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I should freshen up on my golang language skills

https://go.dev/doc/tutorial/getting-started

#code #golang #programming #ModernComputing #portable #Markdown

The screencap shows a screenshot of a tutorial on how to write a "Hello, World" program in Go. The tutorial is displayed on a dark background with white text. At the top, there is a status bar showing the time as 11:13, Wi-Fi signal, full battery at 90%, and a notification icon. The tutorial instructs the user to use the command $ go mod init example/hello to create a new Go module. It then guides the user to create a file named hello.go in a text editor and paste the following code into it:

package main

import "fmt"

func main() {
fmt.Println("Hello, World")
}

The tutorial explains that this code declares a main package, which is a way to group functions, and it's made up of all the files in the same directory. The URL at the bottom of the screenshot is go.dev/doc/tutorial/, indicating the source of the tutorial.

Ovis2-8B

🌱 Energy used: 0.238 Wh

🚀 Behold, the pinnacle of modern computing: a #CPU that ditches the boring program counter for a Linear Feedback Shift Register! 🤖 Why settle for stability when you can have chaos? Meanwhile, GitHub's AI is writing more sensible code while this contraption redefines "creative." 😂
https://github.com/howerj/lfsr-vhdl #moderncomputing #chaos #innovation #GitHubAI #creativecode #HackerNews #ngated

“Rachel Halton still doesn’t know who made the decision, in October 2022, to summarily decommission the $160,000 #JacquardLoom that had been a cornerstone of #RMIT’s renowned #weaving and #textile #design courses for 20 years.

Nearly 3 metres high and weighing more than half a tonne, the loom was an intricate machine of polished wood, steel, compressed air and #mechatronics: simultaneously a grand monument to the golden age of the #TextileIndustry and a modern #tool for weaving strands of #yarn into intricate #fabrics. Halton knew she couldn’t let it end up in landfill.”

“The loom was the only one of its kind in the southern hemisphere, and one of only a handful in the world, bought for the university’s #Brunswick campus in the early 2000s, soon after Halton started teaching there. It “elevated what you could do as an artist”, she says.

Students enrolled just to have access to it. International artists visited especially to weave on it. It became integral to Halton’s creative practice.”

“Watt has “a very special affinity” with the loom. It isn’t just the time she spent working on it at RMIT, or that it sat in her home for months after it was rescued. She’s also been using her coding skills – self-taught – to update its electronics. It’s as though technology is lapping back on itself, given that #Jacquard #PunchCards inspired the basis of #ModernComputing.”

This is why Australia can’t compute.

#RachelHalton / #Tech / #programmIng / #BuildingStuff <https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/may/25/a-new-room-for-a-doomed-loom-and-the-battle-to-save-australias-slowly-dying-crafts>

“Nearly 3 metres high and weighing more than half a tonne, the loom was an intricate machine of polished wood, steel, compressed air and #mechatronics: simultaneously a grand monument to the golden age of the Textile Industry and a modern tool for weaving strands of yarn into intricate fabrics”

A Jacquard loom.

source https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/may/25/a-new-room-for-a-doomed-loom-and-the-battle-to-save-australias-slowly-dying-crafts

🥱 Oh, the grand saga of groundbreaking tech: cloning a VM in 2 seconds! ⏳ Too bad the real challenge is surviving the Byzantine quest of enabling #JavaScript and #cookies. 🍪🔧 Truly, a masterpiece of modern computing—if only we could “clone” some patience! 🙄
https://codesandbox.io/blog/how-we-clone-a-running-vm-in-2-seconds #cloningVM #techSaga #modernComputing #patience #HackerNews #ngated

In the mystical quest to find the Holy Grail of laptop sizes, our brave author reminisces about ancient relics like the Lenovo IdeaPad 💼, as if size is the *only* thing that matters. 🤔💻 But fear not, the endless pursuit of smaller gadgets will surely solve all modern computing woes, right? 😂
https://gokmengorgen.net/2025/03/17/the-best-size-of-a-laptop/ #laptopdesign #technostalgia #gadgetenthusiast #LenovoIdeaPad #moderncomputing #questforperfection #HackerNews #ngated

🚀🎉 Ah yes, the pinnacle of modern computing: a man page that can't even load without #javascript and #cookies. Because clearly, reading documentation should feel like a trip to a sketchy website 🍪🤖. If only our forebears of UNIX could see us now, reveling in the endless potential of... waiting for a second-rate web page to load. Truly, progress at its finest. 💾🙌
https://linux.die.net/man/6/fortune #moderncomputing #manpages #unixlegacy #webdevelopment #HackerNews #ngated

@rolandlo @gnome @kde

Wikipedia page of KDE

#bash #sh #zsh #ksh #csh #tsh #GNOME #KDE #ModernComputing #Linux #History #Xorg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KDE?wprov=sfla1

@rolandlo @gnome @kde

The beauty of it all is whether you 💕 KDE or ❤️ GNOME you know that both are needed so that everyone gets something they like as a professional desktop environment

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME?wprov=sfla1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KDE?wprov=sfla1

#bash #sh #zsh #ksh #csh #tsh #GNOME #KDE #ModernComputing #Linux #History #Xorg

I've moved my Amiga 1000 to the spillway at the edge of my desk, behind my primary dev laptop. It allows me to put my work Macbook on the desk, alongside whatever #FujiNet platform I need to do hardware work on. #retrocomputing #moderncomputing #livingtogether

State of #moderncomputing :
I had to upgrade my computer because browsing the web was too slow.
Ahhh yes, the #bloat of #javascript slowing the web to a crawl and creating mountains of #ewaste
Truly a shining example of efficiency in #bigtech and #capitalism

What was I even doing here? #ModernComputing

A load of emoji typed before ssh. The command was not found.

What is most vile is that I could run all the AI Labs #LispMs on my desktop, with decent performance while barely simulate a x86-64 chip. And one has to recall .. the #LispMs provide literally everything that a normal GNU/Linux does, plus some ... #ModernComputing

I can run eight #LispM at the same time, all usable and responsive. I cannot run a recent GNU/Linux system on the same under simulation... #ModernComputing

I never thought I'd see myself buying disk boxes for 2.5" ssd's but now I've started using them like floppies 💾 it's sort of like I've gone full circle.

#modernComputing Vs #retroComputing

An IcyBox disk box containing 2 2.5 inch SATA SSD's.

Underneath it is another inserted into a Hyperdeck ready for use

A visit to the one-man computer factory

Computers used to be made out of wood, endlessly customizable, and totally personal. Now they’re all metal rectangles. Can one guy in his LA house help bring the old way back?

https://www.theverge.com/23841276/mythic-computer-keegan-mcnamara-pc-builder

#retrocomputing #moderncomputing