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wink posted 2:48pm

For a very brief moment in time, before the last bigger upgrade, I could put my work MBP to sleep with the "Sleep" menu item in the Apple Start menu.

Now it's broken again. IIRC it worked fine the whole time I was on Sonoma.

Also now I'm back to locking the screen, hitting ESC about 7 times, then closing the lid, then hitting ESC 2 more times and then maybe after disconnecting the screens and USB dock in the wrong order 2 more times. Or I just hope it will sleep after some minutes.

Kinda glad I didn't pay money for this.

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Does anyone happen to have access to the IBM 59 card verifier reference manual and could provide a scan (it's 38 pages)? Archives only seem to have the physical exhibit. It needs to be the manual for that particular model, not the 56, not the 129. (Boosts welcome)

winkBrad Gateway of the 502 Errors

Antonio Stradivari was a well-respected craftsman but also known to be cantankerous and quick to anger. It was of no surprise to those who knew him that every day he woke up and chose violins.

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wink shared a note by nils Mar 14, 2026

Bestes Interview im Radio seit langem gehört. Eingeladen ist ein nicht näher spezifizierter Experte:

Reporter: "Wo wirkt sich der Krieg im Iran am stärksten aus?"

Experte: "Im Iran."

<Awkward silence>

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I am the navigator of a cargo vessel. I have the letters RS and LP tattooed onto my hands to tell right/starboard from left/port.

winkNeil Brown
wink shared a note by Neil Brown Mar 11, 2026

Horses can't use laptops.

They use maneframes.

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wink shared a note by Ian Campbell Mar 10, 2026

When I started in security, one of the prevailing attitudes was "The weakest link in the chain will always be the human."

I would like to thank every LLM provider and startup for changing this paradigm by introducing a much weaker link in the chain.

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wink shared a note by joël Apr 9, 2025
A beige thinkpad 700, a very old laptop. it's very square and looks quite cyberpunky. it's all in the old computer beige, but it has the red trackpoint. one can see that is has a floppy drive.

Lenovo should bring back the beige thinkpad

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I've only been using a mac at work for 1.5 years so I'd been saying I can't tell if Tahoe made anything worse, but apparently they did break the one thing I was speaking highly of last year.

I have two external screens and every morning when I reconnected and woke up the machine, all windows were placed back on their old positions, this hardly works now. Kinda sad, having to drag my IDE windows back every morning, and sometimes other apps as well.

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wink shared a note by alex Mar 4, 2026

AI image generation is great for if you want your branding to look like it's for a 2013 free-to-play mobile game called something like "Reign of Kingdoms: Clash Wars".