Jeff Allen @profoundlynerdy@mastodon.technology
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Eight bits are enough.
READY.
LOAD "*",8,1
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The free market is the ultimate equalizer: it does not care if you grew up poor, the color of your skin, or by what name you call God.
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Proposal to add characters from legacy computers and teletext to the UCS: https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2019/19025-terminals-prop.pdf
How about making a #C64 emulator run in a terminal with a Unicode font?
Then do non-character modes with a bitmap-to-ASCII converter. 🤩
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Now this is pretty badass. #commodore64 #c64 #commodore #MSSIAH #music #sid6581 #sequencer
#VirginGalactic and #UnderArmour unveil spacesuits for the first space tourists to wear next year...
I'm getting a definite #StarTrek #Enterprise vibe off of these #space suits.
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As everyone knows there are two obvious ways to put together a simple CRUD (Create/Retrieve/Update/Delete) database app: curses based terminal TUI apps and interactive parser-based terminal apps.
What do you mean those aren't-- GUIs? Web apps? *walks away muttering and shaking head*
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The “Ultimate” SX-64 Project Part 2: A lot has happened! https://csixty4.com/the-ultimate-sx-64-project-part-2-a-lot-has-happened/
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@profoundlynerdy considering stuff like https://codebase64.org/doku.php?id=base:vic#vicii_hardware_tricks , there's probably more code intentionally doing these kinds of hacks than code being actually buggy.
To have an idea what people do nowdays with a VCS: https://www.pouet.net/prod_nfo.php?which=69681 , result: https://youtu.be/IXR7HrZb9AY , source: https://bitbucket.org/kylearan/catharsis_theory
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Privateer 2: The Darkening (EA Manchester/Electronic Arts, 1996) #DOSGaming
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CryptPad v.3.2.0 (Chilihueque) is now available on GitHub (https://github.com/xwiki-labs/cryptpad/releases/tag/3.2.0)
Chilihueque lays some important groundwork that we'll use to introduce teams in our next release (in addition to some smaller bug fixes and optimizations).
Try it on http://CryptPad.fr
A CS researcher and source code archaeologist disassembles #Atari 2600 game, gets more than they bargained for:
Entombed: An archaeological examination of an Atari 2600 game
https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1811/1811.02035.pdf
My guess is the "buggy" code takes advantage of a hardware quirk. What do you 6502 old-timers think?
#retrocomputing #retrogaming #6502 #assembly #AtariVCS #Atari2600 #ARXIV
While researching #LinuxFromScratch for my own project, I came across this cool distro #VenomLinux. It's LFS based and has its own build-from-source driven package manager written entirely in Bash. Very cool.
It's much easier to get off the ground than #Gentoo or #Crux #Linux.
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#OpenBSD has disabled #DoH by default in our #Firefox packages. This is active in -current, and will be in our 6.6 -release.
From @otto 's commit message:
"""Disable DoH by default. While encrypting DNS might be a good thing, sending all DNS traffic to Cloudflare by default is not a good idea.
Applications should respect OS configured settings."""
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Very interesting. Searching for an explanation to why bacteria, despite making genetic clones of themselves, shows surprising individual variation. And no, it's not solely due to genetic mutations.
#Nature #Biology #Bacteria #Genetics #Phenotypes #Variation #Evolution
https://www.quantamagazine.org/bacterial-clones-show-surprising-individuality-20190904/
Man runs #RaspberryPi as an in-cartridge #NES graphics accelerator.
Yes, it runs #Doom. On an unmodified NES. Yes, really...
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my 5.25" floppy drive is so much quieter in operation than any of the 3.5" drives i've ever had
the sound is less harsh, almost soothing even, in comparison
