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Digitally destroying your computer desktop https://spacetimetech.wordpress.com/2026/09/20/digitally-destroying-your-computer-desktop (inspired by @…

Digitally destroying your computer desktop
Wanting to destroy your computer has been a desire for as long as computers have been around. On Mastodon, my bud Christian Kras was trying to remember back to early Windows (XP, 98, ME, 95?) about…

Well well, a power cut. I've been out but my dad tells me it's been 90 mins so far. It's been ages since we had one but this one is badly timed as I have lots of computer work to do. Ho well.

Der Wirbelsturm, der die Computerentwicklung beeinflusste
Das Heinz Nixdorf Museumsforum zeigt nun Original-Racks des Whirlwind-Rechners. Der Computer legte 1951 den Grundstein für moderne Echtzeitsysteme.
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Der Wirbelsturm, der die Computerentwicklung beeinflusste
Das Heinz Nixdorf Museumsforum zeigt nun Original-Racks des Whirlwind-Rechners. Der Computer legte 1951 den Grundstein für moderne Echtzeitsysteme.

I run Linux on all my computers, but that doesn't change the fact that LG won't get a shiny Canadian nickel from me (the penny having been discontinued in 2012).
"connecting certain LG monitors to Windows PCs can trigger Windows Update to automatically install the LG Monitor App Installer, which runs at startup and repeatedly displays McAfee trial promotions."

"twelve post-war tales" – kollege p. hat mir wieder einen #kurzgeschichten-band von graham #swift empfohlen und geliehen, und es waren wieder 12 ganze welten auf wenigen seiten. beeindruckend. #2026reads

This is incredibly important.
Computers (writ large) have historically been tools that help humans solve problems which do not intrinsically demand computers but need complex computation (possibly including text transformation!) which humans cannot do as well or as fast.
The fact that we have grown a subculture of people who only really know computers has led to the situation where “computer-people” disregard other issues & the concerns of everyone else.

I have been running CachyOS for some months on the living room computer. Starting steam after booting makes it easy to operate it only with controllers. But sometimes I want to use it for other things than gaming and install updates and stuff.
I don't like using a mouse on the couch and prefer not to buy a new keyboard with an integrated touchpad. Once again, I am trying to only use the keyboard.
The vimium addon for Firefox makes browsing a lot faster than tabbing to the ele…

Patrons of Amazon Web Services have been landed with panic-inducing monthly bills running as high as
$1.5 trillion for subscriptions that usually cost less than the price of a cup of coffee.
From Bangalore to Bolsover, the bills have been causing alarm
after a computer glitch resulted in the astronomical invoices being dispatched around the world by Jeff Bezos’s company,
which provides data and cloud services to millions of customers, from students and small charities…

Amazon Web Services customers receive bills for up to $1.5tn after global glitch
One UK man whose bill is usually less than £1 says he ‘almost had a heart attack’ when he saw £5.8bn invoice

Alibaba says its new open-source multimodal model, Qwen3.8-27B, passed 1M downloads within a few days of release, making it one of its fastest-growing models (Juro Osawa/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/alibabas-small-device-model…

Alibaba’s Small, On-Device Model Gains Traction
Alibaba Group said its new small-size AI model that customers can run on their own personal computers has been downloaded more than 1 million times in just a few days since its release, making it one of the company’s fastest-growing models. Alibaba’s new Qwen3.8-27B, a 27 billion-parameter open-source model that understands text, image and video prompts, can be downloaded for free, and users

Science Corporation names Darius Shahida President as PRIMA retinal implant enters commercial rollout https://insidebci.com/news/2026-09-19-science-corporation-darius-shahida-president-butterfly-network-alameda-prima/ f…

Science Corporation names Darius Shahida President as PRIMA retinal implant enters commercial rollout
Science Corporation, Max Hodak's Alameda-headquartered neural engineering and brain-computer interface company, announced on 17 September 2026 that Chief Strategy Officer Darius Shahida has been appointed President in a dual role. Shahida joined full-time in January 2026 as CSO after eight years at Butterfly Network and after first participating in Science's Series B as an investor. He is the second senior Butterfly Network alumnus hired by Science this year; Nevada Sanchez, a Butterfly Network…