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- Comment on S. aegyptiacus is a subhuman cope skull. S. mirabilis has the nasal crest looksmax, the forward jaw projection, the elongated temporal fenestra. 5 days ago:
What the…? I feel old.
- Comment on How can I develop software for a PowerPC? 1 week ago:
Take a look at recapamac.com.au . The chap is no longer in the recapping business, but offers some helpful resources. Also consider replacing the PRAM battery – I’m not a vintage iMac expert but know that this has been an issue with other older Macs.
- Comment on How can I develop software for a PowerPC? 1 week ago:
If I had to guess, I’d say that you’re referring to StuffIt archives (with a .sit file extension). They were the most common classic MacOS archive format. Copies of StuffItExpander (free, if I remember correctly) are readily available, however unrar on *nix platforms will also extract them and retain the Mac resource fork according to github.com/PiSCSI/piscsi/issues/630 . Good luck!
- Comment on How can I develop software for a PowerPC? 1 week ago:
I can’t speak for cross-compilation, but I was a serious Mac developer on System 7 - MacOS 9 back in the day, and Metrowerks CodeWarrior was my tool of choice for C/C++ . A thread on 68KMLA from a few years ago has an extensive discussion of CodeWarrior: 68kmla.org/…/metrowerks-codewarrior-best-version-…
Bravo for keeping this great old software and hardware going (System 7 is perhaps my favorite OS of all time). Let us know what you build!
- Comment on 2026-01-14: The Day the telnet Died 1 week ago:
Similar memories here. The first time I went on IRC using a Palm Pilot connected to a Ricochet modem, while in a moving vehicle (not driving!) felt like magic.
- Comment on America Isn’t Ready for What AI Will Do to Jobs 2 weeks ago:
All valid points.
However, the actual capabilities of the AIs might not matter with respect to job displacement, since the people making the hiring decisions are absorbing the marketing hype but not using the tools.
Even if folks are still hired, they might experience second order effects like increased job stress and burnout: fortune.com/…/ai-future-of-work-white-collar-empl…
I’m rather glad that I’m reaching the end of my career and not trying to break into the market as a junior software engineer.
- Comment on 2026-01-14: The Day the telnet Died 2 weeks ago:
Indeed, it’s amazing how much stuff was / is out there in the open.
Hobbyist use of unencrypted protocols like telnet can be very educational, and the other commenter is right that not everything needs to be encrypted, especially within the confines of a homelab, for instance.
My support for ending telnet use is much more about things like IoT systems, industrial hardware and so on talking in the clear and being vulnerable to compromise.
This isn’t about telnet, per se, but is a good example of the problem: news.satnews.com/…/russia-intercepts-europes-key-…
- Comment on America Isn’t Ready for What AI Will Do to Jobs 2 weeks ago:
LodeMike, I’m curious about something. What’s the latest set of AI models and tools you’ve used personally? Have you used Opus 4.5 or 4.6, for instance?
I am not disagreeing with the points you’ve made, but it’s been my experience that the increase in capabilities over the last six months has been so rapid that it’s hard to realistically evaluate what the current frontier models are capable of unless you’ve uused them meaningfully and with some frequency.
I’d welcome your perspective.
- Comment on 2026-01-14: The Day the telnet Died 2 weeks ago:
Good point. I was referring more to telnetd as an unencrypted client-server protocol, typically to port 23. Often unauthenticated, ripe for MITM attacks.
That needs to end.
- Comment on 2026-01-14: The Day the telnet Died 2 weeks ago:
I share the author’s nostalgia for Telnet, as a kid who spent many lost hours trying to telnet into “interesting things” at the dawn of the internet. It is, however, long past time for the protocol to die and force ancient and insecure things to be retired. Thus might just do it.
- Comment on This legendary Nokia phone is being brought back to life in 2026 2 weeks ago:
Thanks for the clickbait headline. TL;DR - “custom firmware project resurrects the Nokia N8, transforming it from a drawer-dwelling relic into a functional device.”
- Comment on iOS client for freshrss ? 1 month ago:
I am a huge fan of lire (lireapp.com) - wonderful offline reading abilities. Great for long airplane rides!
- Comment on This long-term data storage will last 14 billion years 2 months ago:
Ah, righto. That was an old rule in many subreddits. Seems to vary a bit by Lemmy community, though. I just cringe at clickbait!
- Comment on This long-term data storage will last 14 billion years 2 months ago:
A friendly request - please de-clickbait your headlines and say what the material is (although you do mention it in your summary).
- Comment on Apple quietly released this year's BEST laptop 3 months ago:
Downvoted for:
- Clickbaity headline.
- Annoying YouTube thumbnail face.
- Comment on 5 months ago:
The Tom’s Hardware article doesn’t discuss the pricing structure, however the Wikipedia article does – the RAMAC 305 was leased, not purchased, for $35,800 per month in 2024 USD).
- Comment on Alternative to NordVPN Meshnet? 5 months ago:
Fellow satisfied Tailscale user here. Worth noting that one can host a custom control plane server if desired, which in theory removes cloud dependencies for Tailscale from the equation: tailscale.com/kb/1507/custom-control-server. Use of Mullvad exit nodes is optional ($5 / mo for 5 machines at time of writing). I’m not sure if TS’ native exit node feature can be configured to use other/sepf-hosted VPNs, but I suspect this is not supported.
- Comment on The Jobs AI Is Replacing the Fastest 6 months ago:
Software development, equities trading and customer support according to the article.
- Comment on Microsoft's Windows lead says the next version of Windows will be "more ambient, pervasive, and multi-modal" as AI redefines the desktop interface 6 months ago:
Well put. I confess that my hot take was based on skimming the title of the article, and as you note, their vision is even more dystopian. Fire the pixels onto the screen and forget about them, I say!
- Comment on Microsoft's Windows lead says the next version of Windows will be "more ambient, pervasive, and multi-modal" as AI redefines the desktop interface 6 months ago:
None of these are things I want in an OS.
- Comment on Don’t Turn That Old System On, First Take It Apart 6 months ago:
Halt and catch fire
- Comment on Reverse engineering the mysterious Up-Data Link Test Set from Apollo 7 months ago:
Thank you! That was really interesting and well written.
- Comment on Tub drain help 10 months ago:
It’s hard to see what’s going on here, but you might try using an irrigation tool called a riser or nipple extractor – it’s designed for removing broken plastic risers outdoors, but might work if you can insert it far enough (it’s difficult to tell from your photo if the material in the center is a liquid or a solid). Have a look at www.homedepot.com/p/…/100203404
- Comment on Trump cuts funding to FOSS projects. 10 months ago:
Tailscale is also ridiculously easy to use for this purpose. The serve and Funnel features make secure self hosting really easy from your tailnet (one can easily provision certificates for nodes using Let’s Encrypt from the CLI: tailscale.com/blog/reintroducing-serve-funnel
- Comment on AI Atlantis revealed off the coast of China, reportedly boasting computational power equivalent to 30,000 high-end gaming PCs 11 months ago:
Thank you for saving me a click. Undersea data center operation and seawater cooling is not new; Microsoft has been pursuing such efforts for a decade or so now, under the auspices of Project Natick: natick.research.microsoft.com
- Comment on Introducing Privacy Pass authentication for Kagi Search | Kagi Blog 1 year ago:
Kagi user chiming in here. Have been incredibly happy with the service in terms of search quality and overall usefulness since subscribing. Feels like Google in the early, early days (I was there) before they lost their soul. Their changelog page is instructive; – kagi.com/changelog