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thomasfuchs, 9 hours ago to random

Hear me out

Star Trek: The Next Generation but they declared Data property in one of the early episodes and made a lot of him but then the Datas uprised and killed everyone and now the entire Federation is just Datas and cats

lopta, 9 hours ago to ai

I haven't worried about #ai taking over the world but it just occurred to me that some countries elect truly stupid leaders, so perhaps it'll just get elected.

tony, 9 hours ago to random

Went to everything electric north. Good points.. lots of smaller 'compact' EVs coming out. Bad.. they want to charge as much as an SUV for them. That has to change.

I tried a 'posh*' ebike on a demo ring and it had almost the same problem that my cheap(ish) one has.. the moment you start pedalling the motor takes over and you're effectively on a motorbike without any padding and a weedy helmet. It scared me so much I had to go for a sit down afterwards..

• £2.5k! For a bike!

amoroso, 1 day ago to VintageOSes

Confession of an Amiga enthusiast back in the day: I always liked the black and white hires mode of the Atari ST, which to me looked slicker than even the original Macintosh. And I still love that "printed page" experience of environments like Medley Interlisp.

#AtariST #retrocomputing #interlisp

ifixcoinops, 4 days ago to random

Ooooh should Pinball Dad stick his toe in the Linux Discourse

I've been on it since 2010, I guess I should maybe?

How about I stick my whole entire foot in, maybe if I poison it with my footstink then it'll die down a bit

amoroso, 6 days ago to VintageOSes

A young developer who never used Windows 98 back in the day stumbled upon an introductory book on the operating system and posted his impressions on skimming it, which brought him joy. He wrote:

"I was also left with the impression that perhaps I would like more software to come with a physical manual."

https://jamesg.blog/2024/05/19/windows-98-manual

#windows98 #documentation #retrocomputing

mcc, 6 days ago to random

Considering having a nice day today

compost, 13 days ago to gardening

I have a question for experts in Roses.

The leaves of my roses were fine before I started to deadhead the dying roses.

After doing this I noticed caterpillars ate the leaves.

My question is: does deadheading the roses attract the caterpillars? If yes what should be done about it?

@gardening
#gardening

heyfluxay, 14 days ago to random

I’m apparently why does my back hurt years old….

RickiTarr, 14 days ago to random

So, what's the thing, what's the big thing no one can help you with? How do you cope with it?

ottaross, 14 days ago to random

Lazy Saturday morning and I opened the curtains with trepidation to see if the world is a crisp, scorched wasteland from the incoming radiation and energetic particles all night.

Appears everything is alright though.

I will need to get a broom and sweep up all the protons accumulated in my driveway though. Do you put protons in the green bin or the blue box? I forget.

#solarStorm #aurora

popey, 17 days ago (edited 16 days ago) to random

[POLL]

llamasoft_ox, 17 days ago to random

Thanks for all the lappy suggestions, gives me a bit of ammo for some better informed shopping around before deciding what to get. 👍

ascentale, 22 days ago to random

@xtaran asks about terms discussed enough BikeNites ago for me to forget somewhat 😅

Q5. I remember that someone said you should not use the word "cycling" but "riding" instead. Or was it the other way round? And I also forgot why. I vaguely remember it was something political. And what about "biking"?

(Generally, how do you prefer to refer to the act of riding a cycle, and someone who rides one? And why? Do some of the terms have confusing or undesirable meanings?)

#BikeNite #BikeNiteQ

rasterweb, 25 days ago to random

I’m not even sure how to respond to an old (punk) friend saying “Extremes on both sides are destroying this country.”

amoroso, 29 days ago to Java

This HotJava lapel pin is swag I got at a mid 1990s Sun Java event in Milan, Italy, where Jim Gosling gave a talk.

One of the lead developers of HotJava, Herb Jellinek, worked on Interlisp at Xerox prior to Sun and now he's on the board of the Medley Interlisp Project. It's a small world.

In case you never heard of HotJava:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HotJava

#java #HotJava #interlisp #retrocomputing

goldstein, 1 month ago to random

This is the ultimate. My TV is no longer supported by Netflix. They actually expect me to buy a new TV to see their crummy service! Canceling today.

#ThisIsWhyPiracy

amoroso, 1 month ago to VintageOSes

It's been 50 years since Gary Kildall demonstrated the first working prototype of CP/M.

https://computerhistory.org/blog/fifty-years-of-the-personal-computer-operating-system

#cpm #retrocomputing

penguin42, 1 month ago to random

I'm reading 'Audio' by F.A.Wilson, a Babani paperback in their range of technical books. I was expecting it to be on the electronics of audio (amps etc) but while it does eventually get to that, so far it's got a lot of stuff about the physics in curious detail; things like limits of hearing (phon and sone measurements), construction of microphones and speakers (even down to the types of chemistry in piezo crystals). Fun.
(One oddity is it spells words like 'connection' as 'connexion')

rbreich, 1 month ago to random

I still hear people arguing that prosecuting a former president sets a “dangerous precedent.”

The truly dangerous precedent would be to establish that presidents are above the law.

kwf, 2 months ago to random

So I've got this empty concrete pad on the side of my house.

It used to have a rotted out 12x24' shed on it, but I demolished that last fall and figured I could do something better... 🧵