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
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!
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!
deutrino
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“[Mastodon has] become kind of synonymous with my identity. I can’t look somewhere and see something about social media without thinking about how it affects my work,” Rochko explained in an interview with TechCrunch. “I want it to succeed. And it’s led to a lot of stress, and obviously, it ultimately led to burnout,” he continued.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/18/mastodon-ceo-steps-down-as-the-social-network-restructures/
“[Mastodon has] become kind of synonymous with my identity. I can’t look somewhere and see something about social media without thinking about how it affects my work,” Rochko explained in an interview with TechCrunch. “I want it to succeed. And it’s led to a lot of stress, and obviously, it ultimately led to burnout,” he continued.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/18/mastodon-ceo-steps-down-as-the-social-network-restructures/
Here's an interesting machine called the GeoStar, which had a two-monitor display. On the left was a vector display for text. On the right, a raster display for plotting maps. It was used on mining sites.
On display at https://acms.org.au/
#computers #computerhistory #oldcomputer #retrocomputing
Have you noticed how a certain part of the population behaves with a cult-like behavior with certain computer technologies?
First it was Apple, then Crypto, now so-called AI.
I wonder if some research has been made about this.
I think I understand why the worst people are excited about building new #nuclear power plants, but are cold (or even antagonistic) towards #renewables.
It's about centralization and centralization is about control. Renewables spread out power generation, even sometimes generating power at the point of use.
Renewables are democratic; massive power stations, no matter what they are burning, are autocratic. It's as simple as that.
Note: Search and replace 'nuclear power plants' with 'cloud computing', 'renewables' with 'on premise data centers', 'generating power' with 'computing', and 'power stations' with data centers'. The entire post still works in that different context.
Everyone remembers the MicroBee. But does anyone remember the Hartley Computer?
This is the often forgotten '80s Australian microcomputer from Queensland.
On display at https://acms.org.au/
#Computer #Computers #Retrocomputing #Retrocomputer #Hartley #tech
A long rectangular light beige computer with black disk drives and an embedded screen, with a two-tone grey keyboard.
A screen embedded in a rectangular light beige case with a two-tone grey keyboard.
"Some artists and albums will benchmark your utf8 support and annoy your operating system."
https://dustri.org/b/horrible-edge-cases-to-consider-when-dealing-with-music.html
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Using Docker and NGINX-RTMP to setup a streaming forward and overlay on an iMac
Learning Docker by making an nginx relay.
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Using Docker and NGINX-RTMP to setup a streaming forward and overlay on an iMac
Learning Docker by making an nginx relay.
Happy Halloween from your friends on the COBOL maintenance team!
Since there's no ALT text: The image shows a room with dinosaurs seated at desks, busily operating modern-looking computer equipment.
The U.S. has formed a $1 billion partnership with Advanced Micro Devices to construct two supercomputers that will tackle large scientific problems ranging from nuclear power to cancer treatments to national security. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/10/28/tech/us-energy-supercomputer-ai-amd/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #us #computers #quantumcomputers #ai #amd #tech #semiconductors
alcinnz
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Look, my VM computes! I wrote a simple program to first initialize the accumulator to the value 15, then repeatedly increment the accumulator forever.
I don't have an assembler yet, but I *did* write a python script which lets me create a file with the bits I want more easily... With an ISA as simple as mine, that's almost as good as an assembler
I also made my repository public: https://github.com/mortie/scisa
Billy Smith
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When I was first getting into #computers you didn't need to ask #microsoft permission to log in or ask #apple permission to install software. You didn't even have memory protection getting into the way of directly accessing every byte of ROM, RAM, and IO. Modern computers are nothing more than #dumbterminals connecting us to the #mammon machine.
Stefano Marinelli
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Remembering the Olivetti Programma 101, 25/10/1965
