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Liable "only if it intended that the provided service be used for infringement"
8 years in the making, The US Supreme Court affirms that a provider is merely... a provider, and not complicit in the illegal acts that some of it's subscribers engage in.
You would think that this was a matter of common sense, but where deep pockets are involved... Well, Read on young Grasshoppa*, and while you're at it, *try to snatch the pebble from my hand. That's the lay version in common sense language.
For what it's worth, I say, Boom Shakalaka BOOM 💥 Mic Drop 🎤
For the dry, definitive version of the article you can read the actual unanimous ruling itself HERE
#tallship #SCOTUS #justice #piracy #ISP
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Two weeks ago Cindy Cohn, the lawyer made famous in 1993 for Bernstein v. Department of Justice, held a Book Release party w/Corey Doctorow and has now announced that she's stepping down on 01 June, to be replaced by Nicole Ozer.
It will be interesting to see how the new skipper pilots that vessel, and especially in regards to the atrocious volley of legislation like California's AB 1043, that already has people preparing to disenfranchise Californians through changes in their licenses or AUP/ToS - forbidding people residing in California from using services seems to many as a sensible solution to the antics of an insane, despotic legislature; To others, it is a knee-jerk reaction to something that may never come to pass.
Anyway, here's the scoop on that announcement:
#tallship #Cindy_Cohn #Nicole_Ozer #FOSS #KYC #Industrial_Surveillance #Privacy #Identity
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Two weeks ago Cindy Cohn, the lawyer made famous in 1993 for Bernstein v. Department of Justice, held a Book Release party w/Corey Doctorow and has now announced that she's stepping down on 01 June, to be replaced by Nicole Ozer.
It will be interesting to see how the new skipper pilots that vessel, and especially in regards to the atrocious volley of legislation like California's AB 1043, that already has people preparing to disenfranchise Californians through changes in their licenses or AUP/ToS - forbidding people residing in California from using services seems to many as a sensible solution to the antics of an insane, despotic legislature; To others, it is a knee-jerk reaction to something that may never come to pass.
Anyway, here's the scoop on that announcement:
#tallship #Cindy_Cohn #Nicole_Ozer #FOSS #KYC #Industrial_Surveillance #Privacy #Identity
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Two weeks ago Cindy Cohn, the lawyer made famous in 1993 for Bernstein v. Department of Justice, held a Book Release party w/Corey Doctorow and has now announced that she's stepping down on 01 June, to be replaced by Nicole Ozer.
It will be interesting to see how the new skipper pilots that vessel, and especially in regards to the atrocious volley of legislation like California's AB 1043, that already has people preparing to disenfranchise Californians through changes in their licenses or AUP/ToS - forbidding people residing in California from using services seems to many as a sensible solution to the antics of an insane, despotic legislature; To others, it is a knee-jerk reaction to something that may never come to pass.
Anyway, here's the scoop on that announcement:
#tallship #Cindy_Cohn #Nicole_Ozer #FOSS #KYC #Industrial_Surveillance #Privacy #Identity
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Hi Karl, why don't you try asking that amazonian what a Thomas Guide is❓
#tallship #passive_listening #Industrial_surveillance #sidewalk #BLE
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Hi Karl, why don't you try asking that amazonian what a Thomas Guide is❓
#tallship #passive_listening #Industrial_surveillance #sidewalk #BLE
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Hi Karl, why don't you try asking that amazonian what a Thomas Guide is❓
#tallship #passive_listening #Industrial_surveillance #sidewalk #BLE
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Hi Karl, why don't you try asking that amazonian what a Thomas Guide is❓
#tallship #passive_listening #Industrial_surveillance #sidewalk #BLE
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I just left Cindy Cohn's Presentation and book release party via remote stream.
Cindy is the Executive director of the EFF, and came to prominence regarding the Bernstein case against the prohibition of "strong encryption" a few years back during the Clinton administration.
