If sad facts just bring you down instead of making you act to fix them, then you are part of the problem.

Luckily, no ;-)

“Just stop Oil” are paid for by the oil industry to make all kinds of environmentalists look bad. Change my mind.

No AVR, it’s a small LPC from NXP. Chosen for the price, of course, but I have to somehow squeeze the software in it. At this point, even 8k would make me happy…

Here, children learn first aid, too. But luckily we live in a civilized country, so they don’t need to learn about shotgun wounds.

Not anywhere I read around, and I’m quite into tech.

In the US, you can basically buy your politics, you justice, your executive, and your press. And a few rich people do exactly that, for no other benefit than their own.

They cannot afford wasting propaganda on the “Enemy”, they need it to keep the starving population under control.

On the other hand: How can they afford those balloons?

I’d love to have 8GB of RAM. The SOC I’m working with has only 2K ;-)

Just that I don’t have anything worthwhile on my phone. All the important stuff is on PCs. All the stuff that is professional, that is covered by NDAs, all the banking. And just because Microsoft has ever been shitty and is now going extra-shitty, it is not a Windows PC.

Just wait until some Microsoft digital parrot AKA artificial “intelligence” spouts some companies internal data that it had gobbled up somewhere from the companies internal network…

You are aware that “technology” is not limited to shitty apps with a small user base?

It was a Republican primary, i.e. they were already drawing from the two-digit IQ crowd.

And now imagine that companies paid reddit money to be enabled to train their AI on them…

They were registered as “Republican” for the primary, so they draw from the two-digit IQ crowd already.

Also, voters are so fucking stupid.

Especially if they already have a Republican mindset.

Well, I was not that far off. ‘Spamford’ Wallace founded “Cyber Promotions” on 1997. While there have been unsolicided emails even way before that, they had not been an issue: Whoever did them got a clue-by-four from the network community and that’s it. SPAM started to be a problem with ‘Spamford’ Wallace.

“Sober as a cat” is a a funny expression if you have played “Dwarf Fortress” for some time. They had a strange bug once about cats being so drunk that they died.

It would be a good thing to test Trump on drugs. His team has all the incentive to make him not sound the babbling idiot that he is.

Eight inches, not seven. Got a story with that…

Back when I was in school, I was working on the side on expanding an ERP system for a customer. Said customer got a stack of printouts from their main supplier each January: The new price list. They meticiously typed that 300+ pages list into their own ERP system, and then checked it for errors. This took the boss and his wife a good part of January and February. Every year.

So I told him that the main supplier already has that data in a computer, why does he not ask to get the price list on disk, and I see whether I can get them into the system via a software import. He called them, asked me back if “IBM Format” would be OK, and I said yes. Surprise: The supplier had an IBM mainframe and sent us an 8" floppy. Luckily, the boss knew the right people with the right equipment and got me a copy on 5.25" and in ASCII (the original was in EBCDIC).

It took me one day to figure out the format, write an importer, and run it to completion. Boss and wife were very happy.

OK, you got me there. For me, EMail-SPAM is still a new thing, because I still remember the time before.