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Ric Werme stopped by to get the Stanford NULL job running once again. What a curious piece of simple code that only can be observed on a KA or KI PDP-10. youtu.be/IAa8NujkGbg #retrocomputer #vintagecomputer #standford

This is a photo of Intel engineers working on the CAD design for the Intel 80286 CPU. I was drawn to the image on the right - since we have high resolution die photos, could we actually find what part of the CPU he was working on? Yes, we can #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #reverseengineering

I always adore this little machine at the Oakland airport and was delighted to see that the author of the 5min piece the machine printed out put their Bluesky handle on the story, shout out to @chrisblake.bsky.social for making a trip to see my dying grandmother a little less bleak

One perfect apple hanging over a sidewalk near this fence. I've read fairytales. I've seen horror movies. I know a trap when I see one.

Real post from the mountain rescue Facebook page

I have questions

This one's maybe a little on the ling side, but trust me, it's worth it. I've cried reading it multiple times. (1/3)

We're analyzing the Intel/Harris 80C286 CPU to improve IBM PC/AT emulation. Die photography by infosecdj.net #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #emulation

it really does feel like they just got away with unprecedented amount of theft of expertise, and are now profiting off of it while replacing the professional opportunities for the very crafts and humans it trained on I never thought I would see the concept of expertise get so devalued

It’s going to be a long two weeks.

Unnamed Electrobots game (WIP) for Acorn Electron 🚫AI. Created more varied tiles and tile types. Next up: stats, enemies, moving platforms?

Stand with Zelensky and against Putin. Stand with Pope Leo XIV and against ICE. Stand with No Kings and against Meta. Stand with the people and against the oligarchs. Stand with liberal democracy and against Trump.

"Jet-powered biplane cropduster" are not a set of words that belong together, but incredibly it's by far the least of my problems with this...

as always, my response to anyone who claims Terry would have ended up a TERF is: read Monstrous Regiment and go fuck yourself

On October 17, 1985, Intel released a new 32-bit CPU. IBM's hesitation to use the 386 opened the door for Compaq to move the PC into workstation and minicomputer territory. But did you know one faction in IBM did want the 386? dfarq.homeip.net/intel-386-re... #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing

this goes incredible places and I love everyone involved

No joke. I think this is the most important video I have ever seen about mobile games. This guy breaks down how this game psychologically profiles you, and makes the game harder or easier in order to show you ads

Can the LLM-based AI agents that are supposed to be able to help with scientific research distinguish real work from pseudoscience, from fraud, or from long-discredited retracted starting papers? Take a guess.

Authorities Investigate Collision Between Trains From Chicago Traveling 80 MPH, D.C. Traveling 75 MPH

The remake of Wedding Crashers that we all want to see...

When reverse engineering was still fun... 🥹 (left: Exmon II, right: SoftICE (image from alchetron))

“Can I ask you a question?” I never know how to answer this. Should I go with my first impulse, which is always “no” or just give in to the inevitable?

It truly is a legendary car😍 Attached: Legendary Citroën 2CV ads:

INTO MY VEEEEEIIIIINNNNNSSSSS

Very interesting, via Alex Z Cc @dereklowe.bsky.social @andrewedunn.bsky.social

on AI eroding trust and humanity

most normal printer

i have lived here my whole life, and i have never once seen a plane take off from the Willamette… …let alone do THIS. wtf.

find a job that’s right for you.

today in mastodon's amazing unrequested tech support: after I complained about how my ZSH was doing bad tab-completion, and 21 hours after I fixed it, someone showed up to link me to a video (!) of how tab completion works in general (!!) in Bash (!!!), a completely different shell (!!!!)

Oh retractionwatch.com/2026/10/02/p...

I think this is a really good example of the problem with the word "artist", and where the creativity vs artistry/vision vs craftsmanship lens can be useful people who agree with the sentiment here (myself included) heavily value craftsmanship - skipping over the craft defeats the purpose but,

I have found one (1) writing task I want to outsource to the robot: writing up how great I am for performance reviews god I am so bad at that shit, just leave me alone and keep paying me please