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  • @xgranade @mcc the original Electronika 60 it was written on was a PDP-11 clone with 16-bit CPU and 8k of RAM. Which isn't all that far off from the power of a Gameboy (8-bit CPU with 8K of RAM, though no floating point, I would assume). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elektronika_60

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  • Wikipedia e l’IA

    @aitech - Rischi e opportunità (sì, ci sono anch'esse)

    https://wp.me/p6hcSh-8Tp

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  • @mcc Presumably a Cold War–era Russian radar station?

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  • I was going to pose the question:

    - What is the simplest piece of computer hardware that can run an enjoyable game of Tetris

    but… it actually might be the Game Boy

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  • @sennoma @NickGates @StevenSavage you don't want to drive a long commute there, but if there's a transit option (Caltrain is great), it's not intolerable to be a pretty good ways out from the job. Train time can be useful/pleasant time, unlike driving during rush hour which is all wasted time and stressful.

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  • @sennoma you'll never own a house at that salary, but you can live OK, as long as you don't mind a bit of a commute (hopefully you can rent and work near a Caltrain stop).

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  • 3D Printering: Liquid-Filled Filament Was Not On Our Bingo Card

    [Prusa] have a number of announcements, and one of the more unusual ones is that liquid printing is coming to the Prusa XL. Specifically, printing in real, heat-resistant silicone (not a silicone-like plastic) is made possible thanks to special filament and a special toolhead. It’s the result of a partnership with Filament2, and the same process could even be used to print with other liquids, including chocolate.
    Look closely and you will see the detail in the nozzle, which mixes the two-part formula.
    The process is as unusual as it is clever. The silicone is a two-part formula, but there is no reservoir or pump involved. Instead, there are two filaments, A and B. When mixed, they cure into solid silicone.

    What is unusual is that these filaments have a liquid core. Upon entering the extruder, the outer sheath is cut away, and the inner liquid feeds into a mini mixing nozzle. The nozzle deposits the mixed silicone onto the print, where it cures. It isn’t clear from the demo where the stripped outer casing goes, but we assume it must get discarded or is possibly stowed temporarily until it can be removed.

    Liquid-core filament is something we certainly didn’t have on our bingo card, but we can see how it makes sense. A filament format means the material can be handled, fed, and deposited precisely, benefiting from all of the usual things a filament-based printer is good at doing.

    What’s also interesting is that the liquid toolhead can co-exist with other toolheads on the XL; in fact, they make a point of being able to extrude silicone as well as the usual thermoplastics into the same print. That’s certainly a trick no one else has been able to pull off.

    There are a few other announcements as well, including a larger version of their Core One printer and an open-source smart spool standard called OpenPrintTag, a reusable and reprogrammable NFC insert for filament spools that gives you all of the convenience of automating color and material reading without the subtle (or overt) vendor lock-in that comes with it.

    Watch a demo of the new silicone extruder in the video, embedded just under the page break. The new toolhead will be 1,009 USD when it launches in early 2026.

    youtube.com/embed/Ugew7tXiU38?…

    hackaday.com/2025/11/02/3d-pri…

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  • Today being (day of the dead) diá de los Muertos, what’s the best way to mourn? 💀

    ICYMI All Saints' Day and All Souls' Day:
    All Saints’ Day is celebrated on November 1st to remember all saints and martyrs during Christian history. It is followed by All Souls’ Day on November 2nd to commemorate those who have passed within the faith.
    Reference https://www.xavier.edu/jesuitresource/resources-by-theme/all-saints-all-souls#:~:text=All%20Saints'%20Day%20is%20celebrated,have%20passed%20within%20the%20faith.

