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baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

In lieu of facing, y'know, everything that is happening and all, I'm working through some of my nostalgia for the Atkinson dither by playing around with raven photos

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JoshuaACNewman@xeno.glyphpress.com ("Joshua A.C. Newman") wrote:

For me #retrocomputing is about the time when we dreamed that communication would make us wiser

When we could be free to play with ideas and share them with each other

To play until we uncovered new ways to think as a matter of course

I don’t want my Mac Plus and HyperCard back.

I want to build now what I wanted then.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
amoroso@oldbytes.space ("Paolo Amoroso") wrote:

Rupert Lane reconstructed the code of Joseph Weizenbaum's Online Programming Language (OPL).

Based on a printout of source code found among Weizenbaum's papers archived by MIT Libraries, I have reconstructed the language so it can live again for the first time in nearly sixty years on a IBM 7094 emulator running CTSS.

https://timereshared.com/reconstructing-joseph-weizenbaums-opl

#eliza #ProgLang #retrocomputing

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
philpem@digipres.club ("Phil M0OFX") wrote:

There's an new book out on the history of Acorn and ARM - if you liked "Soul of a New Machine" you might like this. It's not a dry stuffy history book - it focuses on the people.

"Voices from a Future Passed: How the BBC, ARM and Acorn changed the world" by Rob Napier.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/VOICES-FUTURE-PASSED-Broadcasting-Corporation/dp/1764460804/
https://www.doitonce.net.au/

If you're local to Milton Keynes or visiting TNMOC, they had copies in their museum shop yesterday. I had a thumb through one yesterday and liked what I read :)
#retrocomputing

Mastodon wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/116142521372597340

We're holding this workshop / masterclass in Mastodon features right now - feel free to drop in to learn with us.

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gerichteSH@social.schleswig-holstein.de ("Die Gerichte im echten Norden") wrote:

Wir nutzen den #DIDay heute, um auf unseren anderen Kanälen von Facebook bis LinkedIn fleißig die Werbetrommel für das Fediverse zu rühren. Und wer von euch auch noch was zum weiterempfehlen braucht: @Mastodon bietet heute um 14:00 Uhr einen Mastodon Onboarding Workshop an: https://termine.di.day/events/0416dee7-cc7f-4e2a-aa94-ff11322daaaa

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io ("Being Left Behind Enjoyer") wrote:

It's interesting that our society, in order to "think of the children", isn't lifting a finger to go after the adults who harm the children, going as far as ignoring evidence that a lot of men in the highest echelons of society are child rapists.

Instead we are restricting the rights of children, and with it the rights of adults who aren't heinous criminals.

adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁") wrote:

New blog post

Building your first smolweb page

A simple news article that takes ten seconds to load and eats 50 MB of data. You've seen that. We all have. Mountains of JavaScript, giant CSS frameworks, third-party trackers, custom fonts pulled from remote servers... all of that to display a few paragraphs of text.

The smolweb pushes back against that...

https://adele.pages.casa/md/blog/building-your-first-smolweb-page.md

#smolweb #smallweb #html #howto

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oglaf@socel.net ("Oglaf") wrote:

https://www.oglaf.com/pamphlets/

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ZackPolanski@mastox.eu ("Zack Polanski") wrote:

RT: @Malcolm1818 A masterclass by Zack Polanski in how to take the fight to Reform and remind the media of it’s responsibility to report the truth not fabrications

Attachments:

• video: 57e13f535058b917.mp4

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catsalad@infosec.exchange ("Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :paw:⁠:paw:") wrote:

Hingehenge

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netblocks ("NetBlocks") wrote:

⚠️ Update: #Iran's internet blackout has now passed the 24-hour mark with national connectivity flatlining at 1% of ordinary levels.

