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by justanother 13d ago
In that case, marvelous. Here's hoping it's actually executed.
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by justanother 13d ago
This refers only to Flock cameras. In Pinellas and Hillsborough counties (probably others or even most, but I cannot personally verify), there are non-Flock ALPR cameras on every major intersection stoplight gantry, feeding license plate an
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by justanother 2y ago
As someone comin up on 50 myself, I have to say age has yet to be an issue with my career. Maybe I don't go out of my way to advertise it (cut the resume down to the past 10 or so years, don't have a face full of white hair), but
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by justanother 2y ago
I have one of these in the garage. I think they're 6502-based with the OS on EPROM, or at least that's what I vaguely recall from last time I had mine opened-up about 20 years ago. I can dump the ROM if it'd help.
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by justanother 2y ago
Yeah, I try to bleed it with a long-handle screwdriver for 30 seconds. In fact, the couple times I've managed to zap myself was with residual current even after that, so I can't imagine what the full potential is. It's just a
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by justanother 2y ago
I understand he got permission and everything was checked out by actual RF eggheads, but damn. I won't even change a HV run capacitor unless i'm wearing crocs, standing on cement, and wearing the rubber oven mitts. And even then,
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by justanother 2y ago
That rabbit hole goes pretty deep. In the early 1990s, the IIgs community went through this sort of "faux workstation" phase where we had 16MHz hotrodded accelerator cards, high(er) resolution graphics cards like SecondSight, and
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by justanother 2y ago
As a longhaired teenager, I rarely got the chance to physically touch these things (although it did happen a couple times). Mostly I remember telnetting into a machine, noticing that it was Irix, and being able to login as "4Dgifts&quo
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by justanother 2y ago
Nice to see you here on HN, Roger. Some of us still use Merlin 16+ every weekend when we get a little free time.
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by justanother 2y ago
Not sure if this was intended, but in Belizean creole, "Fi Wi" (pronounced "fee wee", not like WiFi) means "ours" or "for us." Good name for an MIT-licensed kernel project.
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by justanother 2y ago
If you want to make money, there's no place like eBay to move vintage hardware. If you're more concerned about it going to a good home, show up to any sort of vintage hardware meetup (KansasFest, VCF, etc) and someone will take it
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by justanother 2y ago
It's a way of using Windows that is very tolerable to POSIX commandline diehards. The similarities are numerous and include enhanced scriptability and even small details like up-arrow command history. You could get all of that with Cyg
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by justanother 2y ago
I have never, and I mean never, been a Windows user, even though I've been using computers since 1982. During the rise of Wintel in the early 1990s, I followed the rise of Linux and 386BSD. When Win95 and NT ruled the business desktop
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by justanother 2y ago
I get one of these every week or two. If someone says they're "impressed with the work you're doing" at my family S-corporation that magically W2-ifies my contract gigs, it's kind of a giveaway.
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by justanother 2y ago
Kinda related old guy story time: My high school had a small room full of 286es running Novell, which was dated even for its time. I was a self-taught nerd who took intro-to-programming classes to goose my GPA easily (it didn't help, I
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by justanother 2y ago
To your point, I've watched with interest the redevelopment of the West Bottoms. I don't live anywhere near Kansas City anymore, but in the 1980s and 1990s, we teenagers used a large portion of the Bottoms around the 12th Street B
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by justanother 2y ago
Around that time, maybe a little bit earlier, I was a Sun nerd surrounded by other Sun nerds, but this worked for Linux too: We'd FTP into each other's machines and upload things like .au files of lonely whale cries into /dev
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by justanother 2y ago
mpg123 (command line) worked fine on my turbo dimension cube. Apparently others as well: https://www.nextcomputers.org/forums/index.php?topic=2691.0
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by justanother 3y ago
Exactly correct. Nonetheless, a prosecution was indeed brought, and the opinion you're citing is an appeal. Without the EFF's financial support, weev would not be a free man.
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by justanother 3y ago
I knew an ex-employee back in the day (not me I swear) who created a dialup/ISDN provisioning profile called 'Ringing' in the modem rack controller module (not the Radius server, that would be too obvious), such that a glance
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by justanother 3y ago
I don't often use the term 'self-employed' because I don't directly receive 1099 income, and I receive a W2 paycheck and benefits, although my employer's headquarters happens to be in my office. But in practical ter
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by justanother 3y ago
He hasn't said a word to me for years, from the moment I rejected his first offer when, after over 15 years together, he finally thought he'd found his Big Exit. I'm fine with how our lawyers finally worked things out, though
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by justanother 3y ago
Near-Clearwater here. There's absolutely no reason to go there at night unless you're Sea Org (easily identifiable by the vests they wear that make them look like hotel staff). There's no nightlife aside from one restaurant a
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by justanother 3y ago
In Nice, I learned that nobody ever calls a toilet a "WC", but rather a "toilette", and that "ne" is generally optional in "ne .. pas" negation. But rappers like Dadju taught me Congolese slang like &
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by justanother 3y ago
Fun little story, at Kansasfest 1992 (the Apple II conference that persists today) I was incredibly young but was roaming the dorms at night between various groups hacking on stuff and begging for underage-beers, when I heard some chatter a
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by justanother 3y ago
Not sure if it qualifies as 'groundbreaking', but Ben Eater's youtube and websites are an amazing way to stay sharp on first principles. You can watch him build and program a 6502 or similar computer on a breadboard, and ther
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by justanother 3y ago
Starts off with an interesting premise and makes me think, hey, maybe I should re-examine my priors, let's see the evidence. And then the evidence turns out to be something about people who "make more than $100K," and goes on
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by justanother 3y ago
Ever-growing Google Docs text files tell you everything about my life, going back to about 2007. Bank balances, payment schedules, work tasks, personal tasks, items ordered, deliveries expected, and even a couple sentences about how I felt
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by justanother 3y ago
Pretty much the only way to download the cool warez that you FTPd down (from some Scandinavian anonymous FTP site that displayed the warning "our transatlantic link is only 128Kbit, so Yankees please only leech at night") to your
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by justanother 3y ago
There seems to be a pattern emerging here, and I've seen something similar in my contracting experience: Once the cheap money dries up, the social network figureheads show you who they really are. Believe them when they tell you.

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