stmuk.bsky.social
UK based programmer, UNIX geek, Gladstonian Liberal (~libertarian), bookworm, retro neophile. Likes Strong Cheese, Hitchcock & Pink Floyd. Red ball cricket.
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Mike James has been a UK computer journalist I've been reading since the 80s. He is still around and does iprogrammer.
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Thanks for a brief and accurate summary. The problem often isn't so much "fake news" but misleading headlines and few bother to read further.
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The mini Europe toy village nearby is fun as well!
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Yeah it was sometimes ok as a stop gap before GUS support was wider.
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The Soundblaster emulation nearly works with games 😀
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Censorship is an irregular verb.
*They* censor free expression
*We* mitigate national security risks inherent in foreign-owned applications
alecmuffett.com/article/110856
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AHH I had a new Antic podcast sitting on the phone with an author!
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My friend had the KoalaPad for Atari back in the day.
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Wasn't that just?
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I just thought "underscores aren't valid in hostnames".
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At one of the Dutch hacker Camps I attended a workshop on vimscript because I was interested.
The speaker started by saying I don't actually recommend writing anything in vimscript but if you must then ...
I never wrote anything in vimscript.
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Revolution but needs some careful privacy enhancement.
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I'd missed that. Quite fiddly to use in the browser.
I recall a few years back there was a more web native version put online, but I think it's defunc.
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Oddly I had several mates with Atari 400 16K/cassette. There was some early adoption in the UK 1981 but it never took off due to price. One guy even had 48K and a drive.
The Newbrain was about the UK micro I never saw until about 5 years ago when I saw a retro display in a local Church window.