ColdStream

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by ColdStream 1mo ago
Pretty much. I have a list of little sayings I have pondered over the years. I started it in 2020 thinking I might end up a few dozen, it is now well over 600. They are things to think over and not just accept blindly. It stemmed from the i
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
It doesn't help that nowadays Aurelius is being held up as some beacon of masculinity nowadays. I mean there are much worse role models but so many folks have been reductionist about his views and it can be problematic. There is some g
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
There was a brief period about 10 years back where there was a sudden burst of activity on Hurd, but that started to dwindle shortly afterwards. Alas, it is like Fusion power, always moving forwards but under funded to get it across the lin
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
Ah so X/Twitter is where ESR is nowadays. Kind of not surprised.
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
Pretty much. I have been using Linux since 1998 but it became my only system back in about 2009 I think. It just isn't that geeky blued together unix-y thing any more. So long as your hardware is supported, thats it. Yes, the games sup
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
Come GIT some! Sorry, only pun I could think of.
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
This is what I like about Haiku OS, they have focused a lot functionality and have that fairly solid, now optimization and stability is being worked on more closely.
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
The efforts people will go to in order to avoid GPL3. Makes you wonder why?
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
Will just been seen as one of those things that just happen be to accurate to the future by mere chance. The other was in Terminator 2 with how agreeable LLM's will be regarding new information. Terminator/T-800 tests his foster m
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
It was only a few months back that I found out that Vangelis couldn't read or write music notation. He would just improv play and record on a tape, recording additional parts and mixing as needed. If he needed to have other musicians i
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
Yep... It gets a little less funny by the year. I think some of the most prophetic writing in terms of specifics came from Richard Stallman that basically called it all out in the late 1980s, including social media. You may not always like
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
I would argue that they where tge first to try and do all that at once while on non-specified hardware systems. Yes Apple, Amiga etc will similar stuff but they at least had set target hardware. Microsoft tried to do everything for better a
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
There are stories of MS bringing in high school students to code core features on Windows 95/98 as a part of their summer intern programming. And you wonder why that system would to freeze up when ever you put a CD in and it had to spi
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
To bring it back to Xbox a little. I recently picked up an Xbox one X, the late performance boost to their last generation. Firstly, the performance to price ratio is brilliant nowadays, when you get title at native 4K it is a really neat l
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by ColdStream 2mo ago
I will point out one counter example, Duralex still turn out top notch stuff are really great prices. They have been in trouble a few times but they keep finding a way through. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025&#x2
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by ColdStream 2mo ago
It was when MS took their eyes off the ball, funnily enough the same time they did it with Xbox. Started chasing others again rather than leading.
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by ColdStream 2mo ago
The addons basically amounted to the fisher-price interface and a Dog that could very slowly search files for you. It was kind of cool.
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by ColdStream 2mo ago
So many long term admins just want Win 2000 with modern security and network standards. The rest of it can get in the bin. Linux or whatever BSD flavour you prefer is your next bet.
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by ColdStream 2mo ago
That is a much broader question, as I stated with the idea of legacy. The whole do things to help others even if you do not directly see the benefit. The broader sense of altruism that many tend enact.
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by ColdStream 2mo ago
I have stripped out a lot of nuance in how it is portrayed in the book, but I do completely agree with you.
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by ColdStream 2mo ago
It is a key component of the first book that basically says, if a corporation can take a short cut to save money, they probably will. It was framed as the refusal to move the diesel backup at Fukushima nuclear plant to save some money, but
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by ColdStream 2mo ago
There are some reasonable books by William T Volleman called 'Carbon Ideologies' it is all about Nuclear and Coal power. Regardless of that, they are written focusing on the people that would be reading those books in a few hundre
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by ColdStream 2mo ago
That would be wild but very funny. They are rare now but in the bizarro land, Nvidia never exists!
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by ColdStream 2mo ago
I think it is similar to the 'All models are wrong but some are useful' adage. There is reality and there is the math at which we point at it with. The pointing will never be reality but that doesn't mean it is useless. In th
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by ColdStream 2mo ago
Zillionaire Matrix, would make a good comedy or horror film.
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by ColdStream 2mo ago
Maybe we should push that then, don't go around the problem but head face first into it. Force the bottom of the bucket to blow out.
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by ColdStream 2mo ago
Well Donny T is working on it but as the saying goes, if you want the gods to laugh - tell them your plans.
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by ColdStream 2mo ago
Yeah I did forget about that. When you flatten the pay structure across the board, it makes bribes and scams so much more desirable. But also, communist structure in practices is sort of the total opposite of capitalism at a distance. It wa
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by ColdStream 2mo ago
Alternatively, if you are going to do some questionable things, just buy loads of these things and create a hundred back doors on the network to increase the noise. Sounds good in theory but in practice, computers are good at sorting this s
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by ColdStream 2mo ago
They took the idea of the 'Ad-nauseam' add-on for Firefox and used it for their own gains I see.

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