crp Posted October 30, 2022 Author Share Posted October 30, 2022 somewhat related to my musings on SystemD over in the Bruno Linux forum: Why New Systems Fail: Theory and Practice Collide https://www.proquest.com/openview/2a6964f58cf4afc891d14c9dc8936fd5/1 Theory and Practice Collide Again VII. Theory and Practice Collide Again - inquiry portfolio (weebly.com) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted October 31, 2022 Share Posted October 31, 2022 15 hours ago, crp said: 75 million of those files are from AOL cd's. Hmm I doubt that. I did find some interesting moments when I had a quick peek. Here are a couple of extracts from a 1993 Anarchist magazine. http://discmaster.textfiles.com/view/7502/cuteskunk.zip/cuteskunk/Anarchy-Magazines/pa_02_02.txt Quote Well, not much is happening on the anarchist front here in Madis- on. One can probably attribute the lethargy of area anarchists to the fact that we are still in the throes of Winter. Hopeful- ly, the anarchists will thaw out when the ground does. They better, as we only have five months until we host our gathering. The circulation of the paper copy of this zine has gone over 300 and I expect to break 500 by the end of the year. Quote edimatorial from sweden by mikael cardell oh well, i've just experienced the first beggar of my life. this is not something that is common in sweden, but anyway, there he was. i was heading home from the university and when i got off the bus and was going towards the house a man called out and ges- tured towards himself. i went towards him, wondering what he wanted, and stopped just in front of him. he started talking about the black, five-pointed star, i wore on my black coat and babbled about it being the freedom star of the land of ghana. he said the he himself was from namibia but that he was born in cape town and that he now was on a visit here in sweden. he had no money and no possibility to get any, being only a visitor from another country. oh, ****. what do you do in a situation like that? i sure haven't been in anything even remotely reminding of this situation be- fore. after a short discussion about what he was doing in sweden and why he couldn't get any money in any other way i invited him to my home. i figured he at least could get some food if not any money. i don't have a lot of that kind myself. at home we discussed further. he was apparantly a very learned man who had studied sociology at uppsala university in sweden back in 1964, but then he had returned to his home country. now he was back in sweden, and broke. we finally arranged so that he could lend some money until friday since he explained that he could get money until then. what would you have done if you were in the same situation? here was a man that fell through the social security safety net that sweden is so famous for; he couldn't get any money from the so- cial bureau since he legally wasn't a swedish citizen. i don't know if i'm going to get my money back, ever, but that is a secondary point. the point is that i've discovered how the every- day life for a lot of people is like. how many beggars are there in india? how many in the usa? what are these people prepared to do to survive? go visit the slum. see how people actually live. then do some- thing about it! This is an extract from a 1995 magazine dedicated to virus makers run by a chap called Vlad. http://discmaster.textfiles.com/view/7502/cuteskunk.zip/cuteskunk/Virus/Virus-Magazines/Vlad/vlad%234.zip/ARTICLE.2_5 Quote Since the death of Bulgaria as the virus centre of the world two or three years ago, America's recent decline (another story) and the death of Trident in the Netherlands, the normal places we think of as virus capitals have moved. Sweden has always been a hotbed of activity, but recently Taiwan, Australia, Russia and Slovakia have improved in focus. Slovakia is a small country, being the 'other' half of the former united czechoslovakia, but it has two virus groups, and a seemingly large interest in computer viruses. Quote Dear friends, we wish you all the best in the New Year 1995, in the name of the Slovak Virus Laboratories (SVL). We have picked this unusual kind of New Years Greeting (well, we write unusual viruses as well, and one must admit they're not the worst either), because we are sure that our favourite VIRUS RADAR will mention it. To show our goodwill, we enclose the source code of SVL 1.2, which has been discussed recently (we really are the authors, don't doubt it). A few words about SVL: we're cheerful guys, who are interested in Fred Flintstone's philosophy (except our Development Chief, who is only interested in girls and beer), as well as in writing tasty and juicy viruses. The group was founded spontaneously about 3 years ago in a bar, while discussing the advantages of vodka combined with juice against pure vodka. First we did nothing, but then we started to do some freelance production. We have achieved several successes, we even got into the newspapers I also found a really neat .mp4 file which I am hoping to use as part of my animated screensaver project. All in all a fascinating site where you could loose yourself for a few hours or possibly days. http://discmaster.textfiles.com/cd-rom/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crp Posted November 1, 2022 Author Share Posted November 1, 2022 I wonder about copper , iron and zinc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted November 3, 2022 Share Posted November 3, 2022 37 Classic adverts. http://discmaster.textfiles.com/view/6587/TVC1.iso/Movies 