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One Nice Bug Per Day
Claire Keane
cherry valley forever
if i look back, i am lost
Today's Document
Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
sheepfilms
almost home
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@theartofmadeline
pixel skylines
NASA
Monterey Bay Aquarium
styofa doing anything
Not today Justin
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@dinosaurspen
If I had a dime for every time a group of scholars from a research organization in Northern New Jersey took a computing idea from a university and simplified it and then freely distributed it to everyone who inquired, entrenching it into academia and industry and laying the groundwork for the next half century of technological development, I would only have two dimes. But it's crazy it happened twice.
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Weird Japanese Laptops - @ms-dos5 & RadRacer203
"A selection of ultraportable or otherwise weird Japanese laptops from the 90s onward."
There are some cool and wacky little machines, along with some of the most cursed and funny wallpapers. I spot a newer Toshiba Libretto... also Yuri from Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2
Minneapolis-Honeywell's First Computer (1947) via Hennepin County Library
I believe that is an analog flight computer!
Little guy acquired at the estate sale.
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山口小夜子 (1984)
alright I've got to do some quick math to explain attitudes towards AI to my boss.
we're looking to create an AI policy, and when we were talking about this, my boss (older millennial) was genuinely shocked to hear that younger people do not (seem) to view AI positively (a la the recent commencement speakers being booed)
please rb for larger sample size!
Question 1/3
What is your age, and do you feel AI is a net positive or net negative in our lives today?
under 18, AI is a net positive
under 18, AI is a net negative
18-29, AI is a net positive
18-29, AI is a net negative
30-45, AI is a net positive
30-45, AI is a net negative
46-60, AI is a net positive
46-60, AI is a net negative
over 60, AI is a net postive
over 60, AI is a net negative
Question 2/3
How often do you visit or interact with museums/archives (whether in person or online)?
Frequently (multiple times per month)
Often (multiple times per year)
Occasionally (a couple times per year)
Rarely (once every couple of years)
Never :(
Question 3/3
If you saw a museum was using AI in exhibits, marketing, research, etc., would you be more or less inclined to visit that museum?
under 18, more inclined
under 18, less inclined
18-29, more inclined
18-29, less inclined
30-45, more inclined
30-45, less inclined
46-60, more inclined
46-60, less inclined
over 60, more inclined
over 60, less inclined
Thank you for helping with this data collection. Please rb for as big a sample as possible!
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Just two things: I'm not reading all that, and if you want to reblog any of my posts with paragraphs-long walls of chatgpt vomit don't.
Roadkill from the rise of the PC – David Gesswein, Janet Walz
This was a mix of Ohio Scientific equipment and a TI Professional PC, both machines that were left in the dust by computer market forces.The TI Professional PC was not 100% IBM compatible, so it didn't pan out, even if it did have a powerful graphics output.
Meanwhile, David's Challenger II featured a unique OSI-560Z processor lab, a board that allowed the user to have a Z80, or 6100 processor, which was a PDP-8 on a chip. This machine could be seen running FOCAL, and playing a PDP-8 specific game while the 6502 was busy running other software -- at the same time on the same computer.
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What do you think of the new BoC album?
Hey, I meant to ask you about this!
I keep seeing it likened to Campfire Headphase x Geogaddi and I agree with that read. I was surprised how much it reminded me of Campfire Headphase on first listen, I was not expecting the strings and psychedelia and more organic feel overall given the singles that were released.
I feel like it continues the eschatological themes of Tomorrow's Harvest. I doubt it's intentional but I can't shake the mental image of it as something post-post apocalyptic, far, far in the future in a world marked by but uninhabited by human beings. It feels very cosmic, a bit nihilistic, seeped in memory and yet not really nostalgic.
Production-wise it feels special, interesting things going on with the manipulation of the vocal samples (especially on Father & Son), and the audio engineering overall feels really polished. Maybe too polished, I like the layer of grit on older BoC. (This was also a "complaint" I had for Tomorrow's Harvest and it went on to be my favorite of their LPs, so take it with a grain of salt.) I would also like to take a moment to mourn the lack of numbers stations or other radio transmission-y sounds, another favorite auditory flourish of BoC's music, but it does make sense thematically if there really is no one left ...
BoC is possibly my favorite artist of all time, but their albums tend to take awhile to grow on me and I think I'm still in that phase with Inferno. I doubt it will topple Tomorrow's Harvest, Geogaddi or Trans Canada Highway as my favorite releases but I haven't been able to stop thinking about & listening to it since it came out.
How many computers is too many?
When you run out of space or money, whatever happens first.
Slightly more serious answer is probably too many to take care of or use. I amassed a rather sizable collection when it was fairly easy to come by old(er) computers - before retrocomputing became A Thing so they were still largely considered e-waste and could be picked up for cheap, if not free. They are at my family's home because I don't have space for them, and I'm a little guilty they don't get to be in regular operation / maintenance. I don't like collecting for the sake of collecting, I think collections are meant to be enjoyed and I feel bad if they can't be.
I made a game manual for Desert Miner.
Thank you to @stealingpotatoes for the cover artwork.
Thank you to 4004, foobles, jbevren, @seat-safety-switch, & ZephyrZ80 for helping me through the tougher parts of 6502 assembly.
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VGAPride is my DOS program for displaying pride flags. So happy pride month, everyone! Here's a selection of pride flags as displayed on a Pentium 60.
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State of Technology…
UNIVAC 1107, 1960s
UNIVAC 1232 & Control Data 3800 satellite control computers, both manufactured in the 1960s and used until the 1990s. Smithsonian Udvar-Hazy Center, own work.
