FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

in a very real sense Google ATE the early internet, it flattened all the social structures that had existed and turned everything into search - search which would not have been possible without those structures

Google's existence disincentivized that kind of site, though, because suddenly there was a profit incentive in the mix. suddenly people started getting asked to link to other people's sites for pay... some people went along with that and some resisted doing it, but either way, linking to your favorite stuff started to seem not worth it

when Google was new, that description covered most of the internet. that's why citation analysis was such a highly effective tool for ranking websites

all y'all know WHY cohost ranks high on Google, right?

it's because it's a site where people write medium-length stuff to other people and the whole thing is highly interconnected in terms of links

Atari acquires longtime rival Intellivision https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/23/24163176/atari-acquires-intellivision-amico-console

https://mastodon.social/@verge/112491429963919174

it's important to understand that compiler developers are not dog people, but dag people. they love to go “ooh, who's a good puppy! who's so directed and acyclic! you are!!! you're a good little dag!! 🥰”

when I release a zine, I always make a version that looks good when printed at home on a black-and-white printer

so today I'm at a cafe reviewing the black and white version of the git zine

The system is working exactly as intended...

Interesting notification from FB about their AI intentions. The piece that caught my eye is underlined.

Kommer vården drabbas av strejken? Ja! Är det dom strejkandes ansvar? Nej.

Det är regionernas och kommunernas ansvar att kunna erbjuda den vård som är lagstiftad ensligt lag. Då får de också betala det som de som ska utföra detta jobb kräver.

Utan kollektivavtal så finns det ingen arbetsfred.

How to gird your loins

I've found compiler bugs before, but this is the first compiler-compiler bug I've ever seen – incredible stuff:

https://issues.chromium.org/issues/336399264

Capital is dumping its resources into AI because it believes it will advance capital's interests of further accumulation of labour's products. It does not matter in the short term that capital is sorely mistaken. Much like a bad king, capital's misallocation reduces output available to labour too (by preferentially allocating resources to those who participate in the squander). We will suffer this for so long as we permit capital to make macro allocative decisions.

Horrible when those in charge make decisions that make your life much harder for purely selfish reasons without giving a crap about your situation, isn't it. Just awful.

noooooo not you too kde

FUN FACT:
if you build electronic devices which contain a raspberry pi in them, consider what will happen if one of them gets thrown out.
someone might open them up, stick the microSD card in them into a reader, and open up that tantalizing "apps.json" file which has YOUR GOD DAMN AWS KEYS? IN UNENCRYPTED PLAIN TEXT?

i'm finally opening up boxes of software from my archive that haven't seen the light of day in 15-20 years. today, i found a program that has never been archived or probably seen in over 40 years.

i absolutely adore this dungeon mastering program for the TRS-80 that was distributed in ziplock bags in 1982

i can find only one mention of it on the web - the august 1982 issue of TRS-80 Rainbow magazine that advertises it for $19.95 + S&H

happily, i found the cassette, which has never been archived anywhere AFAIK. i am scanning in the printed documentation, along with making a recording of the tape.

#gamePreservation #trs80 #tandy #retroComputing #retroGaming