#ed is finally self-conscious! I somehow missed that part of documentation where it says that "w" command can write to bang-prefixed command, feeding buffer contents as standard input to this command. Which means: #ed can evaluate #ed commands in its own buffer, by calling another instance of #ed on them!
With this, the sky is the limit to what I can do. I already re-implemented my (disappointingly) shell-heavy #grep version, as pure #ed script: https://aartaka.me/scripts/grep.ed
Trusted partner to the Pacific, or giant fossil fuel exporter? This week, Australia chose the latter
Some Profs at uni say that we should teach students how to use LLMs (like ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, etc) ethically and responsibly. But how can we do that with tools that, at their core, are
1) based on stealing labor from creators,
2) are catastrophic from an environmental point of view due to its high energy consumption, and
3) are burning billions of dollars on speculative investment, to
4) produce little value? #AI
@alcinnz It's possible I've read some of @baldur 's writing last year and this influenced my understanding of LLMs. Also, the "stochastic parrots" paper.
I wasn't aware that Baldur wrote an entire book on this subject. "The Intelligence Illusion" is such a perfect title. That's what I would've called it too.
So how cool is this. I have been reading a lot about the #lispmachine, but I never attempted to get an instance running on my GNU/Linux system. Thanks to @amszmidt this is really absolutely trivial: Clone the fossil repo and type "./m -s". And it works, I get a Y2K compliant instance! 🙏 🧙
https://tumbleweed.nu/r/l/doc/trunk/README.md
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I still need to learn how to do any non-trivial things, but there are a lot of manuals to go through, so this requires some reading, I suppose.
Also, I do not know how to update the system tape to the latest version released just a few hours ago, but again, this is probably RTFM 😀
Thanks @amszmidt for making it so trivial to get started with a LispMachine! 🙏
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@eniko Everytime something try to make EU institutions not dependent on Microsoft something happens. German government workers have migrated to libre office and unmigrated back dozens of times. European Linux initiatives have been started and abandoned a bunch. Issues with Outlook have been flagged, some even at the level of national security.
I'm not trying to say that Microsoft has the EU under they control and can do as they please but yes that is exactly what I am saying.
#FREEZE64favouriteAtoZ #Commodore64 #C64 games of 1983:
3 of 30
BEACH HEAD
Published by Access Software
Programmed by Bruce Carver
Fabulous programming resulting in brilliant gameplay. One I revisit time and time again
FREEZE64.com
#SupportingTheCommodore64Community
Over 350 musicians are speaking out to demand that major labels drop a lawsuit aimed to destroy the Internet Archive.
ohhh, that's why i used to relish compiling my own kernels
https://thehackernews.com/2024/12/new-linux-rootkit-pumakit-uses-advanced.html
loadable modules have always been an attack surface. i'm not surprised they still are.
what bugs me though, is that compiling a kernel used to be a ten minute job back in the 2.2 days... granted, i haven't done it since, but i'm pretty sure it's not now, even though back then 64MB RAM was masses, spinning rust was state of the art and GCC was v3ish, and now GCC is v13ish, SSDs are ubiquitous and 4GB is small
Playing Atari games with an Atari Joystick in VR is amazing. I even got a hand cramp playing it! Just like old times.
This is an entirely too new TV for playing 2600 games, though.
I'm happy to announce the *Libreboot T480*:
https://minifree.org/product/libreboot-t480/
This is a ThinkPad T480, *with Libreboot pre-installed*, with replaces proprietary BIOS/UEFI firmware. Your choice of Debian Linux, other distro or BSD.
Libreboot offers greater security and faster boot speeds than Lenovo firmware. T480 is 8th gen (Kabylake Refresh); it replaces Libreboot T440, which was 4th gen (Haswell).
I'm Libreboot's founder / lead dev. Sales fund Libreboot.
I sell Libreboot, and Libreboot accessories.
i opened xkcd recently and the π mph ≈ e knots thing is fucking me up
Beau Sheil demonstrates the Interlisp-D environment and tools running on a Xerox Dolphin workstation. He uses the Masterscope program analyzer and the DEdit structure editor to gain insight into and modify the code of a program, a tree editor for linguistics applications.
This videotaped demo was originally produced for the 1981 International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) held in Vancouver, Canada.
Folks, I am stunned.
An almost 200-page official draft of a 10-year National Digitization Strategy (yeah, the title leaves a bit to be desired), published recently by the Polish Ministry of Digital Affairs, does not mention "hackers" or "hacking" once.
Not once! 
It goes deep into cyber threats, cybersecurity, etc. It mentions "hacktivists" one single time, but in a way that doesn't even make me cringe.
But finds no need to besmirch the hacker community. 
This is the third recorded-from-radio MiniDisc in a row I've pulled from this stack, except this one isn't just a random talk show in mono. Someone was listening for their favorite songs to come on and just recording those, which is bringing back memories of when I did the same thing as a kid, but with a cassette tape. #nostalgia
Wow, I know plenty of YouTube videos appropriate for explaining the concepts I'm discussing in my Idiomatic Computer hypothetical...
Ben Eater. Technology Connections. Retro Game Mechanics Explained. Captain Disillusion.
Just attempted to use "Google Lens" to parse a QR code. It did a web search for similar images and presented me with a list of images containing QR codes. Horrible future