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by gerdesj 5mo ago
I have no idea why we had red cables. There is absolutely no engineering reason why, when ethernet became a thing, that MDI-X wasn't sorted out automatically with some sort of signalling protocol. It was almost certainly a cost thing
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by gerdesj 5mo ago
I still have my C64 (it only needed some capacitors replacing a few years back) from about 1984ish but for me it was just a games machine although I did type in an awful lot of machine code from books later on. I still remember the ADSR (at
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by gerdesj 5mo ago
"The biggest mistake I made was high uptime" Quite. I'm old enough to remember machine uptime being a badge of honour. However, being older and not really wiser, I look for service uptime these days. Yes we did have similar
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by gerdesj 5mo ago
I'm going old school ... really old school 8)
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by gerdesj 5mo ago
Basically what they said but you can do two way talk too! For me Frigate is the way to do cameras and there is a HA addin which does take a bit of configuring but there are loads of decent docs. Home Assistant is quite a beast but start of
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by gerdesj 5mo ago
The article describes the veneration Roman -> (old) Greek -> (old) Egyptian and this finding appears to show that the veneration went both ways. Frankly I can understand that: Homer really did smash out an absolute banger with Iliad.
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by gerdesj 5mo ago
(You misspelled someone as some) Google has always crawled your site and been an arse! Now you get to decide whether they are hallucinating! You can drop pointers on Masto and other socials to your sites - that has not changed. Do we need
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by gerdesj 5mo ago
Me too. You can put it on a separate VLAN with no internet access and watch it via your own app eg Home Assistant, Frigate, Zoneminder or whatever.
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by gerdesj 5mo ago
Gross!
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by gerdesj 5mo ago
me@here.com usually works. No need to be silly.
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by gerdesj 5mo ago
Blackberry crumble, with clotted cream or custard.
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by gerdesj 5mo ago
"But evolution doesn't make those developments improbable or coincidental." (not sure what you are on about with respect "Time's Second Arrow") So, why are you not enslaved by your lizard overlords? 8) Homo is
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by gerdesj 5mo ago
Around 40 years ago, I was cycling around Andover (Hants, UK). Me and a mate were whizzing around near a small artificial lake. I decided to run into what I thought was shallow water and it wasn't. With hindsight that was a really d
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by gerdesj 5mo ago
Bugger Oyster and bugger CCTV! How well protected do you think all those video doorbells are? Your comment is right minded but miss-guided. You are right to insist on privacy but you failed to note that your neighbours are not twitching th
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by gerdesj 5mo ago
"Purely AI written systems will scale to a point of complexity" You have not seen the spreadsheets that accounts run the firm on. Bloody kids!
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by gerdesj 5mo ago
When I first came across Linux you would download the code (very slowly) to /usr/src/linux (extract and cd) and run "make config". You'd answer quite a lot of y/n and later y/n/m questions and t
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by gerdesj 5mo ago
"I could write in brainfuck with ai" Well, go on and do the experiment! Perhaps LLMs can right code as well in BF as Python but I don't recommend it because hallucinations are really hard to notice in BF. If you are going to
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by gerdesj 5mo ago
"when Google was trying to get people in with 1-2GB." The G in Gmail was for a gigabyte and that was what I got in the noughties for "free", when as you say my ISP offered something like 5MB on the end of a POP connectio
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by gerdesj 5mo ago
I think that's rather unkind. From my perspective: it looks like a coming of age ... blinking into adulthood sort of voyage of discovery.
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by gerdesj 5mo ago
Is this supposition or first hand experience?
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by gerdesj 5mo ago
Try a really daft innovation: a phone line staffed by real people.
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by gerdesj 5mo ago
Hit the Stumble link at the top right of all pages - its as good as a search when the whole thing is made up!
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by gerdesj 5mo ago
... or it riffs with your nick and rhymes with stunt.
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by gerdesj 5mo ago
Cool. Feel free to explain how to tighten things up. I've just given them part of a recipe for using DNSSEC. I suspect you are not actually human .. qingcharles.
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by gerdesj 5mo ago
That was my experience too until I decided that just running email systems for 30 odd years when HN says that is unnatural piqued my weird or something! I ran up three new VMs on three different sites. I linked all three systems via a priv
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by gerdesj 5mo ago
"I would argue LLMs are possibly the largest paradigm shift the world has ever seen" LLMs are next token guessers with knobs on. That is not a paradigm shift.
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by gerdesj 5mo ago
"The internet's famous "routing around damage" isn't quite working here." DNS is a look up service that runs on the internet. Internet routing of IP packets is what the internet does and that is working fine (f
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by gerdesj 5mo ago
In the original ancient greek. You had to translate the book first.
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by gerdesj 5mo ago
[How did you bang out this: — on your keyboard? Why did you decide to use backticks and 66/99 for quotes - nice but its not you is it?] Engage as a person, please.
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by gerdesj 5mo ago
There is also a nebulous region within England that might be called Avon, depending on the moon's phase and the price of loons. There is a river Avon in England. Welsh at least (inst. celtae) has a noun for "river" which is

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