Tootfinder

... I keep circling around the idea that the most ethical way to make money these days is sex work. this would unfortunately require me to interact with people instead of computers. well, maybe I can find a niche that lets me treat people like computers. *reboots you with a cattle prod*

Only analog computers can run software with all the nuance the programmer intended

Quantum computers must be cooled to extremely low temperatures to minimize vibrations and prevent errors.
So far, chip-based systems have been limited to inefficient and slow cooling methods.
Now, a team of researchers at MIT and MIT Lincoln Laboratory has implemented a much faster and more energy-efficient method for cooling photonic chip-based quantum computers.
Their approach achieved cooling to about 10 times below the limit of standard laser cooling.
Key to this te…

Efficient cooling method could enable chip-based trapped-ion quantum computers
Researchers demonstrated a new method of cooling trapped ions using chip-based systems, which could enable more stable and scalable quantum computers and quantum sensors.

This piece could just as easily have been written about atmospheric scientists and climate modellers.
We all need to get out of the computers and into the real world more often
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-04150-w

The third path here -- beyond personal computers or renting them from the cloud -- is walkable mixed density co-op computing.
@paul-rony.bsky.social covers this in "From groups to individuals, micro-computing and us", @causalislands.com Berlin.
https://www.

from my link log —
The missing datacenter OS.
http://addxorrol.blogspot.com/2020/07/the-missing-os.html
saved 2020-09-16 https://

One of the best innovations in personal computers has been the rise of scalable UI. Everyone now expects to be able to zoom something to make it larger, or for higher density displays to work correctly and be clearer. That was unthinkable 15 years ago. We have Apple's push to Retina to thank for that.

So I think about one of the central thesis of Joseph Weizenbaum a lot.
It’s essentially an extension of “there’s no technical solutions to social problems”; it posits that computers are widely used to immortalize and amplify social problems while preventing reforms.
And it has gotten much worse since he wrote about this in the 1970s.
Two of the examples he gives are nation/world-wide stock exchanges and automated trading (lead to wealth concentration and gambling), as well as highly complex but wasteful, punishing and unfair welfare systems (instead of e.g. UBI).

Raspberry Pi stock rose as much as 42% on Tuesday in a record two-day rally, amid demand for single-board computers to run low-cost AI agents like OpenClaw (Danilo Masoni/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/raspberry-pi-soars-40-c…

Bill Paxton received his PhD from Stanford in 1977. -- He worked with Doug Engelbart at the Stanford Research Institute where the group built the Online System (NLS) and he participated in
"The Mother of All Demos".
After leaving Stanford, Paxton joined the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC)
where they developed emerging technologies, including Ethernet, networked personal computers, bitmap displays, graphical user-interfaces, and laser printers
Paxton j…

This is EXACTLY what happened.

Is there a #Thunderbolt dock that can be connected to 2(!) computers via #USB-C?
It should support:
maybe 2x Thunderbolt USB-C input (from 2 different computers)
2x 4K TFT output (HDMI and/or DP)
Power delivery
>= 4 USB-A input/switch (USB 3) for peripheral devices (keyboard, mo…

If I'm gonna do some "pen testing" it's gonna be me sitting at my desk with a stack of nice paper, some music playing, and no computers involved.

"One workload I now support would cost an estimated £6000 per month to run on one of the large cloud providers, which would allow me to purchase the actual hardware in use four times over every year. But “spinning up an instance” today using free credits means you can worry about that cost later, whereas ordering a box from Dell means waiting two to three business days by which time the hackathon is over."

Five Computers
There is no direct evidence that Thomas Watson, Sr. predicted in 1943 that there would be "a world market for five computers". First, he probably didn't know about computers back then: in the 1940s computers were classified research projects at the UK Government Code and Cipher School and the US Army, while Watson's IBM were famously involved with the other side during the war.

The US DOJ says Peter Williams, former boss of L3Harris' Trenchant, stole and sold tools that can hack millions of computers worldwide to a Russian broker (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/…

DOJ says Trenchant boss sold exploits to Russian broker capable of accessing 'millions of computers and devices' | TechCrunch
The former boss of the L3Harris-owned hacking and surveillance tools maker Trenchant faces nine years in prison for selling several exploits to a Russian broker, which counts the Russian government among its customers.

