ijk64✅ @ijk64@m.futex.au

The Intel 8086 processor (1978) started the x86 architecture still used today. This chip only had 40 pins, so the address pins needed to be reused for data or status. (The pins are connected to the pads around the edge.) It took some tricky circuitry to make this work. 🧵

Via @decolonialatlas "Each 8th of July, at 11:15 UTC, 99% of the world's population is experiencing daylight. This day should have a name, and it should be a holiday." Original source: https://www.timeanddate.com/news/astronomy/99-percent-sunlight

Everyone knows “#backend” is a disaster, even backend devs.

How about this guy today? Backing up from a BOG performance last week… everywhere again today and a tackling machine…

At the half:

🦁 10.8.68
🦅 2.2.14

#AFL #AFLLionsEagles #AllIn

https://curves.xargs.org is a neat explanation of elliptic-curve-based key agreement, using only high school algebra (and even if you don’t remember your high school algebra, you can still get 90% of it by looking at the animated graphs).

If you ever wanted a visual to explain how binary in works.

Microsoft puts out Outlook fire, says everything's fine with Teams malware flaw https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/07/06/microsoft_outlook_teams_flaws/

adult #ADHD, a tragedy in ∞ acts:

1. attempt to work on critical but boring task
a. task does not produce sufficiently potent neurotransmitters so you can't
b. try to do higher-salience task to kickstart your brain

2. higher-salience thing produces desired neurochemical reactions
a. said reactions make you happy

3. remember the boring task exists
a. you're not working on it
b. therefore you're a bad person
c. therefore you should not be happy
d. GOTO 1

#Tetris with just 1 line of BBC #BASIC:

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FF:d=9:REPEATVDU30:REPEATGOSUBFALSE:IFPOS=28VDUPOS,15,VPOS,24;11,26:IF0E
LSEIFa=0PRINT:UNTIL0ELSEUNTILVPOS=25:v=ABSRNDMOD7:i=0:VDU4895;3:REPEATm=
9-INKEY6MOD3:FORr=TRUETO1:t=rANDSGNt:IFt=rCOLOURv-15:VDUrEORm:i+=m=7AND9
-6*r:IF0ELSEFORn=0TO11:d=n/3OR2EORd:GOSUBFALSE:IF1<<(n+i)MOD12AND975AND&
C2590EC/8^vVDU2080*ABSr;:t+=a:IF0ELSENEXT,:VDU20:UNTILt*LOGm:UNTILVPOS=3

https://survex.com/~olly/rheolism/dsm_rheolism/

Really enjoyed the #Tetris movie, except for this one scene...
"It's programmed in C yes? How many pixels?"
A few seconds pass...
"It's not perfect" (hands them a working version of GameBoy Tetris) 🤣

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SHw95599SE
(could only find the clip in Portuguese)

This is incredibly fun! :0)

Play in a browser The Original Tetris: based on the version that Alexey Pajitnov created at the Dorodnitsyn Computing Centre in Moscow, for the old Soviet-made computer, the Elektronika 60, and uses green brackets instead of solid blocks.

https://tetris.com/tetris-e60/

#original #elektronika #arcade #tetris #AlexeyPajitnov #browser #gaming #videogames #retro #retrogaming #oldcomputers
#retrocomputing #computers #history

#tetris
https://youtu.be/6YhkkyXydNI

I've tweaked it a bit and am now comfortable with sharing it widely, so here it is! My crochet pattern for Einstein's Hat, the recently discovered aperiodic monotile: https://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/einsteins-hat.pdf

(And if you make the tiles in max 4 colors, you can ALSO illustrate the four color theorem.)

@vadergb @Recta_Pete Very nice! Have you got one of the new #PenultimatePlus2 carts in order from @futurewas8bit yet? Totally essential if you ask me if you have a #VIC20

Russia has occupied ZNPP nuclear plant in Ukraine since March 2022. Putin has threatened to blow up ZNPP and unleash environmental devastation on Ukraine, and appears to be on track to follow through. He had given a deadline for Russian citizens to evacuate the area by July 5 and about 100 of them appear to have done so. About 6000 people are trapped in the area around ZNPP nuclear plant and are not being allowed to leave. https://kyivindependent.com/mayor-part-of-russian-rosatoms-personnel-leaves-occupied-zaporizhzhia-nuclear-plant/

#Ukraine #urgent #ZNPP

Mastadonians watching people pour in from twitter for the 12th time since space Karen took over.

@Essjax
You are right. I'd just steal it.

1 size 🔌to fit them all 📱 💻 📷 🎧

By 2024, the USB-C port will be mandatory for all portable electronic devices in the EU.

This means that you will soon be able to recharge most of your devices with the same charger, making piling up bundles of cables a thing of the past.

Not only will this make your life easier, but it will also reduce greenhouse gas emissions and e-waste.

Learn more about the common charger here: https://europa.eu/!hwjj3G

#EUCommonCharger #DigitalEU #EuropeanUnion

Happy birthday to the 19" equipment rack, which turns 100 next month. From the July, 1923, Bell Systems Technical Journal: "All panels are to be of a uniform length, designed to mount on vertical supports spaced 19>< inches between centers. The height of the different panels will vary, according to the amount of apparatus in each unit, but this vertical dimension is in all cases to be a whole multiple of 1-3/4 inches."(p139 at https://archive.org/details/bstj2-3-112/page/n27/mode/2up )