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@SecureOwl@infosec.exchange
Retro enough?
With a Stupid PET Tricks device, the PET gets an IP address from my router.
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Colin Haynes
@ColinHaynes@mastodon.scot
mastodon 4.7.2Englishman very happily living in #Scotland. #Nerd. Fixer-upper of old computers #Commodore PET, #modelrailways #3DPrinting #Prusa always printing. Norwich City fan #NCFC.
Definitely #linux but currently troubled but the seemingly pro-AI stance taken by Debian
Politics - #Centerist leaning left - #SNP member. #Independence one day soon.
Despise the waste that crypto-currencies bring.
Don't talk to me about NFTs.
Actively anti-AI. The only winning move is not to play.
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Joined December 01, 2022
https://colinjhaynes.wordpress.com/:
Nerd blog
Proud of my step-son's work (the red and black flag) which is hanging in Perth today. His words:
"My contribution to the 45th anniversary of the Crass and The Poison Girls gig in Perth hosted by @boredterminal @jonny.gould . The original gig has become a historical moment, with the anti-fascist punk bands having to break up multiple fights between fans and the national front, who came to cause trouble. This caused the gig to stop and start a number of times."
Here's a link to a website/video showing the recovery of two 45 year old PET games from Supersoft that I had that haven't been archived anywhere up to now.
Apologies for the shoddy camera work on my short videos that are embedded, and thanks to Milasoft for his work on this so others can now play the games.
https://www.commodoregames.net/catacombs.asp
#retrogaming #retrocomputing #adventuregames #commodore #commodorepet #Supersoft #gamearchive
@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social
This was interesting:
"The prosecutor's office also said it was leaving X and would communicate on LinkedIn and Instagram from now on."
Shame about their choice of Linkedin and Instagram but it's a start.
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@agnew_hawk @GossiTheDog
It's like the old days of downloading any old .EXE off the internet cos it looked interesting, only this time it's from Microsoft.
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@davbucci@mastodon.sdf.org @janbeta@chaos.social
And I read all of my 40+ year old tapes too. I wonder if I'll be able to do that with SD cards or external hard disks in 40 years time.
Not that I'm claiming that cheap tapes are great for long term storage, just interesting.
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@janbeta@chaos.social I've got quite a few and I seem to have been lucky in that I've only ever needed to replace the belts. They seem pretty robust devices to me.
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@mattsheffield@mastodon.social well the system of checks and balances seems to have failed in the US so I'm not sure that's possible.
And it's a matter for debate how independent the BBC is from the UK government. It's also funded by households paying a licence fee, not taxes.
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@BenCotterill@mastodon.social @Nickiquote@mstdn.social
I do appreciate gov.uk. Most bits of it work very well.
Verifying my identity to Companies House as an owner or part owner of a company however is a complete bloody nightmare.
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@mattsheffield@mastodon.social
Do you know, with the track record of governments around the world, I'm not entirely sure that they can sustain the quality of facts for us all.
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@mattsheffield@mastodon.social anyway. I've distracted myself.
I'm not sure how a reverse Marshall Plan would be funded without taxation?
My view of the US right now is that it doesn't matter a damn how many checks and balances are written down, if a government wants to ignore them, it will and therefore the US system is incapable of producing anything independent from government interference.
In the UK, the BBC is not by any stretch perfect, least of all the News & Current Affairs but it's the best we have.
Record Store Day list is out.
I'm not sure those Motorhead tapes have ever been lost...
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@_rowdy @keyboards
Thank you. Interesting that it has a buzzer built in too. Bet there aren't many of them about now.
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@wanwizard @adhd_coffee
I was torn between a PET and a TRS-80 back in the day, but luckily enough I won a PET which started off my career in IT infrastructure. I was lucky.
https://colinjhaynes.wordpress.com/2021/05/04/commodore-pet-3016-restoration/
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@cwebber
And yet here they are, creating an open-source tool for artists and taking money from a company that they know has a policy of ripping off artist's work.
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@verbeeld this is UK only but quite fun too. Best on a big screen rather than a phone.
https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom=12.5&lat=56.39085&lon=-3.43645&layers=ESRIWorld&right=191
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@Erased_Citizen@cupoftea.social as someone else who used to live in Norfolk, I'm disappointed but not surprised.
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@Cravo@mastodon.social @mattsheffield@mastodon.social
Agreed. And therefore it depends on which community they ask what answer they get.
It's true (to me) to say that people are entitled to their own opinions but not their own facts. That seems to have slipped away.
I remember when the internet started and how it was full of hope that the sum total of human knowledge would be available to all, and that different peoples and cultures would be able to talk in a way that was never possible before.
We wasted that. I'm sad.
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@mattsheffield@mastodon.social tricky one isn't it. We (UK) used to have newspapers of record but that has fallen by the wayside.
I'm ok with Wikipedia and facts, but that's not news and isn't setup to move as fast as papers/TV.
BBC Verify does a pretty good job at fact checking right now (and I'm happy that it isn't government run).
I'm not sure however that the UK or US governments have been or should be trusted to tell me what are facts. It's inherent in politics that this can't work I don't think.
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@mattsheffield@mastodon.social but not everyone has to pay the licence. Even if they have a television.
Not a tax.
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@JdeBP@mastodonapp.uk I've read the book of On the Beach. I don't read many books more than once and I've read that several times.
Thought provoking and really sad.