DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab @djsundog@toot-lab.reclaim.technology

@djsundog Yep! I was avidly reading the details about graphic programming on it. OFC this is something from another era, but it's a sobering thought that it took HTML5 more than two decades to emerge, powering browsers that only recently have learned to trace vector graphics on <canvas>.
The 4010 model was released in 1972, merely four years after Engelbart's celebrated demo. Since the w3c was founded, it took the web 24 years more to come up with vector graphics.

We can do sooo much better.

This booklet is weird, it's like a capitalist scavenger hunt. If you use four coupons in a week (and get a stamp from each of the businesses) you get entered to win a 100 dollar gift card. Surreal.

Tektronix 4010 Maintenance Manual
https://www.manualslib.com/manual/828101/Tektronix-4010.html?page=5#manual

#retro #retrocomputing

@walruslifestyle @djsundog @shoutcacophony the last living human whimpers, "o-oat"

@walruslifestyle @djsundog @shoutcacophony this is the way the world ends. not with a bang, but with a IT'S BEEN

@djsundog @shoutcacophony @garbados Mastodon instances are mining bitcoins using our toots as sources of entropy for their random number generators. soon, the miners will realize that memes reduce entropy and instances will start to ban them, ushering in an era of unprecedented meme creativity leading to a planet wide meme war.

I just found a very old video I made of a prototype of the mastodon content warning system, back when I thought about it in terms of how spoilers are done on TV Tropes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Y3T6Xz5h7o

fallow friday
time to rotate crops

@shoutcacophony mastodon is full of worms. the servers are made of worms. even the worms are made of other, smaller worms. the elefren is actually a worm. when you cut a mastodon instance in half, each half grows into a new instance. it's disgusting.