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eschaton

@eschaton@mastodon.social

Work on tools for people to do work. Play with old computers in my spare time. Only ever speaking for myself.

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eschaton, to random
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How the hell does one actually get the latest Thunderbird beta if you don’t already have it installed? God, what a fucking joke.

eschaton,
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Turns out that, contrary to a whole bunch of web links and search results, you go here and select “Thunderbird Beta” from the “Release Channel” pop-up menu: https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/download/ Good thing all of the links to download/beta/ just take you back to the top page instead of there!

eschaton, to random
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Whoa. The new Coffeezilla covers how the company behind the “Rabbit R1” was originally an NFT scam promising to let you use your brain to enter the metaverse.

netbsd, to random
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New development policy: code generated by a large language model or similar technology (e.g. ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot) is presumed to be tainted (i.e. of unclear copyright, not fitting NetBSD's licensing goals) and cannot be committed to NetBSD.

https://www.NetBSD.org/developers/commit-guidelines.html

eschaton,
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@netbsd Bravo!

zarfeblong, to random
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According to Apple’s app report, someone has installed Meanwhile and Hadean Lands (the iOS versions) onto an Apple Vision Pro.

I’d love to know how that worked out. Sadly the chance that this person is a Mastodon user is slim.

eschaton,
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@zarfeblong I don’t know, I suspect there’s significant overlap between people who enjoy your games, people who own an Apple Vision Pro spatial computing system, and people who use Mastodon. I didn’t install your games on mine (yet) so it wasn’t me (yet)…

eschaton, to random
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There were a bunch of different systems in DEC’s PDP line, many mutually-incompatible (e.g. the PDP-1, 6, and 10 were somewhat compatible, the PDP-8 and PDP-11 were each their own complete universe, and then there were the 5, 9, 12, and 15, etc.) but they were all very well-designed.

My friend @fvzappa has a listing up on eBay for a PDP-8/m, which is a complete PDP-8/m minicomputer: https://www.ebay.com/itm/116163448173 This is an excellent turnkey system for joining the 12-bit world!

eschaton,
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@usul @fvzappa Oops, I had a typo in the link! But it might not help because it looks like eBay itself is down.

eschaton,
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@jbrewer_jera @fvzappa Ah, but if only you’d known. :) The PDP-8 is actually a really friendly machine! It’s practically the first RISC system, and the HP 2100 series is basically a 16-bit version of the DEC PDP-8, as were a number of other systems of the 1970s.

eschaton,
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@mepard @fvzappa Sounds like a wonderful time!

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