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by johndoe0815 1y ago
Is this another low point of AI slop? First, the selection criteria for the cities covered in the article are completely unclear - for example, there's not a single city in Germany mentioned. The text itself is also inconsistent. &quot
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by johndoe0815 1y ago
“Deutsche Bahn, the fully state owned railway company, is a well liked company”. Eh, nope. It’s a horribly mismanaged entity with permanent delays, bad service and outrageous pricing…
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by johndoe0815 1y ago
Zuse invented many more things than the first computer and first programming language - for example, an "Apparatus for controlling headlights by counterlight" already in 1958! https://patents.google.com/patent&#x2F
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Jane Goodall said she would launch Trump and Musk on one-way trip into space(theguardian.com)
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by johndoe0815 1y ago
Is there any RAM on the board except for the on-chip block RAMs? The ebay listing mentions 128 MB, but I wonder if this can be trusted since some other information in the "item specifics" overview is clearly bogus ("7-Functio
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by johndoe0815 1y ago
Related - there's also a 6th Edition Unix port to "big iron" TI990 minicomputers by Dave Pitts, which are based on either the TMS9900 or discrete TTL implementations of it: https://cozx.com/dpitts/ti990.h
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by johndoe0815 1y ago
Made probably by a religious nut, this redirects accesses to a Bible site according to the description. Flagged.
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by johndoe0815 1y ago
This is _not_ a port of the (leaked) System 7 sources from 68k/PPC to x86. It rather seems to be reverse engineered from the 68k binaries. From the project's README.md: "This is a reimplementation project for educational and
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by johndoe0815 1y ago
Apple spent a lot of effort adapting or creating languages, starting with Clascal/Object Pascal (or Woz' SWEET16 as an alternative high-level assembler-like intermediate language and 16-bit virtual machine) over Objective C (bough
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by johndoe0815 1y ago
The M3/M4 chips are not yet supported by Asahi Linux (which serves as the basis for all Linux versions on Apple Silicon), so you are limited to M1 and M2 (and the respective Pro/Max) SoCs. An overview of the supported devices can
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by johndoe0815 1y ago
Piss off, spammer
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by johndoe0815 1y ago
Why do we see more and more of this propaganda shit linked here? Flagged...
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by johndoe0815 1y ago
Yes, it's exactly this. "Due to new customs regulations, DHL is significantly restricting parcel shipping from Germany to the USA. Effective August 22, Deutsche Post and DHL Paket will no longer be able to accept and transport par
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by johndoe0815 1y ago
Thanks a lot for the hints - the Micro Journal Rev.2 seems to be quite a nice device!
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by johndoe0815 1y ago
What IMHO is more interesting than the article itself - what is this little cyberdeck-style mini notebook on the left in this picture that is part of the article? Does anyone have a link? https://www.ssp.sh/blog/macbook
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by johndoe0815 1y ago
Happy Birthday, Woz!
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by johndoe0815 1y ago
I use a number of Cherry Gentix mice - the USB version costs around €10, there's also a Bluetooth version for ca. €20. So far, these have been absolutely reliable.
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by johndoe0815 1y ago
...and spam.
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by johndoe0815 1y ago
“There has been virtually no drama” wait… “at least none visible to those who depend on the tech.” …such as the users of bcachefs?
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by johndoe0815 1y ago
[flagged]
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by johndoe0815 1y ago
I'm getting out of github, thanks for nothing...
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by johndoe0815 1y ago
The NetBSD developers have a significantly more sane approach. “Code generated by a large language model or similar technology, such as GitHub/Microsoft's Copilot, OpenAI's ChatGPT, or Facebook/Meta's Code Llama, is
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by johndoe0815 1y ago
Wait... so AI isn't going to solve this?
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by johndoe0815 1y ago
Neither does Germany, and here some corrupt politicians are also discussing to scrap public holidays. Same scum everywhere...
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by johndoe0815 1y ago
Brainless FUD.
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by johndoe0815 1y ago
Spam
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by johndoe0815 1y ago
Whow, another well-known piece of software that was written by Fabrice Bellard. He's also the original author of qemu, tinyemu, tcc, ffmpeg and many more. https://bellard.org
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by johndoe0815 1y ago
$8/gal is 1.82€/l. That’s about the price level of gas we have to pay in Germany for a number of years now…
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by johndoe0815 1y ago
Nice! Note that this is based on an older version of xv6 which was written for x86 machines. Recent versions of xv6 run on RISC-V instead, so support for RISC-V would be nice to have in Relix, too.
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by johndoe0815 1y ago
Whow, the Rock Garden picture seems to be taken in Ryoanji temple in Kyoto. I visited Kyoto last year and took a very similar picture of the rock garden. I met Steve Jobs once at WWDC in California in the 2000s, so it's interesting to

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