wazoox

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by wazoox 4y ago
A blast from "Spectre" and "Spectre Supreme" :)
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by wazoox 4y ago
If you like mechanical calculators, here's my FACIT: https://video.ploud.fr/w/6s76S5zfuBN5i1S35kMgHy
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by wazoox 4y ago
You're not alone; Audi proudly sells the E-tron, which in French means "turd", plain and simple.
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by wazoox 4y ago
Oh yes. I have a tremendous amount of Cubase .arr files I can't read, and heaps of floppies in various weird formats from old workstations that there's no easy way to read except by using the original hardware, which is slowly dyi
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by wazoox 4y ago
Remember when Snowden and Manning leaked huge troves of secret information about the crimes of the State? Remember when a bunch of journos got their hands on the so-called "Panama papers"? Basically, this will make transparency ev
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by wazoox 4y ago
Wow, that looks nice :)
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by wazoox 4y ago
On youtube there are lots of great USSR films on Mosfilms : https://www.youtube.com/c/MosfilmRuOfficial For instance the excellent "Irony of fate" : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVpmZnRIMKs
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by wazoox 4y ago
There was a famous tracker for the CPC6128 that ran on CP/M. The name escapes me ATM.
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by wazoox 4y ago
My very first programming job was in 1991 or 92 writing an interactive kiosk based upon a touch screen driven by an Amiga, using the multimedia platform Scala (quite similar to the later Macromedia Director, but it still exists). Then with
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by wazoox 4y ago
back then working with Seagate drives was a trauma in itself. In 2008/2009, I've setup more than 3000 1 TB Barracuda ES drives; 1800 of them failed in the following 3 years (they came with a 5 years warranty). I stopped keeping tr
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by wazoox 4y ago
And that's why I'm still this weirdo who buys DVDs and even CDs.
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by wazoox 4y ago
Looks like straight out of https://thedailywtf.com/
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by wazoox 4y ago
Plus Tk has bindings in about every language in existence, so you can choose your favourite : Tcl of course, but also C, C++, Python, Perl, PHP...
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by wazoox 4y ago
Bluetooth is a mess anyway. When I connect my (generic chinese) mouse before the (Sony) headset, everything works fine. However, if I don't use the mouse for a while but the headset stays connected (listening to something), when the mo
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by wazoox 4y ago
I really like the vibe!
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by wazoox 4y ago
There are more dangereous AI than deepfakes. Blackrock 10 trillions investments are driven by an AI, Aladdin. It was also sold to some other investors, and controls about 21$ trillion globally. It has basically the power to drive markets wo
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by wazoox 4y ago
There's a huge difference between maintaining absurd grass lawns (about everywhere but in rainy England) and maintaining reasonable vegetation.
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by wazoox 4y ago
I constantly wear clothes with logos such as : O'Reilly, Slackware, Debian, FSF, Postgresql... do you think it makes people less likely to cooperate? :)
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by wazoox 4y ago
I don't know any, but I know a whole lot of dope-heads who completely destroyed their lives with daily use of cannabis.
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by wazoox 4y ago
I collect/sort of bookmark useful pages with Zotero.
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by wazoox 4y ago
So you're working 14h/day? You should reconsider for your own health, and if you're not self-employed, your level of exploitation.
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by wazoox 4y ago
However I try to avoid non-free (speech) software at all costs. I'll be happily using an inferior OSS product instead of a free (beer) one, as long as it gets the job done.
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by wazoox 4y ago
Resolve is free as beer, but Shotcut is free as speech. Know the difference.
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by wazoox 4y ago
That was the main argument for global trade already in 1914. France was Germany's most important commercial partner, and vice-versa. All German rifles had stocks made from French walnut wood! All French locomotives had German-made tubi
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by wazoox 4y ago
My passwords and important documents are sync'ed to the cloud, my office PC, my home PC, my home Mac, and my laptop. If for some reasons the three places (office, home, and DC) which are in a circle of about 40 km are destroyed at the
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by wazoox 4y ago
Wow, thank you, that's a hell of a blast from the past.
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by wazoox 4y ago
On my extremely old desktop PC (Phenom II 550) running an out-of-date OS (Slackware 14.2): Bash: while :; do printf "1"; done | ./pv > /dev/null [ 156KiB/s] Python3 3.7.2: python3 -c &#x2
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by wazoox 4y ago
It's a Mac Pro 2013 (got it as a gift).
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by wazoox 4y ago
Pop_OS is Ubuntu without snap but Flatpak instead. I love it :)
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by wazoox 4y ago
Frankly, I have a Mac too and I don't like it much. I keep it for the ability to run some pieces of proprietary software like Cubase and Garmin Express and similar tools to keep my gear updated, but OTOH I really dislike the overall so

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