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#EnthusiasticTechie 🖥

The 305 RAMAC revolutionized data storage by offering random access, where data could be directly accessed from any location on the disk, eliminating the need to traverse the storage media, as with tape sequentially.

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DoomsdaysCW

#Google Is Helping the #Trump Administration Deploy #AI Along the #MexicanBorder

Google is part of a Customs and Border Protection plan to use machine learning for #surveillance, documents reviewed by The Intercept reveal.

by Sam Biddle, April 3 2025

Excerpt: "#IBM will provide its Maximo Visual Inspection software, a tool the company generally markets for industrial quality control inspections — not tracking humans. #Equitus is offering its #VideoSentinel, a more traditional video surveillance analytics program explicitly marketed for border surveillance that, according to a promotional YouTube video, recently taken offline, featuring a company executive, can detect 'people walking caravan style … some of them are carrying backpacks and being identified as mules.'

"'Within 60 days from the start of the project, real life video from the southern border is available to train and create #AI / #ML models to be used by the Equitus Video Sentinel.'"

Read more:
theintercept.com/2025/04/03/go

Archived version:
archive.ph/LGc6s
#USPol #BorderPatrol #ICE #KristiNoem #SurveillanceState #Fascism #AISurveillance

The Intercept · Google Is Helping the Trump Administration Deploy AI Along the Mexican BorderBy Sam Biddle
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IrishMASMS

Talking with the folks in the local #vintage / #retrocomputing community, they clued me in that the #ThinkPad #RAID is a steaming pile of 💩 and not worth the trouble.

🤷 Oh well. Thanks for cluing me in

So I swapped out the two testing #NVMe drives I was using and reinstalled the original sticks - to have #windoz10 demanding for the #bitlocker recovery key. 🤦‍♂️

Well, time to wipe & install #windoz11 then.

Install went fine, only 4 rando #drivers to find for all #devices to be recognized and working.

Using my #CTT scripts to install the majority of applications, then to remove the #spyware #bloatware and other garbage #micro$oft added to #windows11

Then migrate my #data from my other ThinkPad. Welcome to my #sunday #funday

#siliconValley #SillyValley #sanfrancisco #sanfran #sanfranciscocomputers #sanfrancomputers #sanfranciscovintagecomputers #sanfranvintagecomputers #sanfranciscovintagehardware #sanfranvin-tagehardware
#vintagecomputing #vintagecomputint #vintagecomputer #vintagecomputers #vintagecomputalk
#vintagehardware #computerHistory #retro #VCF #vintageComputerFestival
#retrocomputing #retroComputers #WallOfRetro #retroTech #retroTechnology
#nerdsOfVintage #happyNerding
#computer #tech #computerHardware #laptop #laptops
#IBM #thinkpad #thinkpads #VintageThinkPad #X86 #WindowsVista #IBMhardware #lenovoHard-ware #Thinkpadnium
#upcycle #restore #TechnologyRepair #ThinkPadRepair #WasteNotWantNot #Thinkpadnium
#makeShitMonday #showmewhatyougot

A ThinkPad P70 workstation laptop, in the process of being rebuilt: Windows 11 having bin installed, now installing all the applications. The HWiNFO application is displayed on the screen, showing the specifications of the laptop.
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IrishMASMS

Ok, I spent yesterday afternoon trying to get #RAID configured on my #lenovo #ThinkPad #P70 - to no success.

I found this video youtube.com/watch?v=AyCC1NGe8a of the similar #p50 and configuring #RAID which shows the #BIOS interface but my P70's only show the "non-raid physical discs" I do not have an option for RAID volumes. Note I have upgraded the BIOS to the most recent version on lenovo's web site. Any thoughts?

I have attached 2 #screenshots of what the BIOS displays - I'm trying to configure the RAID on the two 512GB #NVMe sticks.

