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[?]Holly » 🌐
@HollyCo26588808@universeodon.com

Giles Brassard wins Turing award for his work on quantum computing. Says "As long as the little dictator is in power, I'm not going to the US under any circumstances"

betakit.com/montreal-computer-

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    [?]Areeb Soo Yasir » 🌐
    @Areeb_Soo_Yasir@mastodon.areebyasir.com

    This is going to be an ongoing trend of high prices. Pivoting to private and self managed is going to this year's trend.

    scmp.com/tech/article/3347030/

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      [?]Assn for Computing Machinery » 🌐
      @ACM@mastodon.acm.org

      One. Day. Away. 🏆

      From the foundations of AI to the architecture of the modern web, the ACM A.M. Turing Award honors the visionaries who have redefined what is possible.

      Join us tomorrow as we announce the recipient of the 2025 ACM A.M. Turing Award and celebrate a lifetime of extraordinary technical achievement.

      🗓️ March 18, 2026

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        [?]Negative PID SL » 🌐
        @negativepid@mastodon.social

        Cryptography: from paper to silicon

        negativepid.blog/cryptography-

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          [?]Metin Seven 🎨 » 🌐
          @metin@graphics.social

          Happy π day!

          Alt...Short screen recording of a Commodore 64 computer screen, printing pi.

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            [?]Areeb Soo Yasir » 🌐
            @Areeb_Soo_Yasir@mastodon.areebyasir.com

            broke the laws of with double which makes for for

            scmp.com/news/china/science/ar

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              [?]Paul Turnbull 🇨🇦 » 🌐
              @Chigaze@mstdn.ca

              In an era when tech bros are ruining everything it's good to remember that before 1980s marketing attempted to drive women out of computing they pioneered it.

              gracehopper.com/blog/15-remark

              allthatsinteresting.com/margar

              web.archive.org/web/2019113018

              Four of the women who programmed ENIAC standing in front of the in the machine and also holding various boards of vacuum tubes from it. There were six women in the group: Kathleen McNulty Mauchly Antonelli, Jean Jennings Bartik, Frances Snyder Holberton, Marlyn Wescoff Meltzer, Frances Bilas Spence, and Ruth Lichterman

              Alt...Four of the women who programmed ENIAC standing in front of the in the machine and also holding various boards of vacuum tubes from it. There were six women in the group: Kathleen McNulty Mauchly Antonelli, Jean Jennings Bartik, Frances Snyder Holberton, Marlyn Wescoff Meltzer, Frances Bilas Spence, and Ruth Lichterman

              The classic picture of Margaret Hamilton, who led a software team programming the computers for the Apollo program standing beside a stack of printouts of the all the code. It's as tall as she is.

              Alt...The classic picture of Margaret Hamilton, who led a software team programming the computers for the Apollo program standing beside a stack of printouts of the all the code. It's as tall as she is.

              Daguerreotype photograph of the Countess of Lovelace (Augusta Ada Byron) in 1843. While she pioneered computer programming she sadly died of cervical cancer at the age of 36.

              Alt...Daguerreotype photograph of the Countess of Lovelace (Augusta Ada Byron) in 1843. While she pioneered computer programming she sadly died of cervical cancer at the age of 36.

              Portrait of Rear Admiral Grace Hopper. Hopper worked on what's the considered the first ever computer, the Mark 1, as well helping create the first commercial computer, UNIVAC. She developed the computer language COBOL and is credited with coining the term "debugging"

              Alt...Portrait of Rear Admiral Grace Hopper. Hopper worked on what's the considered the first ever computer, the Mark 1, as well helping create the first commercial computer, UNIVAC. She developed the computer language COBOL and is credited with coining the term "debugging"

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                [?]Areeb Soo Yasir » 🌐
                @Areeb_Soo_Yasir@mastodon.areebyasir.com

                has set new standards and trends based on 5 pillars:

                "AI , AI native, intelligent and -electricity synergy."

                news.cgtn.com/news/2026-03-07/

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                  [?]Metin Seven 🎨 » 🌐
                  @metin@graphics.social

                  Wow, I never knew there was a hand-held LCD version of OutRun. 😃

                  igdb.com/games/outrun--2

                  Photo of an OutRun LCD hand-held game device from the late 1980s.

                  Alt...Photo of an OutRun LCD hand-held game device from the late 1980s.

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                    [?]mr.w0bb1t » 🌐
                    @w0bb1t@tldr.nettime.org

                    Six protocols for permacomputational self-defense against laborious · A tactical toolbox against “artificial intelligence”, using only paper & pen. @NbYr

                    👉🏻 wiki.rybn.org/doku.php?id=six_

                    SIX PROTOCOLS FOR PERMACOMPUTATIONAL SELF-DEFENSE AGAINST LABORIOUS COMPUTING

                    Alt...SIX PROTOCOLS FOR PERMACOMPUTATIONAL SELF-DEFENSE AGAINST LABORIOUS COMPUTING

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                      [?]Daltux » 🌐
                      @daltux@snac.daltux.net

                      RE: https://infosec.exchange/users/Em0nM4stodon/statuses/116127501278443718

                      This is essentially what the free software movement's been saying for decades! :gnu:👍

                      Only with software that respects the four essential freedoms you (either individually or collectively) can control your computing and not be controlled by whoever supplies it.


