Lain @lain@otter.tube

Things that need to be normalised in 2019:

• people using they/them pronouns
• people using neopronouns
• people using multiple sets of pronouns
• people using plural pronouns
• people using their name instead of pronouns
• asking people what pronouns they use

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I miss installation programs with personality

Introducing the new Sony Playstation.

Script by @jk
Music from NES Pictionary
Video from my living room and Sony

World Book Millennium 2000

from Darkstar, a new Xerox Star emulator. i feel like concrete knowledge of what Xerox did at PARC is somewhat rare outside of people who have an active interest in computing history. Apple came up with some important stuff, to be sure, but there's so much they didn't get to first, and i think it's really important to acknowledge that. big ideas always, always have a lineage, and it's unethical to erase or avoid recognizing that debt.

Super legit agent (I can vouch for her) looking for a Black artist for a series of picture books. No experience required. Contact info in her Twitter bio! Photo text behind link.

https://twitter.com/lzats/status/1085945357245267968?s=21

Attn: @Curator !

Agat IV, an Apple clone created in the Soviet Union. http://thevaultoftheatomicspaceage.tumblr.com/post/181976107115/vintagegeekculture-agat-iv-an-apple-clone

*puts a static pixel on the screen*

Check out this absolute unit

LESBIAN POWER MOVE

look,,,

tail coming out from underneath it

All about floppy formats, from the lowest levels. Do you know your FM and MFM? Can compare Apple's #GCR with #Commodore's? Understand the difference between flux density and data bit density? Remain calm while discussing zoned recording and sector gaps? Can you write a track at a time? Can you flip a floppy? These are all important life skills these days, so click through and read André Fachat's treatise, especially the diagrams.

https://extrapages.de/archives/20190102-Floppy-notes.html

via cbm-hackers list
#retrocomputing

RFC-5 was an early (eventually abandoned) proposal for delivering rich applications over ARPANET. Specifically it was conceived as a way to connect to Doug Englebart's "mother of all demos" computing system remotely from a more typical OS! My writeup:

https://write.as/365-rfcs/rfc-5

You can follow along with my series commenting on the first 365 RFCs here @365-rfcs

I wrote up how to change your gender marker in CA now that the law that allows you to self-certify is in effect :D https://mxdarkwater.com/how-to-change-your-gender-marker-in-ca/