"Perl's decline was cultural"
https://www.beatworm.co.uk/blog/computers/perls-decline-was-cultural-not-technical

RE: https://climatejustice.social/@terminaltilt/115896899179047548
Steve Jobs: "Computers are a bicycle for the mind.
Jeff Bezos: "My computers are a hamster wheel for my bank account."

Series A, Episode 02 - Space Fall
AVON: Most computer-based functions are.
VILA: Blake - Kerr Avon. When it comes to computers, he's the number two man in all the Federated worlds.
NOVA: Who's number one?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/102/98 B7B4

"Perl's decline was cultural"
https://www.beatworm.co.uk/blog/computers/perls-decline-was-cultural-not-technical
Never been a Perl person, but the points made about Unix admin culture resonate with me nonetheless — seen exactly…

from my link log —
A gallery of early computers, 1940s - 1960s.
https://royal.pingdom.com/retro-delight-gallery-of-early-computers-1940s-1960s/
saved 2019-03-17

Retro Delight: Gallery of Early Computers (1940s - 1960s) - Pingdom
We often think of computers as a very modern phenomenon, but there were actually plenty of computers around 50 years ago. They just weren't an everyman commodity, instead limited to goverment and corporate use. And they certainly weren't small.

I tried to use computers today. It was not sucessful for the reasons outlined in 2019: https://www.codevoid.net/ruminations/2019/04/21/computers-are-a-utility.html
The products today were not the same, nor the issues, but the sentiment of computers fig…

🐹 A 1961 Relay Computer Running in Your Browser
#computers #emulation

Minivac 601 Simulator
A 1961 relay computer running in your browser

It's been a rough week because so many computer things I wanted to do just were too difficult, didn't work, or I ended up spending (wasting?) too much time on them.
Some things did work though, and I learned a lot. Some of what I learned is that computers and certain companies (and people) suck, but there's always a way around things that don't work.

Describing modem dial-up noises to the 13yo as "two computers screaming at each other"...
"See, nowadays everything is over the internet. You make a phone call, it's routed over the internet. Back then [we wore an onion in our belt as was the style at the time] everything was over voice networks, so when you were on the internet it was translating bits and data into sound.."
I'm not sure at which point he tuned out.

"Paraphrasing Obi-Wan Kenobi, computers of yore were “elegant weapons for a more civilized age.” And just like Jedis finish their training by building their own lightsabers, many computer enthusiasts scavenge old computer stores for the Kyber crystals–sorry, for the vintage CPUs and capacitors required to build or repair their own retrocomputer systems."

Return to Innocence
The pages of this magazine have often orbited around the subject of retrocomputing. Take, for example, the editions about sustainability, computer museums, hardware, hobbies, gaming, operating systems, or the one about BASIC published last summer. If you pay attention, you most probably have realized how much retrocomputing has grown in popularity in the past few decades, with more and more people learning on YouTube or TikTok how to replace the batteries or leaking capacitors from the motherbo…

Cameras are funny computers.
This one has no TFTP upload or similar, so I'm dumping the firmware over the UART through U-Boot's md.b command.
It is terribly slow, but it works. 🙂

Check out today's Metacurity for the most crucial infosec developments you should know, including
--Italy says it foiled Russian cyberattacks on foreign ministries, Olympics websites,
--NFL deploys cyber squad to secure Super Bowl,
--ShinyHunters takes credit for UPenn and Harvard attacks,
--Ransomware gangs are exploiting high-severity VMware ESXi sandbox escape vulnerability,
--Canada Computers & Electronics breach reached 1,300,
--SystemBC malwar…

Italy says it foiled Russian cyberattacks on foreign ministries, Olympics websites
NFL deploys cyber squad to secure Super Bowl, ShinyHunters takes credit for UPenn and Harvard attacks, Ransomware gangs are exploiting high-severity VMware ESXi sandbox escape vulnerability, Canada Computers & Electronics breach reached 1,300, SystemBC malware affects 10K IP addresses, much more

If your are on Firefox and your are tired of the narrow ass scrollbar go to settings and enable "Always show scrollbars" then in about:config set widget.non-native-theme.enabled to true then set widget.non-native-theme.scrollbar.size.override to 15-40.
You can thank https://www.dedoimedo.com/computer…

