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X Window System author, HTTP/1.1 Editor, OLPC software guru, bufferbloat windmill tilter, embedded system and Covid paranoid. https://xitter.twitterapi.xyz/t.co/VU4vwMuoYv

Massachusetts
Joined December 2010
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Replying to @ietf
@ietf RFC 8290 has issued. My latest blog entry on #bufferbloat and its solutions "The Blind Men and the Elephant": gettys.wordpress.com/. You can take action yourself: "Home products that fix/mitigate bufferbloat"… gettys.wordpress.com/2017/02…
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When I posted this with No Kings, it failed to post several times.
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Replying to @TeslaSI
@teslasi FSD 2024.27.10: Nasty bug: Drive West, sun in your eyes and pull down the visor. The car trained me to keep my hands on the wheel and eyes on the road. FSD puts up a small message on screen with no sound warning. I don't look. Car gets mad. Rinse and repeat. I get mad!
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Sunita in a better time and place! I hope she can return again soon... @Astro_Suni
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Replying to @elonmusk
@elonmusk I can't say I like Elon sitting on the name...
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If I had the chance and or inclination to do things over, the system would be entirely different. Nothing that they've done would really get in the way of what I've had in mind. All these UI systems are fundamentally missing the concept that everything should be network-centric.
Time passes quickly in this industry. It‘s really astonishing to follow all these changes and innovations. Still, I think, wayland is a small step back, as the „network is the computer“ idea of a networking windowing system got lost a bit...
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40.... Same comment as last time.
Replying to @XOrgFoundation
Oh, my; I guess it's 35 years today... In some ways, X has aged amazingly well; in others, its age is showing.
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Replying to @PhotonEmpress
@PhotonEmpress Cool shot of the Super heavy landing: congratulations to you and SpaceX!
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Replying to @SpaceX
@SpaceX Congratulations on your huge success today! I am looking forward to seeing a Starship catch soon! @NASA On to the Moon and Mars!
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Replying to @RJScaringe
@RJScaringe @Rivian @elonmusk I'm at Blowing Rock NC Rivian charging station i n my Tesla Model Y with a CCS adapter. I am horribly disappointed that there isn't reciprocity! I have a friend about to go on a road trip in his R1T who will be supercharging this trip. When fixed???
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NHTSA: Stop Requiring Paper Recall Letters & Classifying OTA Updates as Recalls - Sign the Petition! chng.it/BzCWfKYx via @Change
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Mixed bag out of @UnitedAirlines Plane delayed having to swap equipment, followed by the door on the EMB175 having trouble. Traveling w. 97yo mother in law. They had golf cart waiting for wheel chair service and got us to our BOS plane just after boarding started.
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So this was supposed to be a 3hr connection. Bravo for the handicap service, but hisses for the airplane problems. Connection was in adjacent terminal.
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Replying to @teslaenergy
@teslaenergy there is a bad storm about to arrive in New England 2 days after a 16” snow. Eversource texted customers with a warning yesterday. But my power walls have not been in storm watch mode for this storm and I had to manually using the app tell them to charge from grid.
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Remember that all types of asteroids are useful. Some have a large amount of light atoms such as carbon and oxygen. So these are useful outside of Earth's atmosphere. The very metal rich ones are great on Earth itself.
Exploring the metal rich asteroids has been a dream I have held since the late 1970s. @JimGettys - IT's finally gonna happen!!!!!!
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I hate tearing up large amounts of the surface of our planet to extract materials in the fraction of a percent concentration with all the spoil of such mining being a huge mess.
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