modrobert @modrobert@qoto.org

I was discussing book publishing with a person who has been writing a really interesting book about making retro games for old computers.

Their problem is that to very a nice print (as opposed to epub) the screenshots have to be high resolution. And here's the question:

Is there a nice way to upscsle a small screenshot from an emulator and add CRT effects so that it looks like it has been photographed off an old monitor? Preferably something that can be run in batch mode?

Please boost for a bit better reach, since I don't think this is a very common need.

#retrocomputing

Do you have tons of branches and forgot the name of the last one you were working on? Don't worry! this oneliner will sort them by last commit date!

git for-each-ref --sort=-committerdate refs/heads/ --format='%(committerdate:short) %(refname:short)' | head -n 10

Brilliant #Kurzgesagt video about the threat of AI slop and how AI learning from AI is a very bad idea (tl;dw: tainting world with false facts): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zfN9wnPvU0

Say NO to AI slop!

🇩🇪 Germany is AGAINST Chat Control:

Jens Spahn: "We as the CDU/CSU parliamentary group are against indiscriminate monitoring of chats. That would be like preemptively opening all letters to check whether there's something illegal in them. That's not acceptable, that won't happen under our watch."

Earth at night viewed from space.

Remember the old days?

Why aren't today's routers made out of wood?

A cartoon by @b_loper. #NewYorkerCartoons

https://www.newyorker.com/newsletter/humor

In Mexico, people call Oracle the company "Obstacle".

And I think this is beautiful.

New #chiptune track out today 🩷👾
👉 https://fanlink.tv/pxlc

We fixed the vintage IBM printer at the Computer History Museum yesterday. Introduced in 1959, the IBM 1403 line printer provided fast, high-quality output, printing 132 character lines. Unfortunately, one column stopped printing, so we disassembled the printer to fix a bad hammer. Keep reading...

The emotional rollercoaster when "BandNameOfficialVevo" has an "HD Remaster" of a video and then it's clearly just a hamhanded "AI" mangling of a VHS version.

Good meowrning

AOL has now shut down dial-up service as of September 30.

Let us play the forgotten music...

“Microsoft says its (vibe working mode) in Excel has an accuracy rate of 57.2 percent in SpreadsheetBench, a benchmark for evaluating an AI model’s ability to edit real world spreadsheets”

Imagine being a hiring manager and hiring somebody to use Excel who says they do their job wrong about half the time. Welcome to AI.