And they have Fedora Slack(ware)!
Wait - I saw a link to a Slack chat workspace. Do they have something for Slackware Linux as well?
Readit NewsiNate2000 commented on Fedora: Open-source repository for long-term digital preservation fedorarepository.org/... · Posted by u/cernocky
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.
iNate2000 commented on NSA releases 1982 Grace Hopper lecture nsa.gov/helpful-links/nsa... · Posted by u/gaws
Yes. Linked press release says they borrowed equipment from NARA to play it.
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
iNate2000 commented on Re-live buying a computer in 1995 [video] youtube.com/watch?v=DaK__... · Posted by u/indigodaddy
iNate2000 commented on CZ5B (Chinese rocket) Reentry Prediction aerospace.org/reentries/c... · Posted by u/Kaibeezy
You're forgetting about what happens when something "falls" from the atmosphere uncontrolled
But what if it only appears uncontrolled?
iNate2000 commented on The Central Social Institution in Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1937 vintag.es/2020/01/central... · Posted by u/dredmorbius
I can't help but consider it a Flintstone-style proto-HDD where human-powered r/w heads move to read/write sectors.
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
iNate2000 commented on Ask HN: What's the best way to monetize actual programming? · Posted by u/throwaway34135
How would one sell that / do jobs like that actually exist? I'm trying to imagine the conversation where I would suggest that without the framing that I should be allowed to work on my own projects on company time because I'm not being productive with most of my working hours.
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.
iNate2000 commented on Ask HN: What's the best way to monetize actual programming? · Posted by u/throwaway34135
Are you referring to the uncle bob martins of the world who mostly do classes? Surely not 50k a week doing implementation work right?
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.
iNate2000 commented on Designing for a right to repair interactionmagic.com/Desi... · Posted by u/bryanrasmussen
Interesting that he mentions the Dave Smith Instruments (now Sequential) Prophet 12. I have a Prophet P08, and have opened it up to repair it, and it is a work of design elegance. It contains five boards, each connected via an easily removed ribbon cable, attached to a metal body with just a few screws. You can trivially remove all the boards, and in fact I did exactly this to ship the boards to the company for a minor repair rather than shipping the entire unit.
Another work of design beauty was the NeXTstation, NeXT's pizza-box shaped workstation. A solid magnesium case with an elegant molded heat sink on bottom, opens with a single screw in the back. Inside there's a fan (two screws), a power supply attached directly to the case over the heat sink (one screw), a mount for the floppy drive (one screw), a mount for the hard drive (one screw), and the motherboard (one or two screws). And that's it -- that's the entire thing! You can break down the entire machine in less than five minutes. Did I mention it's made of solid magnesium?
How NeXT/Apple has fallen.
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