Cynicism, "AI"
I've been pointed out the "Reflections on 2025" post by Samuel Albanie [1]. The author's writing style makes it quite a fun, I admit.
The first part, "The Compute Theory of Everything" is an optimistic piece on "#AI". Long story short, poor "AI researchers" have been struggling for years because of predominant misconception that "machines should have been powerful enough". Fortunately, now they can finally get their hands on the kind of power that used to be only available to supervillains, and all they have to do is forget about morals, agree that their research will be used to murder millions of people, and a few more millions will die as a side effect of the climate crisis. But I'm digressing.
The author is referring to an essay by Hans Moravec, "The Role of Raw Power in Intelligence" [2]. It's also quite an interesting read, starting with a chapter on how intelligence evolved independently at least four times. The key point inferred from that seems to be, that all we need is more computing power, and we'll eventually "brute-force" all AI-related problems (or die trying, I guess).
As a disclaimer, I have to say I'm not a biologist. Rather just a random guy who read a fair number of pieces on evolution. And I feel like the analogies brought here are misleading at best.
Firstly, there seems to be an assumption that evolution inexorably leads to higher "intelligence", with a certain implicit assumption on what intelligence is. Per that assumption, any animal that gets "brainier" will eventually become intelligent. However, this seems to be missing the point that both evolution and learning doesn't operate in a void.
Yes, many animals did attain a certain level of intelligence, but they attained it in a long chain of development, while solving specific problems, in specific bodies, in specific environments. I don't think that you can just stuff more brains into a random animal, and expect it to attain human intelligence; and the same goes for a computer — you can't expect that given more power, algorithms will eventually converge on human-like intelligence.
Secondly, and perhaps more importantly, what evolution did succeed at first is achieving neural networks that are far more energy efficient than whatever computers are doing today. Even if indeed "computing power" paved the way for intelligence, what came first is extremely efficient "hardware". Nowadays, human seem to be skipping that part. Optimizing is hard, so why bother with it? We can afford bigger data centers, we can afford to waste more energy, we can afford to deprive people of drinking water, so let's just skip to the easy part!
And on top of that, we're trying to squash hundreds of millions of years of evolution into… a decade, perhaps? What could possibly go wrong?
[1] #NoAI #NoLLM #LLM

#Blakes7 Series A, Episode 10 - Breakdown
BLAKE: All right, Avon, that's enough!
BLAKE: The signal to abort the auxiliary computers came from Zen. Can you override it, bypass Zen, and get them working again?
AVON: Possibly.
BLAKE: Well, try.

"Personal computing must be [...] a social project of all of us building things, trying things, learning from one another."
(Original title: Personal computing)
https://tante.cc/2026/01/08/personal-computing/

Personal computing
When computers entered the homes it was often as toys or toy-like artifacts: These machines, usually called “home computers“, were often used like gaming consoles with magazines giving you code to type in to have simple games on them. Their use was limited to people who wanted to play arcade games without losing all your […]

“The DOJ is giving Congress just four computers in a satellite office to read the unredacted Epstein File of more than 3 million documents. Working 40 hours a week on nothing else but this, it would take more than seven years for the 217 Members who signed the House discharge petition to read just the documents they’ve decided to release (and there are 3 million still being withheld)."
‘A Bunch Of Sick Fucks’: Lawmakers Review Unredacted Epstein Files
https://washingtoncurrent.substack.com/p/a-bunch-of-sick-fucks-lawmakers-review

"Micro Live's Fred Harris considers how daunting computers can be to novice users. He chats to psychologist Professor David Canter, who notes how finding your way around a computer system can be frustrating and unintuitive. Professor Canter visits the Barbican Centre, which proves an excellent metaphor for navigating the endless corridors of unfriendly operating systems."

This is my 1st time learning of #Guacamole, despite being an ASF Member. Looks cool…
Basically a J2EE app that talks HTML5 with WebSocket (or falls back to a custom HTTP-based stream proto) to a JS client in the browser on the front end, and speaks its own abstract remote desktop proto to a backend proxy that talks RDP or VNC to desktop servers. Apparently there’s also a X11 graphics drive…

> The same hidden room is fitted with hot-air extraction systems, possibly suggesting the installation of heat-generating equipment such as advanced computers used for espionage.
It's not that I don't think chanceries get used as a base for spying, but embassies have *other* reasons to need a server room - which, like all server rooms, generate heat.

