*banned 4 MarkDown love* @design_RG@qoto.org

@Full_marx @freemo Great post, thanks for the mention, boss.

@Full_marx We might end up on a dystopic future where energy is at a premium, and you might have to pedal your bike as a generator to power up some device. No internet, or only limited local mesh networks.

Efficiency would be a priority once again.

I find it very inspiring to learn how people worked with what they had and built the roots of what we have today.

There are some great docus and even feature films talking about the Bletchley park code breaking groups, where Alan Turing worked and created some specially designer devices to help agilize code breaking. The "Bombes".

The very first electronic computer was the Colossus, British and from that era. Never spoken or mentioned much since ALL Bletchley work was classified until the mid 70s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bletchley_Park

@_lunawinters
You are very welcome.

Maybe look for "A Discovery of Witches" to watch too, once you have time?

I love that series. Edit: here!

https://ww6.123-movies.com/episode/a-discovery-of-witches-1x1/watching.html

@Karthikdeva

@Full_marx I am suspect so say, since I am very fond of History, including Tech and Computing History.

If you ever visit the San Francisco Bay area, try to visit the Computer Museum in Mountainview, California. Yeah, that city, now Googles flagship address. (the GooglePlex is nearby and also worth a visit to gawk)

https://computerhistory.org/

Plan to spend a day on it!

@Full_marx Found a good definition for Register :

http://foldoc.org/register

^--- This site is a treasure.

@Full_marx My understanding is that a register is just a storage location very close to the processor core. You can hold numbers, like the value of a variable, and call it in when needed.

Heading there now, placing a link here for reference.

http://foldoc.org/The%20story%20of%20Mel,%20a%20Real%20Programmer

But I will need to go and re-read the story to refresh my mind.

@Full_marx "A 32 x 32 core memory plane storing 1024 bits (or 128 bytes) of data."

I missed adding the photo caption.

That whole module won't hold one average Tweet post, even the short old 140 chars max ones. This is 128 Bytes total.

No bloated software in those days. 😈

@_lunawinters @Karthikdeva Yes, not supposed to, but it is.

Some other sites are sketchy, but this one seems clean and doesn't force you to buy access or do any other things. The programme aired on commercial networks in USA, and I am not sure if it is on netflix atm or not. Great show.

"Magnetic-core memory was the predominant form of random-access computer memory for 20 years between about 1955 and 1975. Such memory is often just called core memory, or, informally, core.

Core memory uses toroids (rings) of a hard magnetic material (usually a semi-hard ferrite) as transformer cores, where each wire threaded through the core serves as a transformer winding. Three or four wires pass through each core.

Each core stores one bit of information. A core can be magnetized in either the clockwise or counter-clockwise direction. The value of the bit stored in a core is zero or one according to the direction of that core's magnetization."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic-core_memory

#IT #Tech #vintage @Full_marx

@_lunawinters @Karthikdeva Great quotes. Something that begs to be on a book for careful thinking about it.

Aaditi, pick your episodes here:

https://www.the123movies.gdn/series/mr-robot/

@lertsenem Thank you, good points. I am new here and learning by the day.

Hashtags definitely beg for a filter. The sheer ugliness on the text is awful. Thinking of the hashing and wasted computing effort for something that will never be searched for, dismaying.

@Full_marx @Incindia
The F35 is a hugely costly and their most up to date fighter. To lose its stealth capabilities is a major coup against the programme. Various countries had been involved in supporting and ordering the planes, the cost is so high that the US administration did not want to fund it alone.

The F21 must be an older gen aircraft, that they don't mind as much losing some stealth on. Foreign sales help keep factories churning and well paid employment at home.

RT
@evilpaul_atebit@twitter.com
: Possibly the nerdiest joke ever..

@WanderingBeekeeper @DissidentKitty@radical.town
Found it. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Invisibles

Volume 2, issue #4

great quote.

It's Follow on Friday, aka #FF

A good day to discover accounts to follow and learn, get entertained or engage in good discussions.

Searching for the #FF hash also helps find these posts, last week there were many and I added a number of interesting people to my list.

Any you suggest?

Cory Doctorow is a great SciFi writer, blogs at https://boingboing.net/ and is active on twitter and Fediverse as well. @doctorow

See his books and maybe get a free ebook copy to read at his site: http://craphound.com/

One of his book's free download pages, (there are others for many of them) : https://craphound.com/homeland/download/

@shibaprasad There's a triving community of expats, digital nomads relocated in Lisbon from other higher cost European cities like Berlin, London, Paris.

And Lisbon is lovely, a small capital by European standards, nice climate and beside a gorgeous river.

Retired people and investors are flocking in too, some Brits sell their places and just drive there with a van load of stuff or a caravan/motor home to stay for good.

If they sold property at home country, they can repurchase, better prop for lower costs.

And enjoy the 3,000 hours of sunshine per year that the southern Algarve coast area gets. 😉 🍷

@DissidentKitty@radical.town any American consulate or embassy would have armed Marines to stop this kind of thing.