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No. The 6502 itself is probably the simplest CPU to be used at scale in home computers: it has only 3 registers, a handful of instructions (you don’t even get multiplication) and is made of around 3,500 transistors (less than half the number in the Z80). All the things that gave the C64, Apple II, BBC Micro, NES and such their recognisable qualities were provided by support chips used alongside the 6502.

6502s were used in a lot of simple electronics after general-purpose computing moved on. They used them in battery-powered pocket chess computers in the late 80s, for example, and I wouldn’t be surprised if cycle computers or microwave ovens contained them as well.

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They might not need to open-source it: hackers have found ways of jailbreaking the installed Linux and are stepping up efforts for making it reusable. It’s a rather feeble SoC, so there won’t be a huge number of applications for it, but there will be some.

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Does Google still have a search algorithm? I thought they now just feed everything into a huge LLM and let it regurgitate statistically plausible answers.

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Tell me you live in America without saying you live in America…

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They should at least release data sheets and any bootloader signing keys, allowing people to reuse the devices for other purposes. If you could replace the firmware, I’m sure you could use it for controlling your home automation setup or displaying the weather/news/train times/other info (or possibly other tasks depending on what’s in the SoC). Now, alas, it’s just e-waste.

AllNewTypeFace ,
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Or the fat guy in the stars and stripes shirt in Katamari Damacy. Or Bobson Dugnutt.

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4 panel comic by War and Peas. 1. Panel shows two pirates, the first pirate speaks "Captain, our rivals have been calling us names again." 2. Panel: The pirate continues, "They said we were a bunch of handicaps." 3. Panel: The captain himself says, "That's ableism! And we don't tolerate that kind of talk here". 4.Panel: The ship...

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It has been pointed out that pirates are a symbol of inclusivity. If you imagine a pirate, chances are they have a disability, typically from an occupational injury (a missing eye, hand or leg), and yet they kick ass and strike fear into the establishment.

local anti public transportation comment

Saw this comment on a local news post about the mayor's state of the city address and the mayor mentioned some of the new public transportation initiatives including adding another line to the train, I was under the impression that Amtrak was a success until the rails became denationalized and corporate greed limited the...

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Just another lead-poisoned boomer. Move on.

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Looks like there’s one safe 737 after all

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When tankies disappoint you, however, complaining about it will get you a one way ticket to the gulag.

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The extra space is for two Electron apps of your choice.

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So despite climate change, Australia's federal government has just committed an extra $3.25 billion into building a toll road and a 20-lane freeway widening.

For those who wonder why Aussies think toll roads are a scam (https://aus.social/@LesserAbe@lemmy.world/112405373613706682), here's a great example of why.

"Pouring an extra $3.25 billion worth of federal funds into Melbourne’s North East Link is a good use of taxpayer money, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has insisted, despite the project’s cost doubling just a few months ago.

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"The North East Link – which includes 6½ kilometres of tunnels – will stretch from Bulleen to Greensborough. It will widen the Eastern Freeway by up to 20 lanes.

"Allan revealed in December that the 10-kilometre toll road had more than doubled in cost since it was first announced.

"The toll road was initially budgeted at $10 billion and reassessed in 2019 at $15 billion. But the government revealed last year that the updated cost estimate was $26 billion."

https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/federal-funding-to-boost-victorian-road-link-by-3-25-billion-20240509-p5ii7b.html

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AllNewTypeFace ,
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Was there a realistic alternative, though?

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NAMBLA decries antinonceist witch-hunt against Drake

AllNewTypeFace ,
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Apparently teachers are one of the hardest drinking professions

AllNewTypeFace ,
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Leave it at home and, if you need a phone, take a burner that doesn’t have your personal data and isn’t logged into any of your accounts.

AllNewTypeFace ,
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I wouldn’t be surprised if someone reverse-engineers the protocol and codes up their own replacement backend as a one-file Python script in a weekend.

AllNewTypeFace ,
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Is the firmware enclosed in a SOC with no way of reading/extracting it? If not, if all else fails, someone will extract it and dissect it with Ghidra or something, extracting whatever encryption keys are needed. If so, and there aren’t any documented side-channel attacks for reading the firmware from this SOC, if firmware updates exist, they too constitute an attack surface. (They probably would be encrypted, but how strongly?)

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Depends whether those polled are managing it for perceived quality of life or for maximum lulz.

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We have a winner!

