Posts by bigtreeman 186 publicly visible posts • joined 8 May 2018
AI is a new opportunity to reduce labor costs and increase profits,
just as computerisation reduced "drudgery" (labor costs).
Where are all the unemployed going to go,
rest on a beach or sleep on a park bench.
How long til corporations don't need any people to operate?
I'm going surfing, no AI in the lineup....yet.
You have become numb to paying for subscription software,
so what's wrong with subscription printing ?
If you tire of paying for Office365 subscriptions,
you can uninstall and install LibreOffice.
We have known about HP ink for a very long time now,
you bought the HP printer knowing how much it would cost.
My last Fuji-Xerox printer could use really cheap generic toner,
RIP, it has now gone to printer heaven.
Stop whinging
faster | cheaper | better | sooner
pick 2
initially cheaper that is, until it falls out of the sky
Just as Australia should have built a government owned, fiber network,
before making promises of a better internet for all.
Redundant, full coverage, future proof, disaster proof, corporate corruption proof.
Soon after the PC came out I had a choice of a 64k ram Z80, STD bus, CP/M boxen or a 640k PC-XT clone out the back door of a Chinese factory, both the same $1500. Wouldn't even think about any of the little, basically useless toys out there.
The PC came with a mountain of pirated software and IBM firmware proms with a math co-processor.
So the choice was pretty simple, that ugly beige box and green screen looked pretty good and did everything was asked of it, work or play.
...deprecated...
I just compiled and installed Aqualung music player,
because it works....
I tried a number of active alternatives which were crap.
It has been forked and even has new dev work
I use bits of software that haven't been advancing for many years,
but they work...
and there's nothing else does the job I want, the way I like doing it.
don't fuck with it if it works
Tech people will want a clever tech answer to a problem.
Adding another layer of complexity, another point of failure
and a challenge for future hackers.
How about a low tech, old school, key lock somewhere in the network.
Only has to short CANH and CANL, could be retrofitted to all can bus vehicles.
A modern version of a steering lock (youngsters can google that).
My Asus laptop came Win pre-installed.
I tried to boot Windows before installing Linux, just to see what a new (Win10) looked like.
100 questions later, signed up to some Microsoft account, on and on it went.
I gave up, turned off boot security and installed Devuan in minutes.
It took months before that Microsoft account was removed.
If they had used the Tesla Wireless Power Transmission system,
I would have believed they were for real,
and not just rich, wanking dreamers.
Shame on Infrastructure Australia for giving the business case a big tick.
Pity they didn't run it by knowledgable engineers who would have given it a big fail.
Gold Coast to Brisbane commutes one to two hours each way, adds 25-50% extra, wasted time out of your lif.
then the rising cost of fuel and parking and lets not mention child minding.
Is it time to build that shit into your contract.
Remember folks an employment contract is not a one way, boss takes all agreement.
Strike out some of their clauses,
put in some of your own clauses.
It's called reaching an agreement,
and the more people do it,
the sooner employers will have to suck it up.
So you are going to repeat errors fixed by past programmers.
Most businesses repeat past mistakes by not learning from their history.
We stand on the shoulders of giants.
IBM published it's bios code and all the circuit diagrams
so people could copy without copying.
This created the clone PC industry, hoo fucking raa.
I got a Chinese clone PC with it's own bios and spare eproms with IBM bios.
A recent job interview, I had to show my proficiency removing a surface mount resistor with solder wick and a crap soldering iron.
That was pretty much how the whole place operated.
They were in a basement (dungeon) and got badly flooded in a big storm.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHgTpc57lwo
Thats whats the deal we're dealin in
Outlook is one such data lock
until LookOut by Mozilla
which became abandonware
then was reborn and works with new versions of Thunderbird
that's where the open source is so useful
and it's still being maintained
and this is the type of tool needed to set people free from lock-in
Comrades,
Capitalism doesn't add up.
It isn't any better than the feudal system.
The oligarchical system rules over much of the world,
with the 'democratic politicians' being their pawns.
Any country which deviates to the left is destroyed with embargoes and sanctions.
and for 'Disgusted Of Tunbridge Wells', 4 years out of Uni and not a lifetime of experience,
When you have experienced the world with open eyes for 60+ years you should have become a socialist.
When our former government hit the opposition benches, they chimed in with "a new nuclear strategy" to solve the world's climate crisis.
They didn't even acknowledge a climate crisis for most of the last 10 years, did all they could to stop solar and wind, even brought a lump of coal into parliament.
The did a study into nuclear in their dying days which showed nuclear was a no go. But they bring back the red herring to show what losers they are.
For fucking yeah. FTTP
Fibre is being rolled out in our town NOW.
They were coming up our street yesterday and should go past our gate today.
Phoning my ISP today.
We have suffered the Malcolm Turdbull NBN fuckup for too long.
I'm not concerned about the price per kilometer. The real cost installed is way different to that.
The first part of the upgrade was checking and clearing the conduits which seem to have been in good order because they didn't have to dig.
Now it' seems to be a pretty swift cable pull.
Has anyone tried f3, check if it is a 'fake' flash memory
# f3probe /dev/sdb
F3 probe 8.0
Copyright (C) 2010 Digirati Internet LTDA.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
WARNING: Probing normally takes from a few seconds to 15 minutes, but
it can take longer. Please be patient.
Probe finished, recovering blocks... Done
Good news: The device `/dev/sdb' is the real thing
Device geometry:
*Usable* size: 14.84 GB (31116288 blocks)
Announced size: 14.84 GB (31116288 blocks)
Module: 16.00 GB (2^34 Bytes)
Approximate cache size: 0.00 Byte (0 blocks), need-reset=no
Physical block size: 512.00 Byte (2^9 Bytes)
Probe time: 2'12"
Early 80s, John and Stan did a demonstration of speech recognition at work.
John showed it off and Stan was sitting at his desk surreptitiously switching the leds on.
"Into the microphone, say red or green" and magically the red or green led would turn on.
Until Stan was spotted and the gig was up.
Lots of fun though.
You are so close to the future.
The eWaste has much higher concentrations of end products than mined ore.
Taking all the eWaste, crushing it up, then put it through extraction processes is the cheapest and easiest way to 'create' all those rare and not so rare materials.
We're looking at the end of mining if we already have enough materials in the re-cycling loop.
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