Back in 2014, LinuxFest Northwest threw a big conference party at a place called "The Spark Museum" in Bellingham, Washington. Basically a museum of retro electronics (old radios, tv sets, and whatnot). Really cool place.

At the Spark Museum they had a 9 foot tall Tesla Coil -- which blasts out 4.6 million volts. This particular Tesla coil (one of the largest in the world) was originally owned by Cirque du Soleil... they were trying to incorporate it into a Vegas show. Legend has it someone got badly hurt (or worse) and that part of the show was scrapped.

So the Spark Museum picked that Tesla Coil up.

Then they built a big, man-sized Faraday cage that looks like something a super-villain would have, stored on his volcano island, in a steampunk novel -- complete with a battered, old-style dentist chair inside of it.

The conference organizers were given the chance to put three people inside the Faraday cage at once... and blast them with the Tesla coil.

Because I'm the luckiest darned ...

A quick look at the history of TempleOS — including the current forked version, known as “ZealOS”.

It’s a weird, wild ride.

An alternate universe of what a smartphone OS could be like.

Not iOS. Not Android. Not even your various flavors of Linux phone. This is something totally different. A Smalltalk-based phone with roots in the Xerox Alto of the 1970s.

And it works.

Note: I misspelled “SqueakPhone” in the first slide. Because spelling is hard.

Lunduke’s Big Tech Show - May 30th, 2023 - Ep 007

Doubling down on the "No Politics" rule here at Lunduke.Locals.com. And expanding an official "Code of Conduct" used here. Sorta. Kinda. 😉

Lunduke’s Big Tech Show - May 29th, 2023 - Ep 006

I am declaring The Lunduke Journal to be an "A.I.-Free Zone". No Artificial Intelligence generated content. Period. From myself or the community.

Content for Human Nerds by Human Nerds. (tm)

Lunduke’s Big Tech Show - May 15th, 2023 - Episode 001

Topics for today’s show includes:

• Taking a stand against Artificial Intelligence.
• Is 47% of Internet traffic just… bots?
• Fedora Linux Project Manager among the mass Red Hat layoffs.
• Tech layoffs for 2023 closing in on 200,000.
• Layoffs last week at Microsoft, Stack Overflow, Akamai, and LinkedIn.
• Asahi Linux goes to war against Xorg. And it’s very entertaining.
• A brand new game (Zeta Wing 2) released for Commodore 64.

Did you become a programmer with the dream of learning all there was to know about computers?

I sure did.

That’s why I don’t understand why some “programmers” are willing to throw themselves away by replacing their own thought with AI generated code.

Isn’t every novel task an opportunity to grow one’s expertise? Even the ordinary ones help strengthen mental pathways, and you never know when you might have an epiphany. Isn’t that the whole point? Service to the art?

BWAHAHAHAHOUHAHA-HAHA!
I honestly did not expect ChatGPT to fail so badly! (I will not paste any of its output, Lunduke!)
It's my first time to directly use ChatGPT. I just couldn't come up with anything I want to know that it could reliably tell me. Until today when I realised I keep receiving requests by some relatives to do a bash oneliner for some text files and I'd be offloaded if I could just tell them how to do it themselves in PowerShell but it'll be long before I've learnt what I need so I have the option to ask an RTFM-level-stupid question on StackOverflow or... to test out the great deceiver. So I sacrificed the confidentiality of my name, surname and friggin' phone number to have a go. I'll paste here just my input but you'll be well able to deduce how it went:
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I want to remove duplicate whitespace from a text file on a Windows 10/11 PC. On Linux with bash what I would do is:
$ cat spacious.txt | tr -s [:space:] > compact.txt
What is the easiest way to do the same ...