Uncovered: Secret room beneath Chinese embassy that poses threat to City
Telegraph obtains unredacted plans showing how close the underground complex will come to cables carrying sensitive British financial data

Missing Link: Amiga40 – Rückblick auf die Geburtstagsmesse
In Mönchengladbach fand das weltgrößte Amiga-Festival statt: Amiga40. Mehr als 2.000 Besucher feierten den 40. Geburtstag des kultigen Computers.
ht…

Sam Altman's brain-computer interface startup Merge Labs raised $252M from OpenAI, Bain Capital, and others (Ike Swetlitz/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-15/altman-s-merge-raises-252-million-to-l…

Ok, first, I’m genuinely curious about this. Honestly, I’m not trolling. I toyed briefly with some version of *nix years ago (maybe 20 or so) but didn’t get it, or it didn’t get me, or something, and I’ve been content to let Apple do all the heavy lifting for me and my computers. That said, can someone explain to me why there are so many versions, or implementations of it? What’s the point of that? Feel free to

Leaving Antarctica with computers full of data, notebooks full of notes numbers and just about as much kit as we brought ( some waste for correct disposal). Travelling out via the gobsmacking #WhiteDesert.
#Antarctica, you've been wonderful, who knows when we'll meet again... #iQ2300

Q: I run Ubuntu 25.10 and use filen.io to mount a cloud service to sync files between computers (limited to a specific folder). But it doesn't work to autostart it as it is out of sandbox - is there any way to go around that limitation? It has worked before and I trus filen.io so I have no issues to use some kind of fix to cirkumvent the settings for that specific app. #linux

foldoc: FOLDOC entries (2002)
A network of hyperlinks among entries in the Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (FOLDOC, www.foldoc.org), an online dictionary of acronyms and technical terms for computers. An edge points from i to j if the term j is referred to in the entry for term i. Edge weight denotes number of uses of the same term.
This network has 13356 nodes and 120238 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Weighted

Gottfrid Svartholm one of the co-founders of the pirate bay website, at his work station.
#Piracy #Privacy #Security

Oura just told me to get ready for bedtime at 5am in the morning so I guess computers can get jet lag now too. #agi
(Yes, I’m physically back home; expect an exciting stamina release that was ready before I left but was too chicken to push before travel.)

I just found out that in old planes, flight computers were programmed with audio cassette tapes 😯 which now makes me want to look up how data recording on MCs worked on the C64 (before my time).
I remember that in the 90s, I tried to run "play.exe word.doc" to get my SoundBlaster card to write to my cassette tape. Which of course didn't work.
I bet there is a FOSS project that backups and restores to audio cassettes.
Well, I guess now I know how I'll spend my…

The end of an era.
About 15 years ago, I got a used 42U rack, and with great effort got it into my basement, where it held various computers and UPS units over the years. A couple years ago, though, I moved to a smaller computer as the "home server" and emptied out the rack. The rack then sat empty in my house, a bulky relic.
This evening, an acquaintance came and picked it up, so it's off to live a new useful life again.
And now a path through the basement is newly re-open…

That looks nice https://www.hackster.io/news/a-kvm-that-fits-on-your-keychain-e2adb39f7a2b

A KVM That Fits on Your Keychain
Openterface’s KVM-GO is a pocket-sized, open source tool for hardware-level access to headless computers.

“For almost everyone, computers are a thing that happened _to_ them.”
💯
From @…:
https://mastodon.social/@mhoye/115826422927832740

@… will speak on 'UI Lessons from Antique Computers' as part of our General track at SCaLE 23x. Full details: https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x/p

We have made so much progress in computing. In the 50s, people told Grace Hopper they wouldn't use her compiler because "computers could only do arithmetic; they could not do programs". Now, LLMs can do easily do programs, what they can't do is arithmetic.
https://www.

Some years back my wife made the front page of the Wall St. Journal. They did a piece about how she made up fake data (names, locations, dates, CV, etc) to feed to social media in order to disrupt data linking.
We are one of the few places that has a paper copy of the highly prescient HEW report from 1973 that warned of the dangers of the now ubiquitous practice of data linking.
"Records, Computers and the Rights of Citizens: Report of the HEW Advisory Committee on Automate…

Disappointing to see that even Electric Sheep has a slop angle now https://electricsheep.org/

• Windows:
  "Windows update is committed to helping reduce carbon emissions" 🌱
  Also, Windows:
  "We don't support Windows 10 anymore so we ask users to dump their 500 million computers that are "too old" to run Windows 11 and buy new hardware"
  Also, Windows:
  "We will keep trying to force our users to use #Copilot, what, our carbon emissions have inc…

Upgrade Fail? An Estimated 1 Billion PCs Are Still Running Windows 10
It's unclear how many Windows 10 users took advantage of Microsoft's extended support program, and how many PCs are a security nightmare waiting to happen.

