If you make 20 billion and the fine is 0.2 billion…. I don’t think they care about their users mental health.

Try switching to desktop mode

it still forces you to log in when you scroll and you can't view any post iirc. Maybe solvable with ublock filters or some console commands but I haven't bothered

You can view posts by opening them in a new tab.

Www.neocities.org is waiting. It’s a small fun site to practice with :)

So does this mean bool true = 3 or should bool true = 5?

This will bloat the code a bit.

Interesting. Seems like software could be made a notch more robust by encoding true and false with a larger number of bit differences.

The canonical Boolean values in FORTH are 0 and -1 (that is, all bits set). IIRC the point of that is to unify the bitwise and logical operators, though, not detect bitflips.

Also, at the machine code level, a Boolean controlling a branch or a while loop often doesn't ever make it out of the flags register, where it'll only be a single bit anyway because that's how the hardware works. Not really changeable in software.

Ahhh Devs:system-configuration or SYS:system-configuration at 232 bytes. I remember being 11 and trying to make my own compilation disks and trying to figure out what file kept the system prefs on my A500. Don’t forget to copy the RAM: handler from L: if you wanted to use RAM:

  I used Kindwords to make my first compilation disks until I discovered Diskmaster 1.3 and then later on Diskmaster 1.3 and shell commands. 

  This is a nice pointer collection, I used to enjoy putting in compilation disks and seeing the 4 system colours and the 4 mouse sprite colours. I also remember the compilation disks that used “rainbow” or “stripes” which changed the background or text colour on each scanline.


  Bonus points for the kiwi pointer (personal NZ bias).

There was no way around the kiwis, they New Zealand Amiga Users Group was very productive back in the day!

I thought you had to use your real name when posting on USENET back in the day before spoofing.

No. What is this revisionist nonsense? Where the hell did you think the meme of "On the Internet, no one knows you're a dog" came from? Conventional wisdom was alias up, or maintain a well-known handle. Do not use or share personal info. Ever.

Was contracted to a New Zealand government department and all the Edge browsers had AdBlock installed by default. I guess the New Zealand government that I worked for is a terrorist organisation. The department that I worked for did take other peoples money though. (Won't give any more information than that).

They're terrorists for not having uBlock Origin instead

AutoCAD R12 here I come

Would have been good if the license doesn't allow training in commercial LLMs :/

Not only would that be unenforceable, this comment shows just why these licenses don't work: everyone wants their restriction added onto it.

That's why my stuff is in AGPL, so people who want to use proprietary licenses such as this won't be able to do so.

(Or they'll just ignore it, just like I ignore theirs.)

I wonder if Retro washing machines and refrigerators (non-IOT) will go up in price because of this?

You could also just not give it a network, couldn't you?

You can but they can constantly scan for any open connection that happens by and then dump cached data into it when one is found. Cell modems are becoming cheaper too, as is bulk cellular bandwidth, especially if buffered for periods of low utilization. In those cases, it might be less data since the connection is limited or the data harvester is paying. People with basement laundry rooms will have a built in advantage when dealing with this sort of thing.

One can still conduct deauth attacks fairly easily, or, if the device just picks the strongest open network signal, one can set up a dummy / honeypot WLAN right next to the appliance that has no internet connectivity, and as you note with the basement reference, faraday solutions can work well, too, not to mention simply removing or disabling the networking hardware.

This is also true for cars - it's often not terribly difficult to pull the fuse for the cellular modem provided you can procure a manual.

> conducting deauth attacks so your appliances don't spy on you

ted was right

Counterpoint: Stallman was right. Technology is a net benefit to society when users can control it, whereas stripping control from users (a la proprietary software) enables and promotes abusive, exploitative business practices like these.

Yeah, unless it has a cell modem, not that it's cheap enough to make sense today

I have personally installed equipment that included non-optional, always-on cellular data connectivity that allowed it to be configured and monitored from The Clown.

And Amazon rather famously included cellular connectivity with their early Kindle e-ink book-reading devices -- back in '07.

It's been done before. It can be done again.

Eh. If someone wants to waste money keeping up a data connection with my washing machine, I don't have much of an issue with it, as long as it doesn't have any microphones.

It would probably have a mic if they're going to do that

I think that's already the case with some TVs.