systems_glitch

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by systems_glitch 5mo ago
Thanks, this is exactly the content I come here for. Apt handle :P I am very not comfortable with the situation, as a seller. I mailed out the stuff that was paid for before the outage...but I don't think I'm mailing anything else
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by systems_glitch 5mo ago
We all know that's what it is, I don't know why people aren't willing to just say it. It has a domain, it has a logo, they were going for maximum impact because it's their business.
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by systems_glitch 5mo ago
Yeah this sucks, I have a bunch of hobbyist orders stuck in limbo since last week -- customers have paid, but I can't pull the orders down even through the API. I really like Tindie as a platform and have been using it since nearly the
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by systems_glitch 6mo ago
Nothing wrong with Rails in 2026. We still use it for both internal and customer projects. I haven't yet encountered anything that made me feel like switching. I'm also not interested in changing frameworks just to have the New Ho
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by systems_glitch 7mo ago
End of an era. We used to get it on CD in school.
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by systems_glitch 8mo ago
And it'll be open sourced once everything is done!
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by systems_glitch 10mo ago
I don't always play UT2K4, but when I do, it's usually with Ballistic Weapons mod + Sergeant Kelly's weapon packs. I agree that the UT2K4 weapons just don't quite do it like UT99.
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by systems_glitch 10mo ago
Still the FPS I play the most! We organize LAN parties at some of the vintage computer events.
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by systems_glitch 2y ago
Probably the most likely explanation, given so many things do inherit idiosyncrasies from C. I'd always assumed it was from Perl, given its heavy use in CGI back then -- like $_ being the default var. But that would probably also event
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by systems_glitch 2y ago
"I dunno...is magic " (engineering Calculus II GTA, Virginia Tech, 2006)
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Deploying Sinatra Applications on OpenBSD in 2025(users.glitchwrks.com)
3 points by systems_glitch 2y ago|1 comments
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by systems_glitch 2y ago
We're redoing some of our application servers to bring everything under Ansible management, modernize, etc. Most of what we write gets deployed on OpenBSD. It's mostly been a painless process, except for that nagging "have to
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by systems_glitch 2y ago
Same basic experience. The colo ISP soaks up most actual DDoS. We had a couple mid-sized ones when we were hosting irc.binrev.net from salty b& users. No real effect other than the colo did let us know it was happening and that it was &
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by systems_glitch 2y ago
Plus, learning PDP-11 ASM explains some of the idioms from C as they map directly onto the architecture! "Pointer to a pointer" is just a native addressing mode, for instance.
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by systems_glitch 2y ago
Agree, I like the 6502 architecture but tend to steer newcomers in vintage computers away from it if they have no previous ASM experience. I started on PIC16 assembly, and dabbled in a bunch of other architectures, but my favorite in terms
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by systems_glitch 2y ago
Judging from former jobs, yeah, kinda lost :/ We still colo, it's way more cost effective than PaaS or VMs or someone else's bare metal.
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by systems_glitch 2y ago
Email sent, we can probably host you.
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by systems_glitch 2y ago
Indeed, we donate to several open source projects on which we depend, but we're also a small two-person operation. No medium/large company I've worked for ever donated monetarily to open source projects, though one did encour
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by systems_glitch 2y ago
Oh man that sucks! I wonder if we could pull Alpine into our colo, we recently upgraded to a full rack from 2U (it was cheaper than a quarter rack!) and have a ton of space. Plus all of our libvirt/KVM HVMs run Alpine.
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by systems_glitch 2y ago
There's an old LCM (Living Computer Museum, RIP) video where they run off a card deck of a risque ASCII art program on an IBM mainframe's line printer. It feigns a printer fault after printing the subject down to the shoulders, on
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by systems_glitch 2y ago
Yup, that's why they were such useful devices! Even if you were ending up with inefficient storage (punching ASCII vs. binary, or expanded BASIC source vs. tokens), it was built-in.
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by systems_glitch 2y ago
Rails still gets the job done. That's what you get paid to do -- the job!
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by systems_glitch 2y ago
Important point not really expanded upon in the article: Roger Melen was one of the founders of Cromemco, a very successful microcomputer company that started with S-100 products!
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by systems_glitch 2y ago
Or: why I still drive to a lot of customer on-site visits, so I can take the hardware with me personally.
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by systems_glitch 2y ago
It's not 150 LBS, even fully kitted out (which wasn't possible at the time!), but it definitely didn't fit in the luggage compartment. The first portable to do that was the Osborne :P
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by systems_glitch 2y ago
Furthermore, the Teletype was also your storage device, if you bought the Model 33 ASR. It had both a paper tape punch and a reader. For $1500 you got not only your hardcopy console terminal, but at the time the most compatible way to load
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by systems_glitch 2y ago
Yes, in its most basic configuration, it is essentially a microprocessor trainer! The only I/O you had was a set of 8 "sense switches," which were a byte-wide input port, and those were shared with the upper 8 address bits. S
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by systems_glitch 2y ago
Probably. I run all the old, insecure machines on their own subnet and physical segment, and some of the "keep them going" services are hosted on VMs running on our modern VM hosts. We've got a few things that have to cross t
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by systems_glitch 2y ago
Yeah we run this on our own Proton Mail whitelabel, and for a few customers who have us manage it, mostly for the filtering aspect, and the occasional customer who has the wrong/mis-spelled address in their system and won't change
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by systems_glitch 2y ago
Indeed, most of our public-facing services are hosted on OpenBSD, and all of our routers and firewalls run it. We started managing everything with Ansible to make it easier to ignore what the host OS is for a deployment, and that has worked

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