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• Post #4488264

  Unternehmer Nikolas Stihl (bekannt durch Motorsägen) fordert die Abschaffung der 35-Stunden-Woche [1]. Sein ererbtes Unternehmen hat ja schon Erfahrung mit kostengünstigen Arbeitskräften: "Ab 1941 stoßen Zwangsarbeitende dazu, darunter Kriegsgefangene. Insgesamt sind es bis 1945 100 Männer und Frauen aus dem westlichen und östlichen Europa, davon etwa die Hälfte aus der Sowjetunion." [2] Wie unsensibel kann mal als Unternehmer noch sein? [1] https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/unterne...

• Post #4445120

  I'm investigating the original Berkeley RISC-I CPU out of historical interest and wonder why some instructions use more than one opcode (e.g. LDHI uses 16 opcodes 0x70...0x7F). I can't see why this is necessary – is this an optimization or am I missing something here? Details seems to be provided in Corcoran, G.T., "Using ISPS to Specify the RISC I Architecture and Implementation," Master's Report, UCB (Dec. 1980), but I can't find this online. #risc #berkeley #ucb #c...

• Post #4367272

  There's a new PDP11 extension card for Apple II computers based on the J-11 and a Tang Nano FPGA board. Whow. https://github.com/ushicow/A2PDP11 https://note.com/ushicow/m/ma9f73d2251bc #retrocomputing #appleII #pdp11

• Post #4362887

  "Unix is not in a museum. Unix is in the room." See Vivian Voss' "Where Unix Runs Today": https://vivianvoss.net/blog/where-unix-runs-today #unix #macos #osx #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd

• Post #4338790

  Admission requirements for the five-year integrated Computer Engineering degree programme at NTNU in Trondheim are being lowered for the fourth year in a row. Apparently, the uncertainty due to the AI craze is dampening young people's interest in the CE programme. #computerscience #CS #computerengineering #CE #NTNU #Trondheim https://www.universitetsavisa.no/arbeidslivsrelevans-fakultet-for-informasjonsteknologi-og-elektroteknikk-institutt-for-datateknologi-og-informatikk/poenggrensen-pa-d...

• Post #4169575

  Ein wichtiger Artikel zur Verfassungsfeindlichkeit des bayrischen „KI-Verbot-Verbots“ und zur allgemeinen Widersprüchlichkeit zwischen der Gesetzgebung und den Äußerungen des Staatsministers für Wissenschaft und Kunst. Rücktritt wann? Ach ja, ist bei verfassungsfeindlicher Gesetzgebung ja leider aus der Mode gekommen... https://verfassungsblog.de/ai-way-or-the-highway/ #bayern #kiverbot #art5gg #lehrfreiheit #universitaten

• Post #4109553

  Lange nicht mehr hier gewesen… das ist neu 😀.

• Post #4089918

  A blimp over the river Ruhr today 😀.

• Post #4066736

  GUUG Summer Workshop at the Linux Hotel in Essen. #unix #linuxhotel #guug #EssenRuhr https://guug.de/guug-sommerworkshop-vom-24-07-26-07-2026-in-essen/

• Post #4013366

  Books! https://www.medienwissenschaft.uni-bonn.de/nachrichten-aktuelles-aus-der-abteilung/sammelband-commodore-64-past-present-and-future-of-a-homecomputer-erschienen #retrocomputing #c64 #unibonn

• Post #3909732

  @DosFox@tech.lgbt Many happy returns!

• Post #3843953

  Farewell, Linux! "Linux is not one of those anti-AI projects, and if somebody has issues with that, they can do the open-source thing and fork it. Or just walk away." ...on my way, good riddance! Torvalds in an email to LKML on Tuesday: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-media/CAHk-=wi4zC+Ze8e+p3tMv8TtG_80KzsZ1syL9anBtmEh5Z40vg@mail.gmail.com/

• Post #3833374

  Impressions from the retro computing lab at Uni Würzburg… #retrocomputing #uniwuerzburg

• Post #3724809

  Kronach von oben 🙂.

