Posts by peter@area51.social
(DIR) Post #AYWk3r64sBRr4C8BGq by peter@area51.social
2023-08-08T05:57:06Z
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This sounds dodgy to me...Crooked house pub:* Closed after burglary in June when interior trashed* Burned down Saturday night, fire crews appeared to be hampered by the lane blocked with mounds of earth* Monday demolishedThe latter happening so soon afterwards - if the scene was still being investigated for the cause then wtf?https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-66434719Wikipedia page for that pub https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crooked_House
(DIR) Post #AYkR3Okb5PUiEfai2a by peter@area51.social
2023-08-15T06:39:50Z
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Re that last boost - confirmed from here. Google will with that specific query state that there's no country in Africa starting with K 🤦♂️ It shows that AI is now influencing traditional search engine results so any results should now be treated as more suspect than they already were.https://www.google.com/search?q=country+in+africa+that+starts+with+k&oq=country+in+africa+that+starts+with+k#ai #search
(DIR) Post #AYkyCi5VrBJ5IqQEim by peter@area51.social
2023-08-15T10:19:17Z
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Anyone after #retroComputing fonts?Just found this GitHub repository full of fonts for quite a few systemshttps://github.com/robhagemans/hoard-of-bitfonts/tree/master
(DIR) Post #AZ5t5jZcDkj9ZXdDVI by peter@area51.social
2023-08-18T12:44:12Z
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@nixCraft Sometimes old network kit is best left alone if it's still working...
(DIR) Post #AZGCG04JaXASKwCOn2 by peter@area51.social
2023-08-30T15:12:18Z
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I never thought I'd see myself buying disk boxes for 2.5" ssd's but now I've started using them like floppies 💾 it's sort of like I've gone full circle.#modernComputing Vs #retroComputing
(DIR) Post #AZGChnIOffCypZ2TS4 by peter@area51.social
2023-08-30T15:23:14Z
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@thatbrickster I need them outside of an enclosure as I now have a video recorder which takes up to 2 disks at a time. You just slot them in to the front as needed.You can see one inserted underneath the box
(DIR) Post #AZYxJVUH25aVBu3Wue by peter@area51.social
2023-09-08T16:31:03Z
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@EdS Sounds like it's not processing the equation correctly.C-A*B is actually non zero but too small for the float so it appears as zero.A*B-C is the same as above and is the same as (A*B)-C but it it looks like it's actually calculating A*(B-C), so the bug seems to be how it's parsing the equation.The problem is, how this type of algebra is parsed has changed over the decades so depends on which method the original author used
(DIR) Post #AZzSBKtwJHc7TSKw7c by peter@area51.social
2023-09-21T07:52:18Z
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Interesting... someones come up with a USB-C power supply for the Commodore Amiga A500, A600 and A1200https://retrousbpower.com/#commodore #commodoreAmiga #amiga #retroComputing
(DIR) Post #AaI9ijKUIiJBfRCe80 by peter@area51.social
2023-09-30T09:32:39Z
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Some blank 5.25" floppy disks just arrived in the post.Most are unlabeled & look to be blank. Some have labels & printouts of contents.However there's a few cover disks including one for OS/2.Also 2 for the TRS-80 and one labelled Z280 C compiler demo disk#retroComputing
(DIR) Post #Ac3nYryoLrYLmnMvhI by peter@area51.social
2023-11-22T09:21:14Z
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A collection of Infocom's original Z-code interpreters for various home computers of the 1980's has appeared on GitHubhttps://github.com/erkyrath/infocom-zcode-terps#retroGaming #retroComputing #commodor64 #bbcMicro #TI994A #zork
(DIR) Post #AcaqW7Av0Ly4itKQoi by peter@area51.social
2023-12-08T07:11:59Z
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You must be kidding!From the latest systemd release:* A new component "systemd-bsod" has been added, which can show logged error messages full screen, if they have a log level of LOG_EMERG log level. This component is experimental and its public interface is subject to change.Systemd - making Linux more like the common virus known as Windows every release 🤦♂️ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/12/linux-distros-are-about-to-get-a-killer-windows-feature-the-blue-screen-of-death
(DIR) Post #AhaBCkeiAIDRV185yq by peter@area51.social
2024-05-05T12:17:51Z
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They should be sanitising their database inputs rather than change the input data!"A local authority has announced it will ban apostrophes on street signs to avoid problems with computer systems."North Yorkshire Council to phase out apostrophe use on street signs - BBC Newshttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-68942321#database #bobbyTables
(DIR) Post #AiNfDpczgInsa3nHIu by peter@area51.social
2024-05-29T10:35:19Z
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@futurebird I have thought about this as I do receive live feeds for the UK rail network, but couldn't figure out how best to do this without overloading the fediverse with traffic for making the posts too cryptic.
(DIR) Post #Aix5frmzsU3FvJVVHE by peter@area51.social
2024-06-15T12:46:27Z
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@futurebird I'm the same, seeing so many new channels, sometimes hiding out the channels I do know & watch.
(DIR) Post #Aix5w5YaSSGxFwVCU4 by peter@area51.social
2024-06-15T12:49:36Z
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@futurebird also with the speech.For example 1969 would be read out as nineteen sixty nine by a human but all the ai generated stuff says it as one nine six nine
(DIR) Post #Ajh8TsCseVzEGhBqvA by peter@area51.social
2024-07-07T17:54:48Z
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@futurebird Larry's been there for 17 years now - he's seen so many PM's come & go he's used to it
(DIR) Post #Ak64uSm6lx8MyaKvlQ by peter@area51.social
2024-07-19T17:59:28Z
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Oh, XKCD is on the ball today...https://xkcd.com/2961/#xkcd #crowdStrike
(DIR) Post #Ak64uXeqcNIU7Vyhdo by peter@area51.social
2024-07-19T18:02:38Z
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Also TurnOffUS is also therehttps://turnoff.us/geek/bsod/
(DIR) Post #AqBLFIGiBpNKpAcm6y by peter@area51.social
2025-01-17T09:57:06Z
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It looks like the YouTube retro channel TheLairdsLair has been hacked.All it's previous videos are gone and the channels name is now Space X Live (but still has the original handle).Only noticed as there's a new retro video out in the last hour but thought it was odd with the channel name in the notification.#retroComputing #youtube #hacked
(DIR) Post #Ar4xLkiIninH7pHzMm by peter@area51.social
2025-02-13T12:51:00Z
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Wow, I didn't realise that LibreOffice turns 40 this year with it's latest release.It started out as closed source Star Writer for CP/M in 1985 with DOS 3.2support in 1986.Then became Star Office in 1994 for Windows 3.1It became open source as Open office in 2001 and the LibreOffice fork in 2010.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarOfficehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.orghttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibreOffice#cpm #msdos #dos #libreOffice #openOffice #starOffice #retroComputing