Notices by Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)

Missing the time when computer expansions came in beer cans #retrocomputing

@dosnostalgic oh neat, I think I’ve only seen the export version

The same people who say it’s too hard to write alt text are now suddenly “prompt engineers” who literally write alt text to generate images

Literally nothing has changed (ad from 1991)

@dosnostalgic what did you do wrong now

The last 10 years or so of tech:

2013: Blockchain! It's a like a database, but slower and worse!
2016: VR! It's like monitors, but slower and worse!
2021: NFTs! It's like pictures, but slower and worse!
2023: AI! It's like algorithms, but slower and worse!

#retrocomputing

Newest Google bullshit: artificially make loading YouTube in browsers other than Chrome slower by 5 seconds https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/17ywbjj/whenever_i_open_a_youtube_video_in_a_new_tab_its/

Extremely serious #astronomy

Periodic reminder: there’s treatments available for your and others’ mental health.

Just finished my regularly scheduled Ketamine IM treatment for major depressive disorder.

I found a few more photons lying around (reprocess of the Lagoon Nebula from 2022, as seen from my driveway) #astrophotography

twistori is back! follow the mood at https://twistori.com, powered by bluesky vibes

(No, this would not work with Mastodon because there being no firehose or search API, and people get belligerent when you use their content even when it’s an art project.)

If you have gun fetishists in your community, ostracize them. Make them pick between having friends and having guns.

Here’s the 8-Bit Guy, which for some reason keeps getting invited to #retrocomputing events.

NASA’s crawler-transporters are amazing, they can carry a a whole moon rocket or space shuttle or even a part of a node_modules directory

1990s problems #retrocomputing

Periodic reminder of this 1999 review of Google

Petition to bring back 🌈 rainbow computer logos
#retrocomputing :apple_old_logo: :spinning_pinwheel:

Also in 1983, Lucasfilm (later Pixar) made the first high-resolution computer-generated image that was supposed to be near-photorealistic and "a single-frame movie".

"The Road to Point Reyes" took a month to render.

#retrocomputing

@fribbledom I actually got some achievements on Steam this year, but only because Return to Monkey Island was released

@tvdv The Kindle has only been out for 15 years now, you can't expect these companies to move that quickly,,