I think the interactive BOM of the #Z80 NOP Tester looks really cool. Don't you agree?
https://albertogonzalez.codeberg.page/Z80_NOP_Tester/docs/ibom.html

"Experts have warned collecting sensitive personal information, such as government-issued IDs, is a "disaster waiting to happen" and sites adopting age verification would be a prime target for hackers."

#UKPol #Privacy #Discord #AgeVerification #OSA

https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/online-security/discord-users-suffers-the-first-high-profile-age-verification-hack-and-its-unlikely-to-be-the-last

@MutantFuturist it looks great!

@MutantFuturist what monitor model is it?

@Sh41 @retrovulcano A ese no jugué. Tendré que darle una oportunidad.

@retrovulcano Yo lo jugué en #MSX y me encantaba.

We fancy our chances as David! 😉

"For policymakers in Brussels and beyond, Euclyd is not just a startup unveiling ambitious silicon. It is a potential beachhead in the wider war of technological sovereignty. ... What unfolds here is not only a struggle between a brave startup and a trillion-dollar giant, but between Europe and America over who gets to define the hardware fabric of the next stage of AI evolution."

https://elnion.com/2025/09/27/david-vs-goliath-in-silicon-euclyds-craftwerk-confronts-nvidia-and-americas-ai-grip/

As I remember London

When I moved to the UK at the tail end of the last millennium, I wasn’t in a good place. I was hired by a US company to work in their German office, and they sent me over to the US to work on their product. I lived in a hotel for a few months, coming home to an empty, cleaned room every day. It was very “Lost in Translation”. The German part of the company went bankrupt during this trip, so I was asked to move to the UK to stay with them. Anglophile as I was, I took this opportunity and had a few trips in between the US and the UK to find a place to live.

My partner of five years also said they’d love to make that move with me and start a new chapter. That didn’t work out – I was dumped in a call on a pay phone in a hotel in San Francisco, went out and got really drunk. When the US stint ended, I went to London, checked into my new flat and waited for my stuff from Germany to arrive.

And then I plunged into London. I went clubbing a lot. I spent the day in the office and went to the pub with my colleagues in the evening. I enjoyed and fell in love with the place. I met people from all over the world, I dated people of many races and backgrounds. I had food I never had, I heard music and saw bands I’ve never heard of or even knew existed. I’ve been to Notting Hill Carnival, immersing myself in this wonderful, wild and colourful scene.

London opened my mind, it made me find the great in lots of cultures and seeing them bringing that to the UK lifestyle was at times a hilarious clash, but wonderful to witness. Very early on I realised one thing: being British is not the same as being a pasty white uptight person, Brits come in all shades and sizes. The most British person I know with a clipped accent, fierce devotion to the Royals and a fetish for a good cuppa is a gay friend who is dark Indian.

Working in Soho I got to know a lot of LGBTQ folk and a few of my colleagues came out or even changed gender during the time I worked there. And they got support from everyone, it wasn’t a problem or a scary thing. London was inviting, colourful, open and amazing. That’s the London I miss.

It’s a big city. In my 16 years tenure I had one laptop, a mobile and a bike stolen. I got into some fights and had three attempted muggings. All by white young dudes, by the way. I lived next to a huge mosque and the area two streets down was hard-core Jewish. My butcher was Algerian and when I ordered in French-ish, I got better prices. It worked.

Then UKIP came around and told people that everything is terrible and its all the forrins’ fault. And disappointed and disgruntled people believed that nonsense. I left the country after Brexit and moved to Berlin, which is great but does feel like a Tesco value version of the London I encountered.

So if people claim that they remember a safer, cleaner and racially homogenous London they either never lived there, or didn’t immerse themselves in it. Or completely talk out of their arse following an utterly different agenda, one that I find despicable, regressive and governed by fear and hate and not inclusion and inspiration.

New prototype: pull the string and travel in time. Time String?

Here’s a first prototype of a string-based sampler. You record a sound and then pull a string to travel through that sound in time, stopping wherever you want.

Ya está disponible el nuevo juego de Oscar Llamas Arcos (hicks) para ZX Spectrum: "Hammer Knight".

Utilizando diferentes herramientas, y con la ayuda de Greenweb Sevilla en música y efectos y otros amigos, ha creado una videoaventura de plataformas muy bien ambientada y colorista.

#ZXSpectrum #Homebrew #videojuegos #retrogaming #Novedades

https://hicksretro.itch.io/hammer-knight-zx-spectrum

@peruho lástima no poder estar por allí 😔

Tom Dalby has made a cool & useful storage box for the Spectrum 16/48k model.

More details here:
https://makerworld.com/en/models/1806649-sinclair-zx-spectrum-storage-case-box

#zxspectrum #retrogaming

Is anyone who rents in the #uk familiar with a company called Canopy? My landlord wishes me to sign up for the platform but looking at the privacy policy I'm slightly uncomfortable. Presumably they need this to verify my identity, but I've been with the same landlord for several years so I'm not sure what changed?

Boosts appreciated.

Looking forward to tomorrow's Games Day 😁
#Dundee #Gamedev
https://www.sgda.co.uk/gamesday

@dimillian it looks like Raspberry Pi uses Threads instead of Mastodon 🥺

Choosing a Chip Programmer for Vintage Computer Repair in 2025

https://makertube.net/w/gjdDRbhkLuZ9hJjELScVNa

@snap2grid I worked with him in Outplay. I’m now at Ninja Kiwi.

@snap2grid I worked with Tom some time ago. I hope you had a good time.

Announcing Clive, a new font inspired by Clive Sinclair's ZX81.

https://drj11.itch.io/clive-font

(please boost)

#Font #ZX81 #semigraphics

Does anyone know of a UK send-cut-send style service for fabricating an aluminium bracket? ie I send the CAD file, they send the part.

Please retoot for reach!