Giacomo Amoroso @dankski@qoto.org

Also played around with getting MacPPP and MacTCP working so I could connect this to the internet! System 6 is a little limited for WebBrowsers with only MacWWW in this case.

MacWWW is limited it in does not support the Hostname field so only servers who respond at their IP address default will work.

I bet my girlfriend that this picture of our cats could get 10 billion boosts on Mastodon.

She said she doesn't believe me. She said there's only 13 million accounts on Mastodon. She said there aren't even 10 billion people on Earth. She said it concerns her that I struggle so hard to comprehend large numbers.

Let's prove her wrong everyone. Boost away and show her just how awesome the Mastodon community is.

RIP Weird Stuff (1990 Ad)

I intended to read today, but my mind decided it wanted to sleep, then write.

I feel so grateful to have the option to do that.

I did some final testing before packing it up to take to work and demo for students. #retrocomputing #Altair

I teach people certain habits to use in their work. The benefits are often a bit delayed. This leads them to wonder when they will benefit and to doubt whether they're doing it right.

Let me offer this observation: you probably care less about doing it right than you care about whether to keep trying.

Is that so? Maybe yes, maybe no.

Either way, I encourage you to clarify this in your mind, because different strategies help in each of those two mind states.

Many folks asked me about this, so I wrote a statement on why I resigned from working on Rust:

https://www.jntrnr.com/why-i-left-rust/

@ablackcatstail

I hope you are donating from your own pocket to help.

When I worked in China, for a multi-national, it was remarkable to see the attitude difference between the colleagues in USA and in China.

USA; a lot of talk and activism that someone else should do something.

China; individuals organized charity, from auctioning donations at work, to collecting old clothes, toys, kitchen utensils, ++ and PERSONALLY driving the collections to needing rural communities in China.

But, since I have a very offline family, I can safely share here that I just sent a "Golden Girls Clue" board game to my sister's house for her birthday, with a gift note that said, "Thank you for being a sister." In case that makes anyone chuckle!

My debut poetry book is out today with Thirty West Publishing! https://www.thirtywestph.com/shop/cloudpicker

@grumpygamer Finished RtMI yesterday. Loved it. Laughed out loud. This is nostalgia with the right amount of self-reflection.

"The problem isn’t that the chatbots lie all the time — it’s that they usually tell the truth, but then they start spouting confident lies."

https://doctorow.medium.com/googles-ai-hype-circle-6158804d1299

Yeah, it runs Crisis

Looks like they usually didn't, or if they did, they did it in a platform-specific way -- the naive approach being to probe memory with read/write checks in the banks, but that breaks if address decoding loops around.