Finally it happened to me as well: developers complaining that the behavior of my OSS libraries does not match what ChatGPT explains to them. 🤦♂️
"i never used a computer again"
just discovered the linux phone project @furilabs, quite interesting to see this taking shape
The Spreadsheet Microcassette Future
http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2024/09/programming-convergent-workslates.html
I got asked over on Tumblr to explain how EPROMs work/are used, so I ended up explaining the whole basic timeline of mask ROMs to flash memory, in an attempted accessible-to-non-techie fashion. It's here if you'd like to read it or fact check me:
https://foone.tumblr.com/post/760820423089930241/sure-basically-computers-and-any-other
'a rare interview'
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Thank you. And keep melting the circuitry.
I wrote a #perl script that randomly selects a piece of #unix_surrealism art :^)
You can pipe it into feh to set your wallpaper to a random artwork every day (example at top of the code)
https://patpatpat.xyz/data/surreal
It is also my first perl program, I see why it is bloody everywhere (its neat!). I use the HTTP parser to look for links of the right form, then I use LWP to do a GET request for the .png file
(I will gladly delete this if you want @prahou )
I'm desperately seeking information about this chip.
It is a custom #Psion RS232 IC used in the Series 3c, codenamed CONDOR.
If you were involved in the development of the 3c or knew someone who worked for Psion around 1994-1997 who might have been involved, please get in touch.
We want to emulate this chip in #MAME so that it can be added to the existing Psion SIBO hardware #emulation.
This could also help with 3mx serial emulation.
I like how we’re debating AI ethics while we’re still figuring out which humans get to have rights
this modulation will have a primitive cutesy chat bot that will be the main way you interact with the pet
what was the old hacker credo? proof of concept or gtfo.
Sing to me of command line passing styles, oh fediverse.
We all know the Unix one, with its minor variations of DOS (slash instead of minus) and GNU (long form arguments with double-minus).
I think dd's style (dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/hda bs=4096) was inspired by IBM's JCL.
And didn't AmigaDOS/TripOS have some limited, but rather consistent style?
(Let's disregard straight-forward function calls in Lisp Machines, Oberon systems or anything BASIC)
Made some good progress with the pico #SharpMZ80K emulator this evening. For the first time (after merciless kludging of the 8253 code wot I wrote) I have SP-5025 BASIC up and running - and executing a "hello world" program!
Latest part of this quest is writing *my own* diagnostics cart, which involves a relatively tricky set of jumps in order to test the upper 32K of RAM. It's working on real hardware, which is very cool. At least now I know my RAM is (trivially) ok.
#retrogaming #colecovision #colecoadam #retrocomputing
no no no *you* can't freely scan through the collected works of humanity, that right is reserved for the large language models.
@vidak The first computer my family had at home was an Osborne, which came with a manual detailed enough that it included a wiring diagram which allowed ~11 year old me to with out how to wire up an 8 micro switch game joystick to its parallel port and use it to control games I wrote in basic (and later, Z80 assembly).