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hackernudes · 2026-02-21T19:06:11 1771700771

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xalTFH5ht-k&t=99

This matches my memory of 56k dialup with the two BONGs.

And now I get to share my favorite AT command. M0 could mute the modem! M1 was quieter than the default. I will never understand why those weren't more common! Used like: ATM0DT

vardump · 2026-02-21T19:58:08 1771703888

I never wanted to mute, because with sound you could hear a bad connection early and retry faster.

orev · 2026-02-22T01:10:30 1771722630

And you could hear the call waiting beep if you didn’t have a dedicated line for the PC.

johng · 2026-02-21T23:24:02 1771716242

Yup, this exactly.

adontz · 2026-02-25T13:18:37 1772025517

Very similar, thank you so much

hackernudes · 2026-02-12T02:29:50 1770863390

Today I learned: Man-portable air-defense systems (MANPADS) are shoulder-fired, surface-to-air missiles designed for use by individuals or small teams to engage low-flying aircraft, helicopters, and UAVs.

hackernudes · 2026-02-10T23:03:29 1770764609

KTLO = keeping the lights on

hackernudes · 2026-02-05T19:43:26 1770320606

The word is terawatts unless you mean earth-based watts. OK then, it's confirmed, data centers in space!

hackernudes · 2026-02-04T02:50:43 1770173443

High latency to earth but low latency (potentially) to other satellites.

hackernudes · 2026-01-31T21:34:42 1769895282

DROPS, The Dresden Real-Time Operating System Project -- https://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/drops/

QNX -- http://toastytech.com/guis/qnxdemo.html (or https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44856046)

enricotr · 2026-02-01T12:20:25 1769948425

Thanks, Sir.

hackernudes · 2026-01-28T15:05:07 1769612707

Pretty sure it was in Snow Crash

ihaveajob · 2026-01-31T05:46:50 1769838410

No, check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptonomicon#Technical_conten...

It was in a passage where some secondary character was in a prison cell and managed to spy on the screen across the wall using the technique.

hackernudes · 2026-01-28T15:02:05 1769612525

Neverball is a similar game that's been open source for ages. It has a web based version too: https://play.neverball.org/

hackernudes · 2026-01-22T05:58:57 1769061537

The agents.md is from the upstream tinygrad repo: https://github.com/tinygrad/tinygrad/blob/master/AGENTS.md

nomilk · 2026-01-22T07:19:48 1769066388

> Never mix functionality changes with whitespace changes.

Whoa.. the cursor rule I didn't know I needed!

hackernudes · 2026-01-12T22:05:09 1768255509

Context: https://www.cisecurity.org/cis-benchmarks, https://www.cisecurity.org/about-us

"""The CIS Benchmarks® are prescriptive configuration recommendations for more than 25+ vendor product families. They represent the consensus-based effort of cybersecurity experts globally to help you protect your systems against threats more confidently."""

infocollector · 2026-01-13T01:53:33 1768269213

https://learn.cisecurity.org/benchmarks - this seems broken at least right now. Are these benchmarks on github so that I can download and run it on a linux box?

firesteelrain · 2026-01-13T04:54:39 1768280079

You used to have to make an account to download them.