Posts by peterrenshaw@ioc.exchange
(DIR) Post #AuIxqk2lWsK0Aw407E by peterrenshaw@ioc.exchange
2025-05-20T21:52:31Z
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@Ruth_Mottram “The answer to "When" will vary according to where you are in the world.”Given most cities are founded near (or on) hydrological terrain, sooner than you think.
(DIR) Post #AuKsP6xEdvWtfXOzCq by peterrenshaw@ioc.exchange
2025-05-22T00:43:50Z
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@stux “Cage fighting warrior”: A tale in three parts.
(DIR) Post #Av1VLKJpCA4siX2aUi by peterrenshaw@ioc.exchange
2025-06-11T09:21:33Z
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@ticho “is that even newsworthy”. You bet it is, if you follow the #WhiteCollar tag, you’ll see companies since December 2022 have been sacking workers in primarily white collar tech on the premise the AI alternative is a *ground breaking* revolution in intelligence that no human can match. So companies sack workers and go (buzz-word) AI-first. The kinds of AI being hailed as revolutionary is generative like the ChatGTP product. Yet when this AI applied to an ancient game written in an 80s computer can beat it; you have go ask, yourself is the idea oversold?@abandonwarering, @aj
(DIR) Post #Aw6jDvSxju3vhMAoJk by peterrenshaw@ioc.exchange
2025-07-14T00:39:32Z
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@HMLivy lol ☺️@maxleibman@beige.party
(DIR) Post #Aw6jfRXYb3PezdRZKa by peterrenshaw@ioc.exchange
2025-07-14T00:44:33Z
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@HMLivy lol ☺️ @maxleibman
(DIR) Post #Aw6jl96W3S7hYHVyKW by peterrenshaw@ioc.exchange
2025-07-14T00:45:36Z
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@HMLivy FORTRAN, lol ☺️ @maxleibman
(DIR) Post #AwBo3pB80WVYndjvc0 by peterrenshaw@ioc.exchange
2025-07-16T06:39:41Z
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“Meet the COMPUTER ADDICTS”Chris was living his #RetroComputer life back in 1983. It was foretold 😂🤣☺️#BBC / #computing #work / #hardware / #VideoGames / #Commodore / #PET 1983 <https://youtube.com/watch?v=jbu0kmCeLSI
(DIR) Post #AwBo3qM9d0vES7uFRA by peterrenshaw@ioc.exchange
2025-07-16T06:52:23Z
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Oh shite, I was wrong. Chris has a #CommodorePET at home and a thumping big hard drive. Wait for it, Chris is writing #software in Commodore #BASIC, an “expert system” for ‘House Planning’. Expected time to completion? Three months to write the code; Three months to populate the (database) system to make it useful.Hack Chris, Hack#hacker / #applications
(DIR) Post #AwBo3rdCt69mPItNei by peterrenshaw@ioc.exchange
2025-07-16T07:05:23Z
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“It’s a bright and sunny day, just right for a stroll in the fresh air. But businessman Graham has got a problem that’s keeping him indoors. He’s tying to locate the Princess of Serenia (The Wizard and the Princess and Adventure in Serenia) …”See the pattern? 🤣☺️#RetroGames / #Apple2 / #KingsQuest <https://hiresadventure.fandom.com/wiki/Serenia>
(DIR) Post #AwBo3sYHStoJGJaxcG by peterrenshaw@ioc.exchange
2025-07-16T07:32:20Z
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Shop keeper Phyllis used her computer system to automate book keeping, taking the time to prepare from five hours to five minutes. Having learned the system down to hardware level, Phyllis is now building an electronics kit. Her aim? Build a computer herself; Or as we called it an “electronic gadget”.What Phyllis doesn’t say is she was a maths graduate from University and “#Cypher Clerk” in “Hut 5” at #BletchleyPark during the war.The”Official Secrets Act” was in force in 1983 😂🤣☺️#UK / WW2 / #computing / #bombe / #SigInt / #accounts / #hardware #kits / #Commodore / #PET / #RetroComputing
(DIR) Post #AwBo3xcibpKazWi4jA by peterrenshaw@ioc.exchange
2025-07-16T09:06:55Z
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Young’uns forget after WW2 a fair percentage of the male population in the UK were trained to kill. The rest including women served in many public and military jobs including code breaking. This is of course, conjecture but Phyllis seems quite adept at putting the machine to work crunching numbers and knows discrete electronics. The difference between single and dual potentiometers, capacitors. A tell is “electronic gadget.”According to the YT comments, Phyllis passed away in 2020. It’s conceivable Phyllis was almost 60 here. Easily old enough to have lived through WW2.
