Wow. It was only after reading comments on this post until that I remembered WHY I was more than happy to leave Reddit behind. Too bad so many of these diseased children moved over here.

It took just one comment: ’ What is “4000ac”? ’ to start the drool-fest.

Got a neuralink? One word you never wanna hear: ‘Oops!’

Yeah! Did that once, many years back. took a couple weeks. Used a ripper program that went out on the net and got all the metadata, saved to a HD (now on the third one). Put the CDs in Logic cases (no-wear), recycled the jewelboxes.

Over time, started to drop album folders into VLC, save the playlists, at ur fingertips.

After the thousands of years of human history I’ve read about, getting rid of competitors seems to have been the primary concern of most of the ruling classes all over the world. Way back to Ur.

But I’m not in the field. My reasoning for posting this: I see news about PFAs a lot, this was fresh to me and I was glad to hear the news that chemists are at work on the problem (many communities in WA have contaminated water). And simply-enough for ‘newbs’ to learn from. I don’t find a ‘technology for experts’ ‘community’ on Lemmy.

Livescience is far from the best source, but I checked that they had a link to the study (Science) in it.

It appears, going by the comments, that others who are not ‘in the field’ were happy to learn about. It’d be great if more people ‘in the field’ would post about such discoveries now and then.

AND they might have had miniature cameras in them for the past 20 years.

(The laws against this stuff are almost non-existing. Option left for those of us creeped out by constant surveillance: don’t leave home, unplug that webcam. Demand privacy or lose it.)

There’s a large org (@ hope.net) that has a non-profit convention every few years. It maintains a e-mail list to let its > 1000 previous attendees know about the upcoming convention and related info. In the past decades everything was fine.

This year (con in July) Gmail has been spam-binning ALL of those reminder e-mails aimed at attendees who use Gmail. Quite clearly it’s not the users making that choice. The org is left with no other way to contact those attendees.

Singapore has too many rich Chinese already.

If we try the rolling power-outage trick, we’d better make damned sure we get it right the first time. Because they’ve been well-trained to mimick us.

If you haven’t seen ‘The Forbin Project’ yet, there may still be time. I read somewhere that the author did two sequels, but I never actually got a chance to see either. Ever. Anywhere. I’m pretty sure I wasn’t in Maui those two days.

assuming the profit of AI is sufficiently taxed for the wealth to redistribute

AH - hah-hah-hah-hah !!!

Oh well, at least some of us will still be good for cleaning up messes and other physical things. And remember, like they used to say, hard work never killed anybody.

Ya know … I’ll just give that a close hard look. Thanks!

After leaving Macs (and Logic) (Apple software great, Apple iMac shit) switched to LInux over 10 years ago. Haven’t made music since (hardware in boxes). Fully learned that Linux music ain’t got that swing.

I recently heard that newer PipeWire has improved things a quite a lot. Haven’t tried it yet … not sure I remember how to play any instruments any more.

Looks like I’ll need to switch to one of those browsers that only take and show characters I can type on a keyboard. Like F and U.

The how part.

Still at home puking.

Sure it’s worth a try for him… it’s fooled a lot of people before the Pharoahs, even. They learned that, if you’re just God’s messenger, and not a God yourself, you’re a smaller target.

Sounds about right … -some- of the older ICs are pretty rugged. OTOH, things I wonder about on the below-freezing side (colder things shrink) … include ROMs? Larger capacitors? Modern high-density RAM? FPGA? And then there’s water condensation (rust?) water freezing? (might even damage traces on PC boards)… (Wonder if there’s an archive of chip datesheets online?)

It’s a fair cop, but society’s to blame!

Desperate strategy they’re hoping will fool some of the people some of the time.

Trusting complete strangers with highly personal information is never a good idea. Even if they promise to take good care of it, before or after they’ve already got your money.

With all those noises moving parts inside, playing an OLD machine felt like tickling a hippo.