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It's Only When You Look Back(markround.com)
23 points by mark_round 3mo ago|17 comments
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by mark_round 3mo ago
That was where I started, too. I was fine with VLANs, routing in general and so on from datacenter/DevOps/Sysadmin work, but BGP and how the wider internet fitted together beyond the basics was mostly beyond me. DN42 is a great pl
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by mark_round 3mo ago
Strangely enough, that's one of the big draws for me. I'm "on the spectrum" and often find face-to-face socialisation and making new contacts very draining. I tend to prefer systems to people - although as time went on,
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by mark_round 4mo ago
It does indeed work! You can see it running here on my +3 in my "retro cave" :) https://share.markround.com/sphere.jpg I have also uploaded it to my TNFS site[1], which you can also access through an emulated Spec
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by mark_round 4mo ago
"We have been made aware of a potential incident and are shutting down all issuance" seems to lean towards the latter and not simply a technical issue :(
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by mark_round 4mo ago
That's really not good. Fortunately I'm not using any short-lived certificates like the recently announced 6 day certs, so have some breathing room. Without further details, I'd imagine anyone with a short-lived cert is getti
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by mark_round 5mo ago
I do really enjoy working on the site, it's great to have an outlet and playground for ideas and do things just for fun. There never was (and never will be) any commercial angle for this, as I said in a footnote in the "Sloppy Cop
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by mark_round 5mo ago
This is the issue. I posted more or less the same thing in a comment over on lobste.rs[1] - being able to create your own bespoke software tools, without any developer experience is (mostly) a really cool thing. This isn't someone bein
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by mark_round 6mo ago
You're about the 5th person now in as many days who has recommended Elixir when I mentioned I was building a project in Ruby. I'll definitely have to check it out for my next project (whatever that may be!) Can you expand on why y
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by mark_round 6mo ago
The "one-person framework" thing is a big draw. I'm amazed at how productive I was in it, and it's not just at the code level. Even though I've been doing sysadmin/devops/architect work for over 25 years n
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by mark_round 6mo ago
Author of the article here (hi! Anxiously watching my Grafana stack right now...) I've only just noticed that on the Rails homepage, and while I acknowledge everyone's chasing that sweet sweet AI hype, I gotta say that's... d
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by mark_round 6mo ago
Definitely. It really makes me wish it was getting more attention - and I know I'm late to the party having only picked it back up over a year after Rails 8 was released! It's just such a smooth experience and I haven't found
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by mark_round 6mo ago
Author here, thanks for posting this! Any questions, comments or "You're wrong and this is why" let me know :) I do find myself wondering about the future of Rails (and I guess the wider Ruby ecosystem) though. I'm defin
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by mark_round 7mo ago
If you'd like to experiment with running your own AS in private address space, connecting to a friendly network of geeks over wireguard tunnels, check out DN42 https://dn42.dev/Home . It's a great way to explore ro
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by mark_round 9mo ago
That was what I was thinking of (but worded it badly in the middle of my rant!) If I wanted to intercept all your traffic to any external endpoint without detection I would have to compromise the exact CA that signed your certificates eac
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by mark_round 9mo ago
Author here, hi! Was just venting last night, but that's a very good point, I'll update it later with your correction :)
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by mark_round 11mo ago
There is also Spectranet[1] and clones for the Sinclair Spectrum, which allows for a much richer Internet-connected experience. It can load and boot remote programs from a server which allows you to get quite creative and produce sites like
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by mark_round 1y ago
It's a lot of fun, still! I touched on it in my "Amiga Systems Programming in 2023" post[1] which had some discussion here[2]. In the few years since then there's been lots of development still across the whole scene. OS
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by mark_round 2y ago
A tangent I know, but looking at those old screenshots really made me miss that era of OS X. The first versions of Aqua with pinstripes were a bit busy for my liking, but by the Mountain Lion time frame it was just lovely. Actual buttons! S
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by mark_round 2y ago
Thanks! It was a lot of fun to put together, and the site has expanded in scope considerably since I wrote those articles. Whenever I get a few moments, it's one of my favourite projects to work on, there's just something very &qu
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by mark_round 2y ago
The TNFS protocol used by FujiNet has also been used in other network cards for old 8-bit computers. My own ZX Spectrum is fitted with a Spectranet card which enables the same kind of connectivity and creativity. I wrote about it in my &quo
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by mark_round 2y ago
Still got mine. Still write code on it, too[1] although it's now connected to the Internet with a Spectranet card. My 9-year old self would have been astonished that there's still a lively scene surrounding the Spectrum and some q
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by mark_round 2y ago
I wrote an article about the very subject : https://www.markround.com/blog/2023/08/30/amiga-systems-prog... Which also featured on HN at the time, with some very insightful comments and discussion: http
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by mark_round 3y ago
I think it's the same reason I guess why people mourn e.g. BeOS. The Atari was a nice system, but it wasn't ground-breaking. The Amiga was decades ahead of it's time and could have been so much more if Commodore had any busin
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by mark_round 3y ago
Sure! Sorry, I was typing on a phone and it turned into a real word salad/jargon mess :) I was replying to someone asking how I got my "classic" 1990s-era Amiga screenshots to look so fancy. The built in Amiga AGA chipset is
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by mark_round 3y ago
The images from my A1200 are on a very customized OS 3.2/CoffinOS (legally "dubious" AmigaOS distribution favoured by Vampire accelerator users) hybrid system with Faenza PNG icons. But if you have a graphics card (or emulate
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by mark_round 3y ago
Nitpick away, always glad to include corrections! > LZX had supplanted LHA already by 1994. True, but LHA always felt like more of the standard and tools were readily available and present on most systems. Sort of like how Bzip2/X
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by mark_round 3y ago
Wow! Starred and saved. Thanks for the tip, that will be so useful for testing and incorporating in my Drone pipelines. I'll have a play and post an update, it looks like it should work nicely with my simple utility. Nice find!
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by mark_round 3y ago
I have mine connected to a modern flat-panel display as I use an Indivision adapter, and there are other solutions which is fortunate as CRTs are getting very rare (and fragile!) now. Would still love one for the retro appeal, but I just ca
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by mark_round 3y ago
There is a fantastic article which I've linked to before that goes into a lot of that: https://datagubbe.se/ltmag/ Datatypes in particular are amazing! I really wish some of these features (see also: ASSIGNs) made

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