Dan FitzGerald / is on Nostr

IBMmer, Software Engineer, Mainframer, Amateur Photographer, Polythiest, Druid, and Collector of Crap. Views are my own and not my employer's.

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2024-04-16 14:52:31

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"LLMs are a way to sell software to enterprises and people alike, while also driving theoretical billions into tech stocks, which in turn makes the tech industry feel special and important. It's a new "thing" that tech can do that feels like the future, that sort of makes sense, that allows people who barely read anything and don't do any real work to dream of ways to get rid of the people who do."

2024-04-16 14:51:41

"The optimistic, respectful and trusting approach to legislation around online platforms has led to an internet riddled with decay and pain, one that incentivizes mining human beings like veins of ore.
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Generative AI is catnip for big tech — a narratively-satisfying way of expressing how big their companies will grow for investors that don't invest in companies because they make things for real people, but for the signals they issue to Wall Street speculators."
https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-great-looting-of-the-internet/

2024-03-01 15:35:35

Celebrating #Marchintosh with Macdonna!
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2024-01-25 14:13:54

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@npub1q4n…6fcd I've always wanted to use a real UNIX terminal, and am very lucky to have come across one in such good shape!
The MMJ connectors are annoying though, I will say that

2024-01-23 03:40:35

I spent some time this evening working on my PiDP-11. The physical build is almost done now! What's left: get a proper power supply, make the keyswitch do a hard shutdown, install a second RS-232 port, install an ethernet jack, install wireless ethernet.
Today I managed, at long last, to get a real VT320 terminal hooked up to the emulated PDP-11 (and not thr underlying Linux host)!
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2024-01-02 02:35:21

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@npub1can…0fm9 Him and I are hoping to launch a living computer laboratory at IBM Poughkeepsie this quarter. Internal only, and limited to micros and terminals for now due to the power limitations of our room. But we have some big plans, it's just a matter of getting it off the ground.

2023-12-23 18:20:32

Does anybody know if there is a way to convert a Disk Copy 6.3.3 image to something that vMac could boot from? I found a working (?!) Rodine drive and used Disk Copy 6.3.3 on my Mac Plus to image it. I'd like to convert it into something I can use with Mini vMac on my Linux or Windows PCs

2023-12-14 15:34:36

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@npub1agu…j0sk l couldnt find an italic feature, just bold and underline. This software has a great beefy manual, too