Mastodawn

Dragon-sided D Jul 4

@jwz @Reboot an engineer is someone who understands how tenuously civilization is held together

ManMachine 19h ago

Kroc Camen 20h ago

@NanoRaptor The clock only chimes when it has something to say; with a tinkle of 100 tiny ornate bells of different sizes and a whirr of gears being released from tension, the bony automaton skeleton hand slowly taps out a message on the Apple II... "2019 was 2019 days ago"

ManMachine 20h ago

Nanoraptor 22h ago

I swear I'm so much more addicted to decaf, this is my twentieth today.

ManMachine 23h ago

gigabitch ethernet 1d ago

remembering the time i was sitting in a starbucks years ago when a guy loudly declared to the room "look at everyone on computers! what a terrible thing! using computers!" and i wordlessly took a 2nd laptop out of my bag and started using that too

Drew Breunig 1d ago

@SwiftOnSecurity I always enjoyed the feeling of an original iPod in your hand as you hit play, a gyroscopic twist as the drive spun up.

Nanoraptor 1d ago

Over 70% of the Mac’s history has been in the OSX (and after) era

Phil M0OFX 1d ago

METR: "We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers.

The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't."

Bluesky thread: https://bsky.app/profile/metr.org/post/3ltn3t3amms2x

METR (@metr.org)

We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers. The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.

Bluesky Social

Eniko Fox 1d ago

are there any bit tricks you can do to make sure no bytes within a 32-bit integer are zero?

edit: answer here https://graphics.stanford.edu/~seander/bithacks.html#ZeroInWord

Bit Twiddling Hacks

Eniko Fox 1d ago

Retro games covers any game that can easily be emulated. Why? Because hardware isn't getting substantially more powerful anymore and many modern games are outright made unplayable by publishers so the only games that survive long term are the kind you can keep playing with just a rom and an emulator

Yes, this means that Switch games from this year are retro and PS4 games from 2013 are not I will not be taking further questions at this time

abadidea 1d ago

once again forced to confront the horrible revelation that computers are physical objects subject to the cruel caprices of sinful, fallen reality

daily affirmations

@eloy so, are you taking part in the challenge? my battlestation for WHY2025 just came in the mail

@eloy TODO:

new disk, possibly solid state (turns out the rattle noise was NOT normal)
recell the battery with new 18650’s
maybe upgrade ram? seller said it had 24MB, it actually has 96MB but i think it can go to 128
mod! mod! mod! i want this thing to have silly shit inside
era-inappropriate ricing

DoomQuakeKeen 4d ago

@domi
i have one, it only have 64mb as there's 32mb soldered on the motherboard and a 32mb edo (yes, not sd-ram) so-dimm.
if you have 96mb of ram you either have a motherboard with 64mb soldered (most likely if it have a p2 @ 300mhz) or a 64mb memory expansion.
officially it only supports 32mb or 64mb edo so-dimm but some people indicated over the years that a 128mb edo so-dimm is possible.

@doomquakekeen it has 64MB onboard and a 32MB EDO. i don’t know where the seller got 24MB from, but they also wrote that it’s a pentium (while the cpu is clearly a pentium 2). kleinanzeigen moment.

i should have 64MB EDO SODIMM somewhere in my shit, i just need to locate it ;) i’m not particularly hoping for anything more, but i’ve seen TP 600* go up to 140MB or so…

jan Tusi (trucy) 🏳️‍⚧️🔞4d ago

@domi @eloy I should try to mod my eee-pc, at least putting a 64 bit processor in it

@trucy @domi this is probably my fave ThinkPad mod but I don't dare to do this with my own 701 https://hackaday.com/2014/10/21/thinkpad-701c-reverse-engineering-a-retro-processor-upgrade/

Thinkpad 701c: Reverse Engineering A Retro Processor Upgrade

[Noq2] has given his butterfly new wings with a CPU upgrade. Few laptops are as iconic as the IBM Thinkpad 701 series and its “butterfly” TrackWrite keyboard. So iconic in fact, that a …

Hackaday

jan Tusi (trucy) 🏳️‍⚧️🔞4d ago

@eloy @domi holy shit, I love how modding has no limits

@eloy @trucy the thinkwiki.org page about 560Z literally suggests that you can steal a CPU module from another manufacturer and it may go up to 400MHz

still, 300MHz, for a pentium ii, is something i’m entirely happy with ;)

Category:560Z - ThinkWiki

@domi NICE.

@domi uh yes but I should start preparing

@domi hmmmm, what to choose...

@eloy you know. i should make a display like this. my laptops are usually in boxes, not displayed nicely… and i have SPACE now!

@domi yep I was really happy being able to do this kind of stuff when I finally had the space for it

@domi National Chromebook Museum

@eloy you’d be surprised how many classic thinkpads I have! high double digits

@domi @eloy Sounds like a big project if you want to display them all.

@DerMolly @eloy not necessarily all; also i’m not sure if i want to keep them open, i definitely want them to be easily accessible to play with tho

@eloy @domi I need to bring my CANON Laptop with integrated Printer to an event sometimes and show you.

@DerMolly @domi that laptop was literally in the above picture xD

@eloy @domi Ah cool. Do you happen to get the printer running?

@DerMolly @domi the screen is quite in a bad shape but it does boot. The printer is not working currently, but it might be just an empty cartridge. I should try it again.

@eloy @domi Iirc it needed a driver and a fresh ink cartridge.

@DerMolly @domi It's running some software from a German insurance company, DEVK.

@eloy @domi My disk got whipped some years ago.

@DerMolly @domi it's a fun disk, does not support LBA. So it does not work with IDE->USB adapters, you need a "real" IDE controller

@eloy @domi I only remember that it was quite tricky to see something on the screen. Took a very precise setting on the contrast and brightness dials

Haelwenn /элвэн/

4d ago

@eloy @domi Oooh baby suns

@lanodan @domi not a full computer tho, it's a SCSI disk enclosure with PSU

Haelwenn /элвэн/

4d ago

@eloy @domi Even the one right on top of the [think]?

@lanodan @domi no that's a SPARCstation 10

Night_City_Nomad

4d ago

@domi I'm old enough that I really need that sticker as a t-shirt.

vxo 4d ago

@domi YES those noisy sons of ----

I was reminiscing over these a couple weeks back and at that time couldn't find a picture of one of the drives with that label

the big hollow CRUNCH noises these things made were unmatched and frankly unhinged

@domi ah yes, the DADA DISK.

Ari [APz] Sovijärvi 4d ago

@domi To be honest, the one about rattle being normal is why I still remember these drives. I would've definitely RMA'd it without powering it up had I unboxed it as new like that.

tekhedd 4d ago

@domi I need this as a cross-stitch. Maybe in the bathroom near some dried flowers in a wicker basket? (Where the heck would I put a wicker basket in that tiny bathroom? I digress.)