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TimeSquirrel
TimeSquirrel @ TimeSquirrel @kbin.social
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Are there still any versions of Linux sold in a box like in the 90s / 2000s?

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    • Apple Will Revamp Siri to Catch Up to Its Chatbot Competitors [using generative AI]

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    • Moms for Liberty accuses schools of antisemitism. The irony is rich.

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  • Words of wisdom from SatansMaggotyCumFart.

    • Bullying in Open Source Software Is a Massive Security Vulnerability

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  • Meredith Whitaker, the president of Signal, said “I keep brooding on the way the xz backdoor was enabled in significant part via weaponizing the FOSS [free and open source software culture of shitty behavior and abuse.”

    “What is striking is that the uncool, mean standards of FOSS conduct that many of us have decried for years, and that many defended as authentic, tough, etc., ended up not just being exclusionary loser behavior, but a significant attack surface.”

    Emphasis mine.

    A software economy based around sharing and openness is not compatible with whatever the fuck you want it to be. If you want decent, secure software, provided for free, then be a decent human.

    • Melania Trump reveals son Barron, 18, has pulled out of being a delegate nominating his father for president because he has 'prior commitments'

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  • First time seeing him. Jesus. He looks just like him, 60 years ago. Y'all sure he didn't just clone himself?

    • Cool distros to try

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  • Sorry for the confusion. I should probably start using emojis to convey playfulness in nonserious comments.

    • Cool distros to try

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  • You know jokes and sarcasm are a thing, right?

    • First human brain implant malfunctioned, Neuralink says

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  • Everything's "techbros living in a sci-fi novel", until one day it isn't.

    I'm only 42 and I have seen very incredible advancements made in my lifetime that I never thought would be reality as a child. Handheld mobile communications devices that allow you to talk and share media instantly with anyone on the planet, for instance. That's some literal Star Trek shit. Or the fact we now have the equivalent computing power of all the world's supercomputers in the 80s put together on our desks. Or RNA vaccines, instead of using dead or dying viruses, we can now reprogram the body to make whatever antibodies it needs.

    • you don't need more 4GB of RAM

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  • This is only true if you’re still using a 32 bit cpu

    Bank switching to "fake" the ability to access more address space was a big thing in the 80s...so it's technically possible to access addresses that are wider than the address bus by dividing it up into portions that it can see.

    • sudo Make me a sandwich

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    • Did Stanford just prototype the future of AR glasses?

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  • Why? I'd use the shit out of them at work. I work on construction sites. It'd be awesome to have an app to superimpose the finished plans on top of what I'm seeing so I don't have to constantly refer back to the paper prints. No more measuring shit five times, just install it exactly as you see it.

    • Cool distros to try

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  • Do any of you people actually use your OS, or do you just distro-hop and tweak things all day?

    • The real magic word

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  • This comic strip always weirded me out. It's like the Veggie Tales of comic strips.

    • Meet My A.I. Friends | Our columnist spent the past month hanging out with 18 A.I. companions. They critiqued his clothes, chatted among themselves and hinted at a very different future.

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  • Did you forgot about Tamagotchi? It would just be the next iteration of that.

    Kids aren't that stupid, in my experience. My son knew at 6 years old that the voice coming out of our Google Home speakers is fake.

    • Linux kernel Rust coding guidelines are heretic.

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  • Thank god macros and functions are different colors in my IDE.

    • Linux kernel Rust coding guidelines are heretic.

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    • Nintendo Switch Is Removing Integration for X, Formerly Twitter

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  • I will refuse to call most cars made in the 80s or later "vintage" even though that's the technically correct word. "Garbage", yes. It's just not the same when it's just a shitbox full of dry-rotting composites and plastics. Older cars were something you wanted to keep around. Modern "old" cars are something you're embarrassed to be driving around in.

    • Qualcomm and Intel can't sell chips to Huawei anymore, report claims

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  • They probably meant things like monopoly breakups, wage increases, lowering healthcare costs, you know, things that directly affect the average person. This isn't going to affect my life in any way whatsoever. This squabble is between governments, not us.

    • someone tell them

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  • Real pros check every line for malware

    Noob. How can you trust the underlying libraries and assembly code those functions/methods are coming from? Better get a debugger and watch those CPU registers while it's running.

    • Colorado Passes Its Third ‘Right To Repair’ Bill

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  • Meh, the weed thing isn't that exciting anymore, I'm in Baltimore and pass five dispensaries on the way to work now.

    Thanks Colorado, for breaking through for the rest of us though.