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Happy 50th Birthday to CP/M!
https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/02/cpm_50th_anniversary/
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In 1974, Gary Kildall got the first version working and changed the world of operating systemsLiam Proven (The Register)
It's my birthday today! 🦊💙
Come celebrate with me, you can play with my balloons too! 🤗🎈
#SqueakySaturday
Dear aging US-ians.
This is stupid but 100% true. Keep this on your radar as you get older.
"Even if you do not retire at age 65, you may need to sign up for Medicare within 3 months of your 65th birthday to avoid a lifetime late enrollment penalty."
It is significant. And LIFETIME. No do-overs.
hey dont tell people "holy shit your phone is old you should get a new one, the security issues!!!!"
do you really think i am happy that my phone that ive only had for six years doesnt get security updates despite working fine?
do you think i can afford to replace it?
"well then you should get a dumb phone and use your laptop for other things"
are you fucking kidding me? really? 1) my laptop is even older, it's 17", and takes like 5 minutes to start up, im not carrying that everywhere and 2) MOST THINGS DONT HAVE FUNCTIONAL WEBSITES ANYMORE
and really, do you think i should have to afford to replace it?
there is no reason my Pixel 3, which runs apps PERFECTLY FINE, should be abandoned to the ages. it's also one of the few Pixel models that cant even be given a new OS, since no one has worked out all the model-specific issues with it.
there is no reason i shouldnt still be getting updates, and no reason i shouldnt be able to easily switch to GrapheneOS or something else.
stop calling me a bad user for being 1) poor and 2) unwilling to give in to manipulative capitalist planned obsolesence. yell at the people making these decisions. my phone is intact after six years. im proud of that and i will use this until it goes spicy pillow.
PS give us back battery replacing, SD cards, and headphone jacks
you know what else? the charging port should be an easily replaced standard module.
we dont have to go full modular phone, that hasnt worked the last few times people tried but like, things like charging port and screen should be standard, easily replaced parts by now since those are the parts that break the most
1934 world champion runner Zdenek Koubek, boxer Imane Khelif, and how far we haven’t come on gender in sports.Alex Abad-Santos (Vox)
Toilets that signal *what* the infrastructure is, rather than *who* can enter.
📍: Bruges, Belgium
Sold another ASR33 controller board, with a free answer back drum...
Imagine trying to explain to someone in 1963 when these were the best way to store 20 bytes in the ASR33, the complexity of the computers doing the 3D modelling and slicing to drive a 3D printer to make this, and the terabyte SSD in the machine that did it.
Rezz in a synthwave world! 💜
Wonderful arts by Kobold Kurios (https://koboldkurios.carrd.co/) inspired in part by Blinding Lights by The Weeknd.
I used "crowdstrike" as a verb at work today, to paraphrase: "CI is broken because github crowdstruck us with a bad rust compiler update". AKA: usable any time an automatic update from a vendor breaks your infrastructure.
All I'm saying is, if they didn't want this neologism, they shouldn't have ruined my flight home from Italy.
In my spare time I maintain osgameclones.com, a curated listing of over 1000 #OpenSource game clones and remakes. I usually see projects fall off and get abandoned, but recently I learned that OpenSA, a remake of the obscure 1999 🇦🇺 #RTS Swarm Assault, was completed shortly after being added in 2021!
https://dzierzan.itch.io/opensa
It's great to see open source games reach the finish line, especially those showcasing odd gems like this. Made with the #OpenRA engine, pretty cool!
RTS game where you control army of bugs and seize control over the landscape.itch.io
A common hiring practice for programmer/engineering candidates isn't that great.Shammers' Blog
Even for those of us who have worked on, and warned about, climate risks for decades, this news is extremely disturbing.
Scary. My advisor in graduate school used to say "I probably won't live long enough to see it, but geoengineering projects will be a thing. They'll fail, because there is no bandaid we can put on climate change. And when you see them talked about seriously in public, know that it's because we've failed at addressing the root cause of climate change and climate scientists are throwing in the towel."
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/01/climate/david-keith-solar-geoengineering.html
David Keith wants to spray a pollutant into the sky to block some sunlight. He says the benefits would outweigh the danger.David Gelles (The New York Times)
🐉 I'm just a noodle, wigglin' and noodlin' everywhere I go 🎶🏃♂️
📸 Aldoril1975 (Furtrack) #FursuitFriday
The officially best news of the $interval:
World of Goo 2 is now out (and you can buy it directly from the publisher, DRM free):
I just watched Matt Denton’s video making his scaled-up Lego motorbike, which I got to ride at @emf
I really like the way the couple of necessary bits of metal support have been disguised!
https://youtu.be/rAm-lMeZ-uE?si=GfUYyag8ZnZStog_
I'm attemting another giant scale Lego inspried buuild! This time I'm doing a motorbike, well actually its more of an electric Monkey bike! based on kit 8810...YouTube
An illustration for Latharn of them enjoying a quiet day of reading at their local park ^^
#UnasArt #furry #furryart #furryartist #furryartwork #UnaPanthera #commission #illustration #characterillustration
I will remind the world yet again: the Luddites were a labor movement, concerned with workers' safety and lifestyle, they were not anti technology.
They are the literal heroes of that story.
I just re-watched some of @breakingtaps videos and it gave me the motivation to really push on with my own projects. To see someone build their own fricking microchip semiconductors and still sometimes make oopsies that could have (in hindsight) easily been prevented makes me more confident about making mistakes.
We generally see only the finished projects and a straight path to the end result when other people present their hobby projects. However, i am completely sure that each and everyone, even the most skilled, cannot have their projects succeed in one single try. _Especially_ when those projects push against the boundaries of their skill set and knowledge.
Go ahead and be proud of your mistakes, it means that you learned something. Write bad code, make mistakes in your PCBs, blow up some transistors, get the polarity wrong on ICs. It does not make you bad at what you do!!! I dont know who needs to hear this but I certainly do.
Really, really cool video around building a micron pitch lithography machine in your garage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuVS7MsQk4Y
video by @breakingtaps !
Try SendCutSend 15% off for your next project! https://sendcutsend.com/breakingtaps/My descent into madness, chasing one micrometer.Watch this ad-free on Neb...YouTube
All that aside - I love the sheer absurdity (and simplicity) of printing it out and scanning it back into a newer system!