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New comment by shermozle in "Unix in East Germany (GDR) (1990)"

shermozle — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:45:05 +0000

I visited a university supercomputer centre in Berlin that had been a merger of East and West Berlin facilities in about 1999. In the lobby they had a PDP-11 right next to the Eastern Bloc clone with its Cyrillic writing.

I probably have some old school photos somewhere.

New comment by shermozle in "[dead]"

shermozle — Fri, 29 May 2026 04:52:03 +0000

AI slop writing is one reason not to read this. Centre justification is an even bigger one.

New comment by shermozle in "Why the smart home bubble popped"

shermozle — Tue, 26 May 2026 04:27:55 +0000

Maybe you should put a smart power socket in front of the Ikea bridge to power cycle it every 30 minutes?

(I'll see myself out then.)

New comment by shermozle in "Everything we like is a psyop?"

shermozle — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 09:54:14 +0000

The best marketing has always been a psychological operation.

New comment by shermozle in "Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones"

shermozle — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 10:39:23 +0000

A car company wanting to divert attention away from the carnage cars cause. Seems a bit suspicious no?

New comment by shermozle in "When War Crimes Rhetoric Becomes Battlefield Reality"

shermozle — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 08:43:13 +0000

You broke it, you bought it!

New comment by shermozle in "Who Goes Nazi? (1941)"

shermozle — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 08:04:26 +0000

I sat next to the "law enforcement liaison" team at a Telco many years ago. They were all ex-cops and I could listen in on the conversations that had with cops. There was never even the slightest push back. Just sexism, racism, blokey humour and "yeah we'll get that info for you".

New comment by shermozle in "Fatbikes are wreaking havoc in Sydney's wealthy beach suburbs"

shermozle — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 10:10:01 +0000

Harold Scruby and his "Pedestrian Council of Australia" is one man and a fax machine who's been blaming victims for decades. Any news media who quotes him without pointing this out loses all authority.

New comment by shermozle in "U.S. Races to Accomplish Iran Mission Before Munitions Run Out"

shermozle — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 00:44:48 +0000

Yep just like many things Americans are sure can't be done, universal healthcare has never been done anywhere in the world, ever. And healthcare everywhere costs what Americans are willing to pay (public and private money).

See also: not having daily mass shootings.

New comment by shermozle in "A flawed paper in management science has been cited more than 6k times"

shermozle — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 07:48:31 +0000

Management WHAT?

New comment by shermozle in "Cloudflare CEO on the Italy fines"

shermozle — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 10:02:13 +0000

Moral high ground somewhat undermined by the post being on the deepfake porn and CSAM distribution platform formerly known as Twitter.

New comment by shermozle in "Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help"

shermozle — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 07:29:09 +0000

https://tascat.tas.gov.au/

New comment by shermozle in "Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help"

shermozle — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 07:29:01 +0000

Book a date with TASCAT. I haven't used the Tasmanian one but in NSW it cost me a couple tens of dollars from memory and I got a response in days. Once the case lands with the _LAWYERS_ who are expensive, it'll get resolved.

New comment by shermozle in "Young journalists expose Russian-linked vessels off the Dutch and German coast"

shermozle — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 09:17:36 +0000

These young journos are legends.

New comment by shermozle in "The healthcare market is taxing reproduction out of existence"

shermozle — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 22:38:59 +0000

The first sentence is your answer. The third word even.

The healthcare market. MARKET

Healthcare shouldn't be a market. That's why you're paying $40k.

New comment by shermozle in "Electric vehicle sales are booming in South America – without Tesla"

shermozle — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 07:37:59 +0000

Recent Xpeng G6 purchaser: it's amazing.

New comment by shermozle in "Electric vehicle sales are booming in South America – without Tesla"

shermozle — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 07:37:19 +0000

"I've tried all the options I have here in the country that banned the major players and I don't think any are better."

New comment by shermozle in "Israel dumps millions into geo targeting evangelicals in churches and ChatGPT"

shermozle — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 08:42:40 +0000

"Both not part of Israel" and yet the people who allegedly own it don't control it.

New comment by shermozle in "Israel dumps millions into geo targeting evangelicals in churches and ChatGPT"

shermozle — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 03:49:00 +0000

This "only democracy in the region" line gets trotted out, but most Palestinians don't get a vote in the government that controls their lives. So "democracy" in the sense that Apartheid South Africa was a democracy, only.

New comment by shermozle in "Wikipedia row erupts as Jimmy Wales intervenes on 'Gaza genocide' page"

shermozle — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 00:18:06 +0000

Go read the Grokipedia article about the Gaza genocide if you want a laugh. The first sentence is 83 words with multiple nested clauses. It's gibberish.