Monthly Archives: September 2025

Elon Musk announces xAI building ‘Grokipedia’.

Nice! From Obsolescence Guaranteed… We’re starting to plan a replica rack for the PiDP-11. An RK05 removable hard disk drive is the first peripheral to be built in. The video shows the working prototype. From Wikipedia… “Digital Equipment Corporation’s RK05 is a disk drive whose removable disk pack can hold about 2.5 megabytes of data. …

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After a little googling, I thought I read somewhere that it works if you use the screen lock, and it appears to be true.

Well most obviously a Pi. I’m getting an itch for a new assembled PiDP computer. But, as an adult, I do have other more important personal projects, that need to be done. The kid in me wants a new (to me) PiDP now. But I still may have to wait a little. But I wanted …

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On May 5th 2025. Learned about it from a YouTube Video title, the video itself, was not in English. Built with FPC 3.2.2. Also Lazarus Bugfix Release 4.2 on July 22, 2025.

It seems the only session timeout setting Bitwarden understands is Never. If I set it for anything else… 1 min, 5 min, 1 hr, 4 hr or whatever it asks for the stupid password the very next friggen time. It’s been like this forever. WTH?

I wrote about this before. I was trying to spell Shakespearean, but I spelled it shakesperian, which doesn’t seem that far off, but LiberOffice Writer (on my Linux system) suggested phalansterian… Really? WTH? WordPress (which I’m writing this in) suggested spokesperson. At least I know what a spokesperson is.

Tech related… Google Admits Censorship Under Biden; Promises to End Bans of YouTube Accounts of Thousands of Americans Censored for Political Speech https://judiciary.house.gov/media/press-releases/google-admits-censorship-under-biden-promises-end-bans-youtube-accounts

Wow. I went completely Linux brain dead. I started SweetHome3D from the Desktop and it started a old version. It told me a new version 7.5 was available. So I tried to download it and found I already had downloaded it. There were already both versions there. Why was it running the old version? I …

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This is a stupid post. I just bought a UGREEN USB A to USB C adapter (Actually it was a pack of 4 adapters). I just randomly picked it to copy files to/from my phone. They can obviously be used for other things… but that’s why I bought them. It seems to work well. Never …

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