This was a good game, especially within the constraints of the platform. Not as revolutionary as Elite but very playable .Also available on Commodore home computers apparently. https://spectrumcomputing.co.u...

Also a good way to steer clear of the YT algorthm https://invidious.io/

Even cheaper are ESP devices with small relays. I use those to drive the power switch pins of motherboards - short for on, four seconds for hard off.

Great, something else that can run out of juice at the most inopportune moment. What's next, a cloud subscription? Anybody who thinks that is far-fetched should look at recent TV's and fridges.

No - they combine the complexity of combustion with a stunted EV drivetrain. Electric cars are just better, more convenient and cheaper to run than legacy vehicles, no matter how many edge cases petrol heads can think of where they are not. It is a bit like a scene from history where a bunch of monks are standing around a printing press loudly berating it and claiming that it will never catch on.

Rather than trust a perhaps fragile truce between cloud companies who are otherwise fighting for your data, keep everything in-house with an open source privacy-first solution that does so much more than avoid having to log into different 'ecosystems' just to use the stuff you buy. https://www.home-assistant.io/

Useful for the manufacturer if you want to have only one production line of screens - say if your portable computer lineup otherwise consists of phones and tablets. http://www.catb.org/jargon/htm...

Damn OCP! https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Peter Gutmann, CS professor University of Auckland has a different perspective on PQ: https://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/...

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...