#tallship — Public Fediverse posts

@tubetime @FunkyBob

That was a great video. Thanks @Tube🍂Time! I found myself continually unforgivably, dismissively muttering, "So what? So what? So what?" (Recalling that I still have 3 tube testing machines) until you got to the ESD and especially EMP - one might wonder why much of our defense industries settled entirely on LSI, then VLSI, etc., etc., instead of backup primary systems incorporating this "In between" manufacturing technology that you pointed out, which would certainly have benefited from advances in microminiaturization just the same - mostly, anyway.

But then there's that dialog that for some reason just came to me from "White Squall" where the Captain of the Cuban warship smashes the binnacle compass with his rifle butt and Jeff Bridges exclaims in Spanish, "Real sailors need only the stars overhead to navigate".

That was a really kewl project you built. How do you source the parts nowadays for things like nuvistors? There's very few Electronics surplus/liquidator type stores out there anymore.

I'm still trying to suss out whether Chister the Molister in the pic below is a villainous deer in the headlights of having his superspy cover blown, or if he's the inspiration for that other cartoon character of scandalous nature.

#tallship #nuvistor

16.0 Alpha 1 has arrived...

People ask me how come I often don't know these things... It's simple really. I'm on kernel-generic-7.2.4-x86_64-1 running #Slackware -current and don't actually bother to look up from the work I'm doing cause 16 is just a distro's version number, but 7.2.4 is a kernel. Officially, Slackware 16.0 Alpha is available w/the Linux huge 6.18.x kernel while 7.2.4 is in /testing.

Me, I'm just rolling along in production as I have been for close to 30 years now w/ Slackware - current looking back on the next upcoming release like it's something from yesterday lolz.

I do the same thing on #Debian (14/Testing/Forky) I just upgraded my kernel to 7.1.12+deb14-amd64 - so I'm not running that far behind the ultra-bleeding edge of Slackware, or what Arch and Gentoo users are either.

Anyway, you're going to hear more about the upcoming Slackware 16 release as the weeks go on and if there's one thing I can advise you of it's don't get caught up in the guessing game bullshit - Patrick will release it matter-of-factly w/o any fanfare and pretty much all bets will be wrong. The most you can do is to ask, "Is it soup yet?".

So here's the thread, and Patrick's response to the OP (who's running 7.3-RC1)

#tallship #FOSS #Linux #distros
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@evacide

Eva, I'm not sure whether I believe that's a dedicaed privacy mining funnel.

After attempting to jump through all of the hoops with the crazy KYC-like requirements, including the reliance of IIRC, https://gov.com logon and not until the very end of the verification that I was who I said I was it went and required me to provide a DID (that's a phone number, for those of you who do not already know) that it liked.

I'm sorry (NOT) but there was way more than enough divulged, including my existing Gov.com creds, to believe that California was privacy mining for the sake of tracking their subjugated chattel.

Thanks, great idea and thank you also for your public service, but I don't even know if I"m going to bother to go look again - I FELT REALLY VIOLATED

#tallship #privacy #privacy_mining #fingerprinting #industrial_surveillance

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Assholes Will Always Exist

Over the years they've been called a lot of things. Some of the terms, these miscreants actually donned like a cape or wore the disparaging noun as a badge of honor:

- #cracker
- #list_bully
- #foreign_agent
- #incel
- #phishermen
- #spammer
- #blackhat

The list is truly, much too long to collate in a single fly by topical mention; and that's really not the point of what I'm writing about here either. What is absolutely pernicious, is the #MiTM style attack on software distribution rising to a level where even the source cannot be held in high confidence.

When these atrocious acts become the commonplace verbs to the infamous nouns above it is time that each and every one of us stand vigil and at the ready to come to the aid of our community members. Here's one such place where we can begin - the #AUR: https://archlinux.org/news/active-aur-malicious-packages-incident/

#tallship #FOSS #malware

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@tedu

Yup. And some time ago too, I might add. The ability to take what works so well and complicate it to the point of absurdity never ceases to amaze.

