Bounty of bookmarks: Items tagged computers

Items tagged computers

Typefaces express sovereignty. Here’s how Musqueam found just the right type for its language.

Tags: computers, language

2023-08-22

ChatGPT's odds of getting code questions correct are worse than a coin flip

But its suggestions are so annoyingly plausible

Tags: computers, language, attitudes

2023-08-07

Fast machines, slow machines

Tags: computers, programming

2023-06-27

A new view of the Manchester Computer

Seventy five years ago, the University’s ‘Baby’ computer became the first electronic computer with a read/write memory to run a program. To mark this historic event, Professor Jim Miles (University of Manchester Department of Computer Science) describes how a definitive new image of the Manchester computer was recreated using rediscovered original negatives.

Tags: vintage, computers, photos

2023-06-21

Early Computer Art In The 50’s & 60’s

Fascinating, and highly relevant these days as it happens.

Tags: computers, art

2023-05-11

Building the Micro Mirror Free Software CDN

Tags: cool, internet, computers

2023-05-09

Computer Folks Ignore History

Tags: computers, attitudes

2023-04-14

Millions of DNA tests leaked after hackers breach company's 'forgotten' database

Tags: computers, security

2023-02-21

La dure réalité de la « scalabilitée »

French language post about what it really takes to run a Mastodon instance and scale it as more people gather.

Tags: fandom, social media, computers

2022-12-27

AMD and Nvidia leaks show we are drunk on power, and the hangover is going to be brutal

The planet may burn but at least the end will be ray-traced at 8K

Tags: computers, business, climate

2022-07-28 11:00+03:00

Inventing Postscript, The Tech That Took The Pain Out Of Printing

Tags: computers, books

2022-04-23

Oracle already wins 'crypto bug of the year' with Java digital signature bypass

Whole new meaning for zero consequences

Tags: computers, security

2022-04-20

Revisiting the INMOS Transputer

Tags: vintage, computers

2022-03-31

Dear open source developers: despite the license, GNU Info is proprietary software. It uses a custom format not supported by any other app, that's overly complex and has no reason to exist except that its creator thought he was smarter than everyone. Use literally anything else.

Tags: computers, updates

2022-03-07

I have no capslock and I must scream

This hits like a ton of bricks.

Tags: computers, design

2022-02-21

70 years since LEO, the ‘world’s first business computer’.

Tags: cool, vintage, computers

2021-11-16

Big problems at the timezone database

Tags: computers, politics

2021-09-25

It occurs to me that the General Public License is basically the United States Constitution of software development: a pioneering document that opened the floodgates, but is now out of touch and no longer suitable for the modern world.

Tags: computers, law, updates

2021-09-02 11:10+03:00

2021-07-05

Breakthrough of Digital Culture: Finland accepts the Demoscene on its national UNESCO list of intangible cultural heritage of humanity

Tags: computers, media, culture

2020-04-15

2019-09-30

2016-08-17

Now that's what I call a Hacker

Tags: computers, humor

2015-11-20

The curious case of the disappearing Polish S

And this is why you never override browser shortcuts. I don't care what you think you're accomplishing. Just don't.

Tags: computers, language, history

2015-02-02