Monsieur Valentine @valeg@mastodon.social

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoUsD00mj4g&feature=youtu.be

2020: What is the Fediverse?

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An ancient #cyberpunk graveyard

84-year-old alligator rumored to have been Hitler's dies in Moscow
https://www.dawn.com/news/1559345/84-year-old-alligator-rumored-to-have-been-hitlers-dies-in-moscow

(submitted by baybal2)

Ваши соцсети никогда не будут выглядеть так стильно, как этот сервер Федиверса

https://bbs.kawa-kun.com/

Пользоваться этим конечно невозможно, но сам факт!

Convos IRC client now supports video chat
https://convos.by/2020/5/23/experimental-video-support-using-webrtc.html

(submitted by jhthorsen)

i wasted so many quarters on this

Happy 12th Birthday Fediverse! 🥳

https://mastodon.xyz/@lightone/104188129431867733

Google bans Podcast Addict App for playing non-approved content
https://apple.news/AxLEt--EwS1evgu9hwc3LAA

(submitted by garyclarke27)

May Update: PineTab Pre-Orders, PinePhone Qi Charging and More
https://www.pine64.org/2020/05/15/may-update-pinetab-pre-orders-pinephone-qi-charging-more/

(submitted by freedomben)

So every time someone posts a #Giphy GIF in a chat and every time you open Giphy in your app / keyboard, Facebook will get data on you, did I get that right? Is that why a GIF collection was worth $400M?

How to crash an email server with a single email (2018)
https://snyk.io/blog/how-to-crash-an-email-server-with-a-single-email/

(submitted by jorangreef)

"The computer is as inhuman as we make it" Ted Nelson

Bowie Bonds
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebrity_bond

(submitted by tosh)

#TIL In the mid-70s, General Instrument and Honeywell designed the CP1600 microprocessor, and it used an architecture largely based on the PDP-11. Like the PDP-11, CP1600 used MMIO, memory and I/O shared the same address space, and there was no dedicated I/O address space. So far so good, but in order to fit the CP1600 into a small DIP-40 package, it must multiplex all the address and data signals on the same pins, making the MMIO difficult and expensive to decode.

To solve the MMIO problem, a dedicated, low-cost I/O controller for the CP1600 was developed. It was named the Programmable Interface Controller - and thus the PIC microcontroller was born.

It's weird to see how everything is connected together. In a sense, PIC came and once dominated the embedded electronics world because of PDP-11...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Instrument_CP1600

#retrocomputing #electronics