I saw a comment from a guy who said he trusts computers more than people when it comes to autonomous vehicles.
The issue I have with that is I cannot trust computers in the service of Capitalism, because there’s always some Tech Oligarch at the other end who values profits over people.

None of the supposedly fastest terminals improved the speed of Xfce4-terminal on any of my computers. Ghostty, however, does.
It bothers me not knowing why, but for now I'm going to switch to this terminal emulator to see how it goes.
https://ghostty.org/

OpenClaw is What Apple Intelligence Should Have Been
Yep.
I run my instance on Ubuntu Server in a Proxmox VM in my home lab, but it would be nice to take advantage of some of the Apple-specific workflows on a dedicated Mac Mini.
https://www.jakequist.com/thoughts/opencla…

#AI / #LLM propaganda is so insidiously effective even for laypeople.
I’ve had multiple conversations with family members who: don’t speak English, don’t own computers (only mobile phones), and barely spend time online.
I told them that I am no longer working with most tech company clients because I don’t like AI and don’t want to support it (“AI” here = gen AI, LLMs).
And yet these people all reacted the same way: concern, shock, and comments like “but this is inevitable”, “this is the future”, “you’ll have to accept it eventually”, “won’t refusing it ruin your career prospects?”
These are people who know nothing about technology. They usually wouldn’t even know what “AI” meant. And yet here they are, utterly convinced of AI company talking points.

"Just write a quick note to specify something from your last article." he tought. "It'll be quick and you can be in bed early." he thought.
He's a dumbass. That's what he is. Well, here's "Personal computing"
https://tante.cc/2026/01/08/personal-c

Personal computing
When computers entered the homes it was often as toys or toy-like artifacts: These machines, usually called “home computers“, were often used like gaming consoles with magazines giving you code to type in to have simple games on them. Their use was limited to people who wanted to play arcade games without losing all your […]

Good news! Our paper on Socarrat has been accepted for publication in Computers & Security (COSE), Top 2 (the first journal) in the Google Scholar ranking for Security and Cryptography.
“The Reverse File System: Towards open cost-effective secure WORM storage devices for logging”
In Press, Journal Pre-proof available online:

back in my day computers did what you told them to instead of restarting and installing 7 updates every day

Computers don't actually think.
You just think they think.
(We think.)

The director of IBM's Research Lab has some bold takes on the future of computation.
We're on the cusp of two simultaneous technological revolutions - #AI and #quantum - that will fundamentally change how the world uses computers to solve difficult problems.
There have only been two c…

IBM predicts a computation revolution
Quantum and AI are ushering in a whole new range of algorithmic possibilities, says IBM’s research lead.

RE: https://wandering.shop/@cstross/115995187467947699
Ten years ago I was trying really hard to launch a startup in the aerospace industry and this is one of the ideas we considered. The reason why this can’t work is heat, which is produced by computers th…

Brains aren’t computers.
It’s self-evident:
🤖 Computers (even primitive ones) can do a lot of stuff that no brain can.
🧠 Brains (even primitive ones) can do a lot of stuff no computer can.
You know what’s really interesting?
That brains never evolved to be really fast and precise calculating things—which is exactly the raison d’être for computers.
(It’s either not necessary for consciousness or maybe actively detrimental to it?)

When #teaching #Rstats / #statistics courses, I (and several colleagues of mine) made the experience that it is indeed pretty hard for a lot of students to cope with the file system on their computer. They have questions like: How do I know the "path" of a file? How do I control in which directory something is saved? WHY DO I NEED THIS?!?
I don't want to make fun of these students because I know that this could be because operating systems are increasingly obscuring file/directory systems from their users.
But if I want to teach students to use a scripting/ #programming language independently, that's a real problem!
So my questions to you are: Do you have the same impression when teaching? And if so: How do you deal with this from a teaching perspective? To be honest, I don't want to use precious course time to teach the absolute basics of computers' file systems in the first session(s).