• Post #3658701

  Dann hoffen wir mal auf ein vernichtendes Urteil des BVerfG gegen das bayerische Polizeiaufgabengesetz – danach sollte Herrmann zurücktreten! https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/innenpolitik/bayern-polizei-aufgabengesetz-100.html

• Post #3656662

  The beautiful wooden keyboard of the Kawai MR25. There’s amazingly little dirt considering this piano was used on stage for decades… One of the five non working keys is fixed (simple adjustment, D#1), the others are next to each other (F1 to G#1) and are scanned using the same output pin of a 74LS138 3-to-8 decoder. So I guess either the output has failed or there’s a bad solder joint or cable. I need to bring a scope from the office tomorrow… #Kawai #e-piano #electronics #music

• Post #3613061

  Computering! On RISC-V! 😀 (from the SpacemiT K3 technical overview) If geekbench results can be trusted, the 16-core K3 has twice the single-core score compared to our 64-core Milk-V Pioneer and about the same multi-core score. Radxa's O6N (12-core Aarch64) still has almost double the single/multicore score of the K3, so RISC-V still has to catch up quite a bit, but the K3 at least doesn't feel slow. https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/18559008 https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/14...

• Post #3612013

  The farce is becoming increasingly absurd... https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/jul/05/folarin-balogun-red-card-suspension-lifted-usmnt-belgium-world-cup

• Post #3606852

  I upgraded a MacPro 2013 from 6 cores to a 12 core Xeon today. The old CPU had this strange defect (the reddish spot) on its heatspreader which had a similar looking counterpart on the copper heatsink. I never saw something like this before, does anyone know what this is? The CPU worked without problems. #intel #xeon #macpro #apple #defect

• Post #3564690

  Got milk? This one’s from Jupiter, a RVA23-compliant RISC-V system!

• Post #3557553

  Does anyone have schematics or the service manual for a Kawai MR270 e-piano (built in the 1990s)? The user manual is easy to find, but any other information seems to be hard to come by. #music #piano #epiano #schematics #electronics

• Post #3556273

  Der Bundestrainer ist zurückgetreten. Der nächste Rücktritt sollte der des Bundeskanzlers sein.

• Post #3449392

  If you have a few hours to waste and like compilers and weird - PowerPC - assembly, try the 254 lessons of Decomp Academy! https://decomp-academy.dev/ #assembly #compiler #PPC #PowerPC #ReverseEngineering #retrocomputing #decompilation

• Post #1761319

  Stack Machine… #retrocomputing #atarist #idris

• Post #1577718

  Sad news – Niklaus Wirth passed away on January 1st 😢. RIP. https://twitter.com/Bertrand_Meyer/status/1742613897675178347 #oberon #modula2 #retrocomputing

• Post #1522757

  Our Morello system has arrived! #CHERI #ARM #Morello #capabilities

• Post #1487981

  Does anyone have a copy of Johannes Helander's 1994 Master thesis "Unix under Mach: The Lites Server"? I can't find it online... #mach #microkernel #unix #osdev

• Post #1156872

  Warum bin ich eigentlich nochmal zurück nach Deutschland gefahren? Hmmm... der Vintage Computing Reparatur- und Basteltreff am 18./19. April im FabLab in Nürnberg und das VCFe in München vom 1.-3. Mai. Na gut 😀. https://www.vcfe.org/ (somehow Mastodon includes a graphic from last year's event with the wrong dates, yikes)

• Post #1156862

  OpenBSD supports the 64-core RISC-V Milk-V Pioneer board since version 7.6. However, this is not mentioned on the riscv64 port page (https://www.openbsd.org/riscv64.html), there is no information on installing OpenBSD on the Pioneer in the INSTALL.riscv64 docs and there also seems to be no RISC-V-specific mailing list for OpenBSD. Does anyone have more information on running OpenBSD on this specific piece of hardware? https://www.openbsd.org/plus76.html #openbsd #riscv #milkv

• Post #878979

  A tiny octopus house on a sidewalk in Cambridge… #Cambridge #octopus #tinyhouse