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    Kind of wild #cooklang has its own federation setup now. 😅Sure it uses #rss. No fancy #ActivityPub. Still, fascinating to see something like this. More of the web trying to index itself as primary search engines lose all their meaning to what search means. 🫠https://cooklang.org/blog/13-the-dishwasher-salmon-problem/
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    In today's video I chat about using Newsboat RSS reader with the Lynx command-line browser. Bread on Penguins' channel: https://www.youtube.com/@BreadOnPenguins A minimalist workflow: My desktop setup is built around i3, and everything I do is handled by simple scripts and terminal tools. There’s no taskbar, no desktop icons, and no visual clutter. My email runs in aerc, my RSS feeds in Newsboat, and my web browsing in Lynx. Everything is fast, predictable, and distraction-free. When I open Newsboat, it immediately loads my RSS subscriptions, a mix of Linux blogs, news sites, and personal journals from friends. It’s not the neatest list in the world (I really should organise it one day), but it gives me exactly what I want, information without noise. Unlike some feed readers that throw everything into one endless list, Newsboat groups feeds cleanly by source. That matters because some sites post dozens of articles a day while others might only update once a month. Separating them lets the quieter voices, personal blogs or smaller projects, actually be seen. Organising information: Newsboat’s tagging system is one of its best features. I’ve got tags for friends, games, news sources, politics, podcasts, and more. One of my favourite feeds is “TheyWorkForYou”, an RSS service that updates whenever UK MPs speak in Parliament. I highly recommend it for anyone in the UK. It’s an easy way to see what your representatives are actually doing, and I think it’s good for democracy to stay informed like that. Some of my other feeds include Boiling Steam, GamingOnLinux, FreeGamer, and a handful of personal blogs like Ghosty’s and Drew’s. Newsboat makes it easy to jump between them depending on what I’m in the mood for, Linux, games, or just something thoughtful to read with coffee. Why I browse with Lynx: When I want to read a full article from an RSS feed, I usually open it directly in Lynx. It’s a text-based browser that runs right inside the terminal. For most of the content I care about, blogs, reviews, essays, or news articles, Lynx is perfect. It loads instantly, displays cleanly, and keeps me focused on the text instead of ads, autoplay videos, or pop-ups. Sure, modern websites are built like web apps now, but that’s exactly why Lynx is such a breath of fresh air. It strips the web back to what it was meant to be: information, text, and ideas. For sites that really need a full browser (say, something JavaScript-heavy), I’ve got Firefox set as an alternative, but honestly, that’s rare these days. I experimented with Dillo too, another lightweight option, but Lynx fits more naturally into Newsboat. I can just press a key to open any article right where I am, no switching windows or leaving the terminal. Page Up, Page Down, and I’m reading. It’s fast, simple, and reliable. The beauty of plain text: All of this ties into what I’ve been loving about working in the terminal again: everything is plain text. Config files, notes, RSS lists, scripts, it’s all just text. That makes it transparent, portable, and easy to automate. For example, Newsboat’s feeds are stored in a single plain text file. If I want to back them up or edit them, I just open the file in Vim. If I want to tweak the configuration, it’s one small text file with a couple of commented-out lines for the browsers I’ve tried. That’s also the philosophy behind how I manage my dotfiles and scripts. I used to use GNU Stow for symlinks, but I’ve replaced it with a few simple bash scripts of my own. Same with address books, why use a complex app when a CSV or tab-separated file does the job perfectly? The more I build my own little tools, the more I enjoy the workflow. It’s like rediscovering the old Unix philosophy: simple tools that do one job well. Where it’s all going: I’ve been spending more time writing lately, both on my blog and in text posts across platforms like the Fediverse and PeerTube. You can find everything at chriswales.wales, which links to all my current projects, podcasts, and social channels. If you’re curious about minimalist computing, or want to see what life looks like when you move away from 'apps' and back into 'tools', I’ll be writing more about this approach, from plain-text note-taking to terminal calendars and to-do lists. And if you’re just starting to tinker with RSS, I can’t recommend Newsboat enough. Pair it with Lynx, and you’ve got a distraction-free reading environment that’s faster, cleaner, and infinitely more satisfying than the modern web.
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    @pfefferle Yes, I have seen the same bug. Changing from Article to Note and back doesn't work as expected
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    Fosstodon, I summon thee!I've set up Miniflux, and I need some good, reliable RSS feeds for FOSS news, technology in general, cybersecurity and gaming.And I don't want feeds that puke out a hundred posts a day, just to put SOMETHING out there. A single, meaningful and entertainig post a day or even every couple of days is completly acceptable, and even preferred.@mike can you recommend something good?#rss #news #feeds #fosstodon #help #foss #opensource #technology #gaming #cybersecurity