Coding like it's the dot com boom... #applenewton #apple #retrocomputing #retro

Coding like it's the dot com boom... #applenewton #apple #retrocomputing #retro

Another great throwback chill out tune from @lukhash just dropped https://lukhash.bandcamp.com/track/galaxy #music #retro #retromusic

Holy Shit, #valve did a product launch in 2025 and did not mention AI a single fucking time. So refreshing.

If you're the person who spunked £500 down and properly outbid me on the CSI / CSA Transputer Education Kit on Ebay UK a few weeks ago, I have just one question... ... can I please have a copy of the software disks, and some photos of the ISA card? If you can't do mastodon, my email address is […]

The EU has let US tech giants run riot. Diluting our data law will only entrench their power https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/12/eu-gdpr-data-law-us-tech-giants-digital "Europe is hurtling toward digital vassalage… Enforcing Europe’s data rules would not only protect our […]

#sap fixes hardcoded credentials flaw in #sqlanywheremonitor https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/sap-fixes-hardcoded-credentials-flaw-in-sql-anywhere-monitor/ #cybersecurity

Getting some work done in the office today. #applenewton #messagepad #apple #retro #retrocomputing

Getting some work done in the office today. #applenewton #messagepad #apple #retro #retrocomputing

This is brilliant... My brain bifurcates as i listen into... Eros rock-talking music from #theexpanse to Anna Tsing's matsutake... This maybe a very limited audience post. From: @kottke https://mastodon.social/@kottke/115509803219340919

Oh, just typing a quick note out on my #applenewton #apple #retro #retrocomputing

Oh, just typing a quick note out on my #applenewton #apple #retro #retrocomputing

Someone put this "blue plaque" on a London Tesla showroom to mark his becoming the world's first trillionaire. “World’s first trillionaire Elon Musk. Could have solved world hunger but funded fascists instead. Bellend.” […] [Original post on social.vivaldi.net]

Again: Don't believe them: LLM text generators creating lots of slop web sites *does not damage the Web*. It just makes search engines useless. #google is simply pivoting from a) providing Web search to b) letting you query a pre-trained LLM. This means that we’ll be back to hand-curated links […]

While cleaning a storage room, our staff found this tape containing #unix v4 from Bell Labs, circa 1973 Apparently no other complete copies are known to exist: https://gunkies.org/wiki/UNIX_Fourth_Edition We have arranged to deliver it to the Computer History Museum #retrocomputing

Commodore Industries Is Trying To Prevent The Revived Commodore International From Using The Iconic Name.

More good #newton news, I can back up to a (virtual) MacOS machine, and #BasiliskII already mounts the host filesystem into itself, so this is way easier import and export using #virtualbox and Windows 3.11 Wonder what the last web browser for this OS was.... #applenewton #retrocomputing […]

Time for a rerun watch of The Expanse. SciFi for the win. Season 1, Episode 1. Here we go. #scifi #theexpanse

Roll up ! Roll up ! Get ya retro storage devices here ! https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/297735969623 #memorystick #sonymemorystick #retro #retrocomputing

It's portable! Made my own replacement battery sled thanks to https://github.com/app-hack/Newton-MP2X00-3d-printed-Improved-Battery-Pack/tree/main #applenewton #apple #3dprinting #retrocomputing #retro

Hello! Do you have access to an x-ray system, CT, Radiography, or a few seconds on the LHC main beam with a homebrew pixel detector? Do you want to take part in #xraymyadvent this year? You know you do.

Oh, just powering my #applenewton over USB-C #retro #retrocomputing #apple #newton #newtCom #dongle #3dprinting

*snap* The sound of the antenna breaking off a delivery bot is so pleasing. Of course you have to know how to disable the destruct charge first. “Hold still lil buddy, and i’ll get this bomb off you. There, done. May i have your permission to attach a new comms module? Left motor for yes, right […]

OK lazyweb, recommendations for a ~12-13" laptop that doesn't directly support bigots, fashbros, etc? The kid is going to high school next year and I was all set to buy a Framework 12 for them but then they did the whole Big Tent/Nazi Bar thing. I'm looking for mid-range specs, and physically […]

> To be clear, everybody is losing money on AI. Every single startup, every single hyperscaler, everybody who isn’t selling GPUs or servers with GPUs inside them is losing money on AI. No matter how many headlines or analyst emissions you consume, the reality is that big tech has sunk over half […]

