[06:32] morning boys and girls. [06:46] o/ [06:48] o/ [07:18] hey brobostigon [07:18] hey zmoylan-pi [07:18] hi knightwise [07:28] do you know if there might be a BBS client in the Ubuntu repositories ? [07:28] * knightwise is curious [11:05] how would you test it? are there any bbs still operating in uk? [12:03] zmoylan-pi: i heard the cyberpunk librarian talk about it on his show [12:03] apparently there are still bbs severs connected to the net on port 22 [12:04] i hope they support kermit... i can't stand those namby pamby wishy washy fiddly new file transfer protocols... :-D [12:16] would just like to know how you connect and what is still there [12:16] I love legacy tech (hence IRC) [12:17] it's _THE_ place for you star trek vga res wallpagers... [12:20] https://twitter.com/suchipi/status/978332662141104128 [12:21] [12:21] asirta.com (telnet) [12:21] try it [13:45] what do we think we're getting from apple today, then? [13:45] (1hr 15min) [13:45] another product that was clearly invented somewhere else, but now has a new name [13:46] no live steam today [13:48] a cheap ipad. well for apple... 0 ports to make charging more fun... it'll be like an etch a sketch. shake it to charge it... keeps kids fit too... :-) [14:01] y'know the super skinny 12" macbooks launched ~2015 or so? they've all begun having the keyboards fail / a component on the board fails rendering them useless :D [14:03] yey [14:04] at least Louis on youtube has been seeing a large influx of them [14:04] didn't those have a weird keyspring that people universally hated? [14:05] yeah new design that's super clacky [14:05] GNU Terry Pratchett [14:06] oh you didn't mean clacks overhead [14:10] https://twitter.com/TunnelsUp/status/976536957751910400 [14:25] they've never heard of "dial before you dig!" [15:01] https://twitter.com/reneritchie/status/978647405196402688 does anyone else think of the Matt LeBlanc version of Lost In Space when you see or hear the word "blorp"? [15:03] https://twitter.com/settern/status/978648488614551553 what's an "apple pencil style drawing"? [15:08] apple are helping out in schools: https://images.scribblelive.com/2018/3/27/588b500c-ca48-48cb-80e8-ed59c82ed593.jpg (shot taken last week) [15:19] Huston, we have an iPad. [15:19] REpeat, we have an iPad [15:30] what is it with american schools and cutting open frogs?! com [15:31] err... http://www.twitter.com/settern/status/978655353641594880 [15:39] * Houston :D [15:39] spillage chucker didn't complain....! [15:41] funny part was reading yours wiped my memory of the real one for a minute [15:41] the matt leblanc version of lost in space is the first movie i stopped watching half way through after renting it... awful [15:42] snob [15:42] did you rewind the tape in anger? [15:42] of course [15:43] and i'll watch the worst sci fi but that lost in space was a step too far... [15:44] well they're rebooting it so you get another chance to hate it [15:45] i just had flashbacks to all the sound effects my parents 80s VCR made during every function [15:46] and you could tell from the motor whine how close it was to the end of the tape... [15:46] eeeerrrrkk chunter chunter chunter clip [15:46] click* [15:46] top loading sony tank vcr... also known as the cat tosser... for reasons... [15:47] zmoylan-pi: yes xD [15:47] tosser! [15:48] apparently Apple used Swift to make Swift Playgrounds. duh [15:48] http://www.twitter.com/settern/status/978659825746931713 [15:49] and the curriculum goes "from step one" to the end [15:49] https://twitter.com/settern/status/978660024162676736 [15:51] a is for apple™️ [15:54] apple are replacing teachers with unpaid workers: http://www.twitter.com/reneritchie/status/978660893331304448 [15:54] school arts and crafts is now assemble apple gear... [15:55] diddledan: i think it might be more efficient to wait for a wrap up piece ;) [16:00] but then he can't bounce up and down with excitement over a $329 9.7" ipad [16:00] $30 off for students! [16:00] that's a whopping 9% [16:00] unless they want to use an ipencil in which case add $99 [16:01] nah, sturends get $10 off that ! :-p [16:01] wtf is a sturend? [16:01] sturgeons pretenting to be students... [16:02] I think that's it for the show [16:03] so... interesting but probably not enough to halt google. they might jump over ms though [16:03] MS don't have tablets? [16:04] they have surface pros. but apple are at 17% v ms 22% and googles 60% in education market [16:05] they're obviously not in the same segment though, lowest tier iPads + Surfaces [16:05] and the surface pro although it has had great reviews has had terrible hardware failure rates [16:05] in the first two generations yeah [16:05] that might be enough to sink it [16:05] they properly had the customers test 'em ;D [16:13] well it seems to have passed the customer banging their head against the desk it's resting on... [16:18] apparently nvidia are doing something, too: https://www.ustream.tv/gpu-technology-conference [16:19] maybe unveiling