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"Your honor, I didn't steal a car. My frontier AI model did it autonomously. All I did was ask it to steal a car and then it did! It acted without my permission. By the way the AI model is really cool and will be releasing soon, your honor. Here is a discount code to use it once it releases. I plead not guilty."
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I am now on possession of Absolute OpenBSD by @nprofile1q... . I think this weekend I'm going to go through the setup steps in a VM and get myself acquainted with it.

I have tried openBSD and freeBSD previously, but from the perspective of "if I install this as an end user with no prior knowledge, how hard is it to get a desktop environment?" I succeeded for the most part, but didn't learn a whole lot about the WHY of BSD aside from openBSD having fantastic documentation.

I'm hoping to change that to be more well-rounded in my computer booping :3
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Every year, the HDMI Consortium meets with hardware manufacturers to plan where to place HDMI ports on monitors. Through a rigorous series of testing, they ensure that each monitor has its port locations optimized to be impossible to plug the HDMI cable in without turning the whole monitor around and eyeballing the port like some kind of spaceship docking procedure.

When they have all agreed on the best location, they go out for pizza.
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asking my husband, who wrote his master's thesis on bitrot and archival media, what physical media format he would use for a game console if he didn't want the games to corrupt but needed them to be updatable.

I sent it to him as a text, and just heard him go uuuGHGHGHGH from upstairs, so I get the feeling he has strong opinions.
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ティージェーグレェ · 5w
My favorite were HuCards for the PCエンジン「enjin」which was also the first console with a CD-ROM attachment (and those are darned decent too, even decades later). There are folks, in more recent years who have made ODE (Optical Disk Emulator) hardware to replace the failing moving parts CD-...
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If anyone knows of jobs that are either remote or near san antonio texas, and need a guy who is excellent at golang, project scoping, vm management and honeypot engineering, let me know! A friend of mine whom I am lucky to have worked with at a past job got laid off just now
FoolishOwl · 9w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqm849kfyedcctevc9q84v6865kr52zl0xd7u6djpsu0j977jurl9sey866s The King in Yellow was written by Robert W. Chambers, enthusiast for free love and the Paris Commune, and a much better person than Lovecraft.
Dio9sys · 9w
HP Lovecraft staring at his claude-cli prompt on his fresh omarchy install like "I bet the king in yellow is in here somewhere"