Today, the industrial surveillance special interests are being aided again by socialist governments in the form of California_Digital_Age_Assurance_Act (AB 1043), and I was fortunate enough to have her directly address my question about just what we're going to do to defeat this and other criminal lawfare against our identity and privacy.
My question was the first question asked (and answered, sort of), and long before the Q&A that is supposed to wrap up the presentation, but I must say that I was a bit disappointed in that she really had nothing to offer other than to say we need to fight this.
Yes, of course we do. From my point of view, as part of my terms of service for a few years now, I've done what #Midnight_BSD has done by prohibiting Californians from using their OS by changes to the licensing - perhaps this is the way to go for all of us? Letting California (and Colorado) descend into the socialist abyss of third world dystopian decay; unable to compete and compute in a world that has left them behind and turned its back on them.
It's certainly worked out well for me. Due to the #GDPR and #CCPA I prohibit all residents of the #EU and #California, respectively, from using any online services that I provide or host - even though all of my services are actually GDPR and CCPA compliant.
I'll post a follow up here once I get the URL for the on-demand recording of Cindy (and Corey Doctorow), so that you can follow along and hear what they're prepared to do about AB 1043 (and similar legislation in Colorado)... unfortunately, she didn't actually impress me with any sort of game plan to protect the FOSS community from this latest implementation of dystopian socialist surveillance.
#tallship #Cindy_Cohn #Cory_Doctorow #FOSS #KYC #Industrial_Surveillance #Privacy #Identity
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I just left Cindy Cohn's Presentation and book release party via remote stream.
Cindy is the Executive director of the EFF, and came to prominence regarding the Bernstein case against the prohibition of "strong encryption" a few years back during the Clinton administration.
Today, the industrial surveillance special interests are being aided again by socialist governments in the form of California_Digital_Age_Assurance_Act (AB 1043), and I was fortunate enough to have her directly address my question about just what we're going to do to defeat this and other criminal lawfare against our identity and privacy.
My question was the first question asked (and answered, sort of), and long before the Q&A that is supposed to wrap up the presentation, but I must say that I was a bit disappointed in that she really had nothing to offer other than to say we need to fight this.
Yes, of course we do. From my point of view, as part of my terms of service for a few years now, I've done what #Midnight_BSD has done by prohibiting Californians from using their OS by changes to the licensing - perhaps this is the way to go for all of us? Letting California (and Colorado) descend into the socialist abyss of third world dystopian decay; unable to compete and compute in a world that has left them behind and turned its back on them.
It's certainly worked out well for me. Due to the #GDPR and #CCPA I prohibit all residents of the #EU and #California, respectively, from using any online services that I provide or host - even though all of my services are actually GDPR and CCPA compliant.
I'll post a follow up here once I get the URL for the on-demand recording of Cindy (and Corey Doctorow), so that you can follow along and hear what they're prepared to do about AB 1043 (and similar legislation in Colorado)... unfortunately, she didn't actually impress me with any sort of game plan to protect the FOSS community from this latest implementation of dystopian socialist surveillance.
#tallship #Cindy_Cohn #Cory_Doctorow #FOSS #KYC #Industrial_Surveillance #Privacy #Identity
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I just left Cindy Cohn's Presentation and book release party via remote stream.
Cindy is the Executive director of the EFF, and came to prominence regarding the Bernstein case against the prohibition of "strong encryption" a few years back during the Clinton administration.
Today, the industrial surveillance special interests are being aided again by socialist governments in the form of California_Digital_Age_Assurance_Act (AB 1043), and I was fortunate enough to have her directly address my question about just what we're going to do to defeat this and other criminal lawfare against our identity and privacy.
My question was the first question asked (and answered, sort of), and long before the Q&A that is supposed to wrap up the presentation, but I must say that I was a bit disappointed in that she really had nothing to offer other than to say we need to fight this.
