I've got a ZX81 - not my original one, but one about a year older, as a warranty repair; but I'll claim 1981 for that.
I've also got a Microwriter AgendA from 1989; so a solid bracketing on the 1980s I think :-)
What's the oldest computer you have in your home right now?
It has to work - or at least, was working last time you checked :-)
A few design flaws /tradeoffs with the uconsole.
I found the heat management lacking, a giant glob of putty and the back panel does not make an efficient heatsink.
The batteries are not easily accessible for a swap.
The device is quite weighty.
Metal cases and internal antennas don’t mix well.
I fixed it.
"Where on the spectrum are you?"
"380-750 nm"
while this does not answer the question, it fully answers the question
Looks like we've got a new winner on Wikipedia's list of longest-lived hoaxes! 21.15 years, added in 2005 and removed two weeks ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_hoaxes_on_Wikipedia#Hoax_articles_extant_for_15+_years
Just found a great interview with one of music's understated greats, Weird Al Yankovic ... it's interesting, he's such a positive artist :-)
Free sci fi sounds like bait; but this list shows how authors test bold ideas without risk. You get raw experiments in ethics and tech for zero cost. That is rare. Worth a quick scan before it vanishes https://inkican.com/smashwords-summer-scifi-sale-free-stories/ #scifi #summerreading #bookstagram #readmorebooks
If you have not seen this video from #kitboga, I beg you not to eat or drink while watching it. It nearly killed half my family at the dinner table. We were laughing so hard we were crying and occasionally spitting out bits of food.
He calls a scam number where an AI bot answers. Then he proceeds to jailbreak it with some pretty tame stuff. It goes right off the rails and quickly gets funny. If you have kids, it’s safe. They will probably wet their pants laughing at the bot.
Good night it's time for a bedtime story here
“Google’s power consumption rose by 7 TWh between 2023 and 2024. That was bad. But it rose by a whopping 12 TWh between 2024 and 2025, almost double last year’s increase. Google’s power consumption isn’t just growing – the rate at which it is growing is growing. We have a word for this: exponential growth.
Every time I look at this chart I have to go and double check every single Google number, because it just looks so ridiculous
The power grids that Google’s data centres are plugged into have to increase generation to match this new demand – and that includes rising use of coal and gas, and as a consequence, worse climate disasters like deadly heatwaves. Google’s consumption is rising way faster than the grids are being cleaned up with renewables, and that means their emissions number is going up fast, too. It’s the steepest rise on record:”
https://ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/googles-exponential-path-to-climate-wrecking-digital-bloat/
Beating the heatwave with fun!
It is 2026. I have been using Linux as a desktop since the late 1990s. My machine still won't reliably sleep, and won't reliably awaken from sleep.
It is the Year of the Linux Desktop. Again.
Last weekend, I went looking for this structure. It's a replica of a section of the 'Sweet Track' - a Neolithic walkway in the Avalon Marshes. The original was 2 km long, and built in the spring of 3806 BCE. It's named after the peat cutter who first discovered it, in 1970.
It's taken a month, several hundred dollars and multiple parcel deliveries ... but I finally got my two 20cm USB-C-to-C power cables to fit in my lora mesh radio box outside.
I mean, I got distracted and bought a lot of other stuff on the way, and misclicked a few times. And got a couple of refunds on stuff that wasn't up to spec. What a ride. AliExpress is a site to be very careful with :-) Check, double check, recheck your orders. But ultimately, good value was had!
I'd almost forgotten why I wanted to jailbreak my Kindle device, until I was able to switch the document font in KOReader to something I'd chosen myself ...
Very polite of KindleOS to decide to delete nearly all my books on there during the upgrade process, apparently that might be a metadata thing; but /shrug they're all in Calibre anyway so it didn't take long to replace them all.
This is scary ... no matter whether I look this as a networking, web person, or a privacy/computer security person this is scary.
The damage to citizens and companies from this kind of exposure is beyond measure.
Trust in government is hard to establish. This will erase it. This turns maga fantasies about dark government into real concerns.
"‘It’s dangerous and it’s going to erode trust’: redesign of US government websites stokes surveillance fears"
@paul_ipv6 @rsalz @darkuncle @encthenet
Please read this before treating djb with any seriousness. https://keymaterial.net/2025/11/27/ml-kem-mythbusting/
Teaching Kids Forth - Anna Liberty:
https://gracefulliberty.com/articles/teaching-kids-forth/