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I still have one of my first modems, a Creatix LC 144 VF:

[![](https://movq.de/v/37e694fdfd/.html%2Dindex%2Dthumb%2Da.jpg.jpg)](https://movq.de/v/37e694fdfd/a.jpg)

I *think* this was the modem that I used when I first connected to the internet, but I’m not sure.

I plugged it in again and it still works:

[![](https://movq.de/v/37e694fdfd/.html%2Dindex%2Dthumb%2D0.jpg.jpg)](https://movq.de/v/37e694fdfd/0.jpg)
[![](https://movq.de/v/37e694fdfd/.html%2Dindex%2Dthumb%2D1.jpg.jpg)](https://movq.de/v/37e694fdfd/1.jpg)

The firmware appears to be from 1994, which sounds about right. I don’t think we had internet access before that. We certainly did use local mailboxes, though. (Or BBS’s, as you might call them.)

I now want to actually use that modem again. For the moment, I can only use a phone to dial into it, I lack a second modem to actually establish a connection. Here’s a video:

[![](https://movq.de/v/37e694fdfd/.html%2Dindex%2Dthumb%2Dcall3%2Dre.mp4.jpg)](https://movq.de/v/37e694fdfd/call3%2Dre.mp4)

Not spectacular, but the modem does answer after me entering `ATA`.

I bought another cheap old modem on eBay and am now waiting for it to arrive. Once it’s here, I want to simulate an actual dial-up session, hopefully from OS/2 or Windows 3.x.
[47°09′05″S, 126°43′44″W] Waiting for carrier
hello out there
I have Espanso running on linux, windows and android now.
@kat That would be cool! 😎
@prologic i can't wait till forgejo/gitea instances can federate with each other bc i will interact with ur gitea instance from my forgejo instance somehow and someday!!!!
@prologic i can't wait till forgejo/gitea instances can federate with each other bc i will interact with ur gitea instance from my forgejo instance somehow and someday!!!!
[47°09′07″S, 126°43′25″W] Carrier too weak
@bender Well it's really just for other fellow humans that _might_ not know better and what Microsoft does with your hard™ work 🤣
@prologic yeah, that will work perfectly. Because you are using “please”—which we all know is a magic talisman word of obedience—all uploads of your code to Github will be automatically paused, until such magic word is removed. 😂
On my blog: Developer Diary, Memorial Day https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/05/26/memorial.html #programming #project #devjournal
No Github

> Please don't upload my code on Github!

I'm thinking about putting this up on all my projects and even on the front page of my Gitea instance 🤔
[47°09′37″S, 126°43′16″W] Sample analyzing complete -- starting transfer
O disco sai no sábado, mas já começa a passar pelas rádios - #kokori esteve com "Zero Game (Metal Mix)" no último episódio do "Sinfonias de Aço" que pode ser ouvido em https://sinfonias.org/playlists/1928-playlist-podcast-24-maio-2025 .
O disco sai no sábado, mas já começa a passar pelas rádios - #kokori esteve com "Zero Game (Metal Mix)" no último episódio do "Sinfonias de Aço" que pode ser ouvido em https://sinfonias.org/playlists/1928-playlist-podcast-24-maio-2025 .
- Soy invisible.-
#catsoftwtxt
[47°09′11″S, 126°43′29″W] Taking samples
Large number of springer spaniels at the park earlier
[47°09′02″S, 126°43′44″W] 4420 days without news from Herve
@prologic I SAW THIS SHIT I WAS LAUGHING SOOO HARD omg you couldn't pay me enough to babysit a fucking bot to do shit work
@prologic I SAW THIS SHIT I WAS LAUGHING SOOO HARD omg you couldn't pay me enough to babysit a fucking bot to do shit work
For context, this is a funny
Interaction between an engineer and copilot on Microsoft's core programming Language 🤣🤯
https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/pull/115733
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[47°09′19″S, 126°43′07″W] --white noise--
Happy Star Wars Day! It was 48 years ago today that Star Wars premiered!
Perecimos porque seguimos los ejemplos de otros hombres: deberíamos curarnos de esto si nos desconectamos del rebaño. #seneca #quotes
Retrouvé les magnifiques dés : https://www.goblins-hoard.com/
Retrouvé les magnifiques dés : https://www.goblins-hoard.com/
Je ne retrouve plus ce créateur de dés absolument magnifiques, qu'il fait en résine sur son temps libre. help! #jdr
Je ne retrouve plus ce créateur de dés absolument magnifiques, qu'il fait en résine sur son temps libre. help! #jdr
@kat since rebuilding eunoia in astro i've had soooo much fun with it and i don't even like JS
@kat since rebuilding eunoia in astro i've had soooo much fun with it and i don't even like JS
astro.js is so cool i love making astro sites
astro.js is so cool i love making astro sites
@prologic good luck!!!!!!!!!
@prologic good luck!!!!!!!!!
@prologic interesting that ruby is so low on the list, i find it the easiest to learn! hell i struggle with python more than ruby and i've been told that python is like ruby but better lol. maybe it's just my weird brain!
@prologic interesting that ruby is so low on the list, i find it the easiest to learn! hell i struggle with python more than ruby and i've been told that python is like ruby but better lol. maybe it's just my weird brain!
@prologic IT'S SO EPIC BUT SO POWERFUL YOU CAN DO SO MUCH
@prologic IT'S SO EPIC BUT SO POWERFUL YOU CAN DO SO MUCH
@movq help yeah i struggle so hard with this stuff! it's why wordier languages like ruby come easier to me
@movq help yeah i struggle so hard with this stuff! it's why wordier languages like ruby come easier to me
@bender i've meant to try this!
@bender i've meant to try this!
[47°09′25″S, 126°43′37″W] Reading: 1.51000 PPM
Me gusta el proyecto de https://endof10.org/es/, ya envié correo para ser parte de los que brindan soporte, solo queda esperar que me aprueben.
Fuck 🤣 Building and learning about machine learning and evolutionary processes is hard™ 🤣
Objectivos 🤡 #balatro Mensagens no Telegram: - até que ponto pode o Ricardo ser responsabilizado pelas horas que tenho perdido com o Balatro... - Eu devia receber comissões do developer à pala das vidas que já destruí
Objectivos 🤡 #balatro Mensagens no Telegram: - até que ponto pode o Ricardo ser responsabilizado pelas horas que tenho perdido com o Balatro... - Eu devia receber comissões do developer à pala das vidas que já destruí