The measure limits civic engagement at a key moment for the country's future after the killing of Ayatollah Khamenei in US and Israeli airstrikes.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
cinebox@masto.hackers.town ("Andrew") wrote:

@soatok call me paranoid but given Anthropic’s history of “all publicity is good publicity” stunts, I’m wondering if that was the goal here.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

Context:

https://mstdn.social/@rysiek/116145705146085126

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soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

I don't have a horse in this LLM race, but it would be hilarious if everyone being forced to use AI at their place of employment refused to use or pay for anythimg but Anthropic's products after today's news.

soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

Oh, heh

https://web.archive.org/web/20260301070836/https://www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-claude-hits-number-one-app-store-openai-chatgpt-2026-2

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
sjolsen@tech.lgbt ("sjolsen (MP3 & JPEG compatible!)") wrote:

the greek god of subatomic physics, Particles

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gknauss ("Greg Knauss") wrote:

They’re all sitting around a hastily-assembled and wildly insecure war room at Mar-a-Lago, watching Twitter on the big screen, and someone wistfully says, “I wish Jeffery were here to see this.”

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
BabblingGeek@infosec.exchange ("Que") wrote:

@soatok it’s a damn good write-up. I had a good laugh reading it.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
hal_pomeranz@infosec.exchange ("Hal Pomeranz") wrote:

RE: https://furry.engineer/@soatok/116151625155857158

I don’t normally quote boost, but I just wanted to call this out as one of the most hilariously profane rants that I have read in some time.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
cR0w@infosec.exchange ("cR0w :cascadia: :gayint:") wrote:

RE: https://furry.engineer/@soatok/116151625155857158

Fucking LMFAO #FURINT

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
attoparsec@clacks.link ("Matthew Dockrey") wrote:

It turns out I had another stained glass project in me after all. I just couldn't resist the heady contrasts of strength and fragility, profanity and sanctity. Plus, it used up a lot of random pieces of leftover glass!

soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

for context: https://furry.engineer/@soatok/115974399832301406

soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

https://squirrelly.blog/2026/02/28/alice-fucks-bob-with-help-from-amis/

Looks like my "disclose 0days via furry porn" idea has legs

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
anolandria ("Nol Malone ☭") wrote:

STOP BLAMING "VOTERS"

"Voters" have statistically 0 impact on US policy according to several studies including the famous 2016 Cambridge study.

We have near 0 impact on news; 90% of all media it's owned by 6 families.
(People vote for what they know, they know what the news tells them.)

Yelling at "voters" does less than nothing.

A root cause must be understood before a solution is possible and the root cause isn't "people", your neighbor, or your co-worker.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/article/testing-theories-of-american-politics-elites-interest-groups-and-average-citizenshttps://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/article/testing-theories-of-american-politics-elites-interest-groups-and-average-citizens/62327F513959D0A304D4893B382B992B?hl=en-US

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tokyo_0@mas.to ("Tokyo Outsider (337ppm)") wrote:

Iran has confirmed Khamenei is dead.

#Iran #Israel #Khamenei #Tehran #conflict #news #Trump #US #war

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
itzyg@mostlygood.xyz ("Your Cool Uncle Itzy") wrote:

RE: https://mostlygood.xyz/@itzyg/116144284998442340

Basically every team in the country coming out and saying "trans women are welcome on our team" is amazing. I am just overwhelmed by the amount of support the rugby community is showing trans women. It is truly incredible to know the whole community stands with us #Rugby #WomensSports

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
arielmt@computerfairi.es ("Ariel Millennium Thornton") wrote:

U.S. Food & Drug Administration, 2026-02-25, "Lockout Supplements Issues Voluntary Nationwide Recall of Boner Bears Chocolate Syrup Due to Undeclared Sildenafil": https://www.fda.gov/safety/recalls-market-withdrawals-safety-alerts/lockout-supplements-issues-voluntary-nationwide-recall-boner-bears-chocolate-syrup-due-undeclared

Sildenafil is the active ingredient in Viagra.

From the release: "This undeclared ingredient may interact with nitrates found in some prescription drugs, such as nitroglycerin, and" EXCUSE ME, WHAT

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mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:

What if I could convince you that taking the same time to explain detailed requirements and carefully validate results with a junior colleague instead of a chatbot would not only give you two people who understood the code instead of zero, but if you do it a few times in a row you eventually get a senior colleague out of the deal for free.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

OpenAI strikes deal with Pentagon hours after Trump admin bans Anthropic:

"It’s not clear what is different about OpenAI’s deal with the Pentagon versus what Anthropic wanted."

OpenAI caved and Sam Altman is misleading the public? Also, CNN failed to mention that it was just two years ago that OpenAI had non-military use ban in its code of ethics. https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/27/tech/openai-pentagon-deal-ai-systems