Yes, of course we do. From my point of view, as part of my terms of service for a few years now, I've done what #Midnight_BSD has done by prohibiting Californians from using their OS by changes to the licensing - perhaps this is the way to go for all of us? Letting California (and Colorado) descend into the socialist abyss of third world dystopian decay; unable to compete and compute in a world that has left them behind and turned its back on them.
It's certainly worked out well for me. Due to the #GDPR and #CCPA I prohibit all residents of the #EU and #California, respectively, from using any online services that I provide or host - even though all of my services are actually GDPR and CCPA compliant.
I'll post a follow up here once I get the URL for the on-demand recording of Cindy (and Corey Doctorow), so that you can follow along and hear what they're prepared to do about AB 1043 (and similar legislation in Colorado)... unfortunately, she didn't actually impress me with any sort of game plan to protect the FOSS community from this latest implementation of dystopian socialist surveillance.
#tallship #Cindy_Cohn #Cory_Doctorow #FOSS #KYC #Industrial_Surveillance #Privacy #Identity
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If either of you are running #Slackware there's a package build for it here:
https://slackbuilds.org/repository/15.0/system/qman/
If nothing else you can easily examine the build script and fashion one for your distro.
Or you can install it with a single command in one fell swoop with sbopkg
Enjoy!
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If either of you are running #Slackware there's a package build for it here:
https://slackbuilds.org/repository/15.0/system/qman/
If nothing else you can easily examine the build script and fashion one for your distro.
Or you can install it with a single command in one fell swoop with sbopkg
Enjoy!
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If either of you are running #Slackware there's a package build for it here:
https://slackbuilds.org/repository/15.0/system/qman/
If nothing else you can easily examine the build script and fashion one for your distro.
Or you can install it with a single command in one fell swoop with sbopkg
Enjoy!
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Linux Foundation to oversee DoW & FutureG Open Sourcing 6G radio next month on GitHub
The office of the Under Secretary of War for Research and Engineering, in conjunction with the National Spectrum Consortium announced that the first version of the Open Centralized Unit Distributed Unit (OCUDU) radio access network project will be published to GitHub next month, welcoming the participation and contribution of talent from the general public, academia, and industry.
Chief program officer at the National Spectrum Consortium, Mari Silbey, stated that this will provide, "a software stack so that developers don’t have to start from scratch, but they can instead focus on building new things on top of those basic radio functions,” and further, creating an environment where developers can deploy novel wireless technology of their own envisioning.
#FutureG director Tom Rondeau states that what they're hoping to foster, "is a marketplace of competitive ideas,” in an environment where individuals can, "really break that open to this friendly, open development ecosystem".
The Linux Foundation, working closely with the Pentagon, will provide oversight and control of the software repo on GitHub, and as of the beginning of this month announced that 47 organizations have come together as founders of the OCUDU Ecosystem Foundation, including SoftBank, AMD, UC San Diego, AT&T, Ericsson, Redhat, Verizon, Cisco, Nokia, and Nvidia.
Those interested in getting involved now can join or visit the project HERE
#tallship #OCUDU #Open_RAN #War_Department #FOSS #Linux_Foundation
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Linux Foundation to oversee DoW & FutureG Open Sourcing 6G radio next month on GitHub
The office of the Under Secretary of War for Research and Engineering, in conjunction with the National Spectrum Consortium announced that the first version of the Open Centralized Unit Distributed Unit (OCUDU) radio access network project will be published to GitHub next month, welcoming the participation and contribution of talent from the general public, academia, and industry.
Chief program officer at the National Spectrum Consortium, Mari Silbey, stated that this will provide, "a software stack so that developers don’t have to start from scratch, but they can instead focus on building new things on top of those basic radio functions,” and further, creating an environment where developers can deploy novel wireless technology of their own envisioning.
#FutureG director Tom Rondeau states that what they're hoping to foster, "is a marketplace of competitive ideas,” in an environment where individuals can, "really break that open to this friendly, open development ecosystem".
