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  Am I the first person ever to run a Bourne shell on a Commodore 64 I wonder. A 1MHz 6502 sucks at disk I/O, sucks at copying memory and sucks at running C code, especially when the C code has to be optimized for space not speed. But it works. I have plans for REU support which I think will make it much much faster assuming i can get away with a few tricks and the timing doesn't break anything. #fuzix #commodore #c64 #retrocomputing #8bit

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  We are so lucky enshittification took hold as late as it did. Imagine having to debug a 1990s PC with beep codes for 'the signing certificate on your graphics card ROM is expired' or having a PXE BIOS preboot network environmental to check your OS licence has not expired

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  Anyone want to buy a signal box going cheap ? https://auction.paulfosh.com/lot/details/189177

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  Some days I wonder how many resources we could save if we instead taught people some basic understanding of safety. All those manuals that start with 35 pages of "do not attempt to eat your router", "do not place product in the microwave", "do not operate in a room filled with petrol vapour" could be so much smaller. I mean it's not like the kind of people who try and eat their router actually read the manual in the first place anyway.

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  When we all upgrade to Na based batteries charging offpeak will the new tariff be the sodium nitrate ? #dadjokes

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  Canada should plant extensive cannabis groves in high fire risk areas near the US border. It won't stop the smoke but the USAians will be a bit more chill when it happens

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  RE: https://flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/116952412074922379 The literal #enshittification of the USA continues.

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  I was trying to put together a summary of why #AI code s banned from Fuzix Having thought about it a bit I realised it can be put several ways but it really already been said by Marx (and Engels), and to be fair also the same basic beliefs in many other groups: "The workers should own the means of production" LLM #AI, aside from all the stolen content and environmental damage is not owned by the workers. It's no different to depending upon an proprietary compiler someone can tak...

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  This is your periodic reminder that all the code you browse via the web UI of something like a #git repository doesn't necessarily match what you get via a git clone. In fact it's really easy to serve a trojan that's only in the git clone view so if you need to inspect code do it on the pulled copy. Of course I can also only serve the trojan version to selected IP ranges matching a given corporation too. Isn't supply chain trust fun !

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  More baby steps on UK plug in #solar Core of the interim standard is basically DIN VDE V0126-95 with tweaks for the UK. Max 800W per house, doesn't yet cover batteries but otherwise really isn't terribly interesting. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6a31167d15f2a70fac7e6026/plug-in-solar-interim-product-specification.pdf

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  @jessuvaleria@mastodon.social Why I have two monitors, although Little Miss has now also decided that bopping humans on the nose in the middle of #eso boss fights is funny.

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  @statsguy@mas.to Anyone who has been following energy prices (as opposed to consumer prices) for the past year has been amazed it's taken so long for Eon and Octopus to jump. Energy prices have fallen a chunk, so the government stuffed more taxes and levies on it quietly. Some is getting reversed in April when bits are moved to general taxation and the ECO4 scam goes away (the one where they charged mostly poor people to offer grants to poor people for substandard insulation that wrecked th...

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  @themediumkahuna@tech.lgbt It's great once you start to look 60 nobody dares to challenge your right to wear a onesie whilst going to the shops. I'm wondering if I can push it to going out on my mobility scooter when the weather improves dressed as a pink fluffy unicorn.

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  @tvaziri@mastodon.social Just imagine if Star Trek had led to "We've stopped including Uhura because parents didn't want to have a conversation about why there was a black woman in an important job"

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  @Ashedryden@xoxo.zone Finally a legitimate use for AI image generators

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  Bought some sausages with a big picture of Jamie Oliver on the front. On the back it says "prick with a fork". Nice of them to add a label to the picture for anyone using a screen reader.

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  @JugglingWithEggs we have a serious lack of building inspectors. They know they can get away with it. Builders do stuff like send pictures of previous jobs as the new one knowing nobody checks, or only throwing insulation loosely into walls except the last corner they leave uncovered for inspection. Everyone knows, nobody has time to care, and new build customers are already the gullible ones so don't do thermal imaging inspections

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  More US detentions - more reasons for non US folks to get out and stay out https://bleedingcool.com/comics/british-comic-creator-r-e-burke-detained-by-ice-after-crossing-border/ #uspol #ice

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  WSL for Windows 95 https://codeberg.org/hails/wsl9x

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  @olimex It;s also really hard to get a project out of sleazyeda

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  @GossiTheDog DROP EMPLOYEES ALL;

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  RE: https://toot.wales/@SwanseaBayNews/116362089938030133 The "there's #asbestos in your kids sand" debacle continues as the UK continues to have absolutely no effective safety regulation enforcement and token fines even when it does.

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  #bike #swansea #criticalmass

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  @komislava Tell bad #train jokes ? and also follow people like @jon

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  If anyone is involved in the UK #Green Party they might want to look at motion A6 for the spring conference which includes "The Green Party supports users’ rights to control the digital devices they own, including the right to install, modify or replace operating systems and software, access full file systems, and remove pre-installed applications, particularly on computers and smartphones." and some amendment discussions around @pluralistic@mamot.fr proposals on killing DRM and...