Heavy dose of nostalgia there. I remember the Sun SPARCstations at uni and changing my desktop environment every other week.

JPEG XL? It’s 2026 and I’m still waiting for JPEG 2000 to become mainstream

The very same

Oh, I thought it stood for Fuck Off, Miserable Osborne

The only good use of AI would be to use the heat from its excessive power consumption to keep our sausage rolls warm

A really nice essay, I agree with the sentiment of it. We don’t need European tech billionaires, we need government support for open source

Hmm, doubt it’s for security. Seems more likely they’re looking for backdoors in order to spy on users. There are far too many governments desperate to backdoor encryption and messaging apps to trust any government’s stated intent when it comes to technology

If true, God spends a lot of time dreaming up scantily-clad, uwu-looking cat girls for an army of socially isolated believers

Your cables break every 3 days

Note that it was City of London Police involved. The City of London is quite distinct and different from the London that tourists know of. The City of London is owned by the corporations (mainly financial institutions) within its boundary, it is self-governing and has the right to set up it’s own police force which can take enforcement action in any part of the UK, not just the City of London. They are basically an enforcement arm for corporations and are very interested in things like enforcing intellectual property claims.

Dragon 32! A proper, Welsh machine

Renegade III: The Final Chapter.

Renegade on the ZX Spectrum was good, the sequel Target: Renegade was one of my favourite games for years, but the third game was a cynical cash grab, badly executed, barely playable.

Archive version, no paywall

I think we see a reform manifesto pledge to ‘bring back good, honest turkey twizzlers’ to school canteens 🙃

O’Biden? First the Irish claim Obama, now Biden 😄

It has high integration with both the Capcom Hyper Advanced Intensity Rig and the Sony Optical Firmware Adapter

Then you’ll also be really disappointed to hear that I’ve been sitting on this for over 40 years.

Yes, if you have the Logic Unit Base Expansion

Is that the Hank Cocaine who’s friends with Steve Buttstuff?

Is that not just in the vegan pornos though? Fuck cream, fuck cheese, fuck meat, etc.