Feth ⚛🔰 @ffeth@mastodon.gougere.fr

Mastodon instances in the Bay Area - We are getting there! 😃

https://mastodon.fediverse.observer/map

Libriste, ça vous titille de bosser dans une #SCOP. En #télétravail.
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vous avez vu the Sandman ? ça vaut le coup ou pas?

Unless you were there, you really cannot appreciate how much damage Intel did to the PC ecosystem with the 286.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_80286

The 286 was the successor to the 8086 and 8088 CPUs that powered the original IBM PCs. It offered a huge step forward from them.

Those older chips always ran in "real mode," where memory locations had fixed addresses, and any running program could modify the contents of any address. This meant that you couldn't have two programs running at once, because one might try to use a bit of memory the other was already using, and blammo!

The 286 introduced "protected mode," which prevented programs from being able to mess with memory allocated to other programs. Instead of addresses corresponding directly to blocks of memory, in protected mode they were treated as "virtual" addresses, and mapped to memory allocated just for that program.

Protected mode meant the days when one program could reach into another one and mess with its memory would be over. And that opened up all sorts of possibilities. You could have real multitasking! A whole range of crash bugs would be instantly eliminated! Suddenly the PC began to look like a machine that you could put against a UNIX workstation with a straight face.

But there was a problem. To maintain backwards compatibility with the old chips, the 286 had to boot into real mode. It could then shift into protected mode on demand. But -- and this is a big BUT -- once it was shifted into protected mode, IT COULD NOT SHIFT BACK. The only way to get back into real mode was to reboot the PC.

Which was a problem, because every PC user owned a huge library of DOS software, much of which could only run in real mode. So the 286 gave you multitasking -- but if you ever needed to run a real-mode program, you had to reboot your PC (and lose all the other running programs) to run it.

This was, as you may imagine, not ideal.

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C'est la merde.

Pas de salaire depuis Mai. J'ai reçu des dons en juin de Fedinautes.

Pas de minima sociaux ni de chômage.

Des dents à faire soigner et un bébé qui arrive.

Si vous avez quelques pièces de coté en ce moment, vos dons seront precieux

https://liberapay.com/Xav.CC/donate

It's a shitty mess.

No salary since May. I received some donations in June from fedizens.

No dole insurance and no social minimum-wage.

Teeth to be fixed and a baby on the way.

If you have any spare change at the moment, your donations will be invaluable

https://liberapay.com/Xav.CC/donate

🌞 ⛅ 🌥️ 🌦️ ☁️ 🌧️ ⛈️ 🌨️

🇫🇷 Vous aimez le robot qui vous donne les prévisions météo de votre ville par pouet, agenda ics ou flux rss ?
Alors partagez ce pouet pour le faire connaitre !

https://bot.elmt.eu

🇺🇸 You like the bot that gives you the weather forecast of your city by toot, ics calendar or rss feed you like?
Then share this toot to make it known!

https://bot.elmt.eu

#météo #meteo #robot #weather #bot

Bon feedburner, comme tant d'autres sisites Google a fermé ses portes - quelqu'un a un conseil pour une newsletter ? https://arfy.fr/dotclear/index.php?post/2022/08/07/Bon-feedburner--comme-tant-d-autres-sisites-Google-a-ferme-ses-portes-quelqu-un-a-un-conseil-pour-une-newsletter Arfy.fr a encore pas mal de personnes qui utilisaient la newsletter proposée par Feedburner.
Bon ben Google a fermé (ou presque) le service, oui oui, GAFAM etc, mais pe...

#Microsoft bars #Tutanota users from registering MS Teams accounts https://www.hackread.com/microsoft-tutanota-email-register-ms-teams-account/

Clairement, mon nouveau mantra.