tom jennings

Oh $diety save me, I will never go near classiccmp or especially its mailing lists again. So many damaged men... I got credible death threats once for a perceived insult of someones LSI 11... I learned my lesson...

2024-09-19 21:12:05

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very nice!

2024-09-19 21:11:39

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Lol! I miss the physicality of that era of computing, though in practical terms it's all awful...

2024-09-19 20:41:49

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CODE NEEDS TO RUN. Not blaming them in any way for anything, nor being arch etc.
But there's lots of good ideas on the world; tangibility is what matters. I know chicken and egg here, but there it is.

2024-09-19 20:21:32

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Holy shit. No wonder the GOP loves him.

2024-09-19 19:56:34

https://tldr.nettime.org/system_nettime/media_attachments/files/113/165/972/571/295/294/original/f31382203626a61f.mp4

2024-09-19 03:22:40

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TSA will likely institute some new, arbitrary, and ineffective, security theatre for us in an airport near you.

2024-09-19 03:11:52

Disco remains fully convinced of causality between the kitchen stove timer and small animals out in the yard.
https://tldr.nettime.org/system_nettime/media_attachments/files/113/162/022/950/940/153/original/2a0e5b3f4790201c.mp4

2024-09-19 02:17:44

Please, mother fucking stop talking about Haitians and goddamned pets. Start talking about GOP and abortion rights. for fucks sake show some self control!

2024-09-19 02:14:56

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Yeah, huge disappointment.

2024-09-19 01:41:40

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I worked on enough minicomputer systems to recognize the jargon but it's very specific to the machine and drive and software. So missing context.
I found jw hill, he's still at AZ and I think I better ask him!

2024-09-19 00:14:24

I never liked Github. It forces me to write code as if I'm in a corporate cubicle farm.
I write code like it's 1968 and I'm having fun writing code I can read years later, but with the (probably few, lol) good techniques I've learned in the meantime.

2024-09-19 00:08:06

Depersonalize software as a radical act.

2024-09-18 23:22:59

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... Or sometimes after 50 years...

2024-09-18 22:33:48

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Nice chart! Thanks!
However this:
"Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem"
Sigh. Yes it is, but I'd say corporations are the more immediate threat; the existence of the chart makes this clear, it's not a chart of gov't activity! Directly anyway.

2024-09-18 22:12:46

Dead mouse being consumed by tiny ants. Decreased in volume easily by half in one day.
https://tldr.nettime.org/system_nettime/media_attachments/files/113/160/850/427/346/944/original/279b74a13c2c396d.mp4

2024-09-18 19:13:00

Anyone have the resources to read this half inch 1600 vpi tape from 1987?
It's a backup tape of J. M. Hill's (Univ of AZ, Astronomy) FORTH drive, dated 20 sep 1987.
Probably nothing earth shattering on the tape. Seven inch reel with 2 cm (thickness) on it, probably one megabyte.
Even raw block dumps would would be ok.
No idea what hardware it might be from. Probably not hard to figure out.
https://tldr.nettime.org/system_nettime/media_attachments/files/113/160/136/046/179/101/original/a7807bbe3268d13c.jpg
https://tldr.nettime.org/system_nettime/media_attachments/files/113/160/136/048/340/008/original/bfaf22430191d586.jpg

2024-09-18 18:40:12

I returned from errands, pedalled up to the gate to unlock. A young squirrel, sitting on a stub wall, about to scale the gate, now alarmed and looking to flee, all hunched down ready to spring, pauses to examine me. I say my usual sing song "hi squirrel!", she raises and lowers and rotates, totally obvious she's trying to see which tall smelly giant I am. I take my helmet off, and make the universal squirrel gesture of eating a nut with two hands, carefully turned 90 degrees from her (non-predator move).
She's looking now to see if I have a nut. I do not. This involves a serious of very obvious dog-like exaggerated poses.
So I make giant come-hither arm motions as I head to the gate, unlock, etc, all too time-consuming and complicated for squirrels. She's gone.
I roll inside, lock, stash bike etc, and there she is, in the tree, awaiting me. I place a fistful of roaster peanuts on the pee-soaked board on the palm trunk.
Squirrels are *excellent* social communicators. Very much like dogs, the same looseness, very physical, except more so than dogs, they're just so rubbery and flexible.

2024-09-18 18:18:57

Capitalist dogs enjoying nature.