AllNewTypeFace ,
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If old process nodes like that still exist, perhaps someone should periodically do a run of old chips which are getting scarce, like 6581s or fragile ASICs from vintage computers. I know people who grew up coding Z80 assembly on their home computers have fond memories of it, but there’s a glut of deadstock Z80s that won’t run out for a decade.

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Interesting how the App Store page doesn’t mention Israel or Palestine.

AllNewTypeFace ,
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My family had one of those in the shape or a cow, for dispensing milk.

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They were in the process of unionising in Sweden, when the layoffs dropped. Some months later, Spotify cancelled talks about the proposed collective agreement, insisting a statement that Spotify employees don’t need unions because their working conditions are already exceedingly generous.

(A bit of background: workplace collective agreements are commonplace in Sweden. Spotify, though, seems to have tried to import US union-busting practices, not unlike Tesla.)

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As of a few weeks ago, the strike is still going, with everyone from cleaners to electricians refusing to work for Tesla.

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When you hate liberalism so much that the Chinese Communist Party starts looking pretty good.

Google fires 28 employees after protest over Israel cloud contract (www.theverge.com)

Google fired 28 employees in connection with sit-in protests at two of its offices this week, according to an internal memo obtained by The Verge. The firings come after 9 employees were suspended and then arrested in New York and California on Tuesday....

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Does the US still have a Fortune 500-wide hiring blacklist for those who publicly criticise Israeli military operations? If so, they may have a hard time finding other employment.

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Also, it has 8 hardware sprites. How many does IBM’s quantum system have?

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    AllNewTypeFace ,
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    To be fair, those are his emotional support Nazis

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    Isn’t there a fork of that that’s identical only Satanic?

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    As they say in the Bible Belt, if you see a good Christian girl on her knees, chances are she ain’t praying.

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    Or at least something that actually exists

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    If you ever see one of those waddling its way towards you, say your prayers.

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    It’ll reduce the workforce from well-remunerated professionals who perform tasks to a larger number of disposable minimum-wage labourers who clean up botshit.

    AllNewTypeFace ,
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    Unlike the older billionaires who earned every dollar of their billions, because they really are hundreds of thousands times more productive and economically valuable than nurses or bus drivers.

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    Unless you’re Taylor Swift, of course, the one billionaire who gets a guillotine pass.

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    In the age of the Steam Deck and Proton, the Windows API has largely been demoted to a virtual machine that is already implemented on Linux. Given that some 5% of the market play on Linux, game publishers have an incentive to not write their Windows code in such a way that it breaks on Proton.

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    Fuck Reddit.

    AllNewTypeFace ,
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    Sure, we’ll get gulags and bread queues, but at least there’ll be an upside.

    AllNewTypeFace ,
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    Don’t kinkshame the Linux users

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    The German compound noun thing also works in other Germanic languages like, say, Dutch, Swedish and Old English. You can blame the Normans (i.e. a bunch of snobbish Vikings who, a generation earlier, decided to speak only French) for modern English’s lack of them.

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    North Germanic, descended from Old Norse; there are varying and debatable degrees of mutual intelligibility between it, Danish and Norwegian, to the point that instructions on product packages sold in the three countries are sometimes written as one phrase for all three, with differing words written with slashes, and linguists occasionally lump all three together as “Scandinavian”.

    Out of interest, what did you think it was if not Germanic?

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    It’s a bit like British and American English taking “N-acetyl-para-aminophenol” and turning it into “paracetamol” and “acetaminophen” respectively.

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    I though the official Straight Pride flag was in black and white (no grey areas or ambiguity), with a male symbol on top of a female symbol (depicting the hierarchy of dominance the sorts of people who would have such a flag consider the only acceptable order)

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    When cameras are outlawed, only outlaws will have cameras

    Maker uses Raspberry Pi and AI to block noisy neighbor's music by hacking nearby Bluetooth speakers (www.tomshardware.com)

    Maker uses Raspberry Pi and AI to block noisy neighbor's music by hacking nearby Bluetooth speakers::Roni Bandini is using a Raspberry Pi to power his AI-driven assault against his neighbor's regular 9am reggaeton music.

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    Not all heroes wear capes

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    The typical American walks only to and from their garage. Georg, who lives in a cave and walks 10,000 miles a day, is an outlier and should not have been counted.

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    Musk is the Henry Ford of our time. Helping his pal, the enemy, as far as possible within the bounds of treason laws.

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    But then came along Christianity, and brought tristadekaphobia with it, so we’re stuck with 12.

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