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John Parker
@middaparka.bsky.social
An old and broken software developer with an interest in retro and vintage computing history and preservation. Made @retrospecs.bsky.social amongst other things. Ineffectually fighting the death of possibility / living the #MECFS dream. šŸ¤” #pwME
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Gratitude-free happies. šŸ„³ Here's hoping today is less of a chore than usual, despite the admin.

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Day 1: poppadoms Day 2: floppadoms

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Glad they've not missed a significant, some would say completely critical, point or indeed obfuscated it to irrelevance. šŸ˜©

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And DJs ruining the intro and outro. šŸ˜€

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Those were the days. Sort of. šŸ¤” (Not really, in many respects.)

A Boots C15 cassette tape "backup" of the ZX Spectrum Maziacs game, on a grey background. In the foreground is the tape itself, with the box in the background. Both make use of a yellow and black colour scheme with red as a highlight.
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Incidentally, just so itā€™s crystal clear, if you use any of the energy guzzling LLMs being mislabelled as ā€œAIā€, youā€™re just as guilty of environmental pollution and waste as someone who pours oil into a duck pond. As least in that instance thereā€™s an honesty about the consequences.

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A hauntingly accurate summation of where things stand in the world, with an emphasis on the activities of some of the supposed tech giants. open.substack.com/pub/dansheeh...

What it means to carry stones
What it means to carry stones

A week of climate catastrophe leaves us once again wondering if there's room in the budget for anything other than bombs

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They have so much game they have to rent storage.

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CGcraiggrannell.bsky.social

If you have an iPhone and donā€™t yet own this app, I donā€™t know what to tell you. Other than to go and buy the app, obvs. (Four bucks! For endless retro goodness.).

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John Parker
@middaparka.bsky.social
An old and broken software developer with an interest in retro and vintage computing history and preservation. Made @retrospecs.bsky.social amongst other things. Ineffectually fighting the death of possibility / living the #MECFS dream. šŸ¤” #pwME
28 followers125 following50 posts