For today in #DOSWEEK, I think I'm finished struggling with hardware and it's time to play. I spent a little time (OK, pretty much all of it) tinkering with:
Jeff Vavasour's TRS-80 EMULATOR: It's cool! It Emulates a CoCo in DOS! (And does it well, but it's clunky and would be tough to use for a long time, so I'd have to recommend Mame or VCC of you want to do some serious COCO emulating. But still, Emulating a COCO in DOS is just weird enough to make me burn up half a day trying. I almost won my first Color Baseball game (without a joystick), but they sent out the power hitters to take me down.
I traveled WAY back in time for a trip down IRC lane using mTCP's ircJr program. I was surprised to find a decent number of users, but there wasn't any of the old action going on I was hoping be able to take over a channel after a netsplit and permaban their eggdrop bot, but it was just some folks arguing about linux. Maybe one evening a few of us could meet up in an IRC channel. Is that ever something that happens?
Spent some time using Gopherus to browse the gopher hole. Pretty fun...it's a long way from the old days, but it reminded me how "weird" the internet used to me, in a good way. Many times, Id start doing something productive, like homework, but quickly wind up buried in some crusty lair of dragons and horror stories. Today, I just read some articles on a Hacker News gopher mirror and called it a day.
So I'm calling it a night...there will be more DOS tomorrow!!!
After receiving an Al generated email, the programming legend (known for his work on Go, Plan 9, UNIX, & UTF-8) says, "F**k you people. Raping the planet."
Torvalds on Vizio Ruling: Software Freedom Conservancy Looks Like "a Bunch of Incompetent Aholes"
Regarding a recent ruling, in SFC v. Vizio, Karen Sandler (SFC Director, former GNOME Director), responds to the Linux creator by saying "maybe you didn't read".
Microsoft's Goal: Replace "Every Line of C" with Rust by 2030?
A Microsoft rep made the statement, saying the company would use Al to hit a target of "1 engineer, 1 month, 1 million lines of code". Then quickly went into damage control.
Ads are filling the entirety of the Web -- websites, podcasts, YouTube videos, etc. -- at an increasing rate. Prices for those ad placements are plummeting. Consumers are desperate to use ad-blockers to make the web palatable. Google (and others) are desperate to break and block ad-blockers. All of which results in... more ads and lower pay for creators.
It's a fascinatingly annoying cycle. And there's only one viable way out of it.
After 20 years together (18 years married), I was finally able to get my lovely wife to watch Die Hard. She never had any interest because of how violent it was, but for whatever reason she was open to it this Christmas. I’m happy to report that she loved it! Yippee-ki-yay everyone. I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas, and have a happy New Year.
If you've done 6 impossible things this week, why not round it off with a trip onboard "thE grAvY trAIn" TONIGHT at 21:00 UK! (1pm Pacific/4pm Eastern)
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