Using the mouse-driven graphical user interface of a personal computer to write a document with a WYSIWYG word processor, check new messages with an email client, and create an organization chart with a drawing program. Just an ordinary day at Xerox PARC in 1978. When email spam was apparently already a thing.
The demo features the Alto workstation and the Bravo word processor. You can hear the noise of the hard disk.
archive.org/details/Xerox_Palo…
#retrocomputing #Xerox #XeroxAlto
Bob Taylor, Barbara Baird: Xerox Alto Demonstration - August 1978 : Bob Taylor; Barbara Baird : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Xerox Alto Demo Demonstration, August 1978Document composition and processingMessage communicationGraphical illustrationPresented by Bob Taylor and Barbara...Internet Archive
Gwyn: "We all get hurt, Zero. It's the risk we take for revealing pieces of ourselves to each other, but what you did, trying to protect me, was an act of love, and you should hever feel ashamed for that. If there's any part still listening, protect us again, Zero. Break free from their hold. Reistance is not futile"
From E112
#StarTrek #StarTrekProdigy #StarTrekScenes
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Just published the Online Safety Act pages for my two web applications.
Viking Mind (bookmarks, out of scope):
vikingmind.uk/online-safety-ac…
Pick a Date (polls + votes, in scope):
pickadate.uk/online-safety-act
Pick a Date will probably go through a couple more versions to tighten things up. I've also disabled comments on all my blogs.
Feels like a waste of time, but there's no exemption for small / low risk sites.
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![''Tis the voice of the Lobster: I heard him declare
'You have baked me too brown, I must sugar my hair.'
As a duck with its eyelids, so he with his nose
Trims his belt and his buttons, and turns out his toes.
When the sands are all dry, he is gay as a lark,
And will talk in contemptuous tones of the Shark:
But, when the tide rises and sharks are around,
His voice has a timid and tremulous sound.'
'I passed by his garden, and marked, with one eye,
How the Owl and the Panter were sharing a pie:
The Panther took pie-crust, and gravy, and meat,
While the Old had the dish as its share of the treat.
When the pie was all finished, the Owl, as a boon,
Was kindly permitted to pocket the spoon:
While the Panther received knife and fork with a growl,
And concluded the banquet by [eating the owl.]](https://friendica.rogueproject.org/photo/preview/640/256301 "''Tis the voice of the Lobster: I heard him declare
'You have baked me too brown, I must sugar my hair.'
As a duck with its eyelids, so he with his nose
Trims his belt and his buttons, and turns out his toes.
When the sands are all dry, he is gay as a lark,
And will talk in contemptuous tones of the Shark:
But, when the tide rises and sharks are around,
His voice has a timid and tremulous sound.'
'I passed by his garden, and marked, with one eye,
How the Owl and the Panter were sharing a pie:
The Panther took pie-crust, and gravy, and meat,
While the Old had the dish as its share of the treat.
When the pie was all finished, the Owl, as a boon,
Was kindly permitted to pocket the spoon:
While the Panther received knife and fork with a growl,
And concluded the banquet by [eating the owl.]")
Her cancer diagnosis made motherhood both harder and more sweet
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/17/nx-s1-5327584/cancer-diagnosis-parents-parenting-mothers?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Health @health-npr
When you really want to bust out a PC but instead run one shots and campaigns that your group loves
#DnD #Dndmemes #funny #TTRPG #TTRPGMemes #DungeonsandDragons
The image features a close-up of an animated character with a bald head and a prominent white mustache. The character's expression is one of distress, with blood visibly dripping from his nose and mouth. The background is a clear blue sky with some clouds. At the top of the image, the text "Forever DMs" is displayed, and at the bottom, the text "I am a victim of my own success" is shown. The character's eyes are half-closed, and his mouth is open, revealing his teeth and the blood. The overall tone of the image is humorous, with the text suggesting a relatable situation for those familiar with the context of "DMs" (direct messages) in online communities.
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DevOps Engineer (8 month contract) | FreeBSD Foundation
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DevOps Engineer (8 month contract) | FreeBSD Foundation
The FreeBSD Foundation is looking for an experienced, mid-level DevOps Engineer to work under contract as part of a team delivering a high-profile project commissioned by the Sovereign Tech Agency.FreeBSD Foundation
A nice example of Fibonacci in nature: a curled-up dried leaf.
