Bronson

Computer Scientist

[Bronson @bronson]

@ChriSobieniak @TheRealHenry32 I remember downloading this, 1996 or 7, totally bonkers at the time to get content from the internet.

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@ScottAtlas_IT @shestokas There’s a soft impact that isn’t captured by the numbers. Citadel HQ in Chicago had a magnetic force bringing and keeping talent in Chicago, and also served as an incubator - many prop trading firms in town were started by or with former Citadel talent. That’s all left town.

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@bendellwerry Interested

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From 1784 until 1970, the company ED&F Man held the exclusive contract to produce rum for the British navy. When the practice ended in 1970, the remaining store of rum that had been produced was held by the English government and, for several decades after, the rum was occasionally served at official functions, or so the story goes.
A few years ago, there were bottles of the same remaining rum being sold - I remember seeing one go for ~USD 1,000 around 2020.
ED&F Man is still in existence as a commodities firm based out of London.

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@jvepng And Gizmodo was uninvited to future Apple events for the next 4 years.

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@TracketPacer Get the Apple IIe expansion board specifically for the LC. In 1990, this config was targeted at schools as a way to keep running their old Apple II software stack while upgrading to the Macintosh platform. Real A2 on a card.

The LC was announced with the Mac Classic and IIsi.

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It's on GitHub:
https://t.co/xEKO3krfLH

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Introducing ntpxyz

ntpxyz is a lightweight Python tool for parsing and visualizing statistics from NTP servers. It processes standard NTP stats logs—currently loopstats (clock sync), sysstats (network traffic), and usestats (host utilization)—then generates clear, insightful plots using Matplotlib. Designed for both interactive use and automated batch runs, ntpxyz helps monitor NTP server health with minimal fuss.

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🔑 Omarchy desktop users: no more typing your LUKS passphrase at every boot (or hunting for a wired keyboard)!

Omarchy ships with killer default encryption, but that prompt can be a drag on desktops.

I turned an old USB into a dedicated key drive for automatic unlock — plug it in and you're straight in.

Full step-by-step guide I put together (USB formatting, cryptsetup, limine cmdline tweaks, mkinitcpio hooks — all there):

https://t.co/EkLhbzVZQo

#Omarchy

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@AtnsXBT … that first time you heard Guns n Roses on a “Classic Rock” radio station… or Joe Walsh singing about his Maserati doing 185– while you filled up your cart in Whole Foods.

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@davepl1968 Training a robot to play a human that must defeat all the robots. There’s a plot line in there somewhere.

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They won’t have to.
This is a case that will eventually go to the Supreme Court.
When the state mandates that developers build specific code into their platform like this, it’s no different than making the author of a book write and include an introductory chapter that lectures the reader about age and content.
If I publish an OS source code as a book, am I breaking the law if I don’t include the age verification bits? “Free speech” does not mean “free speech as long as it’s in the contemporary English Language.” So code is speech, and forcing age verification, or any of the energy star stuff or ADA stuff that is already mandated is just compelled speech, which the US government can’t do.

Also, practically speaking, unless you shut down the internet, it’s an unworkable law. You want to verify your age every time you unlock your iPhone??

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@teej_dv What is root’s birthday?

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People in California will still run open source operating systems even if there is no age verification and no “California License” whatever that means. Code is just words (speech) and the California law is stupid. It’s like saying every book sold in California needs to have a front page with a content warning.

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Introducing ntpxyz

ntpxyz is a lightweight Python tool for parsing and visualizing statistics from NTP servers. It processes standard NTP stats logs—currently loopstats (clock sync), sysstats (network traffic), and usestats (host utilization)—then generates clear, insightful plots using Matplotlib. Designed for both interactive use and automated batch runs, ntpxyz helps monitor NTP server health with minimal fuss.

https://t.co/OxDEos69Kc

[Victoriano Izquierdo @victorianoi]

In 20 years, vibe coders will look at the Linux kernel repo the way we look at the pyramids. In awe, unable to imagine how they managed to drag all those giant stones and pile them up in the middle of the desert.

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@egorFiNE @dcolascione This is certainly the reason.

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He calls it a “product” that’s been “tested” in other countries before he calls it a burger or even “food”. Of course, I can’t hate on McDonalds but that’s pretty insightful coming from the CEO. This stuff is cooked up in a Lab and it sounds like he is giving a presentation to the Board of Directors.

Couldn’t he have opened with something like “We’re coming out with a great new Burger!”… or maybe Legal advised him against that.

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1) MS lets users set their profile icon in outlook/365 by default
2) Compliance lead sets his icon to the Anarchy “A”
3) There’s litigation and hundreds of emails involving the compliance department get printed and preserved as part of discovery
4) All of the emails from the head of compliance have an Anarchy “A” on them, top left, now in the hands of opposing council and the court
5) CEO is furious at IT, because everything leadership does not like involving technology is somehow the fault of the 4 underpaid and overworked IT guys at the service desk

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It’s not really about any ideology, it’s about grabbing a headline. She knew that making a controversial statement like this would suddenly get the media talking about her all over the place , and it did. She probably did know about the land her house is on and I bet her streaming revenues jump this week… “There’s no such thing as bad publicity!”
Her audience eats it up.