The Linux Foundation, working closely with the Pentagon, will provide oversight and control of the software repo on GitHub, and as of the beginning of this month announced that 47 organizations have come together as founders of the OCUDU Ecosystem Foundation, including SoftBank, AMD, UC San Diego, AT&T, Ericsson, Redhat, Verizon, Cisco, Nokia, and Nvidia.
Those interested in getting involved now can join or visit the project HERE
#tallship #OCUDU #Open_RAN #War_Department #FOSS #Linux_Foundation
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Linux Foundation to oversee DoW & FutureG Open Sourcing 6G radio next month on GitHub
The office of the Under Secretary of War for Research and Engineering, in conjunction with the National Spectrum Consortium announced that the first version of the Open Centralized Unit Distributed Unit (OCUDU) radio access network project will be published to GitHub next month, welcoming the participation and contribution of talent from the general public, academia, and industry.
Chief program officer at the National Spectrum Consortium, Mari Silbey, stated that this will provide, "a software stack so that developers don’t have to start from scratch, but they can instead focus on building new things on top of those basic radio functions,” and further, creating an environment where developers can deploy novel wireless technology of their own envisioning.
#FutureG director Tom Rondeau states that what they're hoping to foster, "is a marketplace of competitive ideas,” in an environment where individuals can, "really break that open to this friendly, open development ecosystem".
The Linux Foundation, working closely with the Pentagon, will provide oversight and control of the software repo on GitHub, and as of the beginning of this month announced that 47 organizations have come together as founders of the OCUDU Ecosystem Foundation, including SoftBank, AMD, UC San Diego, AT&T, Ericsson, Redhat, Verizon, Cisco, Nokia, and Nvidia.
Those interested in getting involved now can join or visit the project HERE
#tallship #OCUDU #Open_RAN #War_Department #FOSS #Linux_Foundation
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Woz uuuuuuup?
The subject, and rock star, in this 1976 photograph is the Apple I microcomputer. Of the two men in this photo, one is a talented, affable, friendly and approachable genius and superhero who created this personal computer. The other is Steve Jobs.
A turning point upon the precipice of an industrial and technological explosion that democratized computing for the masses, other contemporary superheroes were #Bill_Joy and Dr. Gary Kildall (Enjoy the video!)
#tallship #Apple_I #The_Woz #Woz #Gary_Kildall
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Woz uuuuuuup?
The subject, and rock star, in this 1976 photograph is the Apple I microcomputer. Of the two men in this photo, one is a talented, affable, friendly and approachable genius and superhero who created this personal computer. The other is Steve Jobs.
A turning point upon the precipice of an industrial and technological explosion that democratized computing for the masses, other contemporary superheroes were #Bill_Joy and Dr. Gary Kildall (Enjoy the video!)
#tallship #Apple_I #The_Woz #Woz #Gary_Kildall
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Woz uuuuuuup?
The subject, and rock star, in this 1976 photograph is the Apple I microcomputer. Of the two men in this photo, one is a talented, affable, friendly and approachable genius and superhero who created this personal computer. The other is Steve Jobs.
A turning point upon the precipice of an industrial and technological explosion that democratized computing for the masses, other contemporary superheroes were #Bill_Joy and Dr. Gary Kildall (Enjoy the video!)
#tallship #Apple_I #The_Woz #Woz #Gary_Kildall
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His love of VAXen
My longtime friend and acquaintance, Dr. Bernd Ulmann, Once had so little space in his home that he had to sleep on top of the machinery he had rescued. Dubbed, "The VAXMAN" by a visiting friend of his, the name stuck, and to this day we have an awful lot of history that would otherwise not exist - but at great personal sacrifice and expense I might add.
