ijk64✅ @ijk64@m.futex.au

Got my 1982-vintage 326298 Commodore 64 motherboard working again. Three main faults: Me being a dork and confusing the 74LS08 in the memory multiplexing section with a 7406 (I swapped out the original with the wrong chip a while back), a bad RAM chip and a faulty NE556-chip in the reset circuit. Now it works all fine again. I've modded this one quite a lot, it's converted from NTSC to PAL, and the reset circuit is now the same as the usual one in newer C64 motherboards. Also corrected the well documented issues with wrong value caps and resistors, the only thing that's left to do is to swap out the filter caps for the SID.

The discussions about #GoLang and it's future are intriguing. I started with BASIC and FORTRAN IV back in the early 70s. Went through ALGOL, Simula 67, APL, PL/1, LISP, BCPL, and more at college, then yet more new languages in subsequent jobs.

I guess this makes me language agnostic, or independent.

So long as the code can be read I'll write it, but I want it to do what I want, and *only* what I want, not what the language creator-owner wants.

No data to be sent to Google, no way.

Fascinating! I was not aware of the proposal to add telemetry to #GoLang until reading the post below from @alisonw Have now read https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/10/googles_go_programming_language_telemetry_debate/ and other articles. Definitely seems problematic. 🙁

From: @alisonw
https://hachyderm.io/@alisonw/109853649936336215

Apparently a serious landslip in Muriwai took a house out.
FENZ is on the scene.

#cycloneGabrielle #cycloneFonterra

Can I just say how much I adore the fact that the popular hashtag on #mastodon today is #SuperbOwlSunday (note the punctuation)?

Man, I love this place.

Shot, Chaser

Comet ZTF and Mars

Image Credit & Copyright: Donato Lioce

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230213.html #APOD

My book was sent to production!!!! It’s DONE! 🥳🥳🥳

Y’all I’m a published author!!!!

Pre-order a print copy of Design for Developers today!!!

#webdev #design

https://www.manning.com/books/design-for-developers?utm_source=stimac&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_campaign=book_stimac_design_4_19_22&a_aid=stimac&a_bid=5f6ba095

Just annual reminder that you’re not too old to take up a sport or a hobby or learn a language or rollerskate or learn martial arts or join a debate club or learn an instrument and play in an orchestra. Adults can do that too. It’s totally allowed.

A meter-wide asteroid (only the 7th object detected in space before reaching Earth) just disintegrated harmless over the English Channel. #Sar2667
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RT @BNODesk
WATCH: Meteor lights up the sky in northern France
https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1624968247035428864

Did they shoot down… a kite?

RAAF Roulettes doing some training flights over our part of the world. Noticeable because they are flying low, and we seldom see aircraft here.

Today, you will probably see ads for Bud Light, Doritos, and Jesus. The latter will be funded by a shadowy group of theocratic billionaires like the guy who founded Hobby Lobby and sued to prevent his workers from accessing basic healthcare
https://youtu.be/k1idNZnX0F8

Uh-oh #balloon

Of course Elon Musk is sitting with Rupert Murdoch at the Super Bowl. Of course.

Behold the tale of a Facebook data scientist fired because he refused to run a little test that his bosses demanded ...

... in which he'd update Messenger so that it drained some users' batteries faster

The data scientist accurately noted that this was unethical as hell -- it could literally endanger people who rely on their phone as a lifeline

As @pluralistic notes, it's part of why "feudal security" -- trusting a big tech firm to keep you safe -- never really works: https://medium.com/@doctorow/when-facebook-came-for-your-battery-feudal-security-failed-c8c1e3beb279