1/FLINT.AVI Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted November 11, 2022 Share Posted November 11, 2022 Amid War, Bat Rescue Continues in Ukraine Quote In 2013, with financial help from Oleksandr Feldman, a politician and one of the wealthiest men in Ukraine, Vlaschenko, along with two colleagues — Alona Prylutska and Ksenia Kravchenko — set up the Ukrainian Bat Rehabilitation Center in a park owned by Feldman north of Kharkiv. Called Feldman Ecopark, the place promotes itself as a mix of “animal care and therapy for children with special needs.” In a forested area of Feldman Ecopark, they built something the researchers call a bat-collider, a 65-foot-long tunnel, 6 feet high and 6 feet wide, where bats can fly or hibernate. Each year, 1,000 to 3,000 rescued bats have wintered there, before their release in late March. In the late summer and early fall, the staff also cared for orphaned or injured bats, and helped bats that got lost during migration. People from across Ukraine and Eastern Europe began sending them sick or injured bats. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted November 17, 2022 Share Posted November 17, 2022 This genetically engineered houseplant does the air-purifying work of 30 plants Are the triffids on our doorstep ???? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunrat Posted November 17, 2022 Share Posted November 17, 2022 But what is a typical houseplant? The Pothos mentioned in the article can grow to fill a whole room normally anyway. I've got 8 very large houseplants in my loungeroom, are they the equivalent of 30 typical houseplants? Need more empirical data! Numbers! Spreadsheets! Graphs! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted November 22, 2022 Share Posted November 22, 2022 Centuries of Sound Quote The aim of this site is to provide an audio history of sound. The history of the site itself can be traced back to the day I decided to pick a song for every year using rateyourmusic and archive.org, and realised that the first song I found predated the 20th century. It was 'Hello, Ma Baby!', familiar to most people as sung by Michigan J. Frog in the 1955 cartoon One Froggy Evening, but here performed by someone called Arthur Collins, who, according to Wikipedia was the biggest selling recording artist of the 1900s. Who was this man? What sort of music was this? What was this entire era of music, long before the start of the Jazz age and why had I heard nothing about it in three decades of listening? The answers to these questions stretched until they had to be hemmed in by the site in front of you. I gave it a whirl for 1926 the year me mum was born. Scroll down and you find more than just audio from the year. https://centuriesofsound.com/category/years/1920s/1926/ I also tried 1900 and this led to the fascinating information on the telegraphone which was the precursor of magnetic tapes. That were promoted in their infancy by Bing Crosby for his radio shows. https://centuriesofsound.com/category/1900/ Poulsen's wire-reel telegraphone 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunrat Posted November 23, 2022 Share Posted November 23, 2022 ^ Interesting site. Shame they don't have listings for 1937-2015 though. To check for what was No.1 on your birthday (or any day) - https://www.thisdayinmusic.com/birthday-no1/ Mine are: In the US - In Australia - I think the US one suits me better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crp Posted November 23, 2022 Author Share Posted November 23, 2022 Maybe they should try the new BlueTooth instead of WiFi but seriously, this is a shame: Japan Abandons Plan for Moon Probe Landing | PCMag 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted November 25, 2022 Share Posted November 25, 2022 (edited) On 11/23/2022 at 12:03 AM, sunrat said: ^ Interesting site. Shame they don't have listings for 1937-2015 though. To check for what was No.1 on your birthday (or any day) - https://www.thisdayinmusic.com/birthday-no1/ USA Australia UK Mine were pretty dire. Edited November 25, 2022 by abarbarian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunrat Posted November 26, 2022 Share Posted November 26, 2022 13 hours ago, abarbarian said: Mine were pretty dire. Yeah the US and Oz ones, but the Guy Mitchell song is pretty swingin' with a nice guitar break in the middle. Must say I prefer my US one - sh-boom sh-boom life could be a dream! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted November 26, 2022 Share Posted November 26, 2022 Why Meta’s latest large language model survived only three days online Quote Galactica was supposed to help scientists. Instead, it mindlessly spat out biased and incorrect nonsense. Well there is a surprise 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zlim Posted December 10, 2022 Share Posted December 10, 2022 Top Christmas Toys, the year you were born. 1920 through 2021 https://stacker.com/retrospective/top-holiday-toys-year-you-were-born 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted December 10, 2022 Share Posted December 10, 2022 That was pretty neato! Slip 'N Slide for me, but I never had one. The concrete is “art” finished (very smooth) on my carport. We’d just soap it up and slip 'n slide there all afternoon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raymac46 Posted December 15, 2022 Share Posted December 15, 2022 https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-are-we-there-yet-its-still-the-key-question-about-quantum-computing/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raymac46 Posted December 15, 2022 Share Posted December 15, 2022 On 12/10/2022 at 9:49 AM, zlim said: Top Christmas Toys, the year you were born. 1920 through 2021 https://stacker.com/retrospective/top-holiday-toys-year-you-were-born I had the usual stuff at my age - toy trains, Tonka trucks, Gilbert microscope and a real Gilbert chemistry set with poisons included. No shrinky dinks though (not that PC these days.