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10·3 months ago-
receive text over the network
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render text into pixels
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mangle pixels through some convoluted Fourier transform to decrease quality
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run even more complex pattern matching algorithm on mangled pixels to guess text represented
Can we add AI somewhere down that line?
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That’s just inverse South African notation.
So, whatever Windows 11 does on my work laptop when I tell it to standby and it shuts off the screen but proceeds to spin the fans to 100% continuously?
That’s what MS Teams code blocks and ChatOps are for.
x32 mode may be an option to take advantage of some more registers/instructions, but I’d assume not many distros support that as a platform.
I have an Asus EeePC where the latest BIOS update straight up removed the option for AHCI and hard wired IDE compat mode. Luckily, I had kept the previous version and downgrade was possible.
the sleep issues.
Ah, the life of a sysadmin
Except if they’re on “our side” if course.
My first programming related memory is of the QBasic interpreter.
I had written some code I was quite happy with, but not saved it yet. As part of a subroutine for sound output, I quickly wrote a loop from 20 to 20000 to output a test signal over 1 second each with that frequency via the PC speaker and hit execute.
Realizing my mistake, It being MS-DOS and thus single-threaded, I couldn’t Ctrl+C out of it without killing QBasic altogether and losing my code. I couldn’t turn town the PC speaker.
I ended up closing various doors between the PC and me and waiting it out.
There’s a file called /pwnedornot and it contains “no, you’re safe bro”
GNU, or as I’d like to call it, GNU+PTerry