…folks frequently presume i’m a recording on telephone calls; i used to do radio so i guess my extemporaneous diction comes across more composed than anticipated…

…i did not but i’d rather not traffic user-hostile sites, regardless…

…now that’s a name i’ve not heard in - two months…

…we had the 4016 2001N with an external tape drive: not quite as much geek-cred as the original 2001, but still respectable…

…is that the demo?..

…yeppers; don’t use a computer…

…unfortunately they’re rife with oppressively disruptive advertising these days; just not worth reading anymore and my battery life agrees…

…that page has some cut to balance the preceding fill… 🥁

temporary autonomous zone

…it’s been the frontier of human condition for as long as we’ve wrought civilisation from the wild; always ephemeral; always pollinating, seeding anew, and burgeoning along the fresh meadowlands of social intercourse…

…there’s one clear victor and it’s not even close…

…microsoft applications have an annoying habit of auto-replacing my dashes with emdashes; i don’t even know how to type an emdash…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fupg2r1EJ9w

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…you know, now that i’m really thinking about it, there may be a token 12"x18" privacy screen set on the table between displays, but it doesn’t impede adjacent displays from your field of view at all: it’s more about the suggestion of privacy than actual functionality…

…there are sugar babies, sugar mamas, and sugar daddies…

…here we just have touchscreen kiosks set side-by-side along open tables, no privacy other than the LCD field-of-view…

…large-language models do not comport with lossless data reconstruction in my experience; quite the opposite…

…that’s pretty cool!..

…i learned this word from the big book of amazing facts in 1978!..