ijk64✅ @ijk64@m.futex.au

Microsoft’s 6502 BASIC is now Open Source https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/09/03/microsoft-open-source-historic-6502-basic/

As I was walking home today, I had this idea: Is it possible to turn a QR code into a Truchet tiling that's still a functioning QR code? Yep.

Someone has pointed out, quite rightly, that I really should tag @standupmaths when I mention a video that he has made.

I'm not sure appearing in a video counts as a connection for an Erdős number, much as people might hope it might.

So ... the monostable (or self-righting) tetrahedron:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6S5gHjuN48

#Maths #Math #MathsChat #MathChat #MTBoS

Good evening, #mastoart #mastodon

This is #SilentSunday #fotografie #photography

#maldon #victoria #australia #ruralaustralia

#roentare #photographyisart #photooftheday #pictureoftheday #picoftheday #potd #stormhour #milkyway #sky #night #nightphotography #nightphoto #stars #nature #naturephotography #thephotohour #landscape #landscapephotography #ayearforart #country #heritage #astrolandscape #rural

@Roentare

Congrats Dunks! Bloody well deserved! #BrisbaneLions

Using LLMs to chat with books and documents? That's so 1978.

In the 1970s the HELPSYS facility of Interlisp-10 let you interrogate the 700+ pages Interlisp Reference Manual via an English like syntax. You could run queries on topics and system functions such as TELL ME ABOUT EVAL or TELL ME ABOUT THE 2ND ARG OF CHANGEPROP and HELPSYS would print the relevant information or section of the manual. Here's an example session from the 1978 edition of the manual:

https://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/interlisp/Interlisp-Oct_1978.pdf#page=474

Interlisp-10 was the Interlisp implementation for the PDP-10.

#interlisp #documentation #lisp #retrocomputing

The Whole Internet User's Guide and Catalog, published in September 1992.
It referenced every website available at the time, mind blowing that you could visit every single site in one sitting, the golden times!

bad news ipv4 fans.

linus torvalds has announced removing ipv4 support from the linux kernel after the maintainers of the network stack got into a fight over WHAT KIND OF HRT gives the best results.

this incident will impact 5 billion people and will make 95% of all network equipment on Earth binnable.

7 days after the GitHub CEO said, “embrace AI or get out of the profession”, he is out of the profession.
https://www.businessinsider.com/github-ceo-developers-embrace-ai-or-get-out-2025-8

If the world is supplied with 100% renewable energy, 50% of the global shipping traffic will be eliminated, coal oil and gas no longer needs to be transported
#endfossilfuels
#oilkills

Take a long hard look at this graphic, the longest continuous direct measurement of atmospheric carbon dioxide. This is the famous Keeling Curve from the station atop Mauna Loa, Hawaii.
Trump and the GOP are closing the observatory.

https://scripps.ucsd.edu/bluemoon/co2_400/mlo_full_record.png

Asm Editor is a web app IDE for learning, developing, and running x86, M68K, RISC-V, and MIPS Assembly code. It features an editor, assembler, and debugger, as well as other tools and learning resources.

https://asm-editor.specy.app

https://github.com/Specy/asm-editor

#x86 #m68k #mips #assembly #riscv

I had the most incredibly boring dream that I was washing all the dishes in my sink for hours and when I woke up all the dishes are still there. This is some bullshit.

Bluesky: Users verify their age by adding a payment method or uploading a photo ID.

Mastodon: Users verify their age by posting pictures of the vintage computer equipment in their homes.

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Just released: NEW images of Phobos over Mars by ESA Mars Express

This view shows Phobos above Olympus Mons!

Full-size (130MP) image & details: https://flic.kr/p/2rggHKy
Credit: ESA/ @DLR /FU Berlin/Andrea Luck CC BY

Captured on May 14, 2025 | Image ID: HQ967
Raw data from: psa.esa.int

#space #Astronomy #Mars #Phobos #Solarocks #ESA

We are back! #C64 https://www.commodore.net/ The first official Commodore 64 in over 30 years is here - a faithful recreation of the original motherboard on FPGA hardware. HDMI, WiFi, USB, but compatible with every existing cartridge and peripheral. Not an emulator - a recreation. Same price as my first $299

50-60k lines and nothing works, I would literally kill to look at this. lmao.

#ai

It makes me laugh/cry that we spent decades trying to get the software industry to internalise that it takes far more effort to support & maintain systems than it does to write them in the first place, and yet seemingly every trendy development in the last 5-10 years has been about making that initial stage faster & sloppier at the expense of everything else

Please.

Seen on Bluesky:

Guy explains to CEO of Signal (messaging) that it's going to add "AI" to the service. She says no. He insists, not knowing or caring who he's talking down to.