Someone recreated the Manga VHS intro sequence, scene by scene, in HD with the original thumping score. Incredible! youtube.com/watch?v=xM_-q_KyCig

This is what I was referring to. There are instructions on how to remove it in the article.

Without stating your age post your favourite film released the year you turned 18. Went to see it three times... bloody brilliant, still is.

If you buy paedo goggles from Meta (or anyone else) then it should be mandatory to provide ID and be put on the sex offenders register at the checkout.

Surreal question of the day... "we don't want to follow your team's best practice, we want to do it [this] way instead. Can you recommend the best practice for doing it [this] way?" You want our team to give you the best practice for not following our team's best practice?

Just in time for Labour Day, China makes it illegal to fire humans if AI takes their jobs

If you fancy digging a little deeper into 6502, this companion video to the first episode of "Thinking in 6502" does just that! 😁 youtu.be/LX20Te9RzP0

Video about every #RISC_OS user's favourite 8-bit machine from @bigcar2.bsky.social Includes a shout out to @colinhoad.com at the end, with a link to one of his videos. youtu.be/zNiTWKrIAp8?...

youtu.be/JZjNHnYFqOA?... BBC Micro history.

Bram Stoker's Dracula - DOS edition. I loved this game and even managed to complete it. While it's fair to say the 3D FPS didn't compare favourably to Doom etc. I still think it's a really enjoyable game and ties in nicely with the movie.

I like how all the AI bros who, until very recently, were mocking Apple for its lukewarm embrace of generative AI, are now falling over themselves to praise OpenAI for, err, making a phone.

Every single quote like this is so far removed from reality that they may as well be talking about necromancy

Speaker announcement : Professor Steve Furber Get your tickets now: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1981843125137?aff=oddtdtcreator #EconetLanParty #LanParty2026 #NationalMuseumOfComputing #BletchleyPark #TechEvent #SteveFurber #ComputerHistory #GamingCommunity #MiltonKeynesEvents #RetroComputing

Overheard a young dev wailing about his Cursor token quota being limited... "my innovation is being restricted!"

"Rincewind sat at a little table in a dark corner of the Broken Drum." The first Discworld video game, a text adventure released in 1986, and the only one to directly adapt a specific novel. 📺: The Colour of Magic, Delta 4, 1986. (ZX Spectrum)

This is a set of frames of the surface of Comet 67P taken by the Rosetta mission on 1 June 2016. The particles in the foreground are bits of dust and ice or cosmic rays effects. The "waterfall" of points moving in the background are stars.

A book shop filled with an eclectic mix of fantasy, sci-fi and computing tomes... basically the stuff *I* like to read! Trouble is, I'd probably run it like Bernard Black 😆

I've been bowled over by the reaction to this video, it's had over 2,000 views since I released it yesterday! Thank you to everyone who's watched it and provided such lovely feedback - there will definitely be more coming, now that I've seen how popular it's been...! youtu.be/MOEmQ79nA38

Here's some 6502 to brighten your Sunday! youtu.be/MOEmQ79nA38 Special thanks to @musicvsartstuff.bsky.social for the amazing backing music

A shiny thing has arrived in the post. This is a Diamond Mako, a clone of the #Psion Revo Plus. #retrocomputing

CHUCKULUS for the Acorn Electron and BBC Micro.... Download or play in browser: github.com/Snuggsy187/C... Coffee (no milk) welcome: ko-fi.com/snuggsy187

I'm old (and weary) enough to remember a time when saying you met someone "off the internet" was considered weird.

"Watch that last step!" Pretty much all home, interior, remodel, real estate, vacation getaway, tiny house posts on FB are this trash.

What could go wrong using AI to help stage a few listing photos?

What's really amazing is that we went from simple 2D platform games like Chuckie Egg to 3D space exploration, trading, dogfighting Elite in less than a year, *on the same hardware*! elite.bbcelite.com

The cyberattack on The British Library in October 2023 knocked out ebooks and almost ever other computer thing there for years. Ebooks just came back. They were knocked out everywhere using the BL’s license (legal deposit libraries I think? More libraries?) Distributed physical copies matter.

This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

CHUCKULUS BBC Micro Model B version just released ! github.com/Snuggsy187/C...

Haven't seen Akira since I was a teenager, but seeing it tonight at the cinema in glorious 4k, I can confirm it is still epic. What a film.

Had a brilliant time at the @computinghistory.org.uk Bring & Byte today, came away with rather a lot of stuff - too many bargains, insufficient willpower 😆 Really enjoyed chatting to everyone too, a grand day out! Thanks to the volunteers for running such a fun event 🙌

I'll be there!

This is pretty amazing. Draw accurate landscapes from The Sentinel on a pen plotter? And animate them? I'm definitely in! newsletter.revdancatt.com/p/085-the-se... I do my projects for a lot of reasons, but seeing what people do with them? Yeah, that's a big one. 😀 #bbcmicro #c64 #retrocomputing

"Just install the ODBC driver from a local, downloaded package file," they said. "It'll be easy," they said. Reader, it was not.

TAPS *prints of this and other comics in my shop, link in bio 😘

Poor Sleep Linked To Gong https://theonion.com/poor-sleep-linked-to-gong/

Finished reading Rob Napier's excellent "Voices From A Future Passed" over the weekend (my review is now on Amazon here: www.amazon.co.uk/gp/customer-...) Feeling like another watch of Micro Men might be on the cards...

While they're at it, if they could get PE/games to be less about trying to get a small handful of kids to win Olympic medals and more about trying to engage, rather than torture the less athletically able kids that'd be lovely. Games was Hell for me & I can see it putting my kids off exercise too.

Feels a bit "WORK AND CONSUME, YOU PLEBS" I once had 3 months off work and it was incredibly rewarding; at no point did I find myself "bored" or without things to do. I was in better shape (thank you, daytime gym classes) and wrote a third of a novel.

Playing 5:2 on hard mode today... fasting in the office 🫥

"You can't hear an image" The image

I couldn't resist this recent eBay item. On first glance it's a Teletext Adapter 'cheese wedge'. However, it has two ribbon cables coming out of it which is odd. Open it up and you'll find a 6502 2nd processor board sat on top of the teletext PCB. Two in one - a user DIY job! Never seen this before.

"Amid regulatory and energy price concerns," in the sense that those concerns are at the very periphery, with the great big elephant in the centre being "profit, lack thereof".

There is a very clear reason why every GenAI provider provides exactly zero information about the real energy and climate costs of their products

A French coder estimates that using Claude Code will account for 1 tonne of CO2 over a year - 10% of the average French individual carbon footprint. We have never encountered emissions-intensive software like this, ever before (with the sole exception of Bitcoin) www.linkedin.com/posts/gwitte...

Daily dose of dystopia there from Starbucks. What next, Soylent Matcha Latte?

The monumental AI mess is a direct byproduct of Jack Welch's ethos. We now have two entire generations of corporate leadership who view employees as an expense and customers as an inconvenience. Of course they'd be seduced by the "magic supercomputer" that makes both superfluous.

(update is that of course I *did* manage to fix the S7, and it's awesome! :-))

as a culture we have really given "ideas" way too much credit. ideas are a dime a dozen. they happen all the time. the magic is way more in the doing, and the doing's diminished stature is linked to lack of respect for labor and, more recently, skill and expertise.

Latest new toy... a fully working, refurbished Psion netBook! What a beauty 😍