[-] Scirocco@lemm.ee 5 points 4 months ago

That's a sweet monitor

[-] Scirocco@lemm.ee 5 points 4 months ago

Also a shoutout to joker. Been there for 20(ish?) years. Never an issue.

Old- looking UI which i actually appreciate

You can also very easily register as a reseller for less expensive renewals.

[-] Scirocco@lemm.ee 6 points 5 months ago
[-] Scirocco@lemm.ee 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Because.......

Grandpa Joe worked with the mob rum-running, in order to amass the family fortune, and fhey in turn delivered several major cities in the election, but then JFK let RFK Bobby loose on an aggressive anti-racketeering rampage

Among other reasons ofc

[-] Scirocco@lemm.ee 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I've tended to score suspiciously high on most aptitude/iq type tests my entire life (70s kid, among the earliest ADD diagnoses, etc) and tbh i think I am quite a lot dumber than those tests imply.

Show of hands all y'all "talented and gifted" kids that never did nuthin ...

*edit: to be clear, I don't think 'raw intelligence' or anything similar necessarily confers a lot of life benefits. It can, but doesn't always or maybe even most of the time.

[-] Scirocco@lemm.ee 8 points 9 months ago

I actually read your article, and I wholly disagree.

Facts matter, truth matters and without the A students we would be even further down the road to Idiocracy, which ofc looks more like a future-documentary every day.

Your brand of "it's all stupid, so join the stupid train" seems designed to appeal to people who want to be stupid. Or you could call yourself ignorant, if you prefer.

In any case, the anti-intellect position that you promote may have a basis in reality (headline hippos) but it is far from a positive contribution.

You can do better.

[-] Scirocco@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

Not exactly ------ no one really buys enough sex toys to become a 'known regular ' in a sexshop

For-sure he was known to so many staff because he was regularly visiting the 'video booths' area, which generally have gloryholes or other forms of public, anonymous sex.

Chances are very high this guy was giving and/or getting blowjobs to/from strangers every weekend

[-] Scirocco@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

32 now and I actually like it. I hope it will taint my profile in a positive way

[-] Scirocco@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

Easy! Just replace their usual SMS app with Signal, and then every contact they have that does use Signal is private and secure!

Oh. Wait. That's exactly the functionality that Signal removed in their effort to ensure that Signal is never widely adopted.....

[-] Scirocco@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Doing something about International Law on international waters is a totally different matter than within the the borders of a sovereign nation.

[-] Scirocco@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago

It's pretty well established that any biometric can just be taken from you


facial recognition is super easy and it won't be hard to force your thumb onto the sensor.

This is also the case for things like blood draw for blood alcohol testing.

The only unlock key that's (probably) truly yours is something inside your brain.

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Kakapo's Nest (i.imgur.com)
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#Source: ADDS Envoy Traveling Terminals - Hardware - Retro Computing#

Here’s an early 1970s portable terminal with fantastic looks, which might be rightfully called the “Polaroid SX-70” of terminals. Sadly, I wasn’t able to put a date to this. The artifact in question (sadly not mine) is the ADDS Envoy Traveling Terminal 600. The Envoy 620, which is also pretty stunning (see below) was introduced in June 1972. (Since this is looking a bit early, it may be 1970/71.)

ADDS-Envoy-travelling-computer-terminal-1970s-1

ADDS-Envoy-travelling-computer-terminal-1970s-2

The ADDS Envoy 600, a sales brochure (PDF) can be found at archive.org 19.

And here’s the ADDS Envoy 620:

ADDS-Envoy-620-1972

For more info and images see https://terminals-wiki.org/wiki/index.php/ADDS_Envoy_620 38 and http://jimsoldtoys.blogspot.com/2016/05/adds-envoy-portable-terminal.html 16 on the similar ADDS Envoy 580.

terminals-wiki.org 2 writes on the company history:

“Applied Digital Data Systems, or simply ADDS, was a manufacturer of high-quality video terminals. In March, 1979, ADDS had delivered 100,000 CRT terminals. In 1980, ADDS became a wholly owned subsidiary of NCR. In 1991, ADDS become part of AT&T when AT&T purchased NCR. In 1994, AT&T sold ADDS to SunRiver Data Systems. In 1996, the company was renamed to Boundless Technology.”

P.S.: A nice source found in one of these pages, providing a comprehensive overview of 1970s terminals, is the “Handbook of interactive computer terminals” by Duane E. Sharp, 1977, available as a PDF at https://archive.org/details/handbookofintera00duan 19.

PPS: this is a repost from here

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Cassette Futurism in lemmy (martin-fieber.de)

as a recently-minted fan of the cassette futurism concept, i wanted to see some here on lemm.ee

the blog link and probably most of the content for a while will be 'flattery' of the reddit sub, and mods/community/everyone are welcome.

mods especially

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