j4k3

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   by j4k3 7d ago

   I remember FSP seeming to have a more "underground" vibe to it. This was right after migrating from BBS to "Shell Account". Shortly after every noob was told: "FtP to 127.0.0.1 for l33t w4R3Z!", and then the go
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   by j4k3 7d ago

   I always was testing the different transfer protocols, always appreciating sysops who installed rather obscure protocols like jmodem, MPT110, zmodem-mobyturbo and god now I can't remember some of the weirder ones. ymodem-G had a soft s
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   by j4k3 16d ago

   Nuts and Volts
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   by j4k3 2mo ago

   Our economy is an abstract intangible system which requires infinite growth and debt issuance, this in reality requires more caloric expenditure and resource consumption. Thermodynamically this is pretty bad news. At one point the see-saw i
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   by j4k3 3mo ago

   This happens on some HP printers too, the web interface lets you happily enter lengthy passwords, but doesn't bother telling you it truncated the entry at 16 or 12 characters.
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   by j4k3 3mo ago

   You remember when Micro Center had those portraits of computer greats hanging around the ceiling of their stores? I never noticed it until I looked up one day and saw Denis Ritchie, Vint Cerf, Grace Hopper, etc. The local Micro Center was r
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   by j4k3 4mo ago

   A cat named Jacques Ellul would probably call your addiction a technique. And it's definitely fleshed out in his book. https://archive.org/details/JacquesEllulTheTechnologicalSoci... Pretty prescient stuff!