At #MuseumOfComputingSwindon, I was especially taken by this Amstrad PC1640, a (mostly) IBM-compatible machine running GEM 2.0, the same Digital Research GUI as the Atari ST.

GEM was a cross-platform, highly compatible GUI framework. Apple initiated lawsuits against Digital Research intended to kill the platform, despite Apple having stolen the concept of the WIMP GUI lock, stock and barrel from Xerox PARC. Between this and Microsoft undercutting DRI with their shitty clone of CP/M named MS-DOS, Digital Research's days were numbered.

I wish we lived in a computing universe where good people like Gary Kildall had won out against the psychopathic creeps Bill Gates and Steve Jobs.

This machine is a glimpse of that other universe.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amstrad_PC1512

Microsoft's official Xbox Instagram account has been hacked to promote a fake Xbox token 😬

TFW you have a tracking reference for your #Switch2 already 😅

#NintendoSwitch2

Ik lig dubbel….#asterixandobelix #asterix #obelix

“Here we are once again confronted by a central truth about the people who lead these anti-trans campaigns in sports, which is that although they are first and foremost hateful bigots, they are also huge fucking losers.”

https://defector.com/its-a-great-time-to-be-a-pathetic-loser

Happy 50th birthday, cron! Thanks for remembering all of our jobs for us 😎

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron

#cron #unix #linux #birthday

This is a MessagePad 100, the device that Apple shipped too early, and revisited with iPhone a decade later.

It was widely ridiculed because you wrote on it with handwriting, but it didn't interpret what you wanted from what you wrote and how you wrote it, you had to teach yourself how to write what it wanted to interpret.

Looking at AI today... Ah, you can write the punchline for yourselves.

Laws about bank robbery also make bank robbery unworkable as a legal business.

@asgrim it was me hearing it for the first time recently that prompted the poll 🤣

What's worse?

#AWS #JWT

Making up stuff and telling it as the truth is not called "hallucinating".
It's called "lying"!

#AI

Time for a new variation on a classic.

Honestly, the weird uncle vibes in this photo are really disconcerting

https://openai.com/sam-and-jony/

Reposting with alt.

Because I’m quite dim, I didn’t realise exactly what they had done and how extremely clever these women had been. #TransLivesMattter 👏👏👏

The government (and everyone else, frankly) need to stay out of trans people’s underwear. 🏳️‍⚧️

*edit to add the link to the Pink News article: https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/05/17/scottish-parliament-holyrood-trans-protest-supreme-court/

*edit 2 to add a link to an interview with Sugar, who organised and took part in the protest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbA0q0eqYnM (thanks to @anni for sharing this)

“If you think your workers and colleagues are too stupid to recognize good tools that will help them do their jobs better, then... you are a bad leader and should step down. Because you've created a broken culture.”

“If, as they say, AI tools are going to get better quickly, then let them do so and trust that smart people will pick them up and use them.” From @anildash
https://www.anildash.com/2025/04/19/ai-first-is-the-new-return-to-office/

oh shit

Lightspeed C.

LIGHTSPEED.

C.

Why has it taken me 39 years

🔗 It's never just that simple
https://www.neverjust.net