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blendo commented on Tektronix equipment has been used in many movies and shows vintagetek.org/tektronix-... · Posted by u/stmw

blendo · 24 days ago

Back in the 80s, the Tek 4115 (color, 1280x1024) was so much fun for a young programmer working at RADC/Hanscom AFB.

Mandelbrot sets and Towers of Hanoi were so exciting to write in Fortran (I think Fortran 77), running under, iirc, CP/M.

blendo commented on Larry Summers resigns from OpenAI board cnbc.com/2025/11/19/larry... · Posted by u/koolba

vkou · a month ago

> It's a bullshit world we're living in, but I guess it's always been the same?

> It seems for the wealthy, raping children is an acceptable pastime and we're just supposed to accept that it's ok?

This category of malcontent (about out-of-touch elites engaging in all sorts of depraved perversions while the poor starved) at Versailles eventually caused most of the former to lose their heads during the French Revolution.

The smart ones know that they need to keep up appearances, the dumb ones behave like they will never face consequences.

blendo · a month ago

And the US never revolted against our domestic aristocracy, as they never revolted against our clergy.

Wonder how it would have turned out if the French revolution happened before the American Revolution? What could we have learned from them?

blendo commented on Mullvad VPN present And Then? (Chat Control is back on the menu) mullvad.net/en/blog/mullv... · Posted by u/dotcoma

blendo · a month ago

For months, Mullvad has been papering San Francisco with smart and cheeky ads, like "Mass surveillance is made by machine men with machine hearts".

I admire that they're saying this, and wish other VPN companies would do similar public relations to highlight the risks of ad targeting.

Tbh, I'm a customer. Before Mullvad, I used PIA.

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/advertising-that-targets-everyon...

blendo commented on The Goon Squad harpers.org/archive/2025/... · Posted by u/ericzawo

blendo · 2 months ago

"When I was a boy, there were still porn magazines; fathers hid them on high shelves. You stood on stools and gawked at them in a state of mortal terror."

Terror? If you're steeped in guilt, perhaps so.

blendo commented on Electricity prices are climbing more than twice as fast as inflation npr.org/2025/08/16/nx-s1-... · Posted by u/geox

blendo · 4 months ago

The duck curve tells us prices are lower at noon due to tons of new solar, but what about the rate of price change?

Are electricity prices at noon climbing faster, or less fast, than prices at 6pm?

blendo commented on Steve Wozniak: Life to me was never about accomplishment, but about happiness yro.slashdot.org/comments... · Posted by u/MilnerRoute

nancyminusone · 4 months ago

I think that $10 million is a great answer for "how much money is more than you'll ever need".

Significantly more than that, and you're a hoarder.

blendo · 4 months ago

Yes. With $10 million in the bank, earning 4%, you'll see $400,000 a year, less taxes.

Whereas with $10 billion, you'll get $400 million a year, or about $7.5 million PER WEEK!

I think guys like Musk and Andreesen (&SBF) might have gone insane just trying to spend their money.

blendo commented on VPN use surges in UK as new online safety rules kick in ft.com/content/356674b0-9... · Posted by u/mmarian

ivanjermakov · 5 months ago

> that I could use online to prove my age

This is just moving personal data responsibilities from service providers (e.g. porn sites) to the central authority (QR code maker and verifier). Unless there is a semi-anonymous way of purchasing age proofs, e.g. over the counter.

blendo · 4 months ago

Yes, that's what I'm suggesting: over the counter. Like booze or a lottery ticket.

blendo commented on The Bluesky Dictionary avibagla.com/blueskydicti... · Posted by u/gaws

avibagla1 · 4 months ago

Hey! this is my site - it's not all that complex, i'm just using a sqlite db with two tables - one for stats, the other for all the words that's just word | count | first use | last use | post.

I... did not expect this to be so popular

blendo · 4 months ago

What are the table sizes?

And what ingress bandwidth do you have?

blendo commented on Australia widens teen social media ban to YouTube, scraps exemption reuters.com/legal/litigat... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar

SilverElfin · 5 months ago

Why are so many countries like Australia, UK, EU, etc suddenly pro censorship. Aren’t these all liberal democracies? I would think these policies would be very unpopular. Is there some analysis of how this came to be normalized?

blendo · 5 months ago

I think most parents are really uncomfortable with adolescents accesing smartphone porn, and also sexting.

Particularly highly religious parents, like those in Utah.

blendo commented on VPN use surges in UK as new online safety rules kick in ft.com/content/356674b0-9... · Posted by u/mmarian

blendo · 5 months ago

I need to prove my age to buy a lottery ticket or purchase alcohol. The merchant typically doesn't save my id info.

What if I could purchase a unique QR code, good for maybe a month, that I could use online to prove my age?

There'd still be problems in the US with 1st amendment issues, but I'd at least remain anonymous.

u/blendo

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