#siliconValley #SillyValley #sanfrancisco #sanfran #sanfranciscocomputers #sanfrancomputers #sanfranciscovintagecomputers #sanfranvintagecomputers #sanfranciscovintagehardware #sanfranvin-tagehardware
#vintagecomputing #vintagecomputint #vintagecomputer #vintagecomputers #vintagecomputalk
#vintagehardware #computerHistory #retro #VCF #vintageComputerFestival
#retrocomputing #retroComputers #WallOfRetro #retroTech #retroTechnology
#nerdsOfVintage #happyNerding
#computer #tech #computerHardware #laptop #laptops
#IBM #thinkpad #thinkpads #VintageThinkPad #X86 #WindowsVista #IBMhardware #lenovoHard-ware #Thinkpadnium
#upcycle #restore #TechnologyRepair #ThinkPadRepair #WasteNotWantNot #Thinkpadnium
#makeShitMonday #showmewhatyougot

Screenshot of a Lenovo ThinkPad P70 BIOS, showing the RAID configuration screen with RAID enabled and M2 selected
A screenshot of a Lenovo ThinkPad P70 BIOS showing the Intel RST RAID configuration page, with no ability to configure RAID but devices listed as non-RAID physical discs
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Giacomo Tesio
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In fact, the two groups overlaps more often that not: if you look, say, at the sponsors of most of the organizations that signed the infamous "RMS open letter" you'll find #Microsoft, #Google, #Meta, #Amazon, #IBM and so forth...

Like it or not, if you take their money, you serve their goals.

Compare, for example, #FSF sponsors with #FSFE (!) or #SoftwareHeritage (that in turn is a sponsor of #Guix), to get an idea of why groups that pretend to advance #FreeSoftware did (and do) their best to destroy the #GNU project.

@ekaitz_zarraga@mastodon.social
rms-open-letter.github.ioAn open letter to remove Richard M. Stallman from all leadership positionsWe, the undersigned, call for the entire Board of the FSF to step down and for Richard M. Stallman to be removed from all leadership positions. We will not continue suffering his behavior, giving him a leadership role, or otherwise holding him and his hurtful and dangerous ideology as acceptable.
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retrocompmx

Un día como hoy, 2 de abril, pero de 1987, IBM presenta al mercado el Personal System 2 (PS/2)

El PS/2 es la segunda generación de ordenadores personales de IBM. En 1987, reemplazó oficialmente a IBM PC, XT, AT y PC en la línea de IBM.

A pesar de los problemas que le acompañaron, la PS/2, se ha convertido en un modelo que trajo la computación a las masas.

#IBM#ps2#efemeridestecnologica
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Claude Trudel

Le Québec sous espionnage américain
🔴 Nos données entre les mains des Américains
🔸 « Les révélations d’Edward Snowden en 2013 nous ont renseignés sur les méthodes du gouvernement américain pour espionner, par l’entremise d’entreprises, des citoyens et des organisations, même dans des pays alliés. »
lapresse.ca/actualites/souvera
#USA #Québec #espionnage #infonuagique #CAQ #AWS #Dell #Microsoft #IBM #Oracle #Amazon

La Presse · Dossier | Souveraineté numérique | Nos données entre les mains des Américains (3 articles)La presque totalité des solutions infonuagiques⁠ utilisées par les ministères et les organismes publics québécois sont hébergées au Canada par des géants américains. Cette dépendance fait craindre des risques « réels » de sécurité des données.
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DesertFOX

I'm trying to figure out the best DOS configuration for emulation and maybe real hardware, too. Right now, I am considering IBM DOS 5.02 upgraded to PC DOS 7 Rev. 1 (2000). You get an IBM branded DOS-Editor, but still all the nice tools from the future, like DELTREE.EXE, DEFRAG, PC DOS-Shell 7.0 or Windows Undelete. Seems to be the best overall DOS package...

Any other ideas / suggestions?

IBM DOS-Editor 1.0
IBM Defrag
PC DOS-Shell 7.0
Windows Undelete for Windows 3.1
#MSDOS#PCDOS#DOS
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Paul H :tinoflag:

It's weird how some things just stay with you. My first exposure to mainframes was VM/CMS back in the mid-80s at IBM. Back then, the command to clear the screen was 'CLS'. I must have typed that hundreds of times over the years. Now I always add CLS as an alias for 'Clear' on my ZSH profile on macOS. As I say, weird.

#VM#CMS#IBM
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