Sometimes this is just… bleak.

- ___ is a next-generation sports betting and gaming platform built for a new wave of players.
- "Cracked engineers only"
- ___ ’s unified AI platform combines conversational AI agents, real-time human agent augmentation, and comprehensive conversation intelligence to drive revenue and efficiency gains across every channel.

(That last one sounds like firing your humans to replace them with what is sure to be VERY bad AI bots, and overworked “augmentation”.)

It can send now.

"This is a Nintendo”

https://analyzer.montrealmesh.ca/#/packets/609027d709b57938

Today in fun projects to cope with the state of the world:

My #Nintendo ( #NES ) receives #MeshCore now. ( #OneROM powered. )

Temporarily defeated by this #NeXTcube power supply issue. Running out of time before #VCF #Montreal.

It works for about 15 mins, then shuts down. Fails to start a few times. Then starts and runs for ~15 mins. Motherboard battery is good. No caps look bad. No leaks. Solder joints look good. Seems to fail to latch when it won’t start (12V rail gets up to 9 or so). Fine voltages when it’s running. Reduced load by removing components and same. 🤷‍♂️

*youth techno-cult leader voice*

> You know who wouldn't make that kind of mistake? LLMs.

Done with talking about Québec politics after this, but:

- Minority governments are more representative of the people. It'll be harder for the PQ to suck. 👍
- The CAQ are… as they say… *finding out*. Glad they won't be burning things down anymore. 👍
- Montreal will actually have representation this time around, which was BARELY true for the previous two election cycles (2022: 2 seats on the island, in the majority party, is NOT representation for 2 million people (~25% of the population)) 👍

What in the Jobs?

(Seems exercising it brought out the power supply gremlins, so now it’s a hardware problem before the networking problem… We didn’t know this was called yak shaving in 1991.)

It appears that this #NeXT Cube I'm working on (at @foulab ) was last set up to connect to `IPBROADCAST=132.206.3.255`, which is a #McGill IP block.

Anyone in #Montreal got a greybeard IT connection at McGill that could tell me more about the cube? I'm afraid at least some of the lore has been lost to time. (Going back to 1991/1992 is a lot to ask, I know… this is part of the fun!)

On the eve of the #Quebec provincial #election, here are 2 things to remember:

1) First Past the Post is broken. Polling is showing that the PQ will win a majority with ~30% of the vote, and that is completely undemocratic. (Though I'm slightly hopeful that they will win a minority only, as some of the polls are starting to show.)

2) Polling is broken because it's online surveys and calling phone numbers, and people under 50 don't answer phone calls from or respond to automated systems.

Vote!

“During the test phase of the WWW project, the port number to which the daemon listens was 2784. W3 has officially allocated port number 80. Servers should use port 80 and advertise their address with the explicit port number (i.e. http://host:80/etc…).”
–1992

This stuff is fascinating.

https://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Daemon/User/Guide.html

My geolocation-targetting ads sure are messed up after travelling across Canada by land in the past 3 weeks.

He had no flux left to give.

(sorry/not sorry)

“First import of WWW Library source files. (not in working state)”

1993-Feb-03

https://github.com/w3c/libwww/commit/edb73538ebd51aa92e7bbebcad16d1f74ec093fb

It's truly amazing that this is still out there, and readily available (once I was able to find it).

HTDaemon.c-Tim-development

https://www.w3.org/Daemon/old/HTDaemon.c-Tim-development

It's a weird thing when:

- spinning my wheels on not finding something (WWWDaemon source code for NeXT Cube, in this case)
- finally give up and ask [specific] others for help
- IMMEDIATELY find the thing I asked about, before anyone could have possibly helped

(I deleted the original post about this on here; I'll save my pestering-people for next time I run out of leads. Sorry for the unnecessary pings, friends.)

Please hit me up if you've got a [paid] project for this!

I think this kind of thing is *especially* useful to shops that already have an iOS team with good #Swift background, but even without iOS, Swift is a solid server side language that doesn't get enough love. https://mastodon.social/@swiftlang/117372766654196896

I've caught myself looking at job postings the way I look at cocktail bar menus.

“Oh, this one sounds good. It's got a whole bunch of things I like, and sounds well-balanced. I could see myself drinking this. Going to ord… ROSEWATER?! Nope.”

“Oh, this one sounds good. It's got a whole bunch of things I like, and sounds well-balanced. I could see myself working here. Going to appl… RAILS?! Nope.”

There's so much overlap between my “How We Got Here" piece and @pluralistic 's "Technopolitics" essay that I was legitimately a little worried that I accidentally stole some of his for mine. I was very relieved to find that I wrote mine a month earlier.

(I *have* been listening to Cory preach for the past bunch-of-years, so I certainly share at least some of these opinions through his ideas. Just glad I didn't steal from this piece.)

https://seancoates.com/blogs/how-we-got-here

https://locusmag.com/feature/commentary-cory-doctorow-technopolitics/

FWIW #HeyRosetta moved the show to Metropolis (which is what it was called before we let the giant rich companies buy everything; MTELUS now) and I got tickets this morning.

Haven’t been this excited for a show since going to their last one in St. John’s in 2017!

Yesterday, in the one-block walk through the park between VIA Rail’s VCVR station and the local public transit platform, I saw someone injecting, someone else defecating, and another group of people sharing a pipe.

I bet that was a pretty rough introduction to the city for the large number of retirees that I rode the train with from TRTO…