The Penguin of Evil

@etchedpixels
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Retired Linux hacker, gamer, retrocomputing, model trains

ESO: EtchedPixels & PenguinOfEvil (Wombles, Greymanes, Chill Mode)

Businesshttp://www.etchedpixels.co.uk
Fuzixhttps://www.fuzix.org
Codeberghttps://codeberg.org/EtchedPixels
RC2014 Boardshttps://hackaday.io/EtchedPixels

Important paper by economists Hemenway Falk, U Penn and Tsoukalas, Boston U:

"If AI displaces human workers faster than the economy can reabsorb them, it risks eroding the very consumer demand firms depend on.

Rational firms get trapped in an automation arms race, displacing workers well beyond what is collectively optimal.

Firms automate their way to boundless productivity and zero demand.

The resulting loss harms both workers and firm owners."

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.20617
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2026 Ham Radio Rally season is underway
Radio Rallies are a great chance to pick up vintage electronics kit, components, from ICs to valves and all sorts of other interesting stuff. There will be lots of events around the #UnitedKingdom.
June events...
7 June – Broadcast Engineering Museum open day
7 June – Spalding & DARS Annual Radio Rally
14 June – Junction 28 Radio Rally
17 June – Lincoln Short Wave Club used equipment sale (evening event)
20 June – Inverness & District ARS GM North Radio Rally
20 June – Rochdale & District Amateur Radio Summer Rally
21 June – East Suffolk Wireless Revival (Ipswich Radio Rally)
20, 21, 27, 28, June – International Museums Weekend (World-wide event.)
28 June – Cornish Radio Amateur Club Rally
Check out the #RSGB web site
https://rsgb.org/main/news/rallies/
For more details about each event.
#AmateurRadio #HAMRadio #RadioRallly #HAMFest #RetroElectronics #RetroComputing #RetroTechnologyVintageElectronics #WeirdNerdEventUK #Hackspace
Rallies and events - Radio Society of Great Britain - Main Site : Radio Society of Great Britain – Main Site

@jwildeboer Still have that t shirt somewhere in the collection

@sjvn @cstross @ZDNet Which you generally can't do because the human doesn't understand the actual changes which means they can't write the tests for it.

What you actually need is a formal specification for the behaviour but that's a different rather longer saga 8)

The INS8070 remains an utterly infuriating processor to program (ok it's better than 1802). It's a weird mix of superb design choices like the register indexing combined with stuff that must have taken real effort to screw up this badly.

However the compiler now works well enough and it can run Fuzix.

#fuzix #8bit #retrocomputing

@jelte @ainmosni @0xabad1dea Maybe I should just ask it how to make a proper cup of tea as per HHGTTG ;)

@0xabad1dea Remember that you can serve a different AGENTS.md on the web view rather than the repository according to the browser agent too, so slop artists need to be really careful ;)

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@aral Do you think people in the UK would get in trouble for sharing this museum proposal? https://palestinememorial.org

This project is something which should be achievable in a place like California. Los Angeles already has museums documenting the Armenian genocide, Japanese American incarceration, the Jewish holocaust, and the African American experience. But the Palestinian experience has no such institution.

Palestine Memorial Museum: Memorial & Documentation Center, Los Angeles

A proposed nonprofit memorial and documentation center in Los Angeles, preserving the memory of Palestinian lives lost across generations and educating the public on a history reaching from displacement to the crisis in Gaza.

Palestine Memorial Museum
The billionaire who saved humanity, and other fairy tales.

Reminder that Mark Zuckerberg really really really wants you not to read Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams.

So, obviously, whatever you do, don't read it or little Mark will get upset.

#Censorship

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/31/meta-legal-action-forces-facebook-whistleblower-to-stay-silent-at-hay-festival

Meta legal action forces Facebook whistleblower to sit in silence at Hay festival

Sarah Wynn-Williams did not speak during event after lawyers warned of possible sanctions from tech firm

The Guardian