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CARRYING FRUITS JR. (Source.)

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New Englanders still undefeated at expressing contempt

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I found a backdoor into my bed https://trufflesecurity.com/blog/removing-jeff-bezos-from-my-bed (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43129439)

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In the 70s, Sharp had a series of "Latte case" boomboxes; as the line went on, more and more got put into it, like TVs. One of the last in the line was the RatecaPuter - a latte-case boombox with a 2KB computer that could run SHARP Basic programs off of the built in tape deck.

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FULL ELIZA FOR YOUR MICRO! (Source.)

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Works as advertised

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Something just clicks when you stop and walk backwards. passo.uno/retrocomputi...

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And here's another experiment. A Markdown editor for the Commodore 128 I made using Claude, cc65, and Vice. We're talking of a machine that is 40 years old now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AhN...

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I know times are scary. I'm just an eight-bit fan with a two-bit bot. But if you're looking for a concrete and meaningful way to help, here's something you can do: Help reseed this torrent. We're data hoarders, archivists, engineers, scientists, and dorks. This is our jam.

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Honestly who could have predicted a rich, complacent empire full of idiots and run by third rate sociopaths would be looted so easily? fifty historians beat me to death with all the books predicting it Ah well, nevertheless

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Re: The demise of STC. We're all writers and humanists in tech. We share the same problems with UX folks, designers, etc. I think this is best solved by having tech writing as a division within a global organization of tech professionals.

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The Sharp TRP801 (1960)

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I do not want AI to "polish" me https://thebloggess.com/2025/01/28/no-i-do-not-want-ai-to-polish-me/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42864854)

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Claude just made my eyes slightly watery.

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This is what peak masculinity looks like in 2025

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They’re also talking about where to get a wireless hole puncher. The tiktok kids understand the gravity of the situation in a way I don’t see many folks my age doing.

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Sam Altman is a titanic dipshit and the fact that he’s risen to the very pinnacle of the tech industry is all you need to know about the tech industry.

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The only video I could find of the Sharp Racetaputer in action, demonstrating its dialect of Sharp BASIC.

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I try not to do this very often but I wrote a little sermon today about forming bonds with other people and having fun as the most ssential acts of anti-fascism. www.todayintabs.com/p/it-s-not-a...

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what’s your favorite instance of haptic nostalgia—the poignant memory of the physicality of an obsolete thing—like dialing a rotary phone, shifting gears in a manual transmission, opening a soda can with a pull ring?

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Losing an election battle but still winning the headline war. open.substack.com/pub/managing...

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This should help.

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While only 200 rolled off the assembly line, the technologies learned by this extreme all-in-one were put to use in Sharp's MSX series.

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New project! The Visible Zorker: a toy which lets you explore Zork 1 and the source code that makes it go. An exercise in making software transparent. eblong.com/infocom/visi... A post about how and why I did this: blog.zarfhome.com/2025/01/the-... Enjoy!

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Paul Graham has dropped another word-turd - perhaps his biggest ever - on the internet. Unsurprisingly, another tech tycoon wants to curry favor with the Musk/Trump regime by attacking "wokeness". Unfortunately my response is too long for here, so it's on Tumblr. www.tumblr.com/sasquapossum...

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ELIZA was one of the most important early demonstrations of natural language processing... but most of us can't scrounge together a IBM 7094 on short notice. Luckily, N. Landsteiner has written an implementation in Javascript that still runs today.

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Sickest, and most well-deserved burn of the month so far. Today in Tabs: ‘Paul Graham is somehow still at it, putting his own distinctive village idiot’s spin on “The Origins of Wokeness.” For sheer longevity in having and posting bad takes online, you almost, but don’t quite, gotta hand it to him.’

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So here's the documentation model I've developed. It focuses on two aspects: docs as a product and what users are meant to accomplish through them. passo.uno/seven-action...

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"Eliza has hitherto been unavilable to small computer users except in greatly stripped down versions lacking the sophistication which made the original program so fascinating..." (Source.)

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If you think about it, the very best books are really just extremely long spells that turn you into a different person for the rest of your life

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