Here's but a taste of the vagaries that cometh your way when you indulge yourself in a (worthwhile) labor of love, one that is now shared with people worldwide, but nevertheless not without great, unforseen difficulties:
Since the warehouse was quite filled with computers I asked the company to place the tiles into the cellar and decided to bring them up into the first floor when I began to glue the supports to the floor. I never thought that 5 tons of floor tiles would be so heavy! One tile weights about 13 kg and at the beginning I carried two tiles at once (by the way - to bring something up from the cellar one has to walk around the warehouse - there is no direct in-house connection) - after some time I carried one tile at a time and after two days I could barely walk with a floor tile in my hands. By the way - the special glue to fixate the support stands to the floor is a fantastic glue - it glues shoes as well to the floor as gloves, hands to gloves, everything to everything.
We won't even go into the precarious rebuild of the roof or subsequent repairs, or the catastrophe that resulted in a hockey rink in and around dozens of vintage computer systems when a water main broke whilst he was away attending a conference in the United States (Ouch!).
You can indulge yourself in the magic that resulted in his Computer Museum HERE
There's got to be one of those laws that goes something like, "Everything always runs just fine until you close and lock the door behind you for the weekend getaway"
If there's truly an attribution for that phenomena (that everyone of us knows all too well) then do let me know!
Needles to say, he know longer sleeps atop PDP-11 systems, and I think his wife Rikka had something to do with being the motivational force in the commissioning of the wonderful computing museum, effectively putting an end to his bachelor life sleeping with VAXen.
Today, Prof Ulmann is a Professor of Business Informatics at FOM University in Frankfurt, Germany (FOM Hochschule für Oekonomie und Management). His computer museum is located in Heidenrod-Kemel, in the state of Hesse, and I believe it is still welcoming visitors by appointment.
In 2023, Dr. Ulmann founded anabrid GmbH in Berlin, continuing the pursuit of his decades long passion that predates his undergraduate years - analog computing, and even its place in the application of future AI, as demonstrated in his most recent published paper HERE. As a semiconductor company, One of the obvious missions of anabrid is the manufacturing of analog computers on a chip - beyond the bleeding edge, actually.
You can browse his Analog computer collection online HERE - it's a truly amazing accomplishment, even for the lay-person to behold. Truly.
Bernd Ulmann, a remarkable steward of computing history and visionary pioneer in the applied sciences of analog computing.
Before you go you should know...
- Hey heads up everyone! I'm preparing to launch my subscription based service here, publishing unique and newsworthy insights into technology, cookbook style tutorials and howto's and things I find personally amusing and worthwhile, from the PoV of an opinionated and accomplished member of the technology sector since 1977, when I only spoke BASIC and COBOL.
- If you're interested, subscriptions are at or just below $10 USD per month - give or take - I only accept Monero ($XMR), so I"m obviously not doing this to pay for my solo-circumnavigation of the globe in an inflatable dinghy, but there are plenty of places I can spend Monero for supplies and services, which Others will be happy I did as well.
- If you would like to subscribe, but cannot find the #crypto in your pocket, on a case by case basis you can just ask for me to publish a particular article for you, and I'll more than likely be happy to do so, since the point isn't to make money, but the value in the effort and to promote the use of Monero as tender. Or, alternatively, you can wait a few months and I usually, eventually publish my articles elsewhere (mostly the tutorials, because they have the greatest value for helping people with particular projects and problems.
- So how will you know about any particular article? Easy! I publish a teaser, you know, a few lines or paragraphs of a topic and then one of those "READ MORE HERE..." things leading you to the full article, tutorial, or How-To of general interest. That link of course, only works for subscribers, and therein lies the value of subscriptions - and it's a good cause too. #FOSS is freedom, and #Monero supports that ethic.
- Not to worry! I'll still be publishing the same old drivel as usual, but I've been putting some finishing touches on the first lot of items that will be exclusively curated for subscribers. At less than the cost of two fancy foo foo coffee drinks at that Seattle based retail chain, go ahead! Give it a spin :)** If you've got any ideas or requests, I'm down on doing the research too, so don't hesitate to ask, as long it's not centric to ewb00ntew, because frinds don't let frinds run ewb00ntew.
