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This might be considered sacrilege, but the Amstrad CPC was basically a later, better executed speccy. The hardware and firmware make for a better retro archaeology experience.

Crazy to think this headline would have been satire a year ago.

Have to mention World Possible ( https://worldpossible.org/ ) here. They are doing amazing similar work, with rpis and Intel CAP servers. They also have Datapost ( https://datapost…

I'm having a play on the PPC640 with a Gotek running Flashfloppy with fd720-fat.img It's erroring after the mount with panic:No init or sh found SYSTEM HALTED. BOOT: The computer i…

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler

Having played with a few of these systems, I still feel something like a slightly broken Amstrad CPC6128 or ZX Spectrum offers the better learning experience. You get to understand…

Well that post just cost me a couple of hours. And still 136 bytes off 431: #define p printf int main(){const char *g[]={"A Partridge in a Pear Tree.\n","Two Turtle Doves, and","Th…

Good times. I built a wardialler out of one of those science fair 150 in one kits and an Atari st using an rs232 data line to bounce a relay. found plenty, but the fun ended when t…

Could you give some examples of these interesting things?

There was a Solar Powered Vinyl Tent touring the festivals in the UK last summer. A bunch of records to flick through, a player and a few deckchairs. It really was a wonderful thin…

Doesn't seem to have done Salesforce any harm.

Tellingly, those pro users would never choose to migrate back to Windows for a more consistent UI.

I've just enjoyed an hour getting chatGPT to write Simpsons episodes. >Write an episode of the simpsons starring bill hicks In this episode of The Simpsons, the family attends a co…

This isn't true (since 89) https://www.snopes.com/news/2022/11/17/elon-musk-emerald-min... Keeps coming up, even though it's a pretty easy google.

Be prepared to spend more on security.

It has always intrigued me how close the riff in 'Killing in the name' is to the one in 'Man of constant sorrow'.

If you want to understand how messed up the UK class/accent system is and how damaging for all sides, there's an episode of below deck med. It plays out between a private school ch…

You can't see the eyes in this pic. An ant is much cuter when you see it's big welcoming eyes.

For me, as a kid back then it was the magazines. I would wait all month and then devour the latest Felix Denis publication end to end. The editors of these magazines could be consi…

She mentions that this was all downloaded previously. They prob have a local server/DNS.

This thread is an amazing distillation of hard earned advice. For me. Do something physically challenging. Do a long distance walk like the Camino de Santiago, climb a mountain, do…

>Lastly, and this is definitely overkill. I had a dentist take an xray of the new and old parts. Is this a friend? Or would any dentist consider this for a fee? I'll be broaching t…

Are there any figures available for .net usage outside of large organisations?

Well, the parents are not happy all the time. But when the offspring are safe and happy, the parents will be generally happy. Should a threat to the offspring exist, the parents wi…