foldoc: FOLDOC entries (2002)
A network of hyperlinks among entries in the Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (FOLDOC, www.foldoc.org), an online dictionary of acronyms and technical terms for computers. An edge points from i to j if the term j is referred to in the entry for term i. Edge weight denotes number of uses of the same term.
This network has 13356 nodes and 120238 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Weighted

Cambridge, UK-based Nu Quantum, which builds networking infrastructure to link and scale quantum computers, raised a $60M Series A led by National Grid Partners (Isabella Ward/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

🧮 The Texas Instruments CC-40 invades Gopherspace (plus TI-74 BASICALC)
http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-texas-instruments-cc-40-invades.html
#calculator

The Texas Instruments CC-40 invades Gopherspace (plus TI-74 BASICALC)
I've mentioned on the blog several times the continuum that exists between handheld computers and pocket computers , battery powered devices...

Government assurances they are not creating "a centralised master database" is aimed, I assume, at people whose understanding of computers dates from the '60s-'90s. Anyone of the Internet Age knows that "master database" is a meaningless in this context.

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/115848630887537402
I mean hey, if Claude allows you to kill a bunch of Nazi pages, at least something good came from it.
In my understanding using LLMs for coding does violate at least those two points of the hacker…

For the love of $deity, please stop recommending Framework computers.

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and University of Michigan have created
the world’s smallest fully programmable, autonomous robots:
-- microscopic swimming machines that can independently sense and respond to their surroundings,
operate for months
and cost just a penny each.
Barely visible to the naked eye,
each robot measures about 200 by 300 by 50 micrometers,
smaller than a grain of salt.
Operating at the scale of many biologi…

Penn and Michigan Create World’s Smallest Programmable, Autonomous Robots
Smaller than a grain of salt, the robots can navigate their environment, measure temperatures and respond autonomously using tiny onboard computers.

computers were a huge mistake

When a terrible idea comes from on high, there’s always pushback from the folks on the ground who actually understand how things work: the engineers at the computers, the teachers in the classrooms, the facilities crews, the kitchen staff, whatever. The folks who live their lives zoomed in on a specific thing may be missing the big picture, but they’re the ones who first see when a managerial notion will have execution problems.
3/

I'm thinking of installing #Tunderbird on my different Linux computers, but I'm worried that it will go the same way as #Firefox with their forcing of #GenAI on users...
Does anyone have any i…

Google got a court order to get dozens of domains belonging to Ipidea removed from the internet. Ipidea is a Chinese company that is an "unsavory enterprise that sneaks unwanted and dangerous software on millions of phones, home computers, and Android devices."

Personal computers are a bicycle for our minds, therefore we ask the monster truck factory to think for us.

Lenovo introduces Qira, a system-level, cross-device AI assistant for both its computers and Motorola smartphones, arriving later this quarter (Igor Bonifacic/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/ai/lenovo-and-motorola-are-releasing…

Lenovo and Motorola are releasing their own on-device AI assistant
If the world didn't already have one too many digital assistants, Lenovo is adding another one to the pile.

"For others, the exploration of old computer magazines brings the possibility of running old software. Many computer magazines, and not only the programming kind, used to bundle reams of source code listings across their pages, and many an enthusiast would painstakingly type those code bits by hand, in order to have a new utility, to learn a new programming language, or to enjoy a new game."

Retro Gaming Museum
Reviewing old computers magazines of yore is a pastime most often associated to retrocomputing enthusiasts. It is part of that feeling of bliss that comes with the realization that there used to be a different world, when software was simpler, when corporations did not have that much power, and when programming languages were more approachable; in short, a more innocent time.

TFW you are into bikes but also into mini-computers and you get confused for a second...
#computer #bikeTooter

Imagine they'd come up with this concept in the 1970s and 1980s! What amazing computers we could have had if we'd only put it all in the keyboard! 🤦‍♂️

Series B, Episode 05 - Pressure Point
AVON: Frankly, I don't see how you can do it without me. Your strongest enemies are going to be the defence computers. I am the only one qualified to tackle them.
BLAKE: Yes, that had occurred to me. You better start getting kitted up. Do you want to tell me why?
https://blake.torpidit…

IBM and Cisco plan to link quantum computers over long distances and aim to provide a proof-of-concept by 2030, potentially paving the way for quantum internet (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel

