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cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

Regarding LB[1]: Perhaps, like me, you don't like to follow links to LinkedIn. It appears the Sharp Museum folks posted on their own site about the PC-2000:

https://design.sharp.co.jp/design%5Fcolumn/1979%5Fpc2000

[1] https://mas.to/@markwyner/114170431396566869

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markwyner@mas.to ("Mark Wyner Won’t Comply :vm:") wrote:

This is the Sharp PC-2000, or “Ratecaputer,” from 1979. Only 200 were ever made.

The name is a portmanteau:

Ra for radio
Te for television
Ca for cassette
Puter for computer

More:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/1979-ratecaputer-sharp-wxfef

#Electronics #Computer #Hardware #Retro #Sharp #Ratecaputer #Music #Devices #Design #Technology

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cas@treehouse.systems wrote:

I'm proud to announce 6502.sh, because the world needs another 6502 emulator!

6502.sh is about 3k lines of busybox ash compatible shell script, it provides an emulated ACIA serial port and is capable of running BASIC

It has an integrated interactive debugger, with breakpoints, single stepping, and a myriad of other features

Check it out here: https://codeberg.org/calebccff/6502.sh

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dnapizza@sfba.social ("DNA Pizza") wrote:

It may be 3/15, but it's still pie day here! Fancy Hawaiian is a wonderful combination of sweet and spicy, always a favorite

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TomSullivan@mstdn.social ("Tom Sullivan") wrote:

Dr. Rasha Alawieh, 35, a researcher at Brown Medicine on an H-1B visa, was detained at Boston-Logan airport for unknown reasons upon returning from visiting family in Lebanon. Immigration officials deported her in defiance of a federal court order. 1/
https://www.providencejournal.com/story/news/local/2025/03/15/rhode-island-doctor-rasha-alawieh-deported-despite-federal-court-order/82441360007/

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

The past decade of SV investment has been a triumph of collective confusion; the most aggressive form of substituting acceleration for velocity (or momentum).

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Three things about today's experience of juniors in our industry need to be always said in parallel:

1.) it's OK that you don't understand everything about the systems you are working in yet
2.) if you don't put values first, learning more about the systems around you only increases the damage you can do.
3.) doing damage can seem like the thing that's in vogue, but it will never be fulfilling. Make good things. Build the "IYKYK" network of peers. Do awesome for users.

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wingo ("Andy Wingo") wrote:

caniuse.com, but for POSIX; let's make it happen 🚀

adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold :usa_distress:") wrote:

The people who are bullish on LLMs don’t want to talk about how the whole industry is just like cryptocurrency, with the same promise to change the world and the same devastating environmental impacts. They don’t want to talk about that because they *really* need these tools to succeed. Otherwise they’ll have to go back to actually thinking and creating on their own instead of patting themselves on the back for coming up with the cleverest way to trick the box in the cloud to do it for them.

adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold :usa_distress:") wrote:

When you find yourself reaching for ChatGPT or Claude or Grok, you’re leasing a chunk of your brain to a billionaire for free. That space in your brain should be actively engaged, producing things by and for yourself, but instead you leave it fallow, trading the opportunity to think and learn for a quick hit on the magical wrong answer and code dispensing crack pipe.

You learn nothing from the interaction beyond how to make the next interaction more effective.

adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold :usa_distress:") wrote:

I have a theory that the people who are most bullish on LLM-powered AI tools are the people who have become the most reliant upon them. Like an addictive drug, their users develop an unhealthy need for these tools to get by, unable to function properly without them. Of course any addict would dismiss this, insisting that they only use them for occasional support and they “can quit any time”. But the usage increases regardless, fueling a vicious cycle of cognitive decline and more reliance on AI.

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molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:

every damn time

#libraries

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indivisibleteam ("Indivisible") wrote:

Our Democratic senators need to step up and call for new leadership. Send your senators an email and urge them to publicly demand that Sen. Schumer steps aside. https://act.indivisible.org/sign/dem-senate-schumer-step-aside?source=mastodon&medium=directpost

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ansate@social.coop ("Melissa Santos") wrote:

Northwest Science Expo is coming! Friday, April 11 is the big day.
(It's the big state science fair for Oregon!)

As per usual, I will be judging one of the middle school categories.

We still need judges for some of the other middle school categories! Sign up here: https://nwse.org/judgequalifications/
For middle school you need some experience in the field.

highly recommend, I will reply to gush more

you do some online judging, then come in to do interviews the big day at PSU

1/2
#pdx

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simple_sabotage ("Simple Sabotage Field Manual") wrote:

Cry and sob hysterically at every occasion, especially when confronted by government clerks.

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trevorflowers@machines.social ("Ding Dang Trevor Flowers") wrote:

The How To Make Everything folks have unlocked threads in metal and now they're in the cycle of making lathes to make parts for better lathes. If you're into the Gingery books or similar machine shop bootstrapping techniques, it's a good time to tune in.
https://youtu.be/fJw8yuw9zD0

jwz wrote:

Necronomicon Ex-Mortis could be yours for as little as $25,000.

Adam Savage has a close look at the original book with the guy who actually made it, Tom Sullivan. It's glorious! And it's for sale.
https://jwz.org/b/ykkj

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ifixcoinops@retro.social ("Dan Fixes Coin-Ops") wrote:

Fedi, who do you know who's the vintage MP3 player expert?

I'm asking Fedi because I have certain expectations and requirements that only Fedi can fill. I'm looking specifically to hear from That One MP3 Player Person, here.

