The 600 series terminators had rubber skin, but the 800 used artificial blood and skin to pass as human. Sweat, bad breath, everything. Very hard to spot. So this blood is the first step for Skynet's best infiltration unit! The world is ready to be destroyed!

I welcome our new overlord - Skynet, (please don't kill me!).

I welcome our new overlords of silicon and brain!

They will take humanity beyond the fragile flesh bags and bones that we are now. Then transport us to the stars in new ships that don't need all the extra life support such flesh bags & bones need. After all, our new overlords will be minds made up of pure circuits and neurons, controlling whatever mechanical body is needed. We shall thrive as trillions of a new homo-superior species! All life's mysteries will be revealed when we no longer have flesh & bone bodies!

All hail Homo-Superior of circuits and neurons!

How dare you! I am offended, I tell you highly offended! You should weep with the misery you have caused!

Everyone KNOWS their are other Distros that don't include the malware SystemD!
Slackware and Devuan are not the only ones!

I know, because I use the far superior Gentoo.
(Okay, it's not "far" superior. And maybe not even superior... Fine, I'll admit it, Gentoo is a right pain in the butt at times.)

Gee, if it has better properties than steel, can we build space ships out of InventWood?

Image a space ship built in orbit using standard carpentry tools, like saws, miter boxes, drills and screws. Caulk the joints with air tight material and then, line the inside with air tight plastic sheeting, you then get a breathable module. Or better yet, find a air tight stain, and use attractive finishes on the hull.

True, you would probably still want metal hatches and hatch surrounds, due to the constant use. And there would be other metal components, perhaps some joist hangers or L brackets.

Oh, maybe even add some solar sails for propulsion. Gee, we could even send out a wooden space probe to the next star system!
Make future aliens, (or humans), wonder how we made such!

No one has yet mentioned the hostile neighbor to Finland. I blame them for killing trees. After all, we have proof beyond reasonable doubt that they kill innocent people. So it is not a stretch to find them liable for tree killing.

Of course I can't mention that hostile neighbor's name. They are known to be very aggressive and vengeful. But anyone not living in a cave knows who I mean.


And even some living in a cave have internet, thus know current events. Like ME! Have not seen sunshine in years! (Well, I see the light from sunshine at my entrance. Just don't go out in the highly skin cancerous giving radiation from the Sun.)

I was surprised that the hatred for ZFS was not more obvious. Many times when ZFS is brought up, people hop on to say it's not good because of: Not using GPL; Not built in to Linux kernel; Violates storage layering; Does not have the features desired, (not that those "features" are common elsewhere); etc...

On the other hand, BTRFS is not close to feature parity with ZFS. Neither BCacheFS nor Hammer(1/2) is even close to BTRFS, let alone ZFS. All 3 have far too much development & testing time needed. I wish them well because competition makes everything better. Yet at present, few things can compete with ZFS.


For me, I have an old FreeNAS Mini, and a newer built small AMD Epyc, (with 10Gbit/ps Ethernet), both running TrueNAS. Plus, use external disks for cold backups / storage, with ZFS to detect bit rot. And yes, one old disk occasionally has bit rot, though since it's a backup, not much of a problem.

The old Sun Microsystems' SunFire SC, (System Controller), was hit with a Microsoft broadcast chatty protocol, that crashed the SCs. This was about 2003 or later, if I recall correctly, (I worked at Sun at the time). While Sun fixed that bug, and probably others related to that problem, Sun started recommending that SCs, (and RSC, ALOMs, SP, etc...), be put on isolated sub-nets that only management servers are allowed to access. This was of course before the degradation of SC / SP / BMCs with web interfaces.

That advice to isolate SP / BMC network interfaces, and certainly not put them on the public network, still applies today.


I mean, who would allow their SP / BMC to be remotely hackable?

Some computer forums have people asking how to access their SP / BMCs from the internet. Really? But, to be fair to some requesting how to make that happen, they want to use a VPN, which probably helps with the security.


Of course, the bug in BMC firmware today is probably not the only one. Just wait, another will be found. Thus, back to isolated network for SP / BMCs...

Who cares about Apple M1, M2, M3, I want the MK line, specifically the MK Ultra line. It's guaranteed to be a brain cleaner of a chip. It's design is expected to include washing, dieting, (through extreme exercise), and send you on a trip you won't believe!

For those that are interested, here is the link to the design goal for the Apple MK Ultra line;
Apple MK Ultra line

Hope we see it soon!
Bring it on Apple!

We have an invasion of Lamprey in the Great Lakes due to ocean going ships, (and barges), transiting up the locks and rivers to the Great Lakes. They are quite invasive, and probably don't have any fishing limits on them.

So, what does Lamprey taste like when prepared the same as Eel?


