Biggles @Biggles@qoto.org

I wrote about another Steely Dan shocker:
Tape of legendary long-lost Steely Dan song "Second Arrangement" surfaces!

https://boingboing.net/2023/06/24/legendary-lost-steely-dan-song-second-arrangement-surfaces.html

For your listening convenience, the song is now up on YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAtOuLuO3vU

The 486 DX2/66 has to be fired up to give this game justice, with the #picogus soundcard

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Stephen King: submitted for the approval of the
Elon Musk: [busting out of the bushes] eyyyyy stephano king! you thinka you so smart
Musk: you thinka you smart but elon muska he da smartest man inna world ey? oh!!!
Musk: [steps on rake]

there's something weirdly visceral about taking bytes you made and burning them to an EPROM, moreso than copying to a floppy or SD card for some reason

anyway the atari 2600 rick roll is real, you can play it here: https://javatari.org/?ROM=http://www.deater.net/weave/vmwprod/floppy_rescue/rr.bin

The Great Depression (1929-1941) is widely considered to be the worst economic period in American history. And the very worst year during that time period was 1930. Now, what I'm about to show you, I'm not doing to hurt anyone. I just need people to understand that we are being gaslit.

1930 average annual income for 1 person:
- $4,887

Let's see what that sort of salary - the "worst" in American history - translates to in 2023 dollars.

I'll just let you sit with this for a moment.

Worse than death #memes #c

Enjoying the fruits of @textfiles's labour with the November 1990 issue of Computer Shopper US on my E Ink tablet. All 836 pages of the thing!

Snag a PDF copy, crazy-high-resolution CBZ, or just leaf through the thing in-browser on the @internetarchive here: https://archive.org/details/computer-shopper-november-1990

so, the reddit API protest has taken a different direction, now people are uploading gigabtyes of videos to reddit which are just noise. i cannot stress this enough, do NOT run the command ffmpeg -filter_complex "nullsrc=s=1920x1080,geq=random(1)*255:128:128[vout]" -map "[vout]" -t 46 -c:v libx264 out.mp4 in order to generate one of these large video files then upload them en masse in order to slow down their servers, that totally will not help with the protest

On June 13 2022, in the middle of all this uncertainty about the company's future, the new office opened. People still could not believe this happened. It seemed like such a bizarre corporate failing - that the decision had been made to build it and the penalties for backing out were severe enough that they just kept on plowing ahead for 2 years, even though the space was going to be empty.

Fun fact: during early development the gonads of the human fetus remain undifferentiated; that is, all fetal genitalia are the same and are phenotypically female.

- So, if biological sex can't be changed,
- And if life starts at conception,
- Then all men are trans.

Sorry, Republican men. You made the rules.

Get a free copy of Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition with Prime Gaming https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/06/get-a-free-copy-of-neverwinter-nights-enhanced-edition-with-prime-gaming/ #GOG #Linux #FreeGame #RPG

Stefany Allaire is extending the sale of the F256K till mid-July 2023. If you were planning on getting one, this is the time. Won't be back for sale before the end of the year. Delivery for this batch will be Sept.
The F256Jr will be kept continuously for sale though
#retrocomputing #retrogaming #8bit #c256foenix
#f256K #f256Jr
https://c256foenix.com/

People talking about our being doomed by the unstoppable growth of AI remind me of the time I ran the numbers on my newborn daughter's weight gain after three months and concluded that if she kept growing at that rate, by her third birthday she'd weigh eleven thousand pounds.

problematic ship

200 Temba, his arms wide
302 Mirab, with sails unfurled
403 Chenza at court, the court of silence
404 Kadir beneath Mo Moteh
500 Shaka, when the walls fell

I don't often meme but when I do, all the numbers are real.

mindblowing new discovery in Conway's Game of Life: any buildable pattern in Life can be constructed from the collision of 15 gliders.

https://btm.qva.mybluehost.me/building-arbitrary-life-patterns-in-15-gliders/

the key principle: distance itself can be used to encode information. by determining the correct starting [x,y] coordinate for each glider, any future state of the Life universe can be created, with effectively unbounded complexity. 🤯

(via @OscarCunningham @danstowell)

24 hours of Earth's rotation, with the camera locked to the sky instead of the ground. We're all hanging out on this spinning rock.
Brilliant video by Bartosz Wojczyński. https://artuniverse.eu/gallery/190705-rotation24h #nature #wonder #earth

Seen so many videos and writeups saying things along the lines of ‘Apple didn't show us a killer app for Vision Pro’, but they did — they spent an entire week showing developers just how easy it is to transition from iOS to visionOS, how it uses all the same tools and SDKs we use today, Xcode, TestFlight, SwiftUI, UIKit, etc. Non-developers and people outside the Apple scene may not realize just how profound that is, and how transformative it might be to the platform