iNate2000

https://nategrigg.com

Wait - I saw a link to a Slack chat workspace. Do they have something for Slackware Linux as well?

MAGiE: Your MAGnetic Interactive Explorer

A simple puzzle game: a cassette-futuristic story, heavily inspired by Nell’s adventures at Castle Turing in Neal Stephenson’s “The Diamond Age”.

I could go on and on...

I’d love your feedback:

Rewind to the start of the story: https://magiegame.com/test/2025/04/04

Or skip to today’s puzzle: https://magiegame.com

Right now I’m focused on story development and integrating it with the daily-puzzle system I built last time I was between jobs.

This is a years-long slow-burn side project. My career moved away from the frontend long ago—this is my first React app, with a Django backend running on AWS Lightsail.

https://www.nsa.gov/Press-Room/Press-Releases-Statements/Pre...

able to retrieve the footage contained on two 1’ APEX tapes

I'm no expert, but I think they meant 1-inch AMPEX tape.

Also, perhaps they should record it in doubly. #ThisIsSpinalTap #Stonehenge #InchsToFeet

I checked, and my pages-based site was down, but it is back up now.

The logo on the shirt looks like Incredible Universe

But what if it only appears uncontrolled?

Oh! That reminds me of an idea I had once for a “kid-powered computer”. Here is a sketch that I made to illustrate how a disk-drive works: https://flic.kr/p/an8kAA

I’ve had at least one job where the employment agreement actually mentions intellectual-property exceptions. So, I just brought that up with the recruiter/HR person and they whipped out a form where I describe my existing project. Someone (a lawyer?) reviews it to make sure I’m not competing in the same field as the company and everything was good.

Well that’s just the point: implementation is not worth fifty thousand dollars, but the solution to a business problem probably is.

“Consult”ing with problem-havers and working out how to make the problem go away.

But compare the NeXT Station to the current Mac Pro. This is a similar product with similar use cases and price tag.

The current Mac Pro gets a 9/10 repairability score on iFixit[1]

[1] https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Mac+Pro+2019+Teardown/128922

Oh!

So I can install the app and it can just open the files that already sync through Git/Working Copy? I’ll just have to plunk down my nine dollars!

Speaking of plunking down money: thank you so much for not making this a subscription!

I recently paid for Working Copy and use it for mobile access to Org and Markdown files. How does this app work worth it?

Aren’t political or religious groups protected?

But the site is not a law-enforcement official.

Also, a person’s health-care information is quite private.

But Walmart wouldn’t let a vendor set up a kiosk in the middle of the store and accept payments with a Square reader on a phone, would they?

That document (DA 18-980) talks about "importing two-way VHF/UHF radios... used primarily for short-distance, two-way voice communications."

In other words: cheap walkie-talkies that don't comply with FCC regulations.

Such radios typically max out at 5w.

The LimeSDR claims 10dBm - which I believe means about 10milliwatts.

In other words, that FCC memo is concerned with radios being sold that are something like five hundred times as powerful as a LimeSDR. And therefore much more likely to interfere with other transmissions.

I still think Windows Phone was good. Perhaps they should have marketed it as a Zune phone.

Like a goofy person “hamming it up”

Amateur radio operators can seem undisciplined compared to professional or military operators.

Just downloaded it and tried it out. For the instructions it has, you can tap a part and it lights up the bounding box for that piece in the original image.

1. It’s totally easy to miss things when reading: certainly little delightful details, or even whole ideas or plot points.

2. It’s not like there are millions of great books out there. Some entertaining ones, some informative ones, a few that are both, and a very few life changers.

1. researching ways to break encryption is only productive if people are allowed to use the stronger encryption that comes from that research.

2. FBI isn’t arguing for new ways to break encryption, they’re arguing that old ways to cripple encryption should be used on purpose.

Right. And my reaction has been to mostly stay away from Facebook and Twitter.

But I’m not the one rioting.

Indeed.

Those of us with stable housing take a lot of things for granted.

“I’ll just shower at the gym.” Turns a shower from a 20-minute operation to more than an hour.

Food storage and preparation.

Clothing storage, care, and maintenance.

Not to mention that getting homeless in the first place happens because of lack of resources (or poor allocation of barely sufficient resources).

Then on top of that, an eviction on your credit report makes it harder to find a new place.

And finding a place is hard and time-consuming. Not even taking into account the deposits and other costs.

I think you’re right, but given the topic of the article, I had assumed “ports of call”.

How else would you define who is a journalist? How can one be a journalist without doing journalistic work?

Are you looking for a definition of "journalism"?

I hate the way it gets fuzzy when I erase and rewrite the same sentence over and over.

And don’t get me started on marker ink bleeding!

I was expecting a medium article explaining how all we’re really doing is moving our monolithic architectures to AWS and trying to monetize them.

I’ve imagined using a thermal printer as a semi-unattended packet radio terminal that wouldn’t lose messages when the batteries died.

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