#tallship #analog_computing #Bernd_Ulmann #FOM #computer_museum #VAXMAN
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His love of VAXen
My longtime friend and acquaintance, Dr. Bernd Ulmann, Once had so little space in his home that he had to sleep on top of the machinery he had rescued. Dubbed, "The VAXMAN" by a visiting friend of his, the name stuck, and to this day we have an awful lot of history that would otherwise not exist - but at great personal sacrifice and expense I might add.
Here's but a taste of the vagaries that cometh your way when you indulge yourself in a (worthwhile) labor of love, one that is now shared with people worldwide, but nevertheless not without great, unforseen difficulties:
Since the warehouse was quite filled with computers I asked the company to place the tiles into the cellar and decided to bring them up into the first floor when I began to glue the supports to the floor. I never thought that 5 tons of floor tiles would be so heavy! One tile weights about 13 kg and at the beginning I carried two tiles at once (by the way - to bring something up from the cellar one has to walk around the warehouse - there is no direct in-house connection) - after some time I carried one tile at a time and after two days I could barely walk with a floor tile in my hands. By the way - the special glue to fixate the support stands to the floor is a fantastic glue - it glues shoes as well to the floor as gloves, hands to gloves, everything to everything.
We won't even go into the precarious rebuild of the roof or subsequent repairs, or the catastrophe that resulted in a hockey rink in and around dozens of vintage computer systems when a water main broke whilst he was away attending a conference in the United States (Ouch!).
You can indulge yourself in the magic that resulted in his Computer Museum HERE
There's got to be one of those laws that goes something like, "Everything always runs just fine until you close and lock the door behind you for the weekend getaway"
If there's truly an attribution for that phenomena (that everyone of us knows all too well) then do let me know!
Needles to say, he know longer sleeps atop PDP-11 systems, and I think his wife Rikka had something to do with being the motivational force in the commissioning of the wonderful computing museum, effectively putting an end to his bachelor life sleeping with VAXen.
Today, Prof Ulmann is a Professor of Business Informatics at FOM University in Frankfurt, Germany (FOM Hochschule für Oekonomie und Management). His computer museum is located in Heidenrod-Kemel, in the state of Hesse, and I believe it is still welcoming visitors by appointment.
In 2023, Dr. Ulmann founded anabrid GmbH in Berlin, continuing the pursuit of his decades long passion that predates his undergraduate years - analog computing, and even its place in the application of future AI, as demonstrated in his most recent published paper HERE. As a semiconductor company, One of the obvious missions of anabrid is the manufacturing of analog computers on a chip - beyond the bleeding edge, actually.
You can browse his Analog computer collection online HERE - it's a truly amazing accomplishment, even for the lay-person to behold. Truly.
Bernd Ulmann, a remarkable steward of computing history and visionary pioneer in the applied sciences of analog computing.
Before you go you should know...
- Hey heads up everyone! I'm preparing to launch my subscription based service here, publishing unique and newsworthy insights into technology, cookbook style tutorials and howto's and things I find personally amusing and worthwhile, from the PoV of an opinionated and accomplished member of the technology sector since 1977, when I only spoke BASIC and COBOL.
- If you're interested, subscriptions are at or just below $10 USD per month - give or take - I only accept Monero ($XMR), so I"m obviously not doing this to pay for my solo-circumnavigation of the globe in an inflatable dinghy, but there are plenty of places I can spend Monero for supplies and services, which Others will be happy I did as well.
- If you would like to subscribe, but cannot find the #crypto in your pocket, on a case by case basis you can just ask for me to publish a particular article for you, and I'll more than likely be happy to do so, since the point isn't to make money, but the value in the effort and to promote the use of Monero as tender. Or, alternatively, you can wait a few months and I usually, eventually publish my articles elsewhere (mostly the tutorials, because they have the greatest value for helping people with particular projects and problems.
- So how will you know about any particular article? Easy! I publish a teaser, you know, a few lines or paragraphs of a topic and then one of those "READ MORE HERE..." things leading you to the full article, tutorial, or How-To of general interest. That link of course, only works for subscribers, and therein lies the value of subscriptions - and it's a good cause too. #FOSS is freedom, and #Monero supports that ethic.