their new 'volta' gen at last [16:20] he's got his trademark leather jacket! [16:22] https://twitter.com/marciahofmann/status/978637746855006210 [16:24] sheesh [16:25] the nvidia bitcoin miner card... :-) [16:26] htf are they doing realtime raytracing?! [16:28] hah, ok $68000 computer [16:28] a piece i read the other day with Tim Sweeney from Epic said... yeah, 4 graphics cards in one [16:30] sigh. deep learning [16:30] bingo! [16:30] who didn't have deep learning on their bingo card?? [16:30] trump? [16:47] lol: https://twitter.com/kylealden/status/978674740406640640 [16:48] "and where's the machine you do real work on?" [16:51] ergh these images are too small in the nvidia pres [16:52] you mean my emacs console? :-) https://78.media.tumblr.com/42076a3e5a77a0ff6e3fa93567e1f9aa/tumblr_p62jdzvyqb1qz6f9yo1_1280.jpg [16:52] is that kim jong-un at the end? [16:52] so far away you can't tell... [16:57] nah that's Shatner [16:57] ;) [17:11] that's a beast nvidia thingy [17:11] the 16 Tesla V100 [17:11] DGX-2 [17:12] 2 petafloppies [17:12] 10kiloWatts, though, is probably meaning it is a bit too beafy for my cupboard [17:12] diddledan: time to pop one under your desk [17:13] you'll need *2* hamsters in wheels to power it! [17:13] oof that's going to double his infrastructure [17:13] frak [17:14] that means twice the gruel expenditure [17:14] the costs in wd40 alone to stop the wheels squeaking at night... [17:15] I prefer using children to hamsters, anyway.. they're less needy [17:15] and easily replaced [17:16] that's true [17:16] your siblings stop answering the orders pretty quickly though [17:18] $1.5 meeeleon dollar [17:18] oh alright, 399 fowsand [17:20] his needle needs to be nudged, he keeps getting stuck! [17:22] apparently it's RTM day: https://www.thurrott.com/windows/windows-10/155147/windows-10-redstone-4-rtm-released-insiders === Nina is now known as Guest82230 [17:23] oh my [17:28] is it me, or is the nvidia dude a bit looney? [17:28] i think like he said it's just because he's not prepared xD [17:28] aye [17:29] but yeah there's a lot of nuttery here [17:29] degenerator networks? [17:29] lol he got lost [17:30] I don't blame him though, machine learning acronyms are terrible [17:31] earlier though he kept badgering that guy to speak, then kept talking over him [17:35] diddledan: there we go he just referenced us! [17:35] d'oh I was concentrating elsewhere [17:36] oh he just said "all the people watching this online will be saying i've lost it" [17:36] aha lol [17:38] it doesn't matter if it's one, all it's doing is a swoosh across a bunch of flower pics! [17:44] diddledan: looks like consumer news is coming :O [17:44] think it was on a different day last year though [17:46] that's a name [17:47] noise to noise denoising [17:47] what noise annoys a noisy oyster? [18:10] ah shucks? [18:13] nah, a noisy noise annoys a noisy oyster [22:34] I had an awesome problem with my Win10 Insider install.. too many C:\Windows.old(n) where n is a number that it refused to let me delete... until I used the Windows Subsystem for Linux and deleted them from that [22:37] xD [22:37] disk cleanup wizard does 'em too [22:37] nope [22:38] only does non numbered ones [22:38] oic [22:38] that's a bit fail [22:38] i.e. only C:\Windows.old not C:\Windows.old(1) [22:38] but then so is running insider! [22:38] y'got that RTM build now, then? [22:38] not yet. I haven't let it reboot [22:40] ah so you're testing it like a standard Windows user, stubbornly avoiding updates ;D [22:42] yup. you can't find all the bugs unless you defer updates for weeks [22:42] \o/ [22:45] letting yourself get hacked by running a non-updated release, through a hole that they've since fixed, is a bug, right? [22:47] probably to someone :D [22:47] * diddledan watching an fbi drama.. is it appropriate to use weapons from the evidence locker to kill bad guys? [22:48] oh speaking of bugs and what not, my Asus Z170 mobo finally got the update with the new microcode in after the recent dramas, you had one for your board too? i forget if it was gigabyte or MSI [22:48] yup, mine's the giganut z170-ud5 th [22:48] I installed that about a week ago maybe? [22:49] ah maybe they're just a lot quicker [22:49] or maybe it's a lot buggier :D [22:49] they've released three different editions (the previous two have since disappeared from their site) [22:50] versions F22e, and F22f have disappeared, leaving just F22g as the latest and the previous one before that listed as F22d [22:56] could be the ones that were causing reboots [22:57] aye [22:57] one of them was the january 30/31 release of microcode [22:57] which was the evil buggy bar tender [23:00] speaking of bars... the restaurant by me that recently refurbished went from a shocking 2 boring beers on tap, to 0 [23:05] just order the toilet duck so... :-) [23:05] *quack* [23:09] haha! sucks to be you :-p [23:09] I vote long island iced teas instead [23:55] https://twitter.com/norcross/status/978357554010099712 [23:56] :D