                        [?]Metin Seven 🎨 » 🌐
                        @metin@graphics.social

                        @Amiga_News Spillhistorie, great site! 😉

                        spillhistorie.no/2016/09/08/in

                          [?]Metin Seven 🎨 » 🌐
                          @metin@graphics.social

                          A VIC-20 Emulator In Your Browser

                          hackaday.com/2026/02/03/a-vic-

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                            [?]Metin Seven 🎨 » 🌐
                            @metin@graphics.social

                            There's also a C64 emulator you can run in a browser:

                            ty64.krissz.hu

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                              [?]Alyx Woodward (she/her) » 🌐
                              @alyx_woodward@universeodon.com

                              What @adafruit is doing, in my somewhat bilious opinion, is very typical of a culture in which genuine understanding of has leaked almost completely away, replaced by a sort of naïve faith in and programming and automation and bits and pieces ordered overnight through Amazon dot com or wherever.

                              There's no genuine application of science or engineering going on here, just the stringing together of prefab bits, as if building a carbon dioxide meter were like building a Meccano kit or a fancy Lego model.

                              And if the folks putting this toy together don't actually have a solid grasp of science or engineering, if they're merely bolting corporate bits together, than how much LESS understanding is being cultivated in the audiences and for such technical toys?

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                                [?]Holly » 🌐
                                @HollyCo26588808@universeodon.com

                                How do you surprise a computer researcher? UNIX up on him

                                stacker.com/stories/technology

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                                  [?]DesertFOX » 🌐
                                  @dfx@techhub.social

                                  Just out of curiousity: Are you guys into using tablets? Ever since the original iPad back in 2010, I've been using these a lot for all kinds of media consumption and social media.😀

                                  No!:14
                                  Using an iPad.:16
                                  Using an Android tablet.:10
                                  Using a Windows tablet.:1
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                                    [?]Kevin Karhan :verified: » 🌐
                                    @kkarhan@infosec.space

                                    The only reason got big is because it actually provided an improvement compared to a "" already solving the communication problem whilst becoming a more accessible version of for many people in "The " for whom and never were close to 'affordable' even when built with dumpster-dived / landfill-scavanged parts.

                                    • Most people in "P.R." and Subsahara - skipped the entirely as are not just , but also better suited for places with re: and , and if we correlate per capita, average income, average downtime for electricity grid, average fixed broadband speed and number of for , we'll definitely see that it'll be more likely for to dominate even harder than they already do in the "The Global North" where some households can afford more PCs than the occupants have limbs, whereas in many places @landley 's Allegory of a Smartphone being cobbled on a USB-C hub to an old display, keyboard and mouse is way more in line with reality than 5 billion VR headsets in 2030!

                                      [?]Metin Seven 🎨 » 🌐
                                      @metin@graphics.social

                                      Version Museum ─ A Visual History Of Your Favorite Technology

                                      versionmuseum.com

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                                        [?]C. » 🌐
                                        @cazabon@mindly.social

                                        45 years ago, at about this time, my parents joined the home computer revolution. I think they did it at least partially with the idea that it would give their children skills or opportunities in life that we might have otherwise not had. They were probably right about that.

                                        So, Dad picked out an Atari 800, with the RAM expansion board to take it to the full 48 KB. [1] He also opted for the expensive 810 floppy disk drive, which stored 90 KB per disk! The cost of the two together was about CDN $2100, a huge amount at the time.

                                        If you had approached me at that time, using an 8-bit processor at less than 2 MHz, and told me that today I would be able to buy a computer with 2 (!) >100 MHz 32-bit processors (and 6 times the memory of that Atari) for CDN $2.50, delivered, and that it would be small enough that you could lose it down the back of the couch cushions, I would have thought you were out of your mind.

                                        We truly do live in an amazing technological future. With all the Big Tech crap being pushed on us all the time, I think it's too easy to lose sight of that.

                                        [1] Wikipedia's page on the Atari 8-bit series says RAM came on 16 KB cards, and that the 800 needed 2 add-on cards to reach the 48 KB max capacity. I distinctly remember the machine having only one additional expansion card, which must have been 32 KB. So Wikipedia would appear to be incorrect about this.

                                          [?]Metin Seven 🎨 » 🌐
                                          @metin@graphics.social

                                          🧵 Tech-themed works, 25/x

                                          Arcade Dream (2014)

                                          Low-polygon / voxel style 3D artwork, showing four arcade cabinets with a shoot 'em up game, progressing on each cabinet screen.