#photography #nature #math #BlackAndWhite
heise.de/news/GIMP-3-0-Grosses…
GIMP 3.0: Großes Update nach sieben Jahren fertig
GIMP 3.0 bringt nicht-destruktive Filter, bessere HiDPI-Unterstützung und erweiterte Farbräume. Künftig soll es schneller neue Funktionen geben.Malte Kirchner (heise online)
The Covid lockdown began in California five years ago today. Many of us turned to sourdough baking for consolation.
Not surprisingly I’m back at it.
We may have lost our democracy but at least I’ve gained the perfect sourdough bagel.
no one believes me
🥺 I just did this by accident .
I forgot! Green shoes, green shirt, green pearls? This is just how I dress please believe me please
A DOGE staffer broke Treasury policy by emailing unencrypted personal data
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#news #politics #uspol #uspolitics #GOPCult #elonmusk #nazi #doge
A DOGE staffer broke Treasury policy by emailing unencrypted personal data
A US Treasury court filing reveals that a 25-year-old DOGE staffer emailed “a name” and payment details to two Trump administration officials.Wes Davis (The Verge)
The Escalade embodies the American luxury car ideal, and now it's gone electric.
arstechnica.com/cars/2025/03/t…
The 2025 Cadillac Escalade IQ first drive: 460 miles on a single charge
The Escalade embodies the American luxury car ideal, and now it’s gone electric.Ars Contributors (Ars Technica)
17 March 1915 | A Czech Jewish woman, Věra Bondyová, was born in Prague.
She was deported to #Auschwitz from the Theresienstadt ghetto on 16 October 1944. She did not survive.
➡️ Download 3D print model: cults3d.com/:2824877
💡 Designed by dave_c_fpv
LLM crawlers are aggressively destroying important community infrastructures but sadly there is not an easy fix. Still: Blocking those crawlers should be high on your list of todos
(EDIT: You do not need to link me to nepenthes, etc. I am aware of those as is sourcehut)
(Original title: LLM crawlers continue to DDoS SourceHut)
status.sr.ht/issues/2025-03-17…
LLM crawlers continue to DDoS SourceHut | sr.ht status
SourceHut continues to face disruptions due to aggressive LLM crawlers. We are continuously working to deploy mitigations. We have deployed a number of mitigations which are keeping the problem contained for now.status.sr.ht
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Something that continues to stand out to me, is how most of this highly abusive traffic originates from the big cloud providers.
If smaller hosting providers originated this much abuse and didn't put effective mitigations in place, they would get cut off from their upstreams without a second thought, and listed on 'abusive networks' toplists.
But apparently it's "fine" if the big cloud companies do it, and there's neither recourse nor consequences.
FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies
LLM scrapers are taking down FOSS projects' infrastructure, and it's getting worse.Niccolò Venerandi (LibreNews)
Page honoring Charles C Rogers is now defunct w/ letters ‘DEI’ added to URL
theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m…
#news #fascist #racist #dontatorship #politics #UnitedStates #MadKingDonald #EvilPrimeMinisterElon
Black Medal of Honor recipient removed from US department of defense website
Page honoring Charles C Rogers for his Vietnam war service is now defunct with letters “DEI” added to website addressMaya Yang (The Guardian)
Error message previously shown on Maj Gen Charles Calvin Rogers’s website amid Trump administration’s DEI purge
theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m…
Pentagon webpage for Black Medal of Honor winner restored after outcry
Error message previously shown on Maj Gen Charles Calvin Rogers’s webpage amid Trump administration’s DEI purgeMaya Yang (The Guardian)
#GIMP 3.0 Open-Source Image Editor Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New 9to5linux.com/gimp-3-0-image-e…
#Linux #OpenSource #FreeSoftware
GIMP 3.0 Image Editor Is Now Available for Download, Here's What's New - 9to5Linux
GIMP 3.0 open-source image editor is now available for download with a much-refined interface and massive improvements to color management.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
Measles remains a danger to health even years after an infection
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/03/17/nx-s1-5328765/measles-outbreak-health-risk?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Did anyone buy the Raspberry 500 or the new monitor?
I use the monitor and Pi 500 everyday, primarily for keeping an eye on 3d prints and running LLMs locally.
