computers
Slow burn. #grickledoodle #commodore #PET #computers #AI #cartoon #art #drawing #funny #horror #humor
What people call “phones” nowadays should really just be called “computers”.
Or, if you want to be specific, maybe “pocket computer” or “mobile pocket computer”.
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Calling modern (mobile pocket) computers “phones” reminds me of when cars were called “horseless carriages”, and locomotives were called “iron horses”.
#Computers #MobilePhones #MobilePocketComputers #PocketComputers
Entertaining ideas for The Holidays, from True Value Hardware Store!
#UnexpectedComputer #TI #TexasInstruments #TI99 #computers #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #vintageads #TrueValue #Holidays #Christmas #giftideas #nostalgia #scan #photo #TMS9900 #retrocomputer
By way of an overdue #introduction; I'm rather a simple soul, I mainly enjoy tinkering with #computers, strumming #guitars and a wee bit of #spaniel sitting. I'm now taking some tentative first steps into #gardening too, just to fall in with the #retired stereotype I suppose. I'm also reading the #internet and I'm currently about halfway through it. I detest #BigTech, the #algorithm, #AI and #SurveillanceCapitalism. I love the #Fediverse because it reminds me of the olde worlde internet. I try to post/boost a little bit of everything and anything, including #art, #science, #botany, #transport, #animals, #architecture and #humour, without getting too mired in #politics, although it's not easy to avoid politics when you care about #nature and the #environment. I'm happy to interact with everyone/anyone irrespective of creed, colour, nationality or gender/sexual preferences. In the nicest sense of the word, I really don't give a fuck what you are. I consider myself to be a floating voter of centre/left leaning persuasion. I support the notion of managed #degrowth and #social responsibility. I would rather discuss the common ground we share and aim to respect our differences. I try to avoid fuckwits wherever I encounter them. That'll do for now although I dare say I'll edit this over time. Thanks for reading and peace out☮️
Videoclip SO FUCKING COOL ! Demo 2
First AI Video Gen+ Plus FX HD Experiment
directed by Alan Smithee
Music: Artista di Merda - SO FUCKING COOL! Demo 2
Part of transmedia Non-Sequitur TOO COOL*** Games MINDFUCK
“TV or not TV, that is the question.”
#Pataphysics #Memetics #Memewars #Electronicmusic #Hyperpop #Hyperreality #PostReality #AIMusic #AIVideo #Technology #Computers #Beachparty #Bulldada #Virtual #Funk #TOOCOOL #Fnord #Thegame23
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Great review of @Vivaldi :
Just published a quick overview of my two PC builds: my first one from the height of the pandemic and my second one when I decided to make the rash decision to build a small form factor PC, which meant not being able to use most of my parts from my first build 🙃 The post is rough, but oh well, perfection is the enemy of the good, so on and so forth.
On the hour interviewing @cdegroot with @kentpitman about #bookstodon https://berksoft.ca/gol The Genius of Lisp - the history of #computers, #retrocomputing and #computing, #ai, #lisp and McCarthy - of Uncle John's Mystery Hour.
Great discussion! (boost for the #book btw)
#archive : https://toobnix.org/w/6PWJeCyASrg3f8mpcVFcJx
#climateCrisis + KMP #haiku always
@ramin_hal9001 's #bookReview is over here: https://fe.disroot.org/objects/87b9e619-4e1d-4387-9f2f-8f3cf859a827
Wow, I never knew there was a hand-held LCD version of OutRun. 😃
https://www.igdb.com/games/outrun--2
#OutRun #LCD #HandHeld #GameDev #gaming #games #game #gamer #RetroGaming #RetroComputing #RetroGames #RetroTech #VintageComputing #retro #history #arcade #computer #computers #computing #IT #1980s #tech #technology #vintage #nostalgia #digital #DigitalArt #graphics #CGI #CharacterDesign #design #artwork #art #artist #arte #arts #GraphicDesign #MastoArt #FediArt #CreativeToots #ArtistsOnMastodon
This one might be interesting to anyone interested in computer gaming history.
I spent the last couple of weeks finally finishing a project I started for Bletchley Park about 20 years ago. Recreating the original MUD and MIST on a mirror of the original Essex University system that finally closed in 1991.