                                          Alt...Low-polygon / voxel style 3D artwork, showing four arcade cabinets with a shoot 'em up game, progressing on each cabinet screen.

                                            [?]Metin Seven 🎨 » 🌐
                                            @metin@graphics.social

                                            🧵 Tech-themed works, 33/x

                                            Hacker zombie, isometric pixel art (2025).

                                            Isometric pixel artwork of a hacker with a skull inside a hoodie, sitting behind a monitor with a skull sticker on it.

                                            Alt...Isometric pixel artwork of a hacker with a skull inside a hoodie, sitting behind a monitor with a skull sticker on it.

                                              [?]Metin Seven 🎨 » 🌐
                                              @metin@graphics.social

                                              🧵 Tech-themed works, 41/x

                                              Digital artist. Made in the mid-1990s for the intranet of a media company I worked for at the time. Hence the thick CRT screen. 😁

                                              Cartoon-style pixel illustration of a painter painting colors onto a noisy monitor screen on an easel.

                                              Alt...Cartoon-style pixel illustration of a painter painting colors onto a noisy monitor screen on an easel.

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                                                [?]Mojo ♻️ » 🌐
                                                @mojo@aus.social

                                                People still call Linux “niche”, but the numbers say otherwise.
                                                If you count Android (which runs the Linux kernel), Linux is the most dominant operating system on Earth.

                                                • Android Linux runs on ~3.5 to 4 billion active devices
                                                • Windows sits at ~1.4 to 1.6 billion
                                                • iOS around ~1.3 to 1.5 billion
                                                • macOS ~150 to 200 million

                                                That is before counting servers, cloud infrastructure, supercomputers, routers, TVs, cars, and embedded systems where Linux already dominates.
                                                Linux may not own the desktop, but it owns the internet, the cloud, mobile, and most of the devices quietly running the modern world.
                                                Linux is not niche. Desktop Linux is niche. The kernel is everywhere.

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                                                  [?]Metin Seven 🎨 » 🌐
                                                  @metin@graphics.social

                                                  @gamesthatwerent 👍 I loved Spindizzy. Once made this 3D tribute to it. 💚

                                                  3D tribute to the mid-1980s Commodore 64 game Spindizzy.

                                                  Alt...3D tribute to the mid-1980s Commodore 64 game Spindizzy.

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                                                    [?]BastilleBSD :freebsd: » 🌐
                                                    @BastilleBSD@fosstodon.org

                                                    "What if" Wednesday

                                                    What if we could continue using the computers we have but no new computers could be built, what would that look one year, five years or even ten years later?

                                                    How long would your laptop last?

                                                    How long would your operating system last?

                                                    How long would the internet last?

                                                      [?]Metin Seven 🎨 » 🌐
                                                      @metin@graphics.social

                                                      🧵 Tech-themed works, 16/x

                                                      Atarobot (2024). 🕹️

                                                      3D robot design, featuring an Atari 2600 retro console as its chest and head.

                                                      Alt...3D robot design, featuring an Atari 2600 retro console as its chest and head.

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                                                        [?]Metin Seven 🎨 » 🌐
                                                        @metin@graphics.social

                                                        🧵 Tech-themed works, 24/x

                                                        Commodore 64 (and 1702 monitor) 💙

                                                        3D icon style tribute to the legendary Commodore 64 computer and 1702 monitor.

                                                        Alt...3D icon style tribute to the legendary Commodore 64 computer and 1702 monitor.

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                                                          [?]Nate » 🌐
                                                          @nolsen311@infosec.exchange

                                                          @rperezrosario

                                                          If we're not considering Android a flavor of Linux, it's probably Android TBH

                                                            [?]Metin Seven 🎨 » 🌐
                                                            @metin@graphics.social

                                                            🧵 Tech-themed works, 2/x

                                                            As a kid I was already fascinated by electronics, particularly lights and buttons.

                                                            Graphic-style 2D artwork, showing a boy happily controlling an electronic panel filled with buttons, levers and lights.

                                                            Alt...Graphic-style 2D artwork, showing a boy happily controlling an electronic panel filled with buttons, levers and lights.

                                                              [?]Metin Seven 🎨 » 🌐
                                                              @metin@graphics.social

                                                              🧵 Tech-themed works, 3/x

                                                              Mock-up of an imaginary Game Boy game.

                                                              Game Boy style screen colors showing artwork of an imaginary platform game.

                                                              Alt...Game Boy style screen colors showing artwork of an imaginary platform game.