- Not to worry! I'll still be publishing the same old drivel as usual, but I've been putting some finishing touches on the first lot of items that will be exclusively curated for subscribers. At less than the cost of two fancy foo foo coffee drinks at that Seattle based retail chain, go ahead! Give it a spin :)** If you've got any ideas or requests, I'm down on doing the research too, so don't hesitate to ask, as long it's not centric to ewb00ntew, because frinds don't let frinds run ewb00ntew.
#tallship #analog_computing #Bernd_Ulmann #FOM #computer_museum #VAXMAN
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His love of VAXen
My longtime friend and acquaintance, Dr. Bernd Ulmann, Once had so little space in his home that he had to sleep on top of the machinery he had rescued. Dubbed, "The VAXMAN" by a visiting friend of his, the name stuck, and to this day we have an awful lot of history that would otherwise not exist - but at great personal sacrifice and expense I might add.
Here's but a taste of the vagaries that cometh your way when you indulge yourself in a (worthwhile) labor of love, one that is now shared with people worldwide, but nevertheless not without great, unforseen difficulties:
Since the warehouse was quite filled with computers I asked the company to place the tiles into the cellar and decided to bring them up into the first floor when I began to glue the supports to the floor. I never thought that 5 tons of floor tiles would be so heavy! One tile weights about 13 kg and at the beginning I carried two tiles at once (by the way - to bring something up from the cellar one has to walk around the warehouse - there is no direct in-house connection) - after some time I carried one tile at a time and after two days I could barely walk with a floor tile in my hands. By the way - the special glue to fixate the support stands to the floor is a fantastic glue - it glues shoes as well to the floor as gloves, hands to gloves, everything to everything.
We won't even go into the precarious rebuild of the roof or subsequent repairs, or the catastrophe that resulted in a hockey rink in and around dozens of vintage computer systems when a water main broke whilst he was away attending a conference in the United States (Ouch!).
You can indulge yourself in the magic that resulted in his Computer Museum HERE
There's got to be one of those laws that goes something like, "Everything always runs just fine until you close and lock the door behind you for the weekend getaway"
If there's truly an attribution for that phenomena (that everyone of us knows all too well) then do let me know!
Needles to say, he know longer sleeps atop PDP-11 systems, and I think his wife Rikka had something to do with being the motivational force in the commissioning of the wonderful computing museum, effectively putting an end to his bachelor life sleeping with VAXen.
Today, Prof Ulmann is a Professor of Business Informatics at FOM University in Frankfurt, Germany (FOM Hochschule für Oekonomie und Management). His computer museum is located in Heidenrod-Kemel, in the state of Hesse, and I believe it is still welcoming visitors by appointment.
In 2023, Dr. Ulmann founded anabrid GmbH in Berlin, continuing the pursuit of his decades long passion that predates his undergraduate years - analog computing, and even its place in the application of future AI, as demonstrated in his most recent published paper HERE. As a semiconductor company, One of the obvious missions of anabrid is the manufacturing of analog computers on a chip - beyond the bleeding edge, actually.
You can browse his Analog computer collection online HERE - it's a truly amazing accomplishment, even for the lay-person to behold. Truly.
Bernd Ulmann, a remarkable steward of computing history and visionary pioneer in the applied sciences of analog computing.
Before you go you should know...
- Hey heads up everyone! I'm preparing to launch my subscription based service here, publishing unique and newsworthy insights into technology, cookbook style tutorials and howto's and things I find personally amusing and worthwhile, from the PoV of an opinionated and accomplished member of the technology sector since 1977, when I only spoke BASIC and COBOL.
- If you're interested, subscriptions are at or just below $10 USD per month - give or take - I only accept Monero ($XMR), so I"m obviously not doing this to pay for my solo-circumnavigation of the globe in an inflatable dinghy, but there are plenty of places I can spend Monero for supplies and services, which Others will be happy I did as well.
