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Jonas Dec 9, 2024

I stumbled uppon forty-seven (47) 5.25" floppy disks regarding an old school Motorola OS called VERSAdos (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VERSAdos) including a C68 C compiler for it. Sadly I don't currently have access to any hardware to dump it.

Would it be of interest to either of you @bitsavers @kenshirriff @foone? I'm located in France but I'm willing to share shipping costs or cover them if they aren't insane.

If one of my EU-based follower here is willing to dump them, I'm ready do donate them. I only want those to be dumped (if it's still feasible) and publicly shared.

VERSAdos - Wikipedia

eickot 1d ago

SteamDeckHQ 1d ago

We also made a video showing off our favorite feature of the #SteamController, if you want to see it in action:

https://youtu.be/212voQZJKsI

The Steam Controllers' Best Feature

YouTube

eickot 4d ago

Tom's Hardware: For The Hardcore PC Enthusiast [Unofficial]4d ago

Louis Rossmann taunts Bambu Lab by hosting banned 3D Printer firmware fork, dares $1 billion company to sue him — more creators pledge support and boycotts, Snapmaker donates equipment to embattled developer

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.tomshardware.com/3d-printing/louis-rossmann-taunts-bambu-lab-by-hosting-banned-3d-printer-firmware-fork-dares-usd1-billion-company-to-sue-him-more-creators-pledge-support-and-boycotts-snapmaker-donates-equipment-to-embattled-developer

eickot 6d ago

Romain Pouclet 6d ago

At this point I would love to see an announcement from my day to day tools that they’ve decided to cut 70% of the features and made the tool 40% more dumb.

eickot May 11

Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮May 11

Dusk is a reverse-engineered reimplementation of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/dusk-is-a-reverse-engineered-reimplementation-of-the-legend-of-zelda-twilight-princess/

#Zelda #Dusk #OpenSource #Nintendo #TwilightPrincess

Dusk is a reverse-engineered reimplementation of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess

The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess comes to PC thanks to a new open source reverse-engineered reimplementation called Dusk.

GamingOnLinux

eickot May 8

Miguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉May 8

“Hernán Cortez invaded Mexico to prevent it the Aztecs from getting an atomic bomb”

eickot May 6

Liam S-H May 6

Show me how alive Mastodon is by boosting this

eickot May 5

Tito Swineflu May 5

Holy shit. I only use chrome when I have to for work, and these assholes...

https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-silent-nano-install/

eickot May 5

nixCraft 🐧May 5

Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-silent-nano-install/

> No consent dialog. No opt-out UI. Re-installs itself if the user removes it manually.

That is the true definition of malware.

Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane. — That Privacy Guy!

Google Chrome is downloading a 4 GB Gemini Nano model onto users' machines without consent, with no opt-in, no opt-out short of enterprise tooling, and an automatic re-download every time the user deletes it. The pattern is identical to the Anthropic Claude Desktop case I wrote about last month, but the scale is between two and three orders of magnitude larger. This article does the legal analysis and, for the first time, the environmental analysis. The numbers are not small.

That Privacy Guy!

eickot May 5

Lucas ✦May 5

My homie Alfredo recently demoed how LLMs actually work to a couple of friends. He made it easy to understand.

He now published it as a blog post.

https://alfredvc.no/blog/intro-what-is-an-llm

Do you even know how LLMs work? | Alfredo

This post explores LLMs, the models behind services like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini. The goal is to give you an in depth but approachable understanding of LLMs, how they work, and how they are trained. We will ignore some details, and provide simplified explanations where appropriate.