> 80% of the people only need 20% of the features. Hide the rest from them and you’ll make them more productive and happy. That’s really all it takes. that's also where progressive disclosure comes handy https://danieldelaney.net/normal/ #ux

#cbp Searched a Record Number of #phones at the #us #border Over the Past Year https://www.wired.com/story/cbp-searched-a-record-number-of-phones-at-the-us-border-over-the-past-year/ #privacy #politics

A halloween cartoon for @newscientist.com

"In August 2025, Google announced that starting next year, it will no longer be possible to develop apps for the Android platform without first registering centrally with Google." What tis means for your rights, and how you can help: https://keepandroidopen.org

This is the future I was promised in 1996. Email on the #applenewton #newton #retrocomputing #geek #apple

My old employers are hiring technical talent in the UK. Fully remote / hybrid (London). * Senior Data Engineer * Senior Security Engineer (Developer) * Engineering Manager - (Genetic Data) And several more. Great team with an amazing mission. All the jobs are listed at […]

This is the future I was promised in 1996. Email on the #applenewton #newton #retrocomputing #geek #apple

Yesss... come on !! Oct 30 20:29:15 cloud auth[1386]: pam_unix(dovecot:auth): authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=dovecot ruser=newton user=newton #applenewton #newton #retrocomputing #retro

The Pentagon planning a 20,000 troop force for operations within the U.S., against Americans. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/29/pentagon-memo-quick-reaction-forces

Blasted modern security ! Oct 29 13:48:52 cloud dovecot: imap-login: Aborted login (tried to use disallowed plaintext auth): user=<newton> #applenewton #newton #retro #retrocomputing

Sending my annual donation to @k9mail #foss #android

It's #macSciBar time again. Come meet Alfred the Hedgehog... #Macclesfield #science #uk

I'm in a #github internal group for high-profile FOSS projects (due to @leaflet having a few kilo-stars), and the second most-wanted feature is "plz allow us to disable copilot reviews", with the most-wanted feature being "plz allow us to block issues/PRs […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

The new, slightly less patient, Daniel strikes.

Significant ruling out of the ICJ today, finding that Israel has an obligation to allow sufficient aid into Gaza, including from UNRWA, and that Israel cannot "impede such relief." www.icj-cij.org/sites/defaul...

There's no way it's DNS It was DNS; https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status?eventID=arn:aws:health:us-east-1::event/MULTIPLE_SERVICES/AWS_MULTIPLE_SERVICES_OPERATIONAL_ISSUE/AWS_MULTIPLE_SERVICES_OPERATIONAL_ISSUE_BA540_514A652BE1A #aws #amazon #devops #fail

🆕 blog! “Improving PixelMelt's Kindle Web Deobfuscator” A few days ago, someone called PixelMelt published a way for Amazon's customers to download their purchased books without DRM. Well… sort of. In their post "How I Reversed Amazon's Kindle Web Obfuscation Because Their App Sucked" they […]

Reminder – Microsoft deliberately chose to ignore the vociferous warning of their head of #cybersecurity which is why #solarwinds could happen https://www.propublica.org/article/microsoft-solarwinds-golden-saml-data-breach-russian-hackers I missed my train stop (on the way to give a talk! had to […]

I don't run a TV listings website anymore but - for fans of #startrek - ITV1 is starting showing _Strange New Worlds_ with the first two episodes from 22:20 tonight (hopefully then available on #itvx). It's proper old school episodic Star Trek set before Kirk took over the Enterprise (but most […]

Dale Luck, one of the engineers who designed the Amiga, let me touch the Lorraine, the first working prototype. I am a happy man. When I come down from nerd heaven I'll make an extensive thread about it, with plenty of pictures and loads of alt text for those who […] [Original post on mas.to]

Whenever I see "GenAI basically can do the work of a junior dev", I assume that those people are using junior devs very differently from me. To me, the value of a junior developer is maybe like 20% the code they write, and 80% is a down payment to a future where they no longer are a junior. I […]

Looks like #kubuntu2510 is solid on @frameworkcomputer AMD 13" #kubuntu #ubuntu #linux #framework

Today I learned that there are only three English cities with an electrical consumption greater than 200 megawatts: London, Manchester and Birmingham. By comparison, the people who want to build AI data centres here, which nobody asked for, want a supply of up to 1 gigawatt (1,000 megawatts) for […]