buddhabuddy

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Still Life with Asparagus (1697) by the Dutch Golden Age painter Adriaen Coorte.

Available as a print in our online shop: https://publicdomainreview.org/product/still-life-with-asparagus/

@ibboard ISBN also get reused although they're not meant to

> Cambridge’s preservationists don’t just mount disks and hope for the best; they sample the raw magnetic signal itself. Specialized hardware, such as the KryoFlux and open-hardware Greaseweazle interfaces, captures the flux transitions — the tiny changes in polarity that encode data — and reconstructs the file structure later in software.

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/storage/cambridge-university-rescues-data-from-old-floppy-disks

Cambridge University launches project to rescue data trapped on old floppy disks

Cambridge’s 'Future Nostalgia' project is racing to save decades of digital history from vanishing floppy disks.

Tom's Hardware
@ibboard have a great time!

Did you know the Amiga Kickstart boot screen is stored as vector data? It uses only 412 bytes. 💾

#Amiga #CommodoreAmiga #RetroComputing #PenPlotter

OpenAI’s ChatGPT Agent casually clicks through “I am not a robot” verification test
"This step is necessary to prove I'm not a bot," wrote the bot as it passed an anti-AI screening step.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/07/openais-chatgpt-agent-casually-clicks-through-i-am-not-a-robot-verification-test/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

‘An Airplane has been defined as a collection of parts having an inherent tendency to fall to earth, and requiring constant effort and supervision to stave off that outcome. The System called "airplane" may have been designed to fly, but the parts don't share that tendency. In fact, they share the opposite tendency. And the System will fly—if at all—only as a System.’

— John Gall, The Systems Bible

Forget all the bad news; THIS is happening! Joy!

RT: ‪William Gibson‬
‪@greatdismal.bsky.social‬
I imagined the Chatsubo in 1984. 41 years later I opened its door. Neuromancer is in production.