(DIR) Post #AwBo42Kp5mzHbTNM1o by peterrenshaw@ioc.exchange
2025-07-16T09:15:25Z
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Approximately 8000 women worked at #BletchleyPark during WW2. One codebreaker I can quickly look up is #JaneFawcett MBE. “In 1940, at the age of 18, she was interviewed by senior #codebreaker #StuartMilnerBarry, and joined the secret codebreaking project at Bletchley Park. She joined a group of women known as the "#Debs of Bletchley Park", … “Hughes was assigned to Hut 6 a "Decoding Room" of women only”.“On 25 May 1941, Hughes and several other women were briefed on the search for the German battleship #Bismarck. Shortly thereafter, she decoded a message referring to the Bismarck that detailed its current position and destination in France.““Her work did not come to light until decades later, during the 1990s, as it had been classified under Britain's Official Secrets Act”.Jane passed away in 2016. #OSA / #WW2 / #CodeBreaker / #personal <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Fawcett>
(DIR) Post #AwlHumAdoOXu1SWtGa by peterrenshaw@ioc.exchange
2025-08-02T05:47:46Z
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“Ready or not, age verification is rolling out across the #Internet”“It’s just a taste of the issues that many other countries might face as they launch their own systems, and it’s a situation that privacy and security experts have long warned about — to little avail.Following a yearslong political push to make the internet safer for kids, age #verification has started seeping into online spaces across the globe. Lawmakers in the #USA, #Europe, #Australia, and elsewhere have all passed #AgeGating #rules, and platforms have begun to comply. The likely methods for verification are similar to those in the UK. #Platforms typically ask users to either enter a #PaymentCard, upload a #GovernmenIssuedID, take a selfie, or allow a platform to use their #data (like account #CreationDates and #UserConnections) to “estimate” their age. Most rely on #ThirdParty services: #Bluesky uses the #EpicGames-owned Kids Web Services; #Reddit is working with #Persona; and #Discord has partnered with #kID.”#UK / #OnlineSafetyAct / #OSA / #AgeVerification / #surveillance / #control <https://www.theverge.com/analysis/715767/online-age-verification-not-ready> (paywall) / <https://archive.md/jQuvd>
(DIR) Post #AwlHurL6aut43MSols by peterrenshaw@ioc.exchange
2025-08-02T05:59:17Z
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“Mastercard Responds To Censorship Allegations After Forcing Storefronts To Remove Adult Games”“Adult games--and games with #AdultThemes--have been #delisted from #digital game sales portals #Steam and #Itchio recently, following pressure from companies that process those platforms' payments to remove them. After an extended period of silence on the matter, #Mastercard has released a statement and says that its recent actions are based on the "rule of law" and aren't an attempt to enforce #censorship.”The flip side of verification is CENSORSHIP #OSA / #verification <https://www.gamespot.com/articles/mastercard-responds-to-censorship-allegations-after-forcing-storefronts-to-remove-adult-games/1100-6533641>
(DIR) Post #Awm6UTQHzIri0k42Rk by peterrenshaw@ioc.exchange
2025-08-02T23:43:27Z
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@monarchist and a hurdle to online groups of discussion.
(DIR) Post #AxxC7YlyiKysCtjzbE by peterrenshaw@ioc.exchange
2025-09-07T06:00:26Z
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@historyofpunkrock on the back of the first Pretenders record in neat typed capitals, 🔊“PLAY THIS RECORD LOUD”. Advice I’ve followed since I picked it up new in 1980. 🎧
(DIR) Post #AzKRrEcWw6IcQ8dLbk by peterrenshaw@ioc.exchange
2025-10-18T04:33:32Z
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“#JossWright, an associate professor at the #UniversityOfOxford who specialises in #cybersecurity, said it was easier to use stolen #British #phones in #China than elsewhere because many of the country’s #NetworkProviders did not #subscribe to an international #blacklist that barred devices that had been reported #stolen.“That means that a stolen #iPhone that has been blocked in the #UK can be used without any problems in China,”<https://www.theage.com.au/world/europe/london-became-a-global-hub-for-phone-theft-now-we-know-why-20251016-p5n2zx.html> (paywall) / <https://archive.md/A5DIg>
(DIR) Post #B2q9BjgQAQCALGiKHI by peterrenshaw@ioc.exchange
2026-01-31T09:45:02Z
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@futurebird User of HP calcs since the 80s, not everyones cup of tea. #RPN: Removal of parenthesis during calculations. Having operators before and after operands to calculate arbitrary expressions translates to speed and clarity of input. #LIFO / #stack / #geoinformatics <https://www.hpmuseum.org/rpn.htm>
(DIR) Post #B2q9lNI2txqBJeJ46q by peterrenshaw@ioc.exchange
2026-01-31T09:51:32Z
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@futurebird User of HP calcs since the 80s, not everyones cup of tea. #RPN: Removal of parenthesis during calculations. Having operators before and after operands to calculate arbitrary expressions translates to speed and clarity of input. #LIFO / #stack / #geoinformatics <https://www.hpmuseum.org/rpn.htm>
(DIR) Post #B2rNYWl5ynMnQxcdzU by peterrenshaw@ioc.exchange
2026-01-31T23:59:56Z
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@futurebird @NM8A yeah the HP-41C (CV& CX are later models) is Turing complete with its keystroke programming (remembers), indirect addressing (GOTO), loops, conditional and unconditional branching. Yeah I’m in for that. HP Calculators gave you that small reliable, portable computer with low power consumption in the 6502 8 bit era. (Wonder how the interface worked, RS-232!) The SONY Walkman of Calculators making a revival. 😂☺️