@central @SinclairSpeccy My first video game? 1985 probably. My first console. Nintendo Switch, three years after its release.
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Ne pas autoriser la photographie de votre enfant dans le cadre scolaire. Jamais.
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only Nixon could go to China and only Trump could decarbonize the world.
@isotopp The old Vulcan proverb
And “cured” here means following the process for fixing whatever prevented the voter from being allowed to cast a regular ballot. So it’s “cured” as in curing an illness, not curing epoxy.
@mattblaze can’t believe you went with epoxy and not bacon.
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@jesterchen @DasWissen Ich korrigiere auch manchmal KI-basierte Simultanübersetzung (für Leute, die kein Deutsch können). Da gibt es üble Fehler, die wenn sie öffentlich wären den Ruf einer Firma ruinieren könnten.
Das fängt mit fälschlich eingefügtem Marketing-Blabla an, geht zu groben inhaltlichen Fehlern und enthält teils noch deutlich schlimmeres (das ich hier öffentlich nicht schreiben will).
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@jesterchen @DasWissen In meinem Test habe ich gesehen, dass KI auch für eher technische Texte problematisch ist:
https://www.draketo.de/software/ai-translation-evaluated#completely-changed
Problematisch im Sinne von zweimal sogar komplett ins Gegenteil verdrehte Bedeutung eines Absatzes, aber so in den Rest des Textes eingebettet, dass selbst ich als Autor des Originals nach zwei Tagen noch grobe Fehler gefunden habe, die mir vorher durch die Lappen gegangen waren.
Ich spreche Deutsch und Englisch flüssig.
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@central @SinclairSpeccy strictly speaking, 8088-based PC, but, what generation is the original GameBoy?
@mirabilos @central The original Game Boy came out in 1989 so it's 4th gen so same era as the SNES and Mega Drive. An 8088 PC as a first gaming machine is a great answer too
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Following on from my old “how long have you been using computers” polls from a long time ago, here’s one I’ve wanted to ask for a while.
How did you first get online?
Not the first time you used a computer but rather first time you were actually connected to something outside your own machine. A BBS counts. AOL counts. The school library counts. Your mate’s dad’s work account that you definitely weren’t supposed to be using counts as well.
If AOL or CompuServe was just how you got on the web, pick dial-up. If it was at school, uni or work, pick that one.
For me it was Optus ADSL on the family 😜 machine. I don’t remember any modem screech so I’m firmly in the broadband kid camp, but the internet still dropped every time someone had to use the home phone because the phone had to be plugged into the same wall socket as the modem router.
Last time round the results skewed heavily towards people who started in the 80s which makes sense on a retro instance, so I’m curious how this one splits. I’m expecting a lot of BBS and CompuServe answers.
Tell me the details in the replies!
#Poll #Polls #RetroComputing #RetroTech #OldTech #VintageComputing #ComputerHistory #InternetHistory #Internet #BBS #DialUp #ADSL #Modem #Nostalgia #Fediverse
@SinclairSpeccy AOL sometime around 1993-1994. My dad signed up for the 4 hour free trial or whatever it was (it was long before it was like 1000 hours) and dialed up on his work PowerBook. I got like 30 minutes to download a few HyperCard stacks.
Didn't got online again until we got real dialup internet for Xmas 1995.
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@central @SinclairSpeccy where does the Spectrum go in this list?
@OurParadise Das ist sprachlich nicht ganz korrekt hergeleitet.
Es handelt sich natürlich um einen Toren, der sich da einnistet, wo er nicht hingehört
Ich dachte, das wäre dann ein Nestor.
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libghostty 1.0 is here! I started Ghostty ~5yrs ago to work towards this. Today, libghostty is in hundreds of projects used by tens of millions of people. 1.0 marks ABI stability, quality, and an invite for distros to begin packaging. https://mitchellh.com/writing/libghostty-1-0
Since starting the Ghostty project in 2022, the most common question I've been asked is "why?". Today, I'll answer this by showing the broad industry impact libghostty has already had.
On top of JetBrains and Neovim already mentioned (that alone being over 10 million users):
-KDE developers are experimenting with a Konsole replacement built on it.
- Vercel's Turborepo uses it to render task output in its TUI.
- devenv uses it to drive shells.
- Antithesis used it to fuzz TUI programs and found real bugs in btop and others.
-Ghostel brings it to Emacs.
- ghostty-web is the WASM build with an Xterm.js-compatible API.
- Commercial products like OrbStack embed it.
- And a whole wave of new terminals and "agentic" coding tools, such as herdr and cmux, have been built on it rather than writing yet another emulator.
There are community bindings for Rust, Go, JavaScript, Swift, Python, .NET, Elixir, Dart, Java, and more, and the awesome-libghostty list tracks well over a hundred projects.
More people today use a terminal powered by libghostty than use Ghostty the application, by a very large multiple. And libghostty is having a much larger impact than being "just" a terminal emulator.
I'm excited to see where people take it from here.
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Government must move away from toxic social media platforms | Open Rights Group [Video]
We shouldn’t be forced to use toxic platforms that track and profile us in order to get public information.
Platforms such as Facebook, Instagram and YouTube track and profile their users so that they can target advertising towards them.
Their business models fuel online harms by pushing more and more extreme content to users. Despite this, these platforms are one of the primary ways that government departments share public information.
Tell your MP to support the EDM calling on the UK Government to ensure that all public sector social media content is published on open, decentralised and federated platforms!
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Another big effect of the 2024 elections was a shift away from American big tech among the "middle powers" in Europe, Canada, Brazil. Europe in particular has provided additional funding for Fediverse projects. Will that continue after the 2026 elections? My feeling is yes. I think digital sovereignty efforts are a long term effect, and I don't think they'll reverse, or even slow down.
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