prologic@JamessMacStudio
Sun May 25 21:44:41
~/tmp/neurog
 (main) 130
$ go build ./cmd/ttt/... && ./ttt
Generation  27 | Fitness: 0.486111 | Nodes: 44  | Conns: 82


... experimenting with building and training a tic-tac-toe game, which evolves a. neural net that learn to paly the game against the best evolved champions 😅
[47°09′21″S, 126°43′11″W] Saalmi, retransmit, please
Amigues, conhecem algum modelo de smartphone sub-300€ que dê para instalar o LineageOS?

(qualquer marca excepto Xiaomi, nessa já não me apanham)
Amigues, conhecem algum modelo de smartphone sub-300€ que dê para instalar o LineageOS?

(qualquer marca excepto Xiaomi, nessa já não me apanham)
Where alll all where all?!
@kat Ah, I see. I would assume that you’ll get used to it at some point. 🤔 But yeah, a lot of meaning is packed into these symbols. (It’s much, much worse with languages like Rust. 😅)
@kat Ah, I see. I would assume that you’ll get used to it at some point. 🤔 But yeah, a lot of meaning is packed into these symbols. (It’s much, much worse with languages like Rust. 😅)
That was so great to watch, I was smiling from ear to ear the whole time. 😃

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7LYCERDnX4
That was so great to watch, I was smiling from ear to ear the whole time. 😃

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7LYCERDnX4
[47°09′04″S, 126°43′41″W] --no signal--
@andros U2FsdGVkX19Up307B7FyGUt4vfckBa3+Ztdf2X3rbxWeOuvggV7WceEO/wx26SlPkYyQSycC4z2kMahV+fW+VQ==
[47°09′08″S, 126°43′00″W] Reading: 0.51 Sv
@kat Authelia is great 👌 Nice choice! 🙌
@bender 😂
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@prologic I remember going through your “introduction to Golang”, I don’t remember the URL, but I vividly remember going through it, and I was lost at chapter one. So, about that “mastering” the core in hours, “I don’t believe you.” (insert I don’t believe you meme animated GIF here). LOL.
Ultimately, Go sits in the sweet spot on the complexity vs performance chart:

- Minimal syntax & concepts → low learning curve
- Compiled speed → high throughput
- Built-in CSP concurrency → scalable by default

See Rob Pyke's presentation on Expressiveness of Go
One of the nicest things about Go is the language itself, comparing Go to other popular languages in terms of the complexity to learn to be proficient in:

