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  At least they got my name right... so sick of it...

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  @PaulaMaddox@mastodon.social @monospace@floss.social Whow, that looks great!

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  NextBSD and the Gershwin desktop running in a UTM virtual machine on Apple Silicon/Arm64! x86-64 and Raspberry Pi 500+ (and possibly other Raspberry Pi 5, currently being tested) systems are also supported. https://www.nextbsd.org/ #NextBSD #FreeBSD #unix #macOS

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  @fm_volker@mastodon.social That's definitely an interesting discussion for an (advanced?) OS class. However, I'm afraid that would be a bit too demanding of my second semester students...

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  I would usually not post news about royalty as I couldn’t care less. However, in the two years I lived in Norway, I had the impression that King Harald was loved by the Norwegians and was one of the few down to earth royals. I remember an old photo showing him riding the Oslo subway with ski. All the trouble with the son (from a previous marriage) of his daughter-in-law seemed to be a strange disruption there. King Harald passed away this morning at the age of 89. RIP. https://www.bbc.com/news...

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  Unternehmer Nikolas Stihl (bekannt durch Motorsägen) fordert die Abschaffung der 35-Stunden-Woche [1]. Sein ererbtes Unternehmen hat ja schon Erfahrung mit kostengünstigen Arbeitskräften: "Ab 1941 stoßen Zwangsarbeitende dazu, darunter Kriegsgefangene. Insgesamt sind es bis 1945 100 Männer und Frauen aus dem westlichen und östlichen Europa, davon etwa die Hälfte aus der Sowjetunion." [2] Wie unsensibel kann mal als Unternehmer noch sein? [1] https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/unterne...

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  I'm investigating the original Berkeley RISC-I CPU out of historical interest and wonder why some instructions use more than one opcode (e.g. LDHI uses 16 opcodes 0x70...0x7F). I can't see why this is necessary – is this an optimization or am I missing something here? Details seems to be provided in Corcoran, G.T., "Using ISPS to Specify the RISC I Architecture and Implementation," Master's Report, UCB (Dec. 1980), but I can't find this online. #risc #berkeley #ucb #c...

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  There's a new PDP11 extension card for Apple II computers based on the J-11 and a Tang Nano FPGA board. Whow. https://github.com/ushicow/A2PDP11 https://note.com/ushicow/m/ma9f73d2251bc #retrocomputing #appleII #pdp11

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  "Unix is not in a museum. Unix is in the room." See Vivian Voss' "Where Unix Runs Today": https://vivianvoss.net/blog/where-unix-runs-today #unix #macos #osx #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd

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  Admission requirements for the five-year integrated Computer Engineering degree programme at NTNU in Trondheim are being lowered for the fourth year in a row. Apparently, the uncertainty due to the AI craze is dampening young people's interest in the CE programme. #computerscience #CS #computerengineering #CE #NTNU #Trondheim https://www.universitetsavisa.no/arbeidslivsrelevans-fakultet-for-informasjonsteknologi-og-elektroteknikk-institutt-for-datateknologi-og-informatikk/poenggrensen-pa-d...

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  Ein wichtiger Artikel zur Verfassungsfeindlichkeit des bayrischen „KI-Verbot-Verbots“ und zur allgemeinen Widersprüchlichkeit zwischen der Gesetzgebung und den Äußerungen des Staatsministers für Wissenschaft und Kunst. Rücktritt wann? Ach ja, ist bei verfassungsfeindlicher Gesetzgebung ja leider aus der Mode gekommen... https://verfassungsblog.de/ai-way-or-the-highway/ #bayern #kiverbot #art5gg #lehrfreiheit #universitaten

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  Lange nicht mehr hier gewesen… das ist neu 😀.

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  A blimp over the river Ruhr today 😀.

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  GUUG Summer Workshop at the Linux Hotel in Essen. #unix #linuxhotel #guug #EssenRuhr https://guug.de/guug-sommerworkshop-vom-24-07-26-07-2026-in-essen/

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  Books! https://www.medienwissenschaft.uni-bonn.de/nachrichten-aktuelles-aus-der-abteilung/sammelband-commodore-64-past-present-and-future-of-a-homecomputer-erschienen #retrocomputing #c64 #unibonn

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  @DosFox@tech.lgbt Many happy returns!

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  Farewell, Linux! "Linux is not one of those anti-AI projects, and if somebody has issues with that, they can do the open-source thing and fork it. Or just walk away." ...on my way, good riddance! Torvalds in an email to LKML on Tuesday: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-media/CAHk-=wi4zC+Ze8e+p3tMv8TtG_80KzsZ1syL9anBtmEh5Z40vg@mail.gmail.com/

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  Impressions from the retro computing lab at Uni Würzburg… #retrocomputing #uniwuerzburg

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  Kronach von oben 🙂.

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  Dann hoffen wir mal auf ein vernichtendes Urteil des BVerfG gegen das bayerische Polizeiaufgabengesetz – danach sollte Herrmann zurücktreten! https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/innenpolitik/bayern-polizei-aufgabengesetz-100.html

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  The beautiful wooden keyboard of the Kawai MR25. There’s amazingly little dirt considering this piano was used on stage for decades… One of the five non working keys is fixed (simple adjustment, D#1), the others are next to each other (F1 to G#1) and are scanned using the same output pin of a 74LS138 3-to-8 decoder. So I guess either the output has failed or there’s a bad solder joint or cable. I need to bring a scope from the office tomorrow… #Kawai #e-piano #electronics #music

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  Computering! On RISC-V! 😀 (from the SpacemiT K3 technical overview) If geekbench results can be trusted, the 16-core K3 has twice the single-core score compared to our 64-core Milk-V Pioneer and about the same multi-core score. Radxa's O6N (12-core Aarch64) still has almost double the single/multicore score of the K3, so RISC-V still has to catch up quite a bit, but the K3 at least doesn't feel slow. https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/18559008 https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/14...

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  The farce is becoming increasingly absurd... https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/jul/05/folarin-balogun-red-card-suspension-lifted-usmnt-belgium-world-cup

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  I upgraded a MacPro 2013 from 6 cores to a 12 core Xeon today. The old CPU had this strange defect (the reddish spot) on its heatspreader which had a similar looking counterpart on the copper heatsink. I never saw something like this before, does anyone know what this is? The CPU worked without problems. #intel #xeon #macpro #apple #defect

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  Got milk? This one’s from Jupiter, a RVA23-compliant RISC-V system!

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  Does anyone have schematics or the service manual for a Kawai MR270 e-piano (built in the 1990s)? The user manual is easy to find, but any other information seems to be hard to come by. #music #piano #epiano #schematics #electronics

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  Der Bundestrainer ist zurückgetreten. Der nächste Rücktritt sollte der des Bundeskanzlers sein.

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  If you have a few hours to waste and like compilers and weird - PowerPC - assembly, try the 254 lessons of Decomp Academy! https://decomp-academy.dev/ #assembly #compiler #PPC #PowerPC #ReverseEngineering #retrocomputing #decompilation

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  @bkastl@mastodon.social Vermessungscomputer in den 60ern waren noch "Made in Germany" wie die Zuse Z25: https://horst-zuse.hier-im-netz.de/z25.html "1967 wurde die Z25 mit einem Softwarepaket zur Flurbereinigung und Stadtvermessung angeboten." Bleibt zu klären, ob diese Software von Zuse im Sourcecode geliefert wurde...

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  @pezmico@mastodon.nz With a million Starlink satellites in orbit, the muskrat will probably also try to block out the Sun for us...