                                                                [?]Metin Seven 🎨 » 🌐
                                                                @metin@graphics.social

                                                                🧵 Tech-themed works, 4/x

                                                                A loving tribute to the legendary Amiga 1000, featuring one of my all-time favorite games: Marble Madness. ❤️

                                                                Graphic design style illustration, showing a Commodore Amiga model 1000, with a scene from the Marble Madness game on its screen. Two hands are controlling the game using a joystick.

                                                                Alt...Graphic design style illustration, showing a Commodore Amiga model 1000, with a scene from the Marble Madness game on its screen. Two hands are controlling the game using a joystick.

                                                                  [?]Metin Seven 🎨 » 🌐
                                                                  @metin@graphics.social

                                                                  🧵 Tech-themed works, 5/x

                                                                  Screenstruck (2019).

                                                                  Graphic-style illustration of a computer user sitting in front of his screen at nighttime.

                                                                  Alt...Graphic-style illustration of a computer user sitting in front of his screen at nighttime.

                                                                    [?]Metin Seven 🎨 » 🌐
                                                                    @metin@graphics.social

                                                                    🧵 Tech-themed works, 8/x

                                                                    Made this in 2022. This is how a PC feels to me. 😉 Returned to a Mac recently. No more propeller airplane lifting off when I start a 3D rendering. 😅

                                                                    Graphic-style illustration of a large computer system with stacked components, controlled by a robot, and watched by an eye-shaped drone.

                                                                    Alt...Graphic-style illustration of a large computer system with stacked components, controlled by a robot, and watched by an eye-shaped drone.

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                                                                      [?]❄️SnowyIn🇨🇦❄️ » 🌐
                                                                      @SnowyCA@social.vivaldi.net

                                                                      Data Centers in the Sky--They can't be serious!🙄
                                                                      (sorry, I needed to redraft this)

                                                                      There is a rush for AI companies to team up with space launch/satellite companies to build datacenters in space. TL;DR: It's not going to work.

                                                                      taranis.ie/datacenters-in-spac

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                                                                        [?]rk: it’s hyphen-minus actually » 🌐
                                                                        @rk@mastodon.well.com

                                                                        Essentially the whole world browses the web with KDE code using the text encoding from Plan 9 on very fast Xerox Stars.

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                                                                          [?]Daltux » 🌐
                                                                          @daltux@snac.daltux.net

                                                                          💬 The with Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic@mamot.fr) on his book "Enshittification", hosted last Friday by Internet Archive (@internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org) and Authors Alliance, is now available at https://archive.org/details/cory-doctorow-2025


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                                                                            [?]Anthony » 🌐
                                                                            @abucci@buc.ci

                                                                            The influence of powerful imagery and rhetorics in promotional material for computing is neither new nor surprising. There is a longstanding tradition of overselling the latest technology, claiming it to be the next (industrial) revolution or promising that it will outperform human beings. With the passage of time it may become difficult to recognize these invented ideas and images that have acquired a life of their own and have become integrated as part of a historical narrative. As modern, digital electronic computing is nearing its 100th anniversary, such recognition does not become easier, though we may be in need of it more than ever before.

                                                                            This particular case, where the praise of automatic programming implied the obsolescence of the coder, can be instructive for us today. There is a line that runs from Grace Hopper’s selling of “automatic coding” to today’s promises of large AI models such as Chat-GPT for revolutionizing computing by automating programming or even making human programmers obsolete.19,20 Then as now, it is certainly the case that the automation of some parts of programming is progressing, and it will upset or even redefine the division of labor. However, this is not a simple straightforward process that replaces the human element in one or more specific phases of programming by the computer itself. Rather, practice adopts new techniques to assist with existing tasks and jobs. Such changes do not generalize easily, and using titles as like “coders”—or today’s “prompt engineers,”—while memorable, does not do justice to the subtle process of changing practice.

                                                                            From https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/the-myth-of-the-coder/


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                                                                              [?]Anthony » 🌐
                                                                              @abucci@buc.ci

                                                                              In more interesting , last night I stumbled on Brendan Howell's Rustic Computing project: https://wintermute.org/project/Rustic_Computing/ ; also https://moddr.net/rustic-computing/

                                                                              which I find very fun to consider.

                                                                              Rustic Computing refers to the construction of calculation machines using pre-industrial or even pre-historic technology. It reveals a history of computing as the pastime of dilettantes, amateur scientists and gentleman tabulators who construct machines to manipulate abstract symbols with no practical application. As these machines are generally less efficient than conventional pencil and paper computation, they allude to a more epicurean practice of computing for pleasure rather than production. Much like "Slow Food", Rustic Computing valorizes the process as being more "natural", "traditional" and "organic".
                                                                              My favorite computer science results and algorithms are those that transfer into the non-digital world. You can sort a deck of cards using merge sort. John Hopfield apparently had his students implement a neural network calculation wherein each student was a simulated neuron that (who?) interacted with neighboring student neurons. Danny Hillis built a minimax tictactoc player out of Tinker toys and fishing line.


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