After the cold war ended, I took one look at the IT sector and clocked the keyboard as the main bottleneck for human-computer interaction. I decided to learn touch typing on an original PC with the IBM Typing Tutor software. I have never regretted this decision and it has been of great benefit in and outside work, e.g. typing up community meeting notes while still keeping eye contact and participating in the discussions.

SearXNG is an anonymised amalgamated metasearch engine https://docs.searxng.org/ With moderate tech skills you can host it yourself and/or make this your default browser search. There is merit in melting into the crowd to avoid surveillance. You can escalate to FreeTube and e/OS if sufficiently motivated.

Ours was a PDP-11 with a room full of terminals, mostly TeleTypes in noise dampened alcoves but one glorious Beehive CRT. Security consisted of short passwords and locking up the manuals. My uncle's department used the same model and I asked him to send me a copy. Unfortunately the internal mail sent them to the computing department without looking at the recipient and I had some explaining to do. One april fools' day we printed all user passwords on a long fan-fold paper banner and pinned it to the wall headed 'in case you forgot your password'

Do these coders only use 10% of their brains? https://www.educationalneurosc...

ChatGPT, how many times would David Mayer say the letter 'r' appears in 'raspberry' please? GenAI so far responds with two - perhaps reflecting on the spelling prowess of those who produces their training data?!? Maybe Dave did better.

Bit like this https://shop.fairphone.com/spa...

https://www.fairphone.com/ has been doing this forever and is a gazillion times easier to repair than an iPhone

Run a container with a progressive website version - cross platform and self hosted https://github.com/RobinLinus/...

Code is hard. Deal with it. http://catb.org/jargon/html/st...

Bump for Fairphone. Not only the battery, the screen, cameras, speaker, USB and cover are sold as spares, it comes with a screwdriver as its only accessory. Proven software support for 7 years, non-Google option easy to install, fair trade raw materials, etc.

I, for one, welcome our new Bene Tleilax overlords

I miss Groklaw

You mean like Fairphone? It promises five years support minimum and has a proven track record on an older model: https://support.fairphone.com/... for a phone introduced in 2015 for which they still sell batteries and screens to this day. Add responsible sourcing of materials and an unlocked bootloader with active support for /e/OS and LineageOS.and it makes Nokia look like a pale imitation.

Ernie has a reputation to keep up https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Texas Instruments TI-59 in 1978, Sinclair ZX-80 with wobbly RAM pack the same year, sharing a PDP/11 in 1980. I wrote a vector-based space game for the TI-59, which took a lot of imagination to play due to the limitation of its angry red LED display