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crp Posted January 5, 2023 Author Share Posted January 5, 2023 I hope it did not cause serious damage to people or property 'cause the jokes write themselves. https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/wisconsin-dairy-plant-fire-melted-butter-canal/ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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raymac46 Posted January 27, 2023 Share Posted January 27, 2023 https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/technology/article-we-stumbled-intel-shares-drop-as-chip-maker-forecasts-loss-in-current/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunrat Posted February 4, 2023 Share Posted February 4, 2023 MusicLM: Generating Music From Text Now I know how they make that soulless modern pop music that plays at the gym every time I go there. Quite fascinating, and scary, how advanced AI has become recently. ChatGPT is being routinely banned in schools these days, and its developer OpenAI has just released a tool to detect whether it has been used in written text pieces. I saw one coder boasting that it could write simple code in seconds that would take an hour manually, but another C++ coder replied it was absolute rubbish for C++. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amenditman Posted February 4, 2023 Share Posted February 4, 2023 27 minutes ago, sunrat said: Now I know how they make that soulless modern pop music that plays at the gym every time I go there. The solution is to never go to the gym. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunrat Posted February 4, 2023 Share Posted February 4, 2023 3 hours ago, amenditman said: The solution is to never go to the gym. Gotta do something to counteract all that computer time. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted February 4, 2023 Share Posted February 4, 2023 Talking about AI. The Real 'Show About Nothing' Is a Surreal, AI-Generated Seinfeld Stream That Will Literally Never End Quote “What did the fish say when it hit the wall?” the pixilated and jerking form of Jerr—sorry, I mean “Larry,” asks the invisible audience. Then there’s a pregnant pause that lasts too long, even for an amateur stand up comedy act. Finally, the punchline: “…dam” There’s a lot of strange, awkward pauses in Nothing, Forever, an AI-generated show based on the Seinfeld TV sitcom. As the name suggests, the Twitch stream running the channel never actually ends, and all the dialogue was created using a base of GPT-3, which most laypeople would recognize as the system that laid the groundwork for ChatGPT. Shame they did not choose a decent program like Futurama Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amenditman Posted February 4, 2023 Share Posted February 4, 2023 9 hours ago, sunrat said: Gotta do something to counteract all that computer time. I recommend sleep. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted February 4, 2023 Share Posted February 4, 2023 13 hours ago, sunrat said: scary, how advanced AI has become recently. Yes. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cluttermagnet Posted February 5, 2023 Share Posted February 5, 2023 Wait- are those rainbow colored eyes? Clutter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted February 5, 2023 Share Posted February 5, 2023 7 hours ago, Cluttermagnet said: Wait- are those rainbow colored eyes? Clutter Nah just the latest fashion accessory. he should have gone for something more like these though. Shame they do not do Distro logos Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted February 5, 2023 Share Posted February 5, 2023 11 hours ago, Cluttermagnet said: rainbow colored eyes? It's a Googlenator. You'll see more them once GoogleNet becomes self-aware... any day now. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted February 7, 2023 Share Posted February 7, 2023 Flour Made From Food Waste Is Coming for Your Cookies Quote UK-based startup The Supplant Company is targeting the US market with an intriguing new addition to the sugar-reduction toolbox in the form of ‘sugars from fiber,’ a new low-glycemic blend of sugars extracted from upcycled feedstocks that performs like table sugar, but is metabolized more like fiber. Soylent Green may be better for you than some of todays products. Commercial Ice Cream Ingredients Will Make You Scream! Quote Polysorbate 80 is used in ice cream to resist melting. So while we get to enjoy ice cream that takes longer to become a drippy mess, this chemical is working to suppresses our immune system. It can cause severe allergic reactions including anaphylactic shock., and causes infertility, abnormal heart rhythm, heat attack, stroke, tumor growth and cancer. {Here's an interesting side note: scientists are currently working on a vaccine that will intentionally cause fertility problems as a method of birth control. The main ingredient is Polysorbate 80.} Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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