“Crime was always with us, he reasoned, and therefore, if you were going to have crime, it at least should be organised crime.”

I’m also using it to script sessions of workflows with many programs, for instance a dev environment with a lot of microservices. Some windows with multiple panes each.

This kind of reminds of the BlackDog: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackDog

It was a small computer that easily fit in a pocket and only had a single USB port. That was connected to a computer which powered it, and it connected as a virtual CD-ROM drive.

On that was an xming X11 server. The BlackDog ran your applications outputted through it. The applications it ran could also access the Internet through the host computer.

This is an interesting book I can recommend by Susan Cain: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8520610-quiet

Exactly this. I am a very social person when among people, but pay a price for it afterwards, as I’m drained of energy.

Introverts gains energy by being by them selves. Extroverts needs to be with other persons to gain energy,

That said, most people are not neccessarily completely one or the other.

I understand where the misconception comes from though. Seems likely that being introvert often leads to not be very social since you’re “punished” for it by your own mind.

Ah, so AI will kill off humanity. Not with a terminator but as a sex chat bot, leaving people unable to interact normally with other humans. No more human children!

The Kame ipsec project (https://www.kame.net) has a turtle image which is animated if visited with an IPv6 address.

What if they DIDN’T have a chip in the ink cartridge, and just used it as a container that could be refilled and used in every printer they made? No hacking the cartridge then.

No, that’s crazy talk!

Big bucks for big trucks?

What, no websocket-based realtime statistics for number of total, daily and hourly mistypings?

In Sweden we have had a version of self checkout for 20 years in the largest stores, and here it seems to work fine.

Instead of having to scan everything at a station, each product is scanned with a handscanner when walking through the store, and put directly into shopping bags. Then only the payment and possibly a randomly occuring verification is left before leaving the store.

The random testing is usually just an employee scanning three to five items from your bags, and occurs like once every four months (as long as you’re not actually stealing and caught).

We also had fun playing through Leisure Suit Larry 1 a couple of weeks ago :)

Built an arcade machine running MAME. We have been playing a lot of Boogie Wings and Windjammers.