@spiegelmama @babe
#computing #meme #memes #science #scienceMuseum #babbage #computerScience #machineLearning #AI #computers

Ever since I switched to #GNU#Linux in my private life, using #Windows at work gives me near-daily headaches. I have full admin rights, yet I constantly fight the system: forced updates, inconsistent behavior, sluggish UI, weird errors buried in the registry.

I used to think this was just how #computers worked. But after experiencing the #freedom and clarity of #FOSS, Windows feels more like an obstacle than a tool.

Going back feels wrong.

#os #opensource #free #arch

BTW
there is no reason you shouldn’t have full access to your #computers. there is also no reason whatsoever you shouldn’t install software you’ve developed or is developed by sources you vetted and trust.

this is a post about the (micro)computers in your pockets and purses that are marketed under the moniker of “smart phone”.

don’t matter if it’s an #iOS#iPhone or an #Android#Pixel: they’re #microcomputers.

we should have full access to and use of their hardware & operating systems.

BTW
there is no reason you shouldn’t have full access to your #computers. there is also no reason whatsoever you shouldn’t install software you’ve developed or is developed by sources you vetted and trust.

this is a post about the (micro)computers in your pockets and purses that are marketed under the moniker of “smart phone”.

don’t matter if it’s an #iOS#iPhone or an #Android#Pixel: they’re #microcomputers.

we should have full access to and use of their hardware & operating systems.

In September 2000, Prime Minister Yoshio Mori declared that Japan should set its sights on becoming “the world’s most advanced IT power.” https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/06/japan/history/imperial-diet-fire-baseball-emperor-tech/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #history #diet#upperhouse#lowerhouse #baseball #ginza #sports #showa #emperorhirohito#imperialfamily #computers #technology #internet

"Carstens ...spends a good portion of her day working with ...clients looking to fix their botched attempts at artificial intelligence-generated logos."
#weirdnews#weird #ai #aislop #technology #art #wtf #computers #corporate #smh
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/humans-hired-to-fix-ai-slop-rcna225969

"Carstens ...spends a good portion of her day working with ...clients looking to fix their botched attempts at artificial intelligence-generated logos."
#weirdnews#weird #ai #aislop #technology #art #wtf #computers #corporate #smh
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/humans-hired-to-fix-ai-slop-rcna225969

Amazing. A map showing every page of BYTE magazine.

"This zoomable map shows every page of every issue of BYTE starting from the front cover of the first issue (top left) to the last page of final edition (bottom right)."

https://byte.tsundoku.io/

#Computers#Magazines#Byte#RetroComputing#ComputerHistory

Who would have thought that anyone would think it is a good idea to ban regulation of AI and algorithmic content? This is a seriously bad idea.

I continue to believe that we should ban user profiling and the use of user profiles for advertising and content algorithms. Given where we are, I think that is the right thing to do and I think more and more are seeing that as the only way to solve the issues we have today.

#Vivaldi#AI#Regulation#SurveillanceCapitalism#Windows#Macos#Linux #software#Computers#Politics

https://www.theverge.com/news/666288/republican-ai-state-regulation-ban-10-years

I've been using OpenBSD on my main desktop for a while now. Honestly, I would probably say this is my favourite OS at the moment. There are a lot of points going for it which I appreciate about it, as well as some negatives which I'll address.

I really like how efficient OpenBSD is. On average, a Linux installation image is around 800 megabytes in size, the mini-memstick image for FreeBSD requires 500 megabytes in size, and OpenBSD with miniroot uses 5MB. Insane. Additionally, the full operating system with everything you could ever want installed is ~782MB, literally 781.568832MB. This number was summed using https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.7/amd64/ and Python.

I do wish that Git was adopted in place of CVS for development though. FreeBSD moved to Git from SVN with pretty much no issues as far as I'm aware. You would also get the benefits of having branches, as well as the ability to commit changes without instantly pushing to origin, alongside the benefit of being able to author your own patches because of the two reasons above. There isn't really a reason to use CVS in the modern age is what I believe.

There are also many projects I want to work on that require some tooling which only works on Linux. My idea was to create an Alpine virtual machine using VMM and enabling OpenSSH with X11 forwarding but I have yet to see if that even works. Wish me luck. :P

I still love FreeBSD and would recommend it to anyone willing to start using *BSD operating systems, but as for now, I plan to main OpenBSD. I'll try and maintain my own ports for FreeBSD in the meantime using virtual machines as well but I don't guarantee it's success. Thanks for the fun, FreeBSD. :)

#openbsd #software #computers

I've been using OpenBSD on my main desktop for a while now. Honestly, I would probably say this is my favourite OS at the moment. There are a lot of points going for it which I appreciate about it, as well as some negatives which I'll address.

I really like how efficient OpenBSD is. On average, a Linux installation image is around 800 megabytes in size, the mini-memstick image for FreeBSD requires 500 megabytes in size, and OpenBSD with miniroot uses 5MB. Insane. Additionally, the full operating system with everything you could ever want installed is ~782MB, literally 781.568832MB. This number was summed using https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.7/amd64/ and Python.

I do wish that Git was adopted in place of CVS for development though. FreeBSD moved to Git from SVN with pretty much no issues as far as I'm aware. You would also get the benefits of having branches, as well as the ability to commit changes without instantly pushing to origin, alongside the benefit of being able to author your own patches because of the two reasons above. There isn't really a reason to use CVS in the modern age is what I believe.

There are also many projects I want to work on that require some tooling which only works on Linux. My idea was to create an Alpine virtual machine using VMM and enabling OpenSSH with X11 forwarding but I have yet to see if that even works. Wish me luck. :P

I still love FreeBSD and would recommend it to anyone willing to start using *BSD operating systems, but as for now, I plan to main OpenBSD. I'll try and maintain my own ports for FreeBSD in the meantime using virtual machines as well but I don't guarantee it's success. Thanks for the fun, FreeBSD. :)

#openbsd #software #computers

Amazing. A map showing every page of BYTE magazine.

"This zoomable map shows every page of every issue of BYTE starting from the front cover of the first issue (top left) to the last page of final edition (bottom right)."

https://byte.tsundoku.io/

#Computers#Magazines#Byte#RetroComputing#ComputerHistory

Link to an article/post/ad of the thing if you can and talk a little about it

#technology #music #computers #gaming #videogames #music #film#TV #television #movies #comics #books #anime #manga #ttrpg #ccgs

Link to an article/post/ad of the thing if you can and talk a little about it

#technology #music #computers #gaming #videogames #music #film#TV #television #movies #comics #books #anime #manga #ttrpg #ccgs

President Donald Trump sealed a deal that gives the U.S. government a nearly 10% stake in Intel, part of an unconventional bid to reinvigorate the beleaguered company and boost domestic chip manufacturing. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/08/23/us-intel-stake/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #intel #chipmakers #us #donaldtrump #investments #computers

If you had told 11 year old me when I was starting out that one day I would own a computer I would have been wowed, at the time we were making a long distance call to a university mainframe, using a teletype machine with a papertape reader to program it. If you had told me that I would end up with some many that I had to break out the label printer to keep track of what each one was doing, and which button on the KVM was which machine, I would not have believed you.

#computers#gettingOld