Clock Signal 2026-04-04 - A latency-hating emulator of: the Acorn Electron, BBC Micro and Archimedes, Amstrad CPC, Apple II/II+/IIe and early Macintosh, Atari 2600 and ST, ColecoVision, Commodore VIC-20, Amiga and many more https://github.com/TomHarte/CLK

Credit https://x.com/Commodore_lives

#Commodore #VIC20 #Amiga #Emulator

The text "Line Height" calculation on iOS/Mac is THE rocket science 🔬

There is literally one public method that can calculate it right: `NSLayoutManager.defaultLineHeight(for:)`. The logic behind it does not consistently match CoreText
CTLine, CTFramesetter, or a plain (ascent + descent + leading) calculation 🍿

Literal rocket science build on top of years of assumptions, mistakes, historic use. why? becasue reasons. magic delta values depends on the font name/style/size.

You know there's something wrong with US politics when NASA is forced to communicate in Imperial measurements.

"Orion’s main engine provides up to 6,000 pounds of thrust, enough to accelerate a car from 0 to 60 mph in about 2.7 seconds. At the time of the burn, Orion’s mass was 58,000 pounds and burned approximately 1,000 pounds of fuel during the firing."

https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/04/02/artemis-ii-flight-day-2-orion-completes-tli-burn-crew-begins-journey-to-the-moon/

#space #artemis #nasa

https://bmi.usercontent.opencode.de/eudi-wallet/wallet-development-documentation-public/latest/architecture-concept/06-mobile-devices/02-mdvm/

So, it turns out the German implementation of eIDAS (electronic ID wallet for e.g. age attestation) will require an Apple/Google account to function

Absolutely pathetic

RE: https://mastodon.social/@pojntfx/116345677794218793

Good work everyone. We are not a whole continent with some of the brightest minds and universities to figure out how to do it decoupled from private companies.

We are a continent of bureaucratic people with knowledge only of laws and administration.

On the other side: “Take-Two fires its AI department to cut costs”

Makes you wonder if that might be a thing. Costs of token usage start to exceed salaries. Is it worth it if you can just blast away thousands of dollars with a wrong prompt (or stupid idea)?
#layoffs #ai

https://www.destructoid.com/like-poetry-take-two-fires-its-ai-department-to-cut-costs/

🩵 Let's show some love for the awesome Commodore 64 Ultimate

#Commodore #C64 #C64U #RetroGaming #RetroComputing