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NewtonMark

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Australia. Pug owner. Private pilot. Professional internet geek. Opinions vary.

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Blocked @ghostie. You might like to preemptively do so too.

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“It's a great time to be a cop [in NSW],” apparently. In this photo a young female officer notices the camera and shows a semi-smile, hoping the male officer on the left sees it too and doesn’t choose this moment to taser to death the nice old man on the right. Because you know he wants to.

[PHOTO AS DESCRIBED, SORT OF, IN THIS SATIRICAL TWEET] It's a great time to be a cop From March, NSW police recruits who complete their 16-week academy training will receive more than $30,000, making them one of the highest-paid police recruits in Australia. Then when they graduate as general duties probationary constables, they'll start on a secure, fulfilling career with a huge variety of specialist pathways such as detectives, forensics, the dog unit or highway patrol. Are you keen to make a positive difference in the community or know someone perfect for the job? See what it takes.
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    @vampiress @stilgherrian For a long time my ACAB mantra is that there are no good cops because every cop is either violently corrupt or knows someone who’s violently corrupt without doing anything about it, and any normal person would resign in disgust to get away from it all.

    (Works for sociopathic politicians too)

    If that’s what your friend’s girlfriend did, I’m going to feel a bit validated right there.

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    Got my instrument rating a whole year ago. Time flies!

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    NewtonMark ,
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    @vampiress I hope you lodged an IFR flight plan.

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    NewtonMark ,
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    @vampiress What happens to a Mac SE if you don’t snip out the CMOS battery?

    NewtonMark ,
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    @vampiress I’m reminded of SPARCstation IPCs, which have a button-cell to keep the NVRAM in a NV state, and when it goes flat the Ethernet MAC address defaults to 00:00:00:00:00:00 and you need to enter some Forth code from the boot prompt to set it to a sensible value.

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    A rare photo of the last steam-sheep before electrification.

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    Happy "Captain Cook got stabbed in the chest in Hawaii" day to all who celebrate.

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    NewtonMark ,
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    @liamvhogan @vampiress That's exactly what she has, Liam. You're absolutely right.

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    A reminder that if I see you boost DenisTheCOVIDInfoGuy into my timeline I'll unfollow you immediately, and if you boost anyone from zeroes.ca I'll straight-up block you.

    In both cases I'll also judge you, and while I'm doing it I'll be mouthing, "Get bent."

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    NewtonMark ,
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    @vampiress I can hear that photo.

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    NewtonMark ,
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    @trent @vampiress I once had a housemate whose hobby was collecting old Unix computers, and we had an 11/780 in the kitchen.

    His pride and joy was a Multimax 310, which was a 1980s supercomputer designed to support hundreds or perhaps thousands of users. His had 8 CPUs and about a gigabyte of RAM, which was not quite fully loaded but pretty close.

    The Multimax corporation designed the Annex terminal servers as a way of getting lots of users onto a machine that only had four serial ports. The Annex product was divested to Encore, which sold it to pretty much every Uni in Australia in the late 1980s. If your Uni had Sun or DEC compute resources, you probably accessed them on an RS-232 terminal connected to an Annex.

    (We had several in the house for incoming modem lines)

    NewtonMark ,
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    @vampiress @jpm @trent NetBSD will run on it with a reasonably modern compiler toolchain (I think they switched to LLVM)

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    Speaking as a higher earner:

    Bullshit.

    If you’re a higher earner and you can’t afford essentials: Sell one of your Audis. Shut the fuck up, you’re an embarrassment.

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    NewtonMark ,
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    @vampiress We had MacintoshPlus computers at school. There was a system extension called MacSpew that caused it to make a wet sloppy sounding vomiting noise whenever it ejected a floppy disk, and I made a point of putting it in every System folder I could find.

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    Double demerit points are in force this long weekend, so get a plane.

    NewtonMark OP ,
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    @vampiress Vne — It’s not just a good idea, it’s … well actually it’s just a good idea.

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    “More Aussies turned to News Corp than the ABC for news during 2023” https://mumbrella.com.au/more-aussies-turned-to-news-corp-than-the-abc-for-news-during-2023-813014

    NewtonMark ,
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    @stilgherrian @daedalus @vampiress This discovery fills me with mirth and joy.

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    These are two of the stupidest cunts alive. https://www.businessinsider.com/andreessen-horowitz-founders-criticize-higher-education-new-podcast-2024-1?amp

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    NewtonMark ,
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    @trent @vampiress Did you do the trick where you could double the amount of chip RAM by soldering chips piggy-back onto the existing ones, with the CS pin pulled out sideways and wired to one of the address bus pins on the Fat Agnes? That hack was the mark of the true Amiga aficionado.

    NewtonMark ,
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    @vampiress @trent n00b.

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