Posts by ColonelDare 113 publicly visible posts • joined 5 Jun 2013
Each to their own.
The loose and flexible nature of the fediverse means that surely some instances will come, fail and go. Others will expand and thrive, not to become the dominant, and only, king beast owned by some detestable billionaire of a dubious nature.
If the instance I am on becomes hosted or occupied by unpleasant people of malintent then I can go somewhere else and block them out, just like a town pub or meeting place that I no longer enjoy. This is the strength of the underlying design where migration is easy and optional which the commercial beasts put up road blocks and walled gardens to prevent.
As a side note I also _like_ the lack (by design) of encrypted DMs. I don't need this and would use something else if I wanted to send you my bank details, also I presume it discourages perverts and insurectionists using the system.
15 years ago I stepped out of my college lecturing job and vowed I would never use another M$ product [the UK ICT and Computing A level syllabuses were awful and the implementation at my college was no more than just training students to use M$ products - it was just training, not education in the wider sense].
15 years later a Venn diagram of 'my computer usage' and 'Microsoft' would be two non overlapping circles.
(Assuming we ignore any web sites I visit, or vending machines & petrol pumps I use that run on Windows behind the screen - I can't help that.)
8000$ ? Shouldn't that be something like:
7000/ap + 100 $. Where ap = age of punter.
Some years ago while demoing a signal generator to a bunch of young physics students I asked them all to hold theirs hands up if they could hear the tone and to drop them when they no longer could.
Carefully winding the frequency knob up until I got to 'silence' then stopping - I looked around the class to see every hand still up.
Anybody what to buy a nice pair of tweeters?
Happy days wrestling with my first multitasking operating system. A quantum leap [pun intended] in possibilities for me having just progressed from a hand-coded assembler 'monitor' program running on a home-brew Z80 machine.
I was super impressed but didn't get too far, however I believe a smarter guy than did:
> WTF are miles?
According to the Reg Standards Converter: 25.1467 Devon Fatbergs.
That is of course based on the Sidmouth fatberg, not the more popular Devonian Plymouth fatberg which at only 164ft is a more convenient size for everyday use.
References:
"This means less closed-source proprietary code...,"
With their 10th anniversary not far off, I wonder [hope] whether the liberation from none copyright code might open the way to launching some RISC-V based open source hardware? With an onboard RP2040 Pico to add to the fun, maybe?
Oh - and we'll need the Python bindings for libcamera which are still in the works I believe.
Thank you RPi Team and roll on February 2022! :-)
Wasn't he more of a Sinclair QL man?
As I was - he just took it all a bit further than me! ;-)
In 1986 the 16yo produced: Linus Torvalds Sinclair QL software GMOVE
Sorry AC, I was just asking - can I use GIMP? Many of Photoshop's functions _are_ available in GIMP, but not having Photoshop (license/OS nor experience) I was wondering if I can use GIMP instead (?).
The article does not explicitly say so - so can you be more helpful please?
Let's be skeptical, but not cynical. Cynicism is a feedstock of the antivaxers.
So here's to all the efforts of the epistemologists, data modellers and clinicians who are doing their best at this time. Have a beer to keep your spirits up (but not too many just yet).
Er - sorry, I forgot to mention the politicians....
If/when the Senate decide to subpoena witnesses' texts and emails they might find some interesting leads...(?)
Ho hum!
"....hearing stories of younger users hogging the family television with their latest and greatest software creations."
Lovely to hear, but I reduce such problems by running a Pi 4x4 behind both of our TV's (kitchen and lounge) and politely moving aside when live TV is in demand and just quietly carry on doing what I was doing by VNCing into the Pi from my Chromebook.
Super flexible, maintains domestic harmony and leaves my desktop PC quietly gathering dust [quiet as it's mostly 'off' these days].
And, btw, running the /root partition from a USB3 240GB SSD makes it even more able to sideline my PC ;-)
Cheers Eben...
I mentioned my friend's views on vaccines (!) to my daughter who is a research nurse at a prestigious UK hospital and she earnestly told me:
"But the statistics clearly show that people who have been vaccinated are more likely to get Alzheimer's."
[Long pause]
"Because they didn't die from Cholera, Diphtheria, Hepatitis. Malaria, Measles, Polio, Rabies, Tuberculosis......."
I have a friend who is bothering himself, and everybody nearby, about the dangers of the 5G role out.
Recently he sent me a link to a company (rfsafe.com) headlining "5G Network Uses Nearly Same Frequency as Weaponized Crowd Control Systems" and pages of stuff showing we are all doomed....
The clue in the article is about the power, not the frequency, surely? After all the water in the tea he was drinking was virtually the same water used by Weaponized Water Canons isn't it.
BTW how's Harry's health these days?
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I used to use (and teach) M$ Office until 2008 when I left my college job. I chose never to use any M$, or other closed proprietary product, ever again and haven't.
Later I moved from OpenOffice to LibreOffice seamlessly (at no cost) and things just keep getting better. Whilst I still run LO on a decent PC for heavy stuff (eg editing a 30+ page community magazine), most tasks I can now do on my cheap Chromebook (running LO under Linux Apps for ChromeOS (beta)), or even on my 24/7 Raspberry Pi behind the kitchen telly.
Cheap, flexible and reliable <glances at M$ in the rear-view mirror and smiles.> :-)
I was sober and still seeing double.
A couple of pints and it was all clear again. A nice view of a distant relative.
A few more and the Imperial Death Star was clearly visible.
Thanks Kewl for the tip. BTW I found it easier by saving the image in a new tab [right click]. That way there is no web page to distract.
All good and well done to the boffins who pulled it off!!
Now a few more and it might be animated in full Technicolor...........
Well done Reg. I was surprised by the number of headlines I saw from others such as:
"Hubble and Gaia accurately weigh the Milky Way" [https://www.spacetelescope.org/] reported verbatim by the Guardian, Phys.org et al.
Shirley this should be - as you put it - about Mass. A Massive mistake maybe?
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