⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@qoto.org

Macintosh HyperQuadra

Having fun displaying at Edinbrick in the Neo Edinbara collab. This is my section. More pics later.
#LEGO #AFOL #BlockHeadUK

The universe accidentally gives you dev tools access.

Which slider are you stabbing your grubby little fingers at first, just to see?

Gravity? Speed of light? Boltzmann’s constant? SNF? Entropy? Hell, maybe even the dimensionality of spacetime?

Now they’ve discovered external style sheets.

@WesternInfidels @codinghorror Another one of the youngs who did not experience the horrors of Word 6.0?

Just imagine trying to start a Word DOC, but just like modern Google, an interface interferes offering useless advice. Not just a panel of possible document layouts, but some drunken dodo offering advice because he read something somewhere last week.

Wrote up a little blog post on the GlyphBlaster. Nothing you haven't seen if you've been following me, but just putting it out there.

https://martypc.blogspot.com/2026/05/60fps-video-on-cga-glyphblaster.html

#retrocomputing #glyphblaster

When devs spend $200 on a Claude plan, they consume about $5,000 in compute. That is right. It is heavy subsidization by Anthropic. Remember Google/Amazon/Nvidia/ Microsoft & others are funding Anthropic and they are buying back cloud services and GPUs from the same vendors. On the books, it seems Google, Amazon and Nvidia are all making profits via AI, but the reality is this is just circulating money with heavy subsidization hoping to trap retail, pension funds, Govt funds via IPO route.

I never thought I would use Warren Buffett or some other fund manager/investment banker as an example as I dont like em much (personal view), but some of them are sitting on massive cash invested in the money market/T-bills. You have to wonder what scared them so much about AI. Don’t they love money? Why are they passing up this AI opportunity and staying on guard? Think about it, some of the most cunning people in the investment world are extremely cautious.

Somebody is going to ask the source for $200 & $5000 numbers etc, it is here

briefs.co/…/uber-torches-entire-2026-ai-budget-on…

forbes.com/…/cursor-goes-to-war-for-ai-coding-dom… (numbers are here [ archive.is/MRdRN paywal free link ] )

RE: https://mastodon.world/@bydo_cai24/116543765900922339

wow, another new game for my favorite game console?!

#vectrex

@neil Frankly, there is a strong argument for no access without some sort of formal qualification... (and I'm more than willing to write the exams).

#Matter is dead. Long live #Zigbee and #Zwave for #HomeAutomation #HomeAssistant #Homelab!

I gave Matter years of my live, sweat equity and precious real money. No more. This article tells it. I made the decision a couple days ago to dump my devices that require Matter. The battery issues, network fragmentation, latency, … it is all as the article says. Meanwhile, my Zigbee network has scaled nicely, batteries lasting up to 2 years, stable and responsive.

https://www.xda-developers.com/matter-promise-is-a-mess-and-im-going-back-to-zigbee-only-devices/

The Linux Foundation spends 2% of its money on Linux (kernel) and twice as much on "blockchain".

Edit: Updated to link directly to the annual report, as some folks objected to the techrights.org site (I'm unfamiliar with it, so I'll just trust and link directly).

Edit2: Maybe not? I have no idea what this chart means. It isn't explained in the text that I can find.

https://www.linuxfoundation.org/hubfs/Publications/2025%20Linux%20Foundation%20Annual%20Report_122225a_lr.pdf

@fediderps @mkljczk @mariusor

'AI' isn't a technology. AI is a marketing term. Marketing departments get to decide what they call 'AI'. Mozilla's marketing department decided that they wanted to jump on the hype train.

These days, it's (according to Gartner) mostly a negative-value marketing term: people are more likely to avoid a thing advertised as being 'AI' than actively choose it.

Mozilla had a choice to call these 'efficient on-device translation', or 'AI translation'. They chose the latter. That's not a technology choice, that's a marketing choice. And it gave a load of tech bros the opportunity to say 'look, AI is useful!' and use it as an example when justifying things that are completely different uses of machine learning.

New Linux 'Dirty Frag' Zero-Day Gives Root On All Major Distros https://linux.slashdot.org/story/26/05/08/1913238/new-linux-dirty-frag-zero-day-gives-root-on-all-major-distros?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

The Scottish Parliament now has a pro-Independence majority.

Phew!

One of the reasons I resigned from Infinite Monkey Cage was show’s executives saying it was not acceptable to mention ( on my personal social media account) known pedophiles who have been very close to the Monarchy - that’s why I will be in Trafalgar Square tomorrow at midday

@letsencrypt is in the middle of an active incident. Issuance of new certs has ceased. Heads up. https://letsencrypt.status.io/

I saw a local message that a garage needed to be cleared out today, because junkers were coming tomorrow. Everything free.

Which is why I now have a working (apparently?) IBM 5153 CGA monitor.

Difficulty Level: I don't have anything that outputs CGA video. I'm going to go look for someone's weird "generate a CGA test pattern with an Arduino/Raspberry Pi" project notes, but please send me a link to such if you have one.

#Retrocomputing #CGA #Boston

@lostsettler
Over the next year or so, a lot of people are gong to find out their local council don't have power over immigration policy and also don't know how to provide local services.

We voted out the Tories, only to find that, after a long 14 years of waiting, a Labour government adopts and extends some of their worst policies, while entirely failing to excite or inspire. Now Labour and its supporters on this platform blame us for turning away. What aren’t they seeing here?

No one expected Keir Starmer to solve our pressing problems overnight. But what we did expect – and had every right to expect – was that he would lay out a clear vision and roadmap for doing so. Instead, we’ve had drift, appeasement and a startling absence of ideas, values and ambition. 🧵1/6