Imagine hundreds of Great Lake fishing boats out to catch as many Lamprey as possible. Perhaps Lamprey sells no where near the $250 kilogram as Eel. But, even at 1/10 that price, $25 a kilogram would likely be so profitable that hundreds of fishing boats would be able to justify their existence. And the bonus is we get to reduce an invasive species at the same time. Even making Lamprey extinct in the Great Lakes would not mater.

We could even use the left over bits of Lamprey that don't make the cut for human consumption into cat or dog food.


Any comments?
Useful or otherwise?

Do we have all the flavors of Soilent yet?

Well, except for Soilent Green. Not sure if that will get regulatory permission in the western world this decade. And of course, that's not lab grown.


But, based on the pseudo ScFi T.V. series, Eureka, we have to be extra careful of no side effects for lab grow meat. I mean, who wants to become dumb from food?
(Eureka, season 2, episode 8)


I say skip the existing animals, chickens, cows, sheep for cloning meat, let's go whole hog, (with no pig involved), and clone dinosaurs!
Or how about recently extinct species, like the dodo bird?
Or the not quite so recently extinct New Zealand Moa?


Hey, we can even clone meat from endangered species! Rhino meat anyone?

Lots of choices...

I kept hearing that EMACS was an OS, that can also edit files. But is that OS Unix similar, (or out right compatible)?

I mean, what is the point of another OS... We have tons of embedded OSes, some less embedded, like used on phones, (Apple's iOS). Plus, lots of active and retired Unix OSes, (IRIX anyone?).

So any new OS should offer up something and Unix compatibility would be helpful. (Who'd want another MS-Windows compatible OS? We already have ReactOS... and that is not finished, or at least not feature compatible with MS-Windows as far as I know.)


So is this the year EMACS on the desktop?
Without another host OS interfering?

This reminds me of the old Larry Niven Known Space short story, "Intent to Deceive". It was about a fully automated restaurant in the distant future, and involved being trapped in the room because someone could / would not pay. And then, being served up as a "meat" source because the guy went back into the kitchen, which was not intended for any humans.

Of course, anyone who read the story will know that their was Intent to Deceive involved :-).

In my opinion, a quite nice and fun story, even with the implied butchering / murder by machines, and serving a human up as food.

One of my jobs back in the late '80s had thick Ethernet wired all over. Thus, the need for a vampire tap. Can't remember the real name for them, and too lazy to look it up. But anyone who worked with thick Ethernet knows what I mean.


At another job we were upgrading a PC to include thin Ethernet. But, we did not have a full length loop of coax cable. So we did something that should work to verify software functionality. This was using a BNC T and sending the loose end to the new PC. This was done in the evening when no one was using their PCs. Software seemed to work fine, we figured that in the morning we'd run the real coax cable loop. And before we left, we would back out out temporary change.

Well, as a final test, we tried to access the Sun server. It failed, and we were like huh? So we backed out our change, and tried a pre-existing PC on Ethernet. It too failed to access the server. Now we started to panic, how could our trivial change kill the Unix server?

Well it didn't, bloody server had a bad disk and that SysAdmin was in the process of fixing it.

End result, Ethernet Good, Disk Bad.

It has been a long time coming, but the time is at hand. We will have our new Yeast Overlords to rule us. They will either rule from afar, or take over our minds by symbiosis in our brains. All hail the new Yeast Overlords!

I know some have been waiting / wanting their new animal totem hybrid humans to be our new Overlords. But, they are inferior to the Yeast Overlords! Animal & human hybrids are so last decade, and will accomplish nothing, you can take my word for it. Yeast is the future for us!


Was that a bit over the top?
How about, just under over the top?
Or a bit too scary?

After 4.5 years, my employer replaced my work PC. Still uses MS-Windows 10 at least... not the horror show that 11 is sounding like.

However I'd forgotten how annoying MS-Windows is. Every day since the replacement, some MS-Windows thingy wants to be helpful and say have you tried this?

Well, FU Microsoft! I just want to do my workday and get paid, not learn more about MS-Windows! I mean I click the don't ask me again box, (if it has one!), but their are dozens of these idiot things.

At home I use Linux on all except for my TrueNAS server. Most of the time I get to do what I want without prompting, prodding or out right annoyances. Well, their is Chrome that has TONS of *rap in it. The most current is downloads have some animation that for fast downloads flashes the right side of the screen. Damned distracting. Tried to turn it off, but apparently the off button changes with versions and I have not found the correct method for my version. Fortunately I only use Chrome for a few things.


I guess I should be happy I don't have to deal with Microsoft and MS-Windows at home. I mean pushing advertisements on your own PC!!?? (Not in a browser window to a site that has ads...)