Posts by Uncle Slacky

Patch to end i486 support hits Linux kernel merge queue

Re: Buggritt

I run HaikuOS on my 701 4G...

Re: Buggritt

Void still offers up-to-date 32-bit builds as well.

Gmail celebrates 22 years by finally letting users change their addresses

Re: gmail names not unique

Use an email client like Thunderbird and filter out all messages with incorrect To: addresses, that's what I do.

Artemis II countdown begins as NASA prepares for crewed Moon flyby

Re: "We will ... talk to our astronauts while they're on the far side of the Moon."

Why not both?

Systemd-free antiX Linux 26: Debian 13, in bonsai form

Re: But...

Can't see why not, it's still essentially Debian. I don't think Proton has any systemd dependencies.

Re: Pronunciation?

32-bit Void also works well on them all.

BBC World Service digital switch backfires as online audience drops

Re: What is the point of providing a World Service broadcast.. by Unicast

Presumably BBC Sounds would also not work in those cases, though? We weren't discussing broadcast media, I agree that (e.g.) having thre World Service available on short wave radio would be preferable.

Re: What is the point of providing a World Service broadcast.. by Unicast

I can still access BBC radio from abroad using the streams listed at http://www.radiofeeds.co.uk/. I copy them into Transistor (from the F-Droid repo) though I imagine any radio streaming app will work.

Those who 'circle back' and 'synergize' also tend to be crap at their jobs

Paging Gus Hedges...

https://www.quotes.net/serp.php?st=gus%2Bhedges&qtype=2

"Could we interlock brain spaces in my work area?"

"I'd just like you to stir-fry a few ideas in my think-wok."

"Just a thought I wanted to pop into your fishbowl to see if it blows bubbles."

"There is just something I'd like to pop into your percolator, see if it comes out brown."

Ig Nobel Prize flees US for Switzerland after 35 years over safety concerns

IIRC every year a (different) eight-year-old girl is recruited to do this.

Techie was given strict instructions not to disrupt client. Then he touched one box and the lights went out

Lecture demo gone wrong?

Reminds me of an demonstration given by one of my lecturers at university (a true "mad/eccentric professor" type) - it was something to do with nodes and antinodes in AC circuits, and the moment he turned it on the entire city's power went out. I wonder to this day whether he mgiht have caused it...

Lenovo shows off snap-together laptop with removable keyboard, screen, and ports

Re: T60?

They *can* be either 32 or 64 bit (up to T7600 C2D), but they're physically limited to 4Gb RAM regardless:

https://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Intel_Core_2_Duo_(Merom)

Re: T60?

T60 *can* be 64-bit, it can take up to a T7600 C2D (though T7400 are more commonly available). Mine came with a T5600:

https://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Intel_Core_2_Duo_(Merom)

Re: T60?

You can access a little more RAM (about 3.5 Gb) on the T60 if you Libreboot it.

Trump orders purge of 'woke' Anthropic from government

Kathy Burke said it best...

“I love being ‘woke’. It’s much nicer than being an ignorant fucking twat."

Burger King turns to AI to flame broil employees who aren't friendly enough

Re: Next..

Still waiting for the three seashells, though.

Life imitates Marshall Brain

Reads like the beginning of "Manna":

https://marshallbrain.com/manna1

"The goal of the software was to replace the managers and tell the employees what to do in a more controllable way. Manna version 1.0 was born.

Manna was connected to the cash registers, so it knew how many people were flowing through the restaurant. The software could therefore predict with uncanny accuracy when the trash cans would fill up, the toilets would get dirty and the tables needed wiping down. The software was also attached to the time clock, so it knew who was working in the restaurant."

Brit dual nationals grounded by border digitization drive

Re: unsure whether she would be able to return to the UK

That may have played a part in his decision, but the main reason was that he didn't want to liable for (more) US tax:

https://www.politico.eu/article/boris-johnson-says-bye-bye-to-us-citizenship-after-tax-row-irs-data/

All your bots are belong to US if you don't play ball, DoD tells Anthropic

"autonomous weapons that use AI to make final targeting decisions"

Do you want Skynet? Because that's how you get Skynet.

You can jailbreak an F-35 just like an iPhone, says Dutch defense chief

Now with added Copilot?

Ireland joins regulator smackdown after X's Grok AI accused of undressing people

Re: a cynical attempt to shutdown the last truly open forum on the Internet

I have one word for you: 'cisgender"

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/05/twitter-x-censored-the-word-cisgender-more-than-any-actual-slur-this-week/

Price of popularity: Linux Mint's success also means maintainer stress

Re: "fashion-victim" softwarenevitable?

There's also Void:

https://voidlinux.org/download/#arm%20platforms

Containers, cloud, blockchain, AI – it's all the same old BS, says veteran Red Hatter

Re: "Which of your bêtes noires did we miss?"

One particular sneaky one I've recently discovered is my Samsung washing machine, which has many functions which are not available on the machine itself, but only via an app, and *only* when the app is installed on a (post 2020) Samsung device are all the app's functions actually available...

Lego shrinks NASA's biggest rocket – accuracy sold separately

Re: "...the solid rocket boosters separate..."

It does look like it could be adapted into a "Phoenix" set for Star Trek fans.

X marks the raid: French cops swoop on Musk's Paris ops

Re: Sigh..

Getting there! (see icon)

Re: Sigh..

It's not nice to fool Mother Nature!

