davefischer @ davefischer @beehaw.org

Artist / hacker from Providence, USA.

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My only concern is if there's an ssh key on there. If you're clever ahead of time, every phone has a new ssh key that can be trivially disabled on the far end.

Peanuts go well with chocolate, and I sometimes use them in a stew, but for snacking, they're nowhere near as good as pistachios or cashews.

I get good pizza once a month, really good pizza occasionally, and utter crap pizza maybe twice a month. Each has its own appeal. (Oh, and I LOOOOOVE a good calzone / spinach pie. That's... related.)

I do a lot of photography for a museum. In documenting historic artifacts (as in journalism) you're not supposed to do any post processing. Not that I'd use a phone camera for those photos, but it's an issue as those features creep into more serious cameras.

I was talking to someone about the 70s flick Jesus Christ Superstar and I accidentally revealed the verdict in the trial of the main character at the end. OOPS! (I won't mention it here.)

Void here too. I was mostly Solaris & OpenBSD for many years, Void is the first linux I'm happy to run on my main machines.

I realized I was going to be comfortable with Void when I saw in the docs that to config the network you just "put the commands in rc.local". Ha ha. Yes, that's how you'd do it in 7th Edition Unix! Back to the basics.

Also...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnV_vfy-Dqs

Stewart Lee is better than all other standup combined.

A Clockwork Orange

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JIc_1v7i88

A lot of things that we assume can only be made by giant complexes of high-tech equipment were first prototyped by hand on a workbench. This sounds like a great project.

(I don't know anything about the details of bubble memory. It's entirely possible this is impossible. Certainly worth looking into though.)

Beyond The Screams (Directed by the lead singer of Los Crudos)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNZ9iw8U_W0

Probably Diamanda Galas. Saw her perform in the mid 90s.

I have a pretty decent sized library. My fiction section is about 95% read, but the non-fiction sections are much less. You sometimes buy non-fiction as reference materials, to flip through, etc. Not necessarily to read cover-to-cover. (I'd guess my non-fiction is 25% read.)

I think that was one of the books that I had already read when we were assigned it in high school...

I inherited a ton of books from my father, who was a minister & a Jungian psychologist. Lots of old interesting bibles, in a handful of languages. (Plus a Koran, and some Crowley, and of shelf full of Trotsky... ha ha. Lotta books.)

TCP/IP was... part of the BSD project? PDP-11 or VAX?

Our museum mostly collects minis from science & academia, so it leans REALLY heavily DEC.

Yeah, I'm familiar with VMS, and Cutler bringing a lot of the internal design to W/NT. (I'm told in particular a lot of the data structures for system calls in NT look like VMS.) My AIX experience has consisted entirely of "This is weird. This isn't normal for Unix." Ha ha. (I had a 1st gen RS/6000 at home briefly in the late 90s.)

And I do have a "grey wall" in my library:

My AIX experience is very limited. What was the VMS connection?

Fantastic Planet, in the 80s.

Windows NT ACLs come from VMS.

The Unix world has traditionally not liked ACLs because Multics had them, and Unix was an ultra-minimalist response to Multics.