It's hard to overstate Nvidia’s AI dominance.
Founded in 1993, Nvidia first made its mark in the then-new field of graphics processing units (GPUs) for personal computers.
But it’s the company’s AI chips,
not PC graphics hardware,
that vaulted Nvidia into the ranks of the world’s most valuable companies.
It turns out that Nvidia’s GPUs are also excellent for AI.
As a result, its stock is more than 15 times as valuable as it was at the start of 2020;

Nvidia AI: Challengers Are Coming for Nvidia’s Crown
In AI’s game of thrones, don’t count out the upstarts

"Retrocomputing emerges not only as a fun, recreational activity, but also as one with widely applicable skills, particularly for those working in sustainable computing, and those spreading its use in regions of the world where it has not yet reached peak maturity, and where refurbishing old hardware is an effective way to raise standards of living through computer tech. In this age of rising temperatures and rising oceans, reusing old computers is a very valuable skill."

Return to Innocence
The pages of this magazine have often orbited around the subject of retrocomputing. Take, for example, the editions about sustainability, computer museums, hardware, hobbies, gaming, operating systems, or the one about BASIC published last summer. If you pay attention, you most probably have realized how much retrocomputing has grown in popularity in the past few decades, with more and more people learning on YouTube or TikTok how to replace the batteries or leaking capacitors from the motherbo…

sometimes there’s good stuff on Facebook Marketplace, unfortunately I have absolutely no room for more computers

So I tested a split keyboard last week, and there were a few things that bothered me about it (more on that later) so I figured I would look for other keyboards...
Oh shit, rabbit hole!
I didn't find any split keyboard that I liked, and besides that they are super expensive! Like, I've paid less for computers than some of those keyboards cost.
So then I thought about building one, but that gets expensive as well, and...
1/n

We already made computers amazing for text and language.
Hypertext > LLMs

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115849377743052250
Everyone will have an ISDN connection
Tablet PCs will be the future
If you don’t get onboard with fuzzy logic you’ll be a dinosaur soon
This time VR is completely different from the previous 4 times
3D television is here to stay
Wearables will replace computers

Sources: Jeff Bezos' Project Prometheus, which is building AI for manufacturing computers, cars, and spacecraft, has acquired agentic AI startup General Agents (Paresh Dave/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/jeff-bezos-new-ai-company-acquired-age…

Jeff Bezos’ New AI Venture Quietly Acquired an Agentic Computing Startup
Project Prometheus has raised over $6 billion in funding and hired over 100 employees, a handful of whom joined through its acquisition of General Agents, according to records and sources.

All I want for the next year is world peace and free healthcare for everyone.
Oh yes and also chonky computers, the least realistic of these wishes.

It's still amazing to me what's possible with modest equipment purely due to the availability of extremely sophisticated personal computers.
To make an image like this, I combine often dozens of hours of total exposure time in hundreds of images to average them out (this reduces noise and improves visibility of faint structures).

The whole "brains are computers" thing is literally based on conjectures of some techbros from the 1950s with no evidence. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

This pretty self-evident.
Computers, even primitive ones, can do a lot of stuff brains can’t.

Like I’ve used computers for maybe 8 hours today and literally none of what I did had anything to do with “AI”.
No matter how much the tech industry wants to feed us their generative excrement, it’s simply at most some other tool that some people use.
Just get fucked with this “it’s magical!” shit.

Progress in my office installing a shelving system that’s Elfa parts scavenged from Facebook Marketplace.
Some old computers will live on it!

0 days since someone in my replies engaged in Apple bashing
With all their faults, it's the only company supporting their computers and phones with software updates and hardware repairs for a reasonable amount of time.
E.g. iOS 26 works on 6 year old phones and you can get spare parts or service for even older phones from Apple (e.g. iPhone 5 from 2012 is classfied "vintage" by Apple, which means they still service it).

Crazy how people wrote good without computers, word processors, the Internet, Grammarly or “AI”

Highly recommend not to identify yourself with any technology.
Doesn’t matter if it’s AI, bicycles, cars, video games, old computers, photography or Hi-Fi equipment.
If someone says something bad about it (doesn’t matter if true or not) and you feel personally attacked—take a step back and think long and hard about your feelings.
Can you be “into” something? Yes, of course. But don’t lose yourself.

To everyone's utter surprise, "AI" people understand neither humans nor computers
https://www.csoonline.com/article/4108592/human-in-the-loop-isnt-enough-new-attack-turns-ai-safeguards-into-exploits.html