Here's the video I made when it first came out:
youtube.com/watch?v=qd0j86oEbu…
The new Raspberry pi 500 & Monitor secrets finally revealed
I've got the new Raspberry Pi 500 and Monitor - lets take a closer look at what if can do.Join this channel to get access to perks:https://www.youtube.com/ch...YouTube
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Using a custom kit to make a budget EV offer some emergency power.
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/0…
'I think he knew': Mahmoud Khalil's wife on his detention and her search for answers
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/17/nx-s1-5328059/wife-mahmoud-khalil-columbia-university-ice-detention-deportation-case?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into U.S. News @u-s-news-npr
3D Printed Brick Layers for Everyone
hackaday.com/2025/03/17/3d-pri…
3D Printed Brick Layers For Everyone
Some slicers have introduced brick layers, and more slicers plan to add them. Until that happens, you can use this new script from [Geek Detour] to get brick layer goodness on Prusa, Orca, and Bamb…Hackaday
New show alert!
In his first monthly Transverse Tempo @CCirco weaves together an hour of downtempo, chill wave and tracks that sit somewhere above ambient.
Including music from @ordosmarkzero @socool and @keefmarshall
Listen and subscribe at audiointerface.org/shows/trans…
#ElectronicMusic #IndependentArtists #Fedimusic
Transverse Tempo
Downtempo, trip-hop, chill wave, and tracks that sit somewhere above ambientwww.audiointerface.org
got up early and opened the ar@k symposium at høyskolen kristiania with øy today!
06:15 - wake up
07:30 - sound check
08:30 - sound check done / doors
09:00 - opening seremony starts
09:10 - our performance starts
09:20 - our performance ends
@axwax @lislegaard @defaultmediatransmitter
I have rarely seen a company doing so much to recommend a book.
bbc.com/news/articles/cq5zyq02…
Meta stops former Facebook director from promoting critical memoir
Social media company wins US emergency ruling preventing ex-director from publicising her book.Katie Razzall (BBC News)
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> In his ruling, Mr Gowan said Meta would suffer "immediate and irreparable loss" in the absence of a temporary ruling in the case.
He should have let her move fast and break things.
joanwestenberg.com/on-ideologi…
On Ideological Purity
I've written a few words lately about trying to shift away from U.S. tech dominance. I want to buy European/Canadian, support independent software over big tech, and move toward a digital life that aligns with my ethics.Joan Westenberg (westenberg.)
This is one I struggle with deeply. I’ve built a career on Microsoft technologies but I feel the tug to rebuild on open source. As Microsoft digs deeper into AI it becomes ever increasingly at odds with my love of nature conservationist tendencies. Which can be said of anything tech. To say nothing of the issues with US tech and how it is evolving especially under the current administration.
I feel like my entire world has become a moral quandary that I can’t solve.
I'm in the midst of transitioning away from as much big tech as possible; it's definitely possible and not nearly as much of a compromise as it might have been a decade ago.
It isn't just an issue of morality, it's an issue of privacy, and an issue of being able to own your data.
Sure, trying to go 100% cold turkey is daunting, but you don't have to do it all at once. Setting up your own homelab or a hobby server outside the US has never been easier. If you can migrate away from even one big tech online service, you're one step closer.
The best way to eat an elephant is one bite at a time.
Absolutely, I used a lot of open source on Windows for years before I bit the bullet and swapped over to Linux and got rid of MS completely.
You don't have to do it all at once.
There's quite a nice site here: alternativeto.net/ that you can find your normal app, search for alternatives and filter for OS and licence etc.
It's not always complete, but it's a great start.
@chewie Well, my comment is more about career than finding software replacements. It would be a fundamental career shift to move away from Microsoft.
But yes, you are correct about finding replacement apps that are open source. 😀
@rlounsbury
Ah sorry.
Yes, I keep trying.
I mostly work with Windows OSes and Cisco.
Now and again there will be some embedded devices and Linux servers that others are scared to touch that I can play with.
I've tried getting more people at various workplaces to use open source to fix problems, but a lot of people aren't willing to learn, which is annoying as they would have more marketable skills.
Maybe it's because they don't have it as a hobby too 🤷
Your article is an excellent read that personally addresses a few issues I am dealing with. Thanks !
"But the point isn't perfection. The point is intention.
You don’t have to be all or nothing. You don’t have to make every decision a moral battlefield. You don’t have to sever every tie to every compromised system - and you sure as hell don’t have to do it overnight.
You have to engage. You have to stay aware. You have to keep questioning the default."
Just CK
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