- If you would like to subscribe, but cannot find the #crypto in your pocket, on a case by case basis you can just ask for me to publish a particular article for you, and I'll more than likely be happy to do so, since the point isn't to make money, but the value in the effort and to promote the use of Monero as tender. Or, alternatively, you can wait a few months and I usually, eventually publish my articles elsewhere (mostly the tutorials, because they have the greatest value for helping people with particular projects and problems.
- So how will you know about any particular article? Easy! I publish a teaser, you know, a few lines or paragraphs of a topic and then one of those "READ MORE HERE..." things leading you to the full article, tutorial, or How-To of general interest. That link of course, only works for subscribers, and therein lies the value of subscriptions - and it's a good cause too. #FOSS is freedom, and #Monero supports that ethic.
- Not to worry! I'll still be publishing the same old drivel as usual, but I've been putting some finishing touches on the first lot of items that will be exclusively curated for subscribers. At less than the cost of two fancy foo foo coffee drinks at that Seattle based retail chain, go ahead! Give it a spin :)** If you've got any ideas or requests, I'm down on doing the research too, so don't hesitate to ask, as long it's not centric to ewb00ntew, because frinds don't let frinds run ewb00ntew.
#tallship #analog_computing #Bernd_Ulmann #FOM #computer_museum #VAXMAN
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I keep telling others that over and over, even over at WHT and other industry forums.
Start with at least a half rack (full being 42U) and 100A. You can buy two or three identical (I prefer Proliants, but refurb'd Dells are just as good) 1U servers for your #Proxmox VE cluster for less than $400 each on #eBay (typically 384GB RAM each and several populated SAS bays) including shipping, straight to you or your data center of choice, an inexpensive managed layer 3 switch can be picked up for under $200 and half of the colo sites will throw in a PDU at no charge.
A full rack can be had with 200A, XC, and unmetered blended gigabit transport for under a grand per month (less than .002ms from One Wilshire here in Los Angeles), so your average half rack will be a little more than half that w/100Mbps or better.
If you have your own IP block they'll announce and route for free with a letter of agency from you and with a full rack they should be willing to throw in a /19 included in those price points gratis.
Pro Tip: wait until the last week of any month BEFORE speaking with ANY sales reps. They'll sell their own mothers to get their end of month bonuses - you can save really big coz all they care about is closing and getting that bonus check.
If you're still not sure, let me quote you...
We're being taken for a ride.
Renting is not working out. It's time to OWN the means of federation!
I couldn't agree more
#federation #Fediverse #FOSS #self_hosted #Colo
#tallship⛵
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I keep telling others that over and over, even over at WHT and other industry forums.
Start with at least a half rack (full being 42U) and 100A. You can buy two or three identical (I prefer Proliants, but refurb'd Dells are just as good) 1U servers for your #Proxmox VE cluster for less than $400 each on #eBay (typically 384GB RAM each and several populated SAS bays) including shipping, straight to you or your data center of choice, an inexpensive managed layer 3 switch can be picked up for under $200 and half of the colo sites will throw in a PDU at no charge.
A full rack can be had with 200A, XC, and unmetered blended gigabit transport for under a grand per month (less than .002ms from One Wilshire here in Los Angeles), so your average half rack will be a little more than half that w/100Mbps or better.
If you have your own IP block they'll announce and route for free with a letter of agency from you and with a full rack they should be willing to throw in a /19 included in those price points gratis.
Pro Tip: wait until the last week of any month BEFORE speaking with ANY sales reps. They'll sell their own mothers to get their end of month bonuses - you can save really big coz all they care about is closing and getting that bonus check.
If you're still not sure, let me quote you...
We're being taken for a ride.
Renting is not working out. It's time to OWN the means of federation!
I couldn't agree more
#federation #Fediverse #FOSS #self_hosted #Colo
#tallship⛵
