In 02023, people are becoming poorer, their lifespans are shorter;
food costs more, and housing is worse. You'd think there would be
more focussed, radical indignation about such an obvious bad scene
-- a culture in visible decline -- but the temper of the times seems
to welcome it, somehow.

...

I don't like begin a year with gloomy, elaborate whining; that like
a privileged luxury that people have when Mom's not chased in exile
and Dad's not under arms in a trench. And yet, I do realize that
my customary futurist speculative habits have become old-fashioned.
I'm from a tech-obsessed subculture, so it's my habit to look for
scientific and industrial innovations and assume they're gonna alter
the world's situation.

That's not what happens in this decade. I'm aware that I need
better methods.

There's something very Twenty-Twenties about attempting and failing
to "turn the page" on inconvenient truths that can't and don't go
away. That's why each year tends to repeat the last. I wouldn't
call that "moral cowardice," because people do not, and cannot,
really ignore the pervasive problems -- they do see them, and tend
to complain quite consistently about the same issues, year after
year. But, without ever getting much done about them. It's rare to
see any public problem that's analyzed, agreed-upon, confronted,
dealt with and dismissed. All the "crises" tend to thrive, and to
mutate into long-term shambolic debacles. It's a decade that feels
the need to marinate in its own distresses -- doomscrolling as a
way-of-life.

"When you can't imagine how things are going to change, things
change in ways that are unimaginable."

In other words, web0 is web3 without all the corporate right-libertarian Silicon Valley bullshit.

This is why many people in IT drink heavily.

Caching and prefetching were used in mainframe computers dating back to the 1960s. For instance, the IBM System/360 Model 91 (1966) had a cache with prefetching. Minicomputers such as the VAX 11/780 (1977) later used caching and prefetching. However, these features took a while to trickle down to microprocessors. The Motorola 68000 (1980) had a 4-byte prefetch queue. As far as I can tell, the 8086 was the first microprocessor with a prefetch queue.

We can view the 8086 as a stepping-stone towards the large caches first used externally in the 80386 and internally in the 486. The 80186 and 80286 kept the 6-byte prefetch buffer size of the 8086. The 80386 has a 16-byte prefetch buffer, although apparently due to a bug it was shrunk to 12 bytes in later revisions. As well as the prefetch queue, the 80386 supported an external cache.

I was looking for a small, lightweigt, affordable but powerful battery for portable ham radio use and decided to buy a Miady 12,8V 7,2Ah LiFePO4 battery.

http://↑↑↓↓←→←→ba.tk/

Yup, copy and paste that into your browser and it will resolve.

Attendees will tour VMware Tanzu Application Platform and learn how it streamlines application delivery at modern enterprises. You will see how application teams use the developer experience platform to iteratively code for multi-cloud without deep knowledge of Kubernetes. Watch how the operations team is able to design a dynamic, secure software supply chain that automatically enforces governance and compliance across all applications. Discover how the platform leverages GitOps (configuration as code) to manage the application promotion process for a fleet of servers, all the way to production.

Learn how to use a custom JSON data source, Mockoon, FastApi, and Prometheus to customize your Grafana dashboard.

Have fun with this selection of Enable Sysadmin's top articles of 2022 about Kubernetes and OpenShift Container Platform (OCP).

Right before the holiday season, LastPass published an update on their breach. As people have speculated, this timing was likely not coincidental but rather intentional to keep the news coverage low. Security professionals weren’t amused, this holiday season became a very busy time for them. LastPass likely could have prevented this if they were more concerned about keeping their users secure than about saving their face.

Their statement is also full of omissions, half-truths and outright lies. As I know that not everyone can see through all of it, I thought that I would pick out a bunch of sentences from this statement and give some context that LastPass didn’t want to mention.

The Sierpiński triangle (sometimes spelled Sierpinski), also called the Sierpiński gasket or Sierpiński sieve, is a fractal attractive fixed set with the overall shape of an equilateral triangle, subdivided recursively into smaller equilateral triangles. Originally constructed as a curve, this is one of the basic examples of self-similar sets—that is, it is a mathematically generated pattern that is reproducible at any magnification or reduction. It is named after the Polish mathematician Wacław Sierpiński, but appeared as a decorative pattern many centuries before the work of Sierpiński.

“It feels good to run a bar when the people really need one,” Dad confided to Nikola, “but here at my ‘Stairway-of-Calvary,’ it seems that every night finishes sad.”

“Pop, they’re already sad people. They were sad before they got in here.”

Other legal experts noted that the controversy showed just how mangled the understanding of the First Amendment had become, even at a place like Berkeley, the epicenter of the 1960s free-speech movement. The debate, they said, should focus on whether these bans align with the academic ideal of open, intellectual debate. Even if student groups can prohibit speakers, should they? And should such bans be codified — formally adopted with a bylaw?

“There’s a real confusion about freedom of speech as a cultural value and freedom of speech as a legal concept,” said Will Creeley, the legal director of Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, a free-speech advocacy group.

Osmocom SIMtrace 2 is a software, firmware and hardware system for passively tracing SIM-ME communication between the SIM card and the mobile phone, and remote SIM operation.
While it was designed for SIM-ME communication, it supports all ISO 7816 smart-cards using the T=0 protocol (the most common case).

It is a followup of the SIMtrace project, providing more functionalities (e.g. remote SIM operation) and supporting multiple boards (e.g. SIMtrace with SAM3S, sysmoQMOD).

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Musicians make life hard for programmers. There are nine different bands called Emperor, one band called Eximperituserqethhzebibšiptugakkathšulweliarzaxułum, and a side project called ⣎⡇ꉺლ༽இ•̛)ྀ◞ ༎ຶ ༽ৣৢ؞ৢ؞ؖ ꉺლ.

Using ellipsis in writing signifes the writer is Gen-X or Boomer and can read as confusing, passive-aggressive or even weirdly flirtatious to digital natives.

In 1739, there were three times more coffee shops per person in London than there are today.

YouTuber Mr Beast employs a team of six people to make thumbnails for his videos. Thumbnails are planned before the video is shot.

Bill Tavis's beautifully-drawn "map" of the Mandelbrot Set [via Kottke] looks like a chart from the age of sail.

Inspiriert vo git auf deutsch hobn si auf da bsides vienna 0x7e6 a poa Spezialisten zaumdau, und a typisch österreichische Lösung gehirngsturmt.

warning Obocht! Kinad a bissl Spass beinhoitn

Write terminal GIFs as code for integration testing and demoing your CLI tools.