* Go: 25 keywords ([Stack Overflow][1]); CSP-style concurrency (goroutines & channels)
* Python 2: 30 keywords ([TutorialsPoint][2]); GIL-bound threads & multiprocessing ([Wikipedia][3])
* Python 3: 35 keywords ([Initial Commit][4]); GIL-bound threads, asyncio & multiprocessing ([Wikipedia][3], [DEV Community][5])
* Java: 50 keywords ([Stack Overflow][1]); threads + java.util.concurrent ([Wikipedia][6])
* C++: 82 keywords ([Stack Overflow][1]); std::thread, atomics & futures ([en.cppreference.com][7])
* JavaScript: 38 keywords ([Stack Overflow][1]); single-threaded event loop & async/await, Web Workers ([Wikipedia][8])
* Ruby: 42 keywords ([Stack Overflow][1]); GIL-bound threads (MRI), fibers & processes ([Wikipedia][3])

[1]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4980766/reserved-keywords-count-by-programming-language?utm_source=chatgpt.com "Reserved keywords count by programming language?"
[2]: https://www.tutorialspoint.com/What-are-Reserved-Keywords-in-Python?utm_source=chatgpt.com "Reserved Keywords in Python - Online Tutorials Library"
[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_interpreter_lock?utm_source=chatgpt.com "Global interpreter lock"
[4]: https://initialcommit.com/blog/python-reserved-words?utm_source=chatgpt.com "Python Reserved Keywords (Full List) - Initial Commit"
[5]: https://dev.to/sreeni5018/understanding-pythons-gil-and-enhancing-concurrency-with-multithreading-multiprocessing-and-5g1e?utm_source=chatgpt.com "Understanding Python’s GIL and Enhancing Concurrency with ..."
[6]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_concurrency?utm_source=chatgpt.com "Java concurrency - Wikipedia"
[7]: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/thread?utm_source=chatgpt.com "Concurrency support library (since C++11) - cppreference.com"
[8]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript?utm_source=chatgpt.com "JavaScript"*
@bender Here's a short-list:

- Simple, minimal syntax—master the core in hours, not months.
- CSP-style concurrency (goroutines & channels)—safe, scalable parallelism.
- Blazing-fast compiler & single-binary deploys—zero runtime dependencies.
- Rich stdlib & built-in tooling (gofmt, go test, modules).
- No heavy frameworks or hidden magic—unlike Java/C++/Python overhead.
set up authelia as an OIDC provider for my forgejo instance :DDD
set up authelia as an OIDC provider for my forgejo instance :DDD
small birds acting tough
@prologic what’s to like? :-P
@bender What's not to like? 😅
@kat I don’t like Golang much either, but I am not a programmer. This little site, Go by example might explain a thing or two.
i want to write fanfiction. alas today i feel weird
i want to write fanfiction. alas today i feel weird
@movq i feel like when i read go code i'm reading some algebra shit where every part is 1-5 letters long and then there's weird symbols like := and it's just infinitely harder for me to parse and infer meaning from lol. it's such a me problem
@movq i feel like when i read go code i'm reading some algebra shit where every part is 1-5 letters long and then there's weird symbols like := and it's just infinitely harder for me to parse and infer meaning from lol. it's such a me problem
[47°09′09″S, 126°43′09″W] --bad checksum--
@kat In what way should it be more verbose? Can you give an example? 🤔
@kat In what way should it be more verbose? Can you give an example? 🤔
[47°09′46″S, 126°43′11″W] --interrupted--
Agree with kat! It's cute!
I am yet again considering cutting my hair
On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — Sówka w świecie dnia https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/05/24/owl-world.html #freeculture #bookclub
[47°09′51″S, 126°43′07″W] Dosimeter fixed
- Trabaja que yo te superviso.-
/https://duque-terron.cat/media/photos/IMG_4570.jpeg) #catsoftwtxt
Mismo instante desde 2 ángulos
/https://duque-terron.cat/media/photos/final.jpg) #catsoftwtxt
[47°09′48″S, 126°43′29″W] Resetting dosimeter
[47°09′42″S, 126°43′45″W] Dosimeter overflow
@bender There is no aim. Just learning 😅 That way I can actually speak and write with authority when it comes to these LLM(s) a bit more 🤣 Or maybe I just happen to become that random weirdo genius that invents Skynet™ 😂
Estoy probando https://www.alpinelinux.org/ y si que es liviano este sistema, me sorprende.
🔥 IND vs NYK 🏀 Game 2 https://0x0.st/8xin.png #NBA #East #Finals
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https://galusik.fr/fridayrockmetal/2025-05-23-frm.m3u Tonight #FridayRockMetal playlist
On my blog: Toots 🦣 from 05/19 to 05/23 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/05/23/week.html #linkdump #socialmedia #quotes #week
@thecanine SO CUTE
@thecanine SO CUTE
@kat i'm so fucking bad at this shit man i can't even comprehend JS most of the time coding is not in my future