Dr. Guillermo Power @gpowerf@social.cleverlibre.org

Google Bard sides with the Justice Department in the Google antitrust case

“I hope that the court will find in favor of the Justice Department and order Google to take steps to break up its monopoly”

(Sees 20 year old black floppy disk with the words DEATH BRINGER scrawled on it, immediately shoves into machine)

Finally done! I have completed the restoration of an O.G. Macintosh that was upgraded to a Macintosh Plus in the mid-1980s!

when I was 15 years old, I got a summer job at the first ISP launched in the far north of canada. i worked in the hardware servicing and deployment area, and did tech support with clients over the phone

for weeks I was enamoured with a massive #VisualBasic box that sat on the shelf. it had to weigh 10+ lbs, and was loaded with manuals. no one seemed to care, so I borrowed a few of the manuals and started reading them over lunch.

my boss must have noticed, and asked me if I was interested in learning how to program. for the next two months he spent weeknights teaching me how to code after the staff went home.

i spent the entire summer of 1995 building a photo library/database tool just for kicks. after that, a visual TCP/IP based chat program called Smalltima Online. 😅

that summer gave me the conceptual foundation for building user-driven experiences a decade later. thank you jeff🙏

i picked up this chonker a couple of years ago just for the memories. 🥰

I mean...

#8BitDo Gaming Controllers Now Compatible With iPhone, iPad, Apple TV and Mac

https://www.macrumors.com/2023/03/20/8bitdo-controllers-apple-devices/