Recent content by Perico

Which is a bad idea to represent the concept of copying a file to somewhere in the filesystem. QDOS totally left behind the PIP command. Someone else thought the same. It is bad for the most important command of a disk-based operating system to have horrible usability. UNIX got the "cp" command...

CP/M is what was delivered with microcomputers, until the IBM PC arrived and steamrolled all other microcomputers. I remember how "hard" it was to remember the syntax of the PIP command, which you needed to copy a file. It used to "equal" (=) sign to denote what was being copied to where, and I...

Very interesting thread. I am a fan on Xenix, just by having heard so much about it. One question: do you have TCP/IP and Ethernet working in your Xenix VM in VirtualBox? That would be a blast!

I'll say two things: 1) Eudimorphodon provided a video which is just shy to two (2) hours long. 2) I genuinely think I learnt something new about NFTs in less time than that through those LLMs. I guess everybody here had previous perfect knowledge of NFTs. I might be of retarded learning...

Using reddit-parlace, let me ask you: AITAH? (Genuine question, I can be abrasive at times, I know).

Sorry, but crypto-currencies are not the same as currency, i.e, crypto-currencies are not the same as legal tender. Legal tender is "erga omnes", whereas crypto-currency is "opt-in". The difference is MAJOR.

After my previous exchange on NFTs with Google's LLM "Gemini", I then turned to Twitter/X's LLM "Grok" to dig a little deeper into the practical side of NFTs.... It went like this (warning: LONG wall of text ahead): https://x.com/i/grok/share/MWawjayIsuuFJ5Bo9wRAht3My The end result: NFT...

Yes, I was surprised to discover NFTs are, in fact, a fad. I reserve my right to be surprised by new (to me) discoveries. I may not have your innate ability to intuitively cut to the chase of any new hyped thing to come across. I am sorry to have to correct you, but LLMs are not random word...

If you read my chat on NFTs with Gemini (link is in OP), you'll see I reach the conclusion that NFT are only good to establish a universally-recognized, first-in-time bind between a person (or more precisely, a wallet) and a digital file (or more precisely, a digital hash) - and the "utility"...

I used Google's "Gemini" AI (LLM) to learn what is that hyped "NFT" thing I keep hearing about as an "investment opportunity". I pushed the issue, and found out NFT are not meant for investment (and that those who treat it as such, are aiming for you money). Here is the chat I had with Gemini...

And then, when you get an email with a "creative" subject using f*cking emojis... (which they decided to include in Unicode, because why not). I think I'll revert to using mutt to be able to "cancel" all that annoying noise.

Consider this beautiful phising email purporting to come from Netflix: This time the hackers are evading "typical" spam filters, AND non-trained AI-based filters, by encoding the name "Netflix" and the Subject using human-readable UTF-8 characters which a machine CANNOT easily detect as...

It so happens that I self-host my own email, and I use an ad-hoc email alias for each on-line service where I have an account. Today, I went to login (after probably several years of not visiting it) into Soundcloud.com, and I found out that they are demanding that I reset my password with them...

I think CP/M would have had a better luck if DRI had released an standard video reference, instead of being agnostic on that front and aiming for just "a barebones teletype-capable terminal". That would have reduced fragmentation and incompatibilities in office-targeted commercial programs.

500 Trumps for untested kit. That's nice.