Hans đââïž"I am starting a petition to no longer refer to AI "art" as AI art but instead as Computer- Rendered Artificial Pictures (CRAP).
Pass it on."
(The Language Nerds the.language.nerds on IG) #AIart #CRAP
https://www.instagram.com/p/DYH09kliDG7/
@leosam
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Associate Professor at INSA-Lyon and wireless communications researcher. Technology enthusiast and part time tinkerer. Opinions are my own.
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Geoff MackenzieEdit: I believe I have someone interested in the SPARCstation now, but feel free to register an interest if you like, I'll try to keep track. It makes me happy that there's so much interest in this nice old machine :)
Original post below:
Would you, or anyone you know, be interested in a free SPARCstation 20 and be able to collect it from the South of Scotland in early April? Some more details here: https://mackenga.ro/blog/2026/free-sparcstation-and-more/index.html
Boosts appreciated if you think someone downstream of you might want it.
Davide BucciY a-t-il des passionnĂ©.e.s dâanciens ordinateurs #Apple sur #Grenoble ? Je donne un #PowerMac G4 400MHz avec son Ă©cran cathodique. Il manque le disque dur et lâalimentation originale a Ă©tĂ© remplacĂ©e avec une alimentation de PC. Jâavais montĂ© un convertisseur DC/DC pour obtenir les 28V pour lâĂ©cran. Câest une trĂšs trĂšs belle machine, mais je ne lâutilise pas et elle prend trop de place chez moi. #retrocomputing EDIT : merci beaucoup ! L'ordinateur ira dans des excellentes mains !
(Update)
I have figured out it *might* be slightly dangerous to keep my Sparcstation 5 (which is inside my private home network) open to the internet so I transferred my gopher server to a more secure location: gopher://www.leosam.net
Renaissance DorkIt would be great if we could run Venix on an emulated Rainbow. Though MAME doesnât support booting a Rainbow machine from a hard drive OOtB, there is a workaround. #unix #cpm #dos #venix #digital #dec #digitalequipmentcorporation #rainbow #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #mame https://renaissancedork.com/venix-in-mame/
Ha! Finally managed to install a gopher server on my Solaris2.6 system. now Iâm on the gopher space (although 30+ years late)! For anyone curious (and who also has a gopher browser): gopher://leosam.net
PierreNick 
đŸSome days I want to open an Internet cafĂ© with Macintosh Performas (because thatâs what I remember Internet cafĂ©s having).
It uses an Internet Archive/Wayback Machine proxy, and every day is a random day between 1995 and 2000, which is announced on a board (âToday is July 8th, 1997â).
Thereâs obviously extensive caching on-premise and monthly donations to the IA for their work.
Thereâs also good specialty coffee, of course, and other fun retro telecommunications and non-Web Internet stuff (BBS, Teletex, IRC, etc.)
Totally not sustainable and Iâve never run such a thing, but fun to think about. Make the internet exciting again. #RetroComputing #VintageComputing
1995: the advantage of internet is that everything is distributed so no system failure can bring it down
2025: https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/20/aws_outage_chaos/
Jouni OH3CUFMeshtastic iOS app breaks EU law with sending lots of telemetry (logs, usage) to DataDog in US wthout user consent and without any kind of notification of the app doing so.
I reported this as issue and it got immediately closed without any explanation: https://github.com/meshtastic/Meshtastic-Apple/issues/1449
đ [Bug]: DataDog telemetry collection lacks GDPR-compliant consent mechanism at app startup · Issue #1449 · meshtastic/Meshtastic-Apple
Before submitting I have searched existing issues to make sure this bug hasn't already been reported I have updated to the latest version of the software to verify the issue still exists Firmware V...