nostr:npub1um2tw44fezje8k2w36vpupa24vnnfqepqq952g6xhyufn3vesxvq0e6jsa i was hoping for "haha" but
nostr:npub1um2tw44fezje8k2w36vpupa24vnnfqepqq952g6xhyufn3vesxvq0e6jsa who is this General Pop and what army does he work for
i'm wondering what people will say when Richard Stallman dies
i'm thinking about this because the creator of vim just passed away.
the guy who invented vim just died
they won't write about that in the news but countless Internet services were created using that editor
ohm my
a young Steve Jobs talks about recruiting and management and the original Mac developer team talks about the group dynamic
😤
nostr:npub1pu7tyn4lajv927jh9fr6z0w2nvqjscrjf55es0gu5xsgp2nes99qn6pdj6 I think Sony might take issue with them calling a Panasonic cd player a Discman 😂
nostr:npub1dqedq64ragm6hchhv55f0u6gtar6ng9wpcgs0ec3tkm7d4s4kvnq5hepsl if Sony still cared about the CD format, sure. they have completely abandoned it. latest PlayStation has an optical drive but it can't play CDs.
relics
nostr:npub1qtzm909v4fhr08zveua9d2zj66s60l25afgz480axgfmdgcsehwqw24cf3 i have one at home that is always on. it kind of has to be, because it does double duty as my personal file server, and there are jobs scheduled in it every night to make backups of various other systems that i run
meanwhile, i have to reboot my computer at least once a week
they're gaussing each other
nostr:npub18m940pt6c9vpgm58knmssxuu5szsd48unaym88q4d5js7x568y8sctzpxp if armies of hackers had existed back then, there would have been a lot of disruption, at least for a while
being a hacker in the 80s or 90s must've been fun.
IT security was barely on people's minds. i remember doing a bit of mischief myself as a teenager in the 90s.
network stacks were so vulnerable you could often make them crash with a malicious packet. nobody used strong passwords. you could use a modem to dial random numbers to look for exposed modems connected to industrial equipment for remote control. if passwords were encrypted at all, the encryption was weak and nobody used salting.
i didn't know about all of these vulnerabilities at the time, but enthusiastic hackers probably did.
partitioned drive
the synthesiser engine i developed is not sample based. here's an example. i was simulating a string instrument and it got a little out of tune in the higher notes... on a computer, you only have whole numbers. strings need very exact tuning. but computers can only do whole numbers when it comes to length, so...
the synthesiser i'm coding is getting more features. unison is now implemented, and oscillator types and filter modes are now exposed in MIDI and UI. it can do some pretty fat EDM patches with these new features.
so i implemented this state variable filter for my synth code:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2111.05592.pdf
same topography as in Prophet and the Oberheim.
not the easiest thing to turn into a fourth-order (24 dB/oct) filter. normally you just chain two second-order (12 dB/oct) filters, but this is a multi-output filter, so if you did it naively, you'd end up throwing another whole filter on each output.
for the moment, my code just switches modes, i.e. the 24 dB/oct filter doesn't have multiple outputs, just multiple modes.
it sounds all right though.
it's somewhat ironic that virtual memory essentially *eliminates* the need for relocatable executables.
on paper, we could just go back to .COM files for Windows programs, because you'd just place every program at the same address in their own virtual memory space, and you'd only need address relocation for libraries.
on paper you could do the same for libraries if you just had a memory space per library, but this would be pretty slow and in many ways impractical.
don't know who this Jason guy is but he gets in my JavaScripts a lot 🤨
anyway, i may have just increased the visibility of Fediverse content on Nostr a bit.
my little indexing crawler talks to the mostr.pub ActivityPub/Nostr bridge, and it rebroadcasts stuff from there to other relays while it's indexing what's on them.
not sure how effective it is, but my relay checker at https://nrcheck.tigerville.no does seem to indicate that everything i post on Mastodon is now on way more relays than it was before.
anyway, i may have just increased the visibility of Fediverse content on Nostr a bit.
my little indexing crawler talks to the mostr.pub ActivityPub/Nostr bridge, and it rebroadcasts stuff from there to other relays while it's indexing what's on them.
not sure how effective it is, but my relay checker at https://nrcheck.tigerville.no does seem to indicate that everything i post on Mastodon is now on way more relays than it was before.