had been struggling to understand how peopl
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by dosman33 3y ago
The author tries to better understand introversion but focuses on slicing the pie in the wrong dimensions. There are underlying issues that cause people to swing between introversion and extroversion. When those underlying conditions change
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by dosman33 3y ago
I was expecting the self-hosted spam cannon service that also went by the name kaboom a few years ago. I assume anyone who hosts a mailman list server is aware of this nuisance by now. Someone had created a list of thousands of mailman mail
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by dosman33 3y ago
That is funny. However Ill postulate this: Why wouldn't someone go to where the most interesting work is to be found though? You don't become a military doctor if you don't find it interesting stitching up bullet holes. And v
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by dosman33 3y ago
Heh, I remember finding shreds of these news groups threads and news letters posted to Geocities and such in the mid-90's when I was coming of age. "The MUF List" - Microsoft's Undocumented Features, etc. I still have my
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by dosman33 4y ago
"At first, nothing had gone awry, but at midnight the next day, everything mysteriously started falling over." Everyone has a test environment and some people have a prod environment too.
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by dosman33 4y ago
When I worked at IBM in the early 2000's I occasionally remember hearing people say "IBM invented RISC!". As a young pup I knew to keep my mouth shut, but in my head I was like "best keep that news to yourself pop, the r
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by dosman33 4y ago
I was under the strong impression that sea floor mining was mostly invented as cover by the CIA to operate the Glomar Explorer for the purpose of retrieving a crashed Soviet submarine with nuclear warheads on board. https://en.wi

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