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Cake day: May 7th, 2023

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  • If you’re skeptical that this feat is possible with a raw 4004, you’re right: The 4004 itself is far too limited to run Linux directly. Instead, Grinberg created a solution that is equally impressive: an emulator that runs on the 4004 and emulates a MIPS R3000 processor—the architecture used in the DECstation 2100 workstation that Linux was originally ported to. This emulator, along with minimal hardware emulation, allows a stripped-down Debian Linux to boot to a command prompt.

    that is 2^8 levels of insane! and of course its Debian.

    edit: 4bit data 12bit addressing make it an 8bit processor ; -)

    I will slowly corrode on this hill.





  • someone genuinely interested for intellectual reasons would likely not fall for it. I would imagine that a non-trivial percentage of “antiquity enjoyers” are very light on history substance and heavy on history feelz.

    once the appropriate brain tickles have been pushed into their heads their “history substance” feed content becomes decidedly propagandized.


  • this is really, really interesting. thank you for this.

    instance reach and relationships are pretty wild and I can see this helping people to mix up their communities between instances.

    the tight groupings of some instance communities might be source of pride or distress, depending.

    would be nice to select a community and query its n closest overlap neighbors or all neighbors within a certain distance.

    very cool project.


  • as is traditional, one of our corporate innovators seeks to protect citizens (never simply consumers, no, no!) with a defensive patent - sure to now be locked away in a safe until natural corporate patent expiration 1000 years hence.

    now and forevermore we shalll sing in praise of this beneficent corporate citizen and their efficacious lawyerly thrust deep into the heart of our once inevitable (but now vanquished) future boring dystopia of ads beamed directly into our brains 24/7.