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  Man if 25 year old me griping about Apple being stingy with the 128K of RAM the original Macintosh shipped with could hear me griping about Apple being stingy shipping Macs with only 8 GB today.

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  @PavelASamsonov@mastodon.social There are 7 "TormentNexus" or similar repos in Github.

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  @thevhswizard@retro.pizza “I’ve always been a bit puzzled about that story. What’s so hard about pulling a sword out of a stone? The real work’s already been done. You ought to make yourself useful and find the man who put the sword in the stone in the first place, eh?” - Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms.

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  @SwiftOnSecurity@infosec.exchange Remember all those old sitcom episodes... they were still doing them as late as Buffy the Vampire Slayer... that only worked because people weren't carrying cell phones everywhere.

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  @tknarr@mstdn.social @ska@social.treehouse.systems @mia@shrimptest.0x0.st @navi@social.vlhl.dev "WTF were the systemd devs thinking." Objection! Assumes facts not in evidence!

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  @LappenjammerDieZweite@social.vivaldi.net @_thegeoff@mastodon.social There's this story I read once where the protagonist was the 40th or so clone of a rich guy, and he'd worn this body out, so they grew a new clone and transferred his mind to it and sent him off to a labor camp where this old guy was in charge and did the whole boot camp thing for a year until the next clone showed up. So he asked if he could train #41, the bastard who sent him to the camp. Let the old guy retire. A...

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  "I am not angry because the submarine was badly-made. I am angry because I live in a vastly larger pressure vessel being managed and maintained by the exact same people." -- https://cohost.org/hystericempress/post/1731218-reflecting-on-it-th @hystericempress Posted because I kept seeing this quote posted with the names filed off, so I did a quick google search to find the original so I could share it with full attribution. I'm getting super-spammed with retoots and f...

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  @NickEast_IndieWriter @reading @bookstodon @books @humor@fedigroups.social @humor@lemmy.world @aiop @joinin Also Chekhov except you need an inexplicable mundane object in the background.

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  @Lydie This seems to be actual AI derived technology based on biomorphic emulation of neural nets, not generative language models.

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  @JamesPadraicR "Music" is iTunes and if you never "upgrade" it sticks mostly to just being a very good music player. Though I am still bitter about iTunes DJ/Party Shuffle.

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  @cstross The quote is from The Regicide Report, but you weren't referencing that you can perform the Rite of Ashk-Ente (Discworld) with a fresh egg and two cc of mouse blood?

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  @cstross Rite of Ashk-Ente.

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  I have no idea what I was referring to. 17 years ago I apparently sent myself an email that ended up in mailer-daemons junk mail box and it just surfaced while I was trying to debug a cron problem. ----- To: peter@taronga.com Subject: Things to do Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 13:28:42 -0600 (CST) Never tick off a transcendentally powerful member of a group intelligence. She might just fire a coruscating beam of lambent force at you. ----- certainly good advice, but completely out of context.

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  @cstross@wandering.shop @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social I have a GPD but it has thermal problems, so I'm reluctant to depend on it.

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  @cstross@wandering.shop Oh, you actually need a real "Apple Music" account. Never going to do that, I'm still in legacy iTunes-compatible mode and happy there.

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  @flargh@mastodon.social This is the alternate universe in which AmigaOS had protected memory?

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  Every time I see someone writing "so-and-so was not phased by..." I want to hit them over the head with a complete multi-volume OED. phased adjective [ usually before noun ] * A phased process is planned to happen in stages over a particular period of time. fazed verb [ T; not continuous ] * past tense of faze (to surprise and worry someone).

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  @cstross@wandering.shop Tooth barnacles *and* isopods.