France to replace US videoconferencing wares with unfortunately named sovereign alternative

Re: Church of the SubGenius

Slackware is another matter - from https://slashdot.org/story/00/03/17/1120205/replies-from-slackware-founder-patrick-volkerding

"How did you come to the name Slackware? DId it hit you during a long nights of smoking from the holy frop with bob? Did stang climb in your window and wisper it in your ear while you were asleep? Was it the Xists?"

Patrick:

"Yeah, ok, I'll admit that it was SubGenius inspired. In fact, back in the 2.0 through 3.0 days we used to print a dobbshead on each CD. The name didn't come from Stang... I ran into him last summer and he asked me if that Red Hat organization was my company. I still think it's a pretty good name. I've been trying to put an ease-of-use spin on it, but it doesn't quite work. I think I'll just start telling people all the good names were taken to get them off the subject."

Icon is the closest to a Dobbshead I can find...

Voyager 2's close encounter with Uranus wasn't in the original plan

Re: Connect TRITON

Interesting. The VAXen at UKC (University of Kent) around that time were named after Saturn and its moons.

Ready for a newbie-friendly Linux? Mint team officially releases v 22.3, 'Zena'

Re: Thank you mint for LMDE 32 Bits. Welcome AntiX 25 32 Bits.

Found the nazi...

Re: Thank you mint for LMDE 32 Bits. Welcome AntiX 25 32 Bits.

I'm old enough to remember when anti-fascist was the default for most of humanity.

Manchester ATM ups PIN requirement to full Windows login

Re: Win 7! That is bleeding edge

"Give me my money!"

"I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that."

BOFH: Every computer system eventually serves ads

Re: the Board members says. "That's from Hitchhiker's Guide."

Stephen Mangan was quite good in the TV version, too.

Wine 11 runs Windows apps in Linux and macOS better than ever

Crossover seems to be able to run Office 2016, at least:

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/08/crossover-25-1-0-released-office-gaming-fixes

https://www.codeweavers.com/crossover#linux

CES 2026 worst in show: AI girlfriends, a fridge that won't open unless you talk to it, and more

"in reality many people don't actually want to have a conversation with their coffee maker."

I'm reminded of Arthur Dent attempting to describe tea to the drinks machine, resulting in a drink that was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea.

Congress ctrl-Zs bulk of proposed cuts to NASA science

Re: Stall tactics

I'm sure there will be "elections"...

One real reason AI isn't delivering: Meatbags in manglement

I think this relates to the SNAFU principle, as in “It promoteth growth, and it is very powerful.”

(true meaning: “It is a crock of shit, and smells as of a sewer.”)

https://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/S/SNAFU-principle.html

pearOS is a Linux that falls rather close to the Apple tree

https://github.com/lproven/usb-dos

Welcome to America - now show us your last five years of social media posts

Re: Free speech

But if you're stopped before you officially "enter" the US, you're not protected by the First Amendment.

I think they've let AI loose on their membership, I guess I wasn't active enough in the "right" ways and blocked their ads (I was using Fluff Busting Purity and Ublock Origin to make FB vaguely usable). The few comments and posts I made were also decidedly anti-Trump in character, which might also have had something to do with it.

It's likely that no human was involved in the process (and I expect nobody saw your middle finger either).

> “Oh my gaahhd! You don’t don’t have a Facebook account?”

I do - or rather, did, since FB don't think I'm a real person unless I film my face and head for them (which I wasn't about to do). As a result they sent me an email a few days ago telling me my account is now permanently closed (amusingly, with a "click here to log in to FB" button underneath the message).

Re: Bovvered?

And even then they're not bound to accept your request (e.g. if they think you have an ulterior motive, like to avoid tax).

Hopefully they'll make good on the recent threat to remove US citizenship from dual citizens for free...

Window Maker Live 13.2 brings 32-bit life to Debian 13

Re: Oh dear

antiX is apparently going to release a 32-bit build based on Trixie, so you'll have that option for the netbook too.

UK finally vows to look at 35-year-old Computer Misuse Act

Still waiting for Kemi's prosecution...

...but as she's apologised, that's all right then:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-43694295

NASA nominee 'committed' to uprooting Shuttle Discovery for Houston trophy piece

Re: A defining moment for the President

Not to mention how his nephew turned out.

Windows 11 needs an XP SP2 moment, says ex-Microsoft engineer

Re: "Just till it doesn't suck."

Nothing sucks like a VAX...

Two paths to Enlightenment: AV Linux 25 and MX Moksha step forward

Re: On the one hand.

If it's systemd that concerns you, it is possible to add sysvinit as a boot option like previous versions of MX: https://forum.mxlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=86241

Love me some Moksha!

I used Bodhi's early versions on my eeePC 701 4G netbook, good to see that it's available on a more modern base. I installed it last weekend (on a slightly newer netbook, a Lenovo Ideapad S205) and couldn't be happier with it.

LisaGUI recreates Apple's innovative computer OS, without emulating it

Re: I actually used a Lisa, and I almost got one for free

> "I have a boat"

Hopefully he wasn't planning to use it as an anchor:

https://www.catb.org/jargon/html/B/boat-anchor.html

DARPA making low-hanging satellites that use air to move

Townsend Brown would be proud

Looks like an actual application of the "Biefeld-Brown effect"* in space at last (not counting IVO**)!

*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biefeld%E2%80%93Brown_effect

**https://ivolimited.us/

Retro Games opens pre-orders for THEA1200, a full-size working Amiga replica

PiDP maybe?

The PiDP-11 is a bit smaller than the real thing:

https://obsolescence.wixsite.com/obsolescence/pidp-11