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by wazoox 5y ago
I remember doing it with some rolled aluminium foil; but I knew that electricity could be dangerous, so I put a piece of scotch tape around the middle part by which I was holding it. So there was a nice flash and the power went off, but I f
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by wazoox 5y ago
Europe will be short on energy most probably around 2025 (all of its oil and gas suppliers are already in decline). That could be pretty bad by itself. Also, +1.5°C is generally anticipated for 2030, and it could be really bad, too. Both to
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by wazoox 5y ago
Basic climate denialism. See: https://youtu.be/1BDmIis9STE?t=464 quote: "1.5°C is a disastrous world, no question. 2°C is an impossible world". I have nothing more to reply to your complacent stupidity but that yo
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by wazoox 5y ago
The famed Peak oil can't be pushed back forever: https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Oil-Major-Total-S... https://www.woodmac.com/news/opinion/big-themes-and-risks-fo... htt
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by wazoox 5y ago
Figuring out the magnitude of what's coming. Almost everyone still seems to believe that "2°C, who cares, I'll just wear a lighter jacket" or something like that.
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by wazoox 5y ago
You want to figure out the climate problem? Think of climate rise as your body's temperature rising: when you're 1°C over normal, you're sick but that's manageable. When you're at +2°C you're really sick; 4°C o
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by wazoox 5y ago
Related: why modern movies suck. https://youtu.be/CQ92cggLMx8
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by wazoox 5y ago
I spend way too much time on the internet, listening to a deluge of podcasts and videos at high speed, reading gobs of articles, but I still manage to read 30 books a year. However this overconsumption of information indisputably harms my a
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by wazoox 5y ago
Also the fact that the words are word-to-word translations of Attack Decay Sustain Release is weird; why would they use exactly the same terms if invented in isolation? Particularly the choice of "déclin" and "soutien" a
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by wazoox 5y ago
I still have in a drawer some 80 GB and 250 GB Maxtor drives that are really that loud. I remember when I replaced by 80GB root disk with a 1 TB HGST one, the sudden silence in my office...
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by wazoox 5y ago
One of my customer is a world famous cultural institution. Around 2007 IIRC, they asked me if I could devise a way to backup their payroll system, because I was their go-to Unix/Linux expert and "it runs on some Unix thing".
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by wazoox 5y ago
Yes you can ask to have several copies, as you simply pay for the tapes. The archival solution can store data also on disks or any S3-compatible storage. We also implemented the ability to turn off entirely (cut the power) disk chassis when
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by wazoox 5y ago
You can find the archival solution at intellique.org and open a free account on demo.intellique.org . The whole solution is OSS, for obvious durability reasons.
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by wazoox 5y ago
My company has built something for that. Basically you have a nextcloud instance that you fill up with your data, then you ask for an LTO tape to be written with it. Repeat ad infinitum. The tapes are yours; when you buy a tape it comes wit
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by wazoox 5y ago
IIRC the VT-100 was naturally more yellow-brown than beige.
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by wazoox 5y ago
Here is a PDP-11 booting UNix v6: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wFJL9inunQ
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by wazoox 5y ago
"Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations." George Orwell
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by wazoox 5y ago
Actually there was a Quattro Pro version for GEOS (it's still downloadable somewhere). That's the Ami Pro part I rememeber incorrectly :)
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by wazoox 5y ago
I remember that the Borland Office suite with Ami Pro and Quattro Pro was available on GEOS and worked like a charm on a low-end 386 :)
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by wazoox 5y ago
I clearly remember devices marketed as digital books in the early 90s, but back around the time we were both born it was just about reading an ascii file on a glass teletype I suppose :)
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by wazoox 5y ago
Roman soldiers wore sponges imbibed with vinegar on a string around their neck, for drinking. The vinegar was added to keep the moist sponge from rotting. So most probably the correct interpretation is that the Roman soldier passed his own
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by wazoox 5y ago
I still have a huge crate of SCSI cables for my obsolete gear. Stuff like 25 pins to 50, 50 to 68, 68 to 80 pins, HVD and LVD cables with a bunch of various connectors, cables with integrated passive or active terminators, terminators that
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by wazoox 5y ago
Yup same for me.
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It's a 2014 model, it can definitely run Macos 11. But as it has been unused for the past few years, it hasn't been upgraded and it's quite funny how utterly unusable it became: very few websites work at all (certificates pro
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by wazoox 5y ago
Ah yeah, I've recently received for free an iMac running Macos 10.9. It's simply impossible to upgrade; the only proposed upgrade release is 10.11, the installation starts then fails in a loop. Fortunately I don't actually ne
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by wazoox 5y ago
It's not very dense at the moment, around 600KB per frame IIRC, with lots of redundancy and while staying really easy to read even with DIY hardware. They think they should be able to cram about 2MB per frame without compromising durab
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by wazoox 5y ago
Some guys I know propose a storage on 35mm-film solution that looks pretty foolproof for a couple of centuries at least. https://digifilm-corp.com/preserve-your-works-for-eternity To read back the data, you need something t
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by wazoox 5y ago
Tesla chargers are head and shoulders over their competitors in Europe. There are more of them, they are in better shape overall, they are more powerful, and I'm pretty confident that they work better. Plus so far Tesla is way cheaper
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by wazoox 5y ago
I still remember the fun I had 30 years ago reading the t.c. electronics 2290 digital delay user manual.
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by wazoox 5y ago
There are many free DICOM viewer in the Ubuntu/Debian/Pop_OS repositories. I don't remember which one I used, but at least some of them allow to visit your organs in 3D :)

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