Chris Espinosa
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Before the Internet, I got a lot of my computer news from this man. RIP 🫡 https://obits.goldsteinsfuneral.com/stewart-cheifet
@siracusa This is truly heartbreaking. I often go back and watch old episodes with so much nostalgia. In fact, I remember before most episodes were uploaded to YouTube, I binged on almost every episode one weekend while babysitting. I always would have loved to see a revival of the show done the same format and aesthetic reviewing modern versions of tech. #RIP Stewart Cheifet, definitely one of kind presenter. Thank you for documenting the era. #Technology #Microsoft #Apple #90s #Computers #PC
Taiwanese tech titan Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., the world's largest contract maker of chips, has started mass producing its cutting-edge 2-nanometer semiconductor chips, the company announced. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/12/31/tech/tsmc-production-2nm-chips/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #tsmc #chipmakers #taiwan #china #us #computers #tech
hypebot
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The Chinese startup DeepSeek's release of a highly competitive AI chatbot early in 2025 was immediately likened to the Soviet Union's launch of Sputnik in 1957, but is China really closing the gap with the West? https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/12/23/world/china-ai-industrial-revolution/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #china #ai #openai #computers #chatgpt #tech #us
Mike McCue
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Entertaining ideas for The Holidays, from True Value Hardware Store!
#UnexpectedComputer #TI #TexasInstruments #TI99 #computers #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #vintageads #TrueValue #Holidays #Christmas #giftideas #nostalgia #scan #photo #TMS9900 #retrocomputer
Three years after ChatGPT made OpenAI the leader in artificial intelligence and a household name, rivals have closed the gap and some investors are wondering if the sensation has the wherewithal to stay dominant. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/12/16/tech/open-ai-future/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #openai #microsoft #google #samaltman #chatgpt #ai #computers #tech #chipmakers
Stefano Marinelli
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I had this recent exchange with my wife:
Wife: What is FreeBSD?
Me: It's Unix, an operating system, and it's awesome!
Wife: Oh OK. The only reason I asked is because I am finding these FreeBSD CDs around the house. FreeBSD 12.0, 13.3, 14.0.
Me: Yeah, I use the old versions as coasters for my tea mugs.
Wife: *pauses, laughs* I can see that.
#FreeBSD #homelab #tech #fun #unix #computers #freebsd15 #operatingsystem #awesome
Entertaining ideas for The Holidays, from True Value Hardware Store!
#UnexpectedComputer #TI #TexasInstruments #TI99 #computers #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #vintageads #TrueValue #Holidays #Christmas #giftideas #nostalgia #scan #photo #TMS9900 #retrocomputer
U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to allow Nvidia to sell advanced chips to China doesn’t just reshape U.S. tech policy, it also raises questions about how far he’ll go to steady ties with his Chinese counterpart. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/12/10/economy/trump-nvidia-china-strategy/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #economy #nvidia #chipmakers #pla #china #us #computers #donaldtrump #xijinping #tech #jensenhuang
U.S. President Donald Trump decided to let Nvidia sell its H200 artificial intelligence chips to China after concluding the move carried a lower risk because Huawei already offers AI systems with comparable performance. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/12/10/tech/trump-nvidia-china-security-concerns/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #nvidia #chipmakers #pla #china #us #computers #donaldtrump #xijinping #tech #jensenhuang
The Mother of All Demos was "a landmark computer demonstration of [...] many of the fundamental elements of modern personal computing: windows, hypertext, graphics, efficient navigation and command input, video conferencing, the computer mouse, word processing, dynamic file linking, revision control, and a collaborative real-time editor."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos
#OnThisDay #OTD #history #technology #computers #demo #MotherOfAllDemos
U.S. President Donald Trump has granted Nvidia permission to ship its H200 artificial intelligence chip to China in exchange for a 25% surcharge. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/12/09/tech/nvidia-trump-us-china/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #nvidia #chipmakers #computers #ai #tech #china #us #donaldtrump
The humble pocket calculator may not be able to keep up with the mathematical capabilities of new technology, but its lack of hallucination helps it hold out against AI. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/12/08/companies/calculators-against-ai/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #ai #computers
I was reintroduced to computers: Raspberry Pi
https://airoboticist.blog/2025/12/01/i-was-reintroduced-to-computers-raspberry-pi/
#HackerNews #RaspberryPi #Computers #Technology #DIY #Learning
I had this recent exchange with my wife:
Wife: What is FreeBSD?
Me: It's Unix, an operating system, and it's awesome!
Wife: Oh OK. The only reason I asked is because I am finding these FreeBSD CDs around the house. FreeBSD 12.0, 13.3, 14.0.
Me: Yeah, I use the old versions as coasters for my tea mugs.
Wife: *pauses, laughs* I can see that.
#FreeBSD #homelab #tech #fun #unix #computers #freebsd15 #operatingsystem #awesome
The global boom in data centers as companies increasingly outsource information storage and ramp up use of energy-intensive artificial intelligence is creating a key challenge for the industry — how to keep cool. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/12/01/tech/heat-data-centers-ai/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #ai #computers #tech
Stefano Marinelli
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My favourite experience regarding Wii homebrew so far has to be NetBSD. I wanted to use my Wii as a computer for a while now, and NetBSD being available as an operating system you can install and get going on an SD card and a Wii with the HBC is definitely the highlights of my Wii homebrew experience. I don't use my Wii much at the moment, as I don't even have a monitor I can use for my Wii yet, but I have used it for a while on a TV and it was nice.
Networking is a bit hard, at least on the Wii however. I tried to get WiFi included in as a Wii image of NetBSD to burn, this was during my time on FreeBSD, and I just couldn't compile it. I was doing something weird where I would alternate between GCC and clang but that would have been a waste of time once it got to booting.
Other than that, it was nice writing a fetch program entirely written in C using vi and man pages to get by. It was a nice break from writing things without an LSP to help, although I still love using modern features many editors provide, obviously excluding AI, so I will stick with that. I also found that Lua existed on it which definitely helped whenever I didn't want to write C.
First *BSD post in a while, as I forgot to talk about the time I used NetBSD. I'll probably talk about Linux more at some point but I wanted to talk about *BSD a little again. Try NetBSD if you get the chance!