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If you're an old geezer like me, doesn't this "AI revolution" remind you of the "BASIC revolution" in the 70s and 80s, i.e. when the BASIC language was new and hot. BASIC at that t…

A remnant of the old GitHub still remains, try surfing to a non-existing repositor like https://github.com/NowIsTheTimeForAllGoodMenToComeToTheAidOf... (however the parallax scroll…

I've heard the next version will be called "Visual Active NET Copilot".

Reminds me of the push of U2's 'Songs Of Innocence" into everyone's iPhones maybe 10 years ago.

I still have my copy of Lego Universe, hope this new initiative will fare better.

Sometime in the late 80's I was working in MSDOS and needed more working RAM for an app, so we bought the Phar Lap DOS extender. Got the box and started reading the manual when som…

In one of the stories of Sherlock Holmes he asks Dr. Watson how many steps there are in the stairs leading up to their door. Watson replies he doesn't know and Sherlock gives the e…

I think PowerShell is a bit scary, for example I could never get curl to work in it, say a simple POST command: curl -X "POST" google.com should return Error 411 (Length required) …

Since they would have "their pick of the litter" why did they then include kill switches? A scary scenario is a rerun of the Viasat hack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viasat_hack I…

If the RCE is Russian, it could be used a communication kill-switch on the morning of an attack outside Ukraine, similar to the Viasat hack https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viasat_h…

Also read that book when it came out, among other things it taught me about "mushroom management" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mushroom_management

The sidesweep you do on your iPhone to change the page of app icons or when you switch fullscreens on your Mac I am sure is inspired by the Switcher.

I remember as a kid reading Foundation by Asimov, when you arrived in Trantor, you had a boarding pass with a glowing arrow pointing which way to go. Almost there now.

Long time ago I read a novel called Brain Wave by Paul Anderson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_Wave (it predates Flowers for Algernon by about 10 years). It has a similar them…

Also forgotten: Microsoft Popfly https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Popfly

It seems incomplete, I don't see .io

Microsoft should change their BSOD screen background color to this.

My escape plan is to use Wine for the apps that exist on Windows only. Wine can be a bit lacking though :-( But there's hope on the horizon: Valve's SteamDeck is aiming to make ava…

Yes the data bits were 2-way toggles, but one important switch was a 3-way toggle: the Examine (press down) and Deposit (press up) switch.

PDP 11/34 had a bootrom and an octal keyboard, which is kind of cheating. I grew up using the older PDP 11/45 where you had to key in (using binary toggles) a boot program. Or, the…

Born i Stockholm, I remember taking the ferry to Finland as a young boy for some cheap vodka (and you only had to be 18 years old, not 20). This was in the late 70's and my first v…

This was the movie that finally cured me out of the bad habit of reading the Swedish subtitles instead of actually listening to the spoken English. I remember watching it in Stockh…

Hmmm one reason for Google stumbling re. GitLab might be: I was on GitHub for over 10 years (and GeezerEdit was there too) but when Microsoft bought it I fled to GitLab.

https://gitlab.com/tungware/geezeredit

Long live WordStar and it's many brethren! I got addicted to it when coding Z80 assembler on CP/M in the late 70's and my life since then has been on a constant lookout for an equa…