Paradroyd @paradroyd@mastodon.sdf.org
Joined Oct 2018
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On the web, you can do other stuff while reading an article. On a BBS, get distracted and it will kick your ass off!
Big plumage..small footprint.
Ghost Chaser on the C64.
My favorite Halloween-ish platformer on this machine.
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#Retrocomputing nerds, what's your oldest computer thing that has survived over the years with you? And do you still use it? Does it still work?
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RSS and ATOM AREN'T BAD AND PEOPLE PLEASE STOP RIPPING THEM OUT OF EVERYTHING FFS
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You can manually disable outdated TLS versions in your web browser:
– Firefox 
: Go to "about:config" and set "security.tls.version.min" to 3 (TLS 1.2)
– Chrome/Chromium 
: See our short guide: https://infosec-handbook.eu/terminal-tips/#chromium
#tls #https #tls10 #tls11 #chrome #chromium #firefox #mozilla #google #infosec #security #cybersecurity
True..and I am OK with that.
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Huge Star Trek fan here, but I got to say: The Orville is better than all the recent Star Trek franchises I've seen.
You can roast me now.
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Brian Krebs is right. The supply chain of computer parts should be considered insecure. The best we can do is monitor and do defence in depth.
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So, it is possible that black holes have soft hair. :-) An article on Stephen Hawking's final scientific paper.
#StephenHawking #HawkingRadiation #BlackHoles #Entropy #NoHairTheorem #Physics
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Dennis Kuschel built a minicomputer with a homebrew TTL CPU - it's an 8 bit CPU with 16 bit address space, but it runs a virtual 16 bit CPU which can run Contiki, a multitasking OS with TCP/IP stack and C compiler. The machine even serves its own website:
http://www.mycpu.eu/
Via radicalbrad on the 6502 forums. #retrocomputing
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We are getting closer to the robot apocalypse. :-) Boston Dynamics' Atlas Robot can now jump over barriers and leap up stairs.
It turns out that the Kirby games not working on the SD2SNES is a known incompatibility.
https://sd2snes.de/blog/compatibility
That is a bit disappointing, but in the scheme of things, not that big a deal. A LOT of stuff works perfectly.
At first I thought that the SD2SNES might be over-hyped. It seemed like a significant amount of stuff wasn't working. But it turns out, when you actually read the docs, that you need to get and install the DSP ROMs to make it fully work. Once I did that, it loaded and ran almost everything. For some reason I haven't been able to get the Kirby stuff to run, but it could just be a couple of bad ROM files.
And now..I am going to head downstairs and give the SD2SNES a spin.
Hmm... don't think I did that post quite right...
BBSing with my Cybikos: Show more
New arrival.
Of course I had to add a command line tool so that I can access Mastodon from the retro computers.
This is basically Rainbow Stream for Mastodon.
Going through some old stuff today...
On the web, you can do other stuff while reading an article. On a BBS, get distracted and it will kick your ass off!
Joined Oct 2018
