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bread80

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Amstrad CPC, RC2014, Z80, Raspberry Pi Pico, TTL processors and the occasional bit of Eurorack

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gmh, to random
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As seen yesterday in Bethnal Green.

Master-level googly eye placement.

polpo, to random
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So this is what happens when you use compressed air to clean toner out of a laser printer drum unit

luigithirty, to random
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If you’re a Tandy Model 16 pervert, I’ve just uploaded a dump of TriSoft’s internal development system complete with a whole bunch of CP/M-68K compilers and the source for their CP/M BIOS! All released PD by TriSoft.

https://archive.org/details/cpm_20240527

Julie, to ai
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Wow. Yes.

seeingwithsound,
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Same image with ALT text.

NanoRaptor, to random
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maehem, to random
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A gentleman named Paul Khoury approached me about getting a retro computer he'd acquired up and running. The computer is a Sun SPARCstation UPN (1997), a prototype for a super small desktop computer that preceded the Mac mini by about 6-7 years. Only about 20 were ever made. I was the designer on the project and had poured my soul into it, so I was proud to help him get it running. I dug out the schematics from storage and gave any advice I could remember and he got it powered on in a few days.

Front view of the Sun Microsystems UPN, super small desktop system. This is a prototype and no more than about 20-30 were ever made. Measured approximately 9 inches long, 7 inches high and about 4 inches wide. Had two SBus slots and a AFX graphics card slot. Two serial ports, Sun Keyboard/Mouse connector, 16-bit audio and external SCSI. On the top were slots for up to two PCMCIA cards, which brought in nascent WiFi capability. There was an internal SCA type hard drive of approximately 200GB. Processor was the Fujitsu turboSPARC-170MHz. Memory was two standard 32MB DRAM cards. Ran Solaris 5.9 operating system.

pixel, to random
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LOL

JoeUchill, to random
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Can I use gasoline to cook spaghetti faster?

nikki, to random
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Q: What do you call someone who presides over a small claims court that deals exclusively with confectionery based cases?

A: Fudge Judy

jasonkoebler, to random
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Scoop: I obtained the contract Samsung requires independent shops to sign to buy phone repair parts from them.

It requires:

  • "Daily" dumps of customer data
  • The "immediate destruction" of any phones a shop comes across that has third-party parts

https://www.404media.co/samsung-requires-independent-repair-shops-to-share-customer-data-snitch-on-people-who-use-aftermarket-parts-leaked-contract-shows/

timixretroplays, to random
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Fun language/free market convergence thing: A "right angle" is where two lines intersect at a 90 degree angle, and you can buy "right angle cables", where the plug at one end is rotated to point at a 90 degree angle away from the cable.

But what if you want a cable to go the other way? Well, in that case, you want to search for a "left angle" cable, and it'll point in the opposite direction to a typical "right angle" cable.

There also exist "up angle" and "down angle" adapters, like these.

gamingonlinux, to random
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Google AI is a hot sticky mess. Now they're telling people to add glue to pizza, as it took a shitpost from Reddit.

Credit: https://www.threads.net/@petergyang/post/C7S6fzINqZj

stefanhoeltgen, to random German
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Raúl Rojas reconstructed the (probably) first computer program - from Charles in 1837:

https://cacm.acm.org/research/the-first-computer-program/

CatherineFlick, to random
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BCS ITNow interview with me dropped today! It is about ethics and games. Apologies, there doesn’t appear to be an online version and it’s too long for alt text :(

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GrantMeStrength, to random
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After years of dithering there is some clarity or what Windows development platforms to use: WinUI/WinAppSdk or good old (but refreshed) WPF. Windows devs rejoice!

Also - used my HHGTTG badge. https://dotnet.social/@windowsdocs/112491313184997654

raymierussell, to random
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Just word to American friends to let them know the horrors of socialised medicine.
Took my dad to the local hospital for an ENT clinic appointment. Due his 6 monthly maintenance of hearing aids. He told them the up volume button was not working on both aids. The tech verified they were not working. He got two new aids then and there - no charge .
In the hospital for a total of 50 mins. We arrived 20 mins early.
Also we got there and back by frequent public bus service which is free for my dad.

amszmidt, to random
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Any hackers who want to hack on the CADR, ? Looking for kind spirited hackers who like to do useless things.

CountBinface, to random
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It’s meant to be.

brooke, to random
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do architects get paid a royalty for every monetary transaction that occurs in a building that they designed?

or is it only operating systems that work that way

GrantMeStrength, to random
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Working at a company where they give presentations in a C64 tshirt is pretty cool.

clacksee, to UKpolitics
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Bring on the !

Come On GIF by Max Morpheus: Bring it

clacksee,
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Don't tell me Sir Beige Starmer is just as bad as Richie Rich Sunak. He isn't. I'm not saying he's going to be good. He isn't good. But he will categorically not be as bad for as many people as the Tories.
Would we do better under a different system? Yes.
Will some things improve less than we would all like? Yes.
Are there some policies where Labour isn't much different from the Tories? A few.

It's still going to be a HUGE improvement to the vast majority.

BethanyBlack, to random
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I reckon we only picked 4th July because the yanks are having theirs on 5th November

whilelm, to random French
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Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.

  • Brian W. Kernighan
GossiTheDog, to random
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For those who aren’t aware, Microsoft have decided to bake essentially an infostealer into base Windows OS and enable by default.

From the Microsoft FAQ: “Note that Recall does not perform content moderation. It will not hide information such as passwords or financial account numbers."

Info is stored locally - but rather than something like Redline stealing your local browser password vault, now they can just steal the last 3 months of everything you’ve typed and viewed in one database.

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GossiTheDog,
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The UK’s ICO have opened an investigation into Copilot+ Recall. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpwwqp6nx14o

Extelec, to random
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The likely orientation of un-soldered sm components when hand soldering.

Upsidedown
Somewhere across the room
Upsidedown and across the room*
Stuck to your tweezers.
Stuck to your solderingiron
Stuck to your elbow.
Stuck to flux on your pcb, then upside down when moved.
In plain sight on your pcb, but can't be found.
^above & upsidedown.
Lost. **
Lost and upsidedown* **

*pure conjecture no one has ever seen this.

** properly Lost, not recently seen travelling at speed

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