#Margaret_Hamilton put two men on the moon with 4K of memory. 8K if you're counting the additional RAM on the Columbia's #AGC.

Well if you ever figure out how to lookup your NIC-HANDLE, as they're officially called (or rather, were), I'm BT-74 👋🤠

Yeah, that goes back to the days of "Direct Assignment" when #SRI also operated under the auspices of NIC.DDN.MIL.

Welcome to the club of unhappilly disenfranchised #NIC_handles 😥

#tallship #Apollo #software_engineer #NIC #NetSol #WHOIS

#Tallship #Astrid salvaged from outside #oysterhaven to Kinsale, it's original destination.

Today, 12 years ago

#coast #corkCoast #coCork #westCork #WildAtlanticWay #kinsale #cork #speirGorm #irishBlueSky #mastodaoine
Pics KG

Today, 2007, Prince William @ Old Head of Kinsale

#coast #corkCoast #coCork #westCork #WildAtlanticWay #kinsale #cork #speirGorm #irishBlueSky #mastodaoine #tallship

Pic: kg

#Kinsale today, 2014, at Charles Fort
Jeanie Johnson famine #TallShip

#coast #corkCoast #coCork #westCork #WildAtlanticWay #kinsale #cork #speirGorm #irishBlueSky #mastodaoine #CharlesFort #JeanieJohnson #famineShip

Pics kg

Tall Ship in Cork city. '#Andalucia'.

€14/7/35.
No student/OAP discount.

Today, Fri, Sat, Sun, Custom House Quay.

#speirgorm #irishBlueSky #maritimeCork #cork #corkCity #mastodaoine #Andalucia #loveCork #pureCork #tallship #galeon #loveTheLee

Tall Ship in Cork city. Spanish Galeon 'Andalucia'.

Open ship: Thurs, Fri, Sat (+Sun?)

#speirgorm #maritimeCork #courtmacsherry #kinsale #cork #corkCity #mastodaoine #Andalucia #loveCork #pureCork #tallship #galeon #loveTheLee

@[email protected] @[email protected]

OMFG! lolz....

That gives #Burning_Man a whole 'nother context to consider!

#tallship #circle_jerks #punk_rock #wankers #morons As #Jeff_Spicoli says, #people_on_ludes_should_not_drive!
He no can haz #Cheezburgerz! 🍔

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@ChrisWellens

The short answer is that, "It's not about the air purifier - it's about getting you to install something that tracks and quantifies you, and data mines your privacy."

In this case, you're not getting something for free - like Faceplant or InstaSPAM, you're actually paying money for the exclusive privilege of making yourself the product.

On another note, I feel your pain. I was almost incinerated in the #August_Complex fires in #Humboldt.

#tallship #FOSS #privacy #pwn3d

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@merchantHelios Who’s that guy in the picture?

Oh! WAIT!

He’s my friend -my very first one way back when we could all pimp our profiles.

BTW, you haven’t heard from him coz #Tom is too busy traveling the world taking shitty photographs as part of his hobby, not having to care about woke bolsheviks and other inconsequential nonsense.

Go Tom, go! You rock!

#tallship #Myspace #frivolity

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Here's s lolz moment...

Just watched a #Techlore video at #Odyssee on yesterday's events concerning "Linus Tech Tips" channels getting pwn3d.

I didn't realize there were a few million followers. I stumbled upon that YouTube Chan a few months ago when they held a, "Use a Linux distro exclusively for a month" challenge, and from install to completion of assignment those #Bozo's continued to hard fail all over the place for the entire duration... We're talking serious #boneheads!

Not a good thing for #FOSS and #Linux Advocacy considering their massive viewership... which made me think...

Are they really that freaking stupid?

Remember, stupid goes all the way to the 🦴 bone!

Well... Apparently they are! They've been pwn3d - hard fail boiz, hard fail lolz.

NOTE: They were #pwn3d through a simple #SIM_Swap #MFA (SMS) exploit. From what I understand, All of their videos were replaced with #CryptoBruh phishing videos.

#tallship #nimrods #social_engineering

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