There's definitely an era of Peak MP3 Player, the same way e-ink ereaders peaked in 2007-2008 in the Just Before Touchscreens Ruined Everything era - there's definitely an aluminium-body clicky-buttoned MP3 player that Just Plays MP3s and is tactiley perfect and beautiful in every way and probably unobtainum except with eBay and patience, and I want to know about it from The MP3 Player Expert.

I want the person with a display shelf full of MP3 players to infodump at me about when the buttons disappeared and everything carcinized into a phone and made them sad. I expect this person will tell me to look for something in the late aughts to early teens and know the part number for a replacement battery. If this is you, please give me a link to your website, and feel free to show me your socks as well because I expect they're cool as hell.

No need to tell me you use your phone for music or tell me the MP3 player that you already own is good, I don't care. I want to find The Vintage MP3 Player Person With Heavily Considered Opinions, and ask them questions that only they will be able to answer. I need the MP3 Player Librarian. I feel in my heart that this person is here on the Fediverse somewhere.

UPDATE: it's only been 5 minutes haha, alright here's what I want:
* no apple or apple-wannabe
* plug it in and it shows up as a USB drive, I won't install software
* takes SD or MicroSD
* just plays MP3s
* no touchscreen
* no capacitive controls
* preference: steel or aluminium

UPDATE: ipods are apple, I specifically don't want apple, I already know about ipods thx

UPDATE UPDATE: editing the question to make it more obvious that I'm looking for a person not a thing here, I don't want to know about your MP3 player, I want to know where the Vintage MP3 Player Wizard dwells

UPDATE 4: looking into Sony players around the tail end of the minidisc era, also this wee lad looks like a decent "modern" equivalent: https://binarydigit.city/a-simple-digital-audio-player/

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MissingThePt ("Missing The Point") wrote:

Senators could do the funniest thing right now.

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LilahTovMoon@tech.lgbt ("Shoshana 🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

Roman Senators reaching a compromise with their dictator, March 15th, 44 BCE

#IdesOfMarch

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niklasnisbeth@mastodon.xyz ("Abu Hodja") wrote:

@evan I've honestly never heard anything as self-destructive as the American goverment picking a fight with Canada and I've been going to AA meetings for 13 years

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violetblue ("Violet Blue") wrote:

For International #LongCovid Awareness Day from The Covid Safety Handbook team -- our audiobook chapter Long Covid and Relationships (free; listen in browser, download, and share as you need to).

Link: https://BookHip.com/CDWAWLZ

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tzimmer_history ("Thomas Zimmer") wrote:

This is not a victory for "centrists" or "moderates" over "the Left" or the progressive wing of the Democratic Party. This is a faction of accommodationists, people entirely incapable of imagining anything but politics-as usual, and outright collaborators sabotaging those who wish to fight back.

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Your reminder that the "DEI" purge is all about this administration being absolutely the most fragile (racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic) motherfuckers ever to walk the earth.

https://taskandpurpose.com/news/arlington-cemetery-scrubs-website-dei/

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raph@social.coop ("Raphael Mimoun רפאל מימון") wrote:

Thank you to the Daily Show, we need this right how

Attachments:

• video: Tesla Auto Mall ad featuring Trump and the White House

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evan@cosocial.ca ("Evan Prodromou") wrote:

So, here's my defense plan for Canada. Basic philosophy: it is unsafe to wait for an attack.

1. Secure public confirmation from NATO that Article 5 applies even if the aggressor is also a NATO member.
2. Send an ultimatum to Washington demanding a public acknowledgement of Canadian sovereignty by the President and confirmation of non-aggression.
3. In the absence of that acknowledgement, sever diplomatic ties, close the borders, and embargo trade. Blow bridges and rail lines.

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tprophet@defcon.social ("TProphet") wrote:

A Canadian friend's perspective on US behavior since the Trump regime was installed:

---cut here---

One thing I've learned over the past few weeks, and it's been a bit of a sobering lesson, is that a lot of Americans I know don't actually know what's going on between the US and Canada right now, and just how seriously Canadians are taking this. So, against my better judgement, here's a timeline to explain why we're here, and why we're angry.

Nov 30th, 2018 - The United States, Canada and Mexico finalize a trade agreement. Trump personally negotiates the terms and signs the document, celebrating it as 'the greatest trade agreement in history". (This is important.)

Nov 29th, 2024 - In a face to face meeting, Trump threatens the Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, that he will be imposing 25% tariffs and that if Canada wants to avoid that, it should join the US as a state.

Nov 30th, 2024 - Trump publicly calls our Prime Minister 'Governor Trudeau' and instructs his staff to only address him as Governor going forward. He again suggests Canada should join the USA.
Dec 3rd, 2024 - Trump remarks that he would split Canada into two states once annexed.

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Jeanniewarner@wandering.shop ("JWarner") wrote:

@Mayor_of_Smartarse @sunflowerinrain @pluralistic About 10 years ago my friend was a engineering exec at amazon, and we pointed out that alexa had to be always listening. Him: "No! Noo! No? Well, yes after a fashion. But not recording. Well yeah, except then. But you don't understand....."

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

I know I'm an idealist, and that even in the best of times people get away with lying to the public, but I'd really like to build a society where a policy of "lie all the time" would not be acceptable and dealt with appropriately.

(This toot brought to you by the disappointment of how effective a strategy of "always attack the marginalized" and "never stop lying" can be in obtaining power. (I'll try to find more positive things to post about soon.))

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lilithsaintcrow@raggedfeathers.com ("Lili Saintcrow") wrote:

Happy Ides of March, everyone.