Roy Trubshaw and Richard Bartle wrote the first online multi-user game (MUD) on Essex University's DECSystem-10 in 1978 and it ran till I closed it in 1991. I diligently backed everything up so I could potentially recover it one day, but as far as I can see, all the DECSystem-10's went to the great scrapyard in the sky, my backups were mostly stolen when my first museum was stolen, and I had huge issues recovering the Essex BCPL compiler to compile what I had left when I finally got a decent TOPS-10 emulator running on a VAX for Bletchley Park.
One good thing about being an unemployable whistleblower is free time, so I finally hunkered down to some 90 hour weeks and built a software replica of the Essex system I think reflects it well. It's running on a KS10 not a KL10 but I had to let some things slip.
I put the latest known versions of MUD and MIST on it, and miraculously found ROCK too.
So, to meander to the point, if you want to see and relive exactly what online multi user gaming was like from 1978 to 1991, you can go to:
Or:
telnet telnet.dec10.uknet.net
(Port 2653 is available for ISPs that block 23)
And then follow the terse instructions from there.
In those days, you were generally faced with a "." prompt and left mostly alone, so for authenticity, I will leave it at that.
I should note that although they were, in their day, wildly popular games with a relatively huge community, this is a museum peice in snapshot-form at the moment. But I will leave them up and running to see what happens and as a useful reference. I wasn't going to, but Richard seemed happy to have MUD running, and former MIST players wanted it back, so...
Pop this a share if you know folks who might be interested.
** Update: New web client that works better.
** Another update - I added a telnet client.
Historically, the telnet connection is much more true to the traditional experience, where you were connecting to a working machine that didn't care about the MUD Guests, so there were no pointers at all. Just rumour and hearsay :)
If any of you Unix/Security people notice I messed up something, please tell me. I left "^], !sh" open on the telnet link for about 2 minutes and nearly had a heart-attack once I spotted it :D
#history #digital #retrogaming #retrocomputing #games #mud #muds #mist #rock #computers #emulation #emulators #vms #tops10 #museum #history #bletchleypark #simh #essex #uk #computinghistory #36bit #engineering #Linux #Security
(don't try this on a phone!)
#KDE #Linux #KDEConnect #computers #software
Turns out we’ve been selling our mouses (mice, mousse, mooses?) a bit short. Case in point: the middle mouse button. Most people only use it to scroll. But you can open links instantly in a new tab, close tabs, and so much more. PC World, which wisely only used the singular, offers up the details:
#tech #dev #computers #storage
the rubber wrapped around
a thousand miles
of hair thin lines
in the back, there and outside
on heads with one too many eyes
there, back and way out
#unix_surrealism #tarot #occult #comic #foss #computers #sun #ibm #triapul
in the
darkest hour
of man
saddle the steed
of apocalypse
and ride with
angels of hell
#unix_surrealism #comic #tarot #occult #computers #art #fediart #triapul
Kavic Marabush's Pocket Guide to Computers
#unix_surrealism #magnetic_nymph #comic #computers #linux #runbsd #foss #programming
War, climate among high priority topics at Davos meeting
#comic #unix_surrealism #linux #art #mastoart #computers #bash #dillo #lgbt
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'How girls take it when they are alone'
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people exist :-(
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'How girls take it when they are alone'
sudo rm -rofl am i rite xd
actually, ai in the kernel is natural and prevents prostate cancer
gay? 6 desktop environments you must try!
people exist :-(
colorado support group
one free session
is dillo fatphobic?
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The "let's call it homelab" got a way too hot, even it's already running caseless... It's not stupid if it works - #onlyfans!
#homelab #temperature #hot #computers #minipcs #lab #labs #fans
"The hope that the internet would obey rules existed at one end of a spectrum; at the other end was the more widely held enthusiasm for the idea that the internet would be a place without rules."
Every time I hear Microsoft Windows and Apple MacOS users complaining bitterly about the most recent humiliations forced on them when they update to the latest version, I get more convinced everyone but #Linux users are little more than masochists begging 'daddy' to hurt them more.
(Of course, I also need to admit those Linux users who insist on using offbeat distros or otherwise making major changes to their boot scripts seem to me like they are into a form of self-harm…)