DeFrisselle @defrisselle@mastodon.sdf.org

#OpenBSD 6.6 Artwork by Natasha Allegri ​

https://www.openbsd.org/66.html

Wicked. ​

Today's retro computer is the Ural. Back when you sat at the computer instead of the computer sitting on you. Nice clean desktop free of clutter.

Building world...

Long Live Jibo, Our Adorable Robot Companion

Jibo, the adorable robot made by Jibo, Inc., was getting phased out, but that didn’t stop [Guilherme Martins] from using his robot companion for one last hack.

When he found out that the company would be ter… https://hackaday.com/2019/10/17/long-live-jibo-our-adorable-robot-companion/

Original tweet : https://twitter.com/hackaday/status/1184743948532797440

Some pretty dedicated nerdery going on here this evening. Probably should order a pizza at some point. #retrocomputing #c64

Finally, things seem to start moving in the right direction:

Meet @forgefed, an ActivityPub / Federation protocol for networked version control services like GitHub or GitLab.

How the Neutrino’s Tiny Mass Could Help Solve Big Mysteries - https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-the-neutrinos-tiny-mass-could-help-solve-big-mysteries-20191015/

Term running on Amiga in "Interlaced Super HiRes". Looks way better in-person than this picture makes it look.

#retrocomputing #amiga

Ask Slashdot: What Would Computing Look Like Today If the Amiga Had Survived? https://ask.slashdot.org/story/19/09/03/2224200/ask-slashdot-what-would-computing-look-like-today-if-the-amiga-had-survived?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #amiga

AROS, FOSS reimplimentation of Amiga OS 3.1 plus improvements, is making the move from 32 bit to 64 bit
Give the alpha a look, and think about helping out if you have the skills or just evaluating

#Retro #Amiga

https://amigaworld.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=43446&forum=47

#TIL shortwave radio works on #Mars.

Announced today. Sadly the "About" page does not give any information on who is behind this project.

Still, a non-commercial, non-government and truly independent DNS/DoH service entity is definitely what the world needs on the long run: https://libreops.cc/2019/10/14/libredns/

(If you ask yourself why, look up the mozilla-cloudflare DNS/DoH debate for some background)

Looks like Bell Labs is going to throw a big 2-day event celebrating #Unix's 50th anniversary. The author of the post is also the one behind "Faces of Unix", a project that I found out about by @randynose. 👍 #unix50 #belllabs #facesofunix

https://www.bell-labs.com/var/articles/celebrating-50-years-unix/

Prusa Unveils New Mini 3D Printer, Shakes Up The Competition

For the last couple of years, consumer desktop 3D printer choices in the under $1,000 USD range have fallen into two broad categories: everything bellow $500 USD, and the latest Prusa i3. Ther… https://hackaday.com/2019/10/13/prusa-unveils-new-mini-printer-shakes-up-the-competition/

Original tweet : https://twitter.com/hackaday/status/1183383222249558016