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Retro-computers, model railways, playing Elite: Dangerous... What else do you need to know? :-)
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After playing a fictional member of the Resistance a long time ago, I never could have imagined it ever happening in real life, but here we are.

submitted 4 days ago • 2030 comments

Cor! I made a video for YouTube... And I didn't even say, "Like, subscribe and hit the little bell." :-) I could have edited down the unscrewing action a bit though. Anyway, like, subscribe and hit the little bell if you want to... or not. youtu.be/CTVueIfOewo?...

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Quote with your first computer. Again a ZX81. Bought in early 1981 from WHSmiths in Bedford and given to me as a Christmas present. I had to wait until my birthday in February to get the RAM pack.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

The latest spin on the Home Office demand for a backdoor into Apple iCloud/iMessage storage is “…it’s not a backdoor, we just want existing exploitable weaknesses to NOT be removed” https://alecmuffett.com/article/112317

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky

submitted 18 days ago • 403 comments

When you learn the lengths that Government & Law Enforcement will go to in order to get you to unlock your phone, you will partly understand why they are so attracted to “digital driver’s licences” https://alecmuffett.com/article/112301 #DigitalId #android #iphone #opsec #security

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

The art of ambiguity in the English language on the BBC 6 O'Clock News tonight: As a corollary to an item on breast cancer screening the statement was made: "One woman is diagnosed with breast cancer every 10 minutes." Poor woman!

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

This is such a great question that I think it deserves a whole thread. The cuneiform writing system included numbers, and we know how to say the names of many of these numbers in both Akkadian and Sumerian (languages that cuneiform was used to write). Let's start with Sumerian.

submitted 25 days ago • 10 comments

General Michael Hayden: “The NSA Cryptologic Museum are Censoring Women” | …this is an abomination https://alecmuffett.com/article/111087 #censorship #encryption #nsa #trump

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

OpenAI says it has proof that Deepseek used its work without permission to create something meant to undermine and destroy its product. On behalf of all the authors whose novels and stories were taken as training data, oh no that must be so hard for you.

submitted 30 days ago • 338 comments

Well, well. A Macintosh LCII will boot and run (without sound) even off all the film caps are removed. (I have reinstalled one cap as I had it in stock but it’s isolated due to the other caps being missing in the audio circuit.)

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

Right winger admits it’s harder to argue with the left because… facts.

submitted 63 days ago • 49 comments

Diagnosing and fixing the Mac Portable after it's bad behaviour in Cambridge last May. Turns out the SWIM and sound chip's /SYS_RST pins were floating. Cap juice probably ate the vias. Bodge wires to the rescue! A few hours testing with Crystal Quest demo mode and definitely fixed.

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

We live in the ✨ world of tomorrow ✨

submitted 43 days ago • 351 comments

"Prohibit publishers irrevocably disabling video games they have already sold" Please sign this! If a single player game needs a server, on ending support for the game, the publisher should either patch the game, or release the server. Period. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

submitted 44 days ago • 4 comments