I show 0.18.4, you may want to shift+reload. :-)

I agree with all of this.

For me, I think the best “I want the SPARC experience with minimum fuss” boxes are the SS 5/20 (which are very similar machines, the SS20 is sort of a multiprocessor SS5) or the Ultra 1/2 desktop workstations. All of those are SBUS machines (there are PCI machines with the Ultra 2 CPU and chipset, too, I think, but they’re not just called “Ultra 2”?).

I also think of Solaris 7 as peak Solaris, I don’t think you’re alone there @PAPPP@lemmy.sdf.org . If you want something past Solaris 7, just go with OpenSolaris/OpenIndiana/etc. and do “new Solaris” whole hog.

Finally, tech news we can use.

Shift+SPC is not able to be represented on a TTY, due to the way that input is encoded. It should be possible in X11, but my Emacs also does not seem to register it.

I have a set of GPIO boards for my PDP-11s, I’ve been wanting to turn one of them into a G-code interpreter.

You need a VPN or a reverse proxy or similar for this.

What you want is either a service that gives you an IP address unrelated to your physical location (a VPN), or a machine that is willing to accept connections for you and forward them transparently to your machine (a reverse proxy).

You can set up your own VPN to proxy connections by getting a host from ~any hosting service and running something like OpenVPN on it.

It is, but it was reset (again) relatively recently. You may need to contact membership@ to get access.

I’m not sure it will; as I said, I have heard that subscribing to kbin from lemmy is not currently working, from users on mastodon. (I just tried that search and it indeed did not work, for me.)

Keep in mind that this lemmy instance is currently “in beta”, and sdf betas have in the past been reset for various reasons. The sdf mastodon services are very stable, as is its peertube, but since the lemmy server is very new I would treat it as potentially volatile for a bit longer.

Donations specifically to support SDF’s fediverse ventures can also be made here: https://sdf.org/support/

Note that you enter the URL as !community@host.

I’ve seen chatter on Mastodon that kbin will view lemmy communities, but lemmy doesn’t correctly view kbin magazines. I don’t know if it’s accurate or not. I have been able to join lemmy communities on other servers, however.

I see a lot of people complaining bitterly about battery life, but mine seems to do OK. I wonder if it’s a firmware issue or something. (In particular, I’ve seen complaints that it drains its battery significantly when powered off, which mine absolutely does not do.)

I have never owned a Baofeng (and probably never will; I do not like that they frequently have very poor spurious radiation characteristics, and people act like that’s not a problem!). My first mobile radios were Kenwood and Icom, my first HT was a Standard (before it was acquired by Vertex and then Yaesu), the mobile in my vehicle right now is Yaesu (FT-7800), and my packet station (when last set up) was an Icom. I’m not particularly tied to any one brand, as you can see. :-) (Most of my HF equipment is tube type, so it doesn’t enter into this equation!)

I rather like the FT-7800; I think it’s much easier to use and has a much better UX than the FT-70. That said, in 2023 I would expect more; it’s been in my vehicle for probably 15 years, now. I don’t know if the replacements (I don’t actually think the FT-7900 is that much newer?) address some of its meaningful shortcomings like lack of reasonable USB programming support (for real people, why do these radios not simply expose a well-documented HID or serial interface?), but as far as day-to-day usage, the 7800 is quite fine. The 70 … is less so. As I said, if you don’t actually have to change anything, it’s not bad, but if you have to change things it gets hairy fast.

Well … I tried. I found out I had more to say than I thought. ;-)

Sadly I didn’t see any SDFers, but it was a great day for a hamfest. A friend of mine passed the tech test, but the FCC web site is down, so without an FRN it’s going to take a few days to settle.

I have/had nothing to do with retrocomputing on any large corporate sites, but I’m a mod on https://retrocomputingforum.com/ and look forward to seeing what happens here. I don’t necessarily need or want a mod role, but I’m happy to help out in any way I can.