I enjoyed reading this article about the completion of much needed #Colossus building repairs at The National Museum of Computing.
https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/15/the_national_museum_of_computing/
@foone a while ago i attempted to crush the movie "hot fuzz" down into a single floppy. i never ended up properly succeeding. oddly enough it was the audio that was the biggest hurdle, since no codecs supported a bitrate low enough to fit alongside the video. i did manage to get just the video portion in, it was practically unwatchable, but you could just about make out what was going on. in the end i had to settle for splitting it across 3 disks to be able to include heavily crushed audio
Despite ample evidence to the contrary, #Ilive (hmm, if I were also #evil, that would be a pallindrome as well as a visual collision)
Fascinating (if I do say so) #lispgames #gamejam #gamedev #retrospective on #itch_io
https://lispy-gopher-show.itch.io/lispmoo2/devlog/834615/princess-revisited
I am enormously happy with the
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language dynamic, and how it shares your #lisp #repl, and their concerns are just... Different so they don't collide.
I guess I get my #languageDesign friends a little better now.
Thoughts?
i've noticed i often need to buy some specific thing nowadays and i can't find anywhere physically that sells it anymore other than online. like the specialist stores just don't exist anymore, they're all online-only, and the giant general superstores haven't necessarily picked up the slack, even if they have stuff they'll only have one, and it'll be the worst one imaginable. i think peak "being able to buy a big selection of things in person" was about 20 years ago now
if i go into town to buy a radio. can i? just a radio. just something anyone has been able to go and buy for the last 70 years. can you still just buy "a radio"? a lot of the general home department store type thing has been shutting down lately. the tech type places just sell computer stuff and phone chargers. big supermarkets with a large electronics section probably have a cheapest-of-the-cheap shower radio in the shape of a seahorse hopefully. a seahorse for your earthquake/hurricane go-bag
@ajroach42 there was some of this culture of publishing and curation in the early pre web2.0. I ran a weekly online magazine for indie film and we had clear defined issues - 99 of them - with a curated mix of interviews, news, reviews and editorial. We made no money but after that I worked for shootingpeople.org - an email newsletter that 10,000+ people paid to receive and every night was curated from submissions from those same paying readers. It worked online but Web2.0 killed it.
Great podcast chat for anybody that loves retro computing, #Forth, #BBS systems or #RC2014
https://straypointers.com/e/s2e18.htm
Featuring @Wintermute_BBS
i kinda feel like the emperor needs to be told he is not clothed re: "artificial intelligence", am i seriously being told to "appreciate" AI artwork?
2+2=5!
Why BlueSky Isn’t the Alternative to X (Formerly Twitter) You’re Looking For — and Why Mastodon Is the Better Choice Over X, Threads, and BlueSky | by Aidan Raymond | Nov, 2024 | Medium https://aidanraymond.medium.com/why-bluesky-isnt-the-alternative-to-x-formerly-twitter-you-re-looking-for-and-why-mastodon-is-46c8901f2748
Hello everyone! I just set up this new account?
Things seem pretty cool here on this "fediverse". What does that mean though, the "fediverse"? I hear it's using ActivityPub. Could anyone explain to me what that means? Thanks!
Sears used to sell a Commodore-compatible disk drive that was branded Blue Chip. This drive isn't especially rare but information about it is, so I gathered what I could about it. #retrocomputing #commodore https://dfarq.homeip.net/blue-chip-bcd-5-25-disk-drive/
