Don't blindly believe everything you read online, tempting as that is. Do your homework first. This video series will help you do it well: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8dPuuaLjXtN07XYqqWSKpPrtNDiCHTzU
There are probably better ways to run it than a Vice emulator or local HTML+JS page, but the only native options I found are all Linux-only sources and fail to build on FreeBSD, complaining of duplicate symbols in the LD phase.
I spent this evening falling down the rabbit-hole of S.A.M., the program "Software Automatic Mouth" for the Apple, Atari, and Commodore 8-bit computers made in 1982.
(More specifically, the JavaScript port at https://discordier.github.io/sam/ .)
Klaus Finke’s Commodore 64/128 GEOS Disk Collection
https://www.pagetable.com/?p=1816
#retrocomputing #c64 #geos #fd2000
If you see someone posting a photo of a sign at a furry convention that advertises HIV / STI testing while sounding offended, it's a queerphobic dogwhistle.
Spread this to your friends/families to inoculate them from bad memes.
https://soatok.blog/2024/09/30/why-are-furry-conventions-offering-hiv-testing-to-attendees/
Reminder that URLs let you encode all sorts of stuff into them, like https://beesbuzz.biz/%F0%9F%90%99%F0%9F%8D%94
RE: https://mastodon.social/@SteveRudolfi/116279083767770070
If none of the many other reasons were good enough, here's yet another reason you need to quit Google.
Welllllll this isn't great.
Google Just Patented The End Of Your Website
"...a system that evaluates your company’s landing page in real time and, if it decides the page won’t perform well enough for a specific user, replaces it with an AI-generated version assembled on the fly. The user never sees what your team built, they see what Google's machine learning model thinks they should see instead."
https://www.forbes.com/sites/joetoscano1/2026/03/06/google-just-patented-the-end-of-your-website
#SEO #Google #AI #enshittification
friend of ours pointed out that the LLM "new model is so much better" effect is analogous to a Shepard tone — there are differences between each note but the actual net progress sums out to 0
RE: https://muffin.industries/@wayback_exe/116303935513677646
(redraft: wrong sparkles)
CBS basically abandoned search.com in 2016, then the name disappeared in 2024. A bunch of sloperators picked it up last year and turned it into an LLM interface named "SearchGPT."
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SEARCH.COM - NetCast weather forecast
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https://web.archive.org/web/19961027051425/http://www.search.com/Single/0,7,150414,00.html
http://oldweb.today/random/19961027051425/http://www.search.com/Single/0,7,150414,00.html
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