dmwilcox

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by dmwilcox 10mo ago
Yup, but I still have graphics start on a tty ;) I just don't have a login because I use an ephemeral OS (custom alpine base) with runit. It's like windows 95 all over again, you start the computer and that's it, use it. High
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Why does a local AI voice agent running on a super cheap SoC matter?(petewarden.com)
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by dmwilcox 1y ago
Maybe not attacks but... "Congratulations you've won 100M+ climate refugees!"
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by dmwilcox 1y ago
It looks cool. Two quick things: - the pricing page is an unstyled 404 right now - the docs subdomain requires javascript to display at all which is fine I guess but odd because the examples are viewable without javascript enabled Otherwise
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by dmwilcox 1y ago
Think about how far they've come if you get them to have these "misconceived" ideas! They would understand code and data are in the same place, that all flow control effectively boils down to a jump, and they have a _more_ ac
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by dmwilcox 1y ago
__attribute__(packed) structs with an enum at the front indicating their type. The receivers use a switch to figure out which sub-message to interpret the strict as... It isn't pretty and you better be able to control the rollout of bo
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by dmwilcox 1y ago
That's amazing! Thanks for the tip!
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by dmwilcox 1y ago
I guess I'm the odd duck with a switch that has never been online. It sounds like the switch2 isn't for me. Sad but I don't want another device that wants to be more than it is, I basically want an updated version of my gameb
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by dmwilcox 1y ago
Yup,people are really good about it in my experience too. I just stand off to the side of the camera, and say "no biometrics please". They take a minute to check my documents and it's done. Try it. I trust the TSA agents brai
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by dmwilcox 1y ago
>> Can you imagine an intelligent process in such a place, as static representation of data in ram? > Yes. You can’t? This is not > really a convincing argument. Fair, I believe it's called begging the question. But for som
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by dmwilcox 1y ago
I think it is this, it's been a couple of weeks: nasm -f bin -o foobar.com foobar.asm Top of the file you'll need this offset for DOS (or 7c00 for an MBR) to adjust your pointers with based on where the program gets loaded: [bits
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by dmwilcox 1y ago
I don't know if it's been much used but it is known and works. I was doing this early on in my x86-16 assembler experiments but ended up using DOS as a program launcher for an easier emulator to use than qemu (dosbox-staging). The
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by dmwilcox 1y ago
Today I learned (!) What?! A .com file can have a full 64k for every segment! Amazing! All of my little experiments are .com files and I dread having to go to .exe at any point so this is great news. The only question I have though is... Ho
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by dmwilcox 1y ago
Mmmm well my meatsuit can't easily make my own heart quiver the wrong way and kill me. Computers can treat data as code and code as data all pretty easily. It's core to several languages (like lisp). As such making illegal instruc
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by dmwilcox 1y ago
It's not about the random numbers it's about the tree of possibilities having to be defined up front (in software or hardware). That all inputs should be defined and mapped to some output and that this process is predictable and r
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by dmwilcox 1y ago
I tried to keep my long post short so I cut things. I gestured at it -- there is nothing in a computer we didn't put there. Take the same model weights give it the same inputs, get the same outputs. Same with the pseudo-random number
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by dmwilcox 1y ago
I've been saying this for a decade already but I guess it is worth saying here. I'm not afraid AI or a hammer is going to become intelligent (or jump up and hit me in the head either). It is science fiction to think that a system
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by dmwilcox 1y ago
I lent out my copy of the Dawn of Everything so I can't get exact quotes or pages but this reminded me of a point in the book (which I highly recommend) which I'll attempt to summarize: Domestication of plants was "easy"
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by dmwilcox 1y ago
Have a near 10 year old Librem (original 13"), works fine. But if it breaks I'm getting an old Thinkpad and putting coreboot on it. Perhaps my usage is too light, no IDEs, no electron anything, no streaming, and few tabs because I
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by dmwilcox 1y ago
Really??? I had an iBook from 2001, and put Linux on it, but power consumption was definitely the best of laptops in that entire era. What could it be, like 20-30 watts? Motorola PPC processors weren't exactly heat beasts (or speed dem
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by dmwilcox 1y ago
Wow! Just discovered OpenCore Legacy Patcher! My wife's ten year old Macbook Air can get updates!! Thank you for the tip this will help a lot since it is not the "year of the Linux desktop" for her. :)
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by dmwilcox 1y ago
Disable JavaScript and you're largely fixed. Amazingly enough there is a large enough contingent doing that such that you are far from unique (and it helps most all of the fingerprinting requires JavaScript)
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by dmwilcox 1y ago
I carry a point and shoot for photographing my kids -- it's amazing. You can take it out without looking at it, turn it on, take a photo and turn it off and return it to your pocket in 10 seconds. Also the sensor is 10x the size of my
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by dmwilcox 2y ago
I've taken to saying, much to the chagrin of my techy friends, that "the best language is a dead language". Usually speaking about C which isn't even dead but maybe should be, just stick with C89 and pretend that was the
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by dmwilcox 2y ago
I got super interested in Clojure and the java UI frameworks a year ago. But the languages on top of languages scared me. I wanted something simpler, so now I'm writing x86-16 and making bitmapped fonts and things. Probably not a good
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by dmwilcox 2y ago
I love the localfirst idea but I don't love web browsers. They're the platform everyone has to have but shoehorning 40 years of UI development and products into them seems like a mistake. I can see why local UI development fell ou
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by dmwilcox 2y ago
Love it. Did the same journey a few years back making a version of KISS Linux that runs out of an initramfs. Highly recommend that "1-person distro" as a way to build out a daily driver OS, it's very satisfying
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by dmwilcox 2y ago
I used OSX from 10.0.0.4 to 10.4 and it was OK then. I recently had to use a Mac for work something-something-tree-whatever and it's slow even on an M1, it's double the weight of an X1 carbon, and the window manager hasn't ev
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by dmwilcox 2y ago
I moved from Silicon Valley to London -- a funny thing I haven't seen mentioned is that the tax rates on RSUs are absolutely awful (extra NI can push rates to nearly 60%). That is a large disincentive for working in a tech company vers
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by dmwilcox 2y ago
I wonder if there is a good way to copy something out of fossil scm or externalize this component for more general use. https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/antibot.wiki I ran into this weeks ago an

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