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

@breadbin @jonnypencils @gpowerf @fratm It wouldn't take me more than a week or two to get it fab-ready, using modern Cherry switches, and a little eight-pin MCU and LED to handle the shift lock. Can't do it this month, but I could probably add it to the queue, I have a C128 that needs a new keyboard anyway. The real problem is keycaps -- it's difficult to get custom keycaps printed in small quantities.

Europe seems ready to follow Italy’s lead and strangle generative AI in its infancy.

Rules from requiring chatbots to inform users they aren’t people to requirements that copyright holders should be paid if their content is in the training data.

https://www.ft.com/content/addb5a77-9ad0-4fea-8ffb-8e2ae250a95a

The problem with this rules is that people are freaking out about the UI but this tech is conceptually not different from search engines (see Google’s instant answers), Alexa or even Gmail auto-replies.

So do the rules apply to all of these or only if used for interactive chat?

No one on Mastodon needs more evidence #elonmusk is unreliable and fickle, but here you go: Just weeks after he co-signed a letter demanding a pause in artificial intelligence research, he's now launched his own AI company. I trust his newly launched company will immediately stop all development, right?

https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/14/23684005/elon-musk-new-ai-company-x

ICYMI: my latest #SteamDeck news round-up: https://youtu.be/HarGeY9LEm0

The Last of Us has more Steam Deck improvements and lots of other fixes https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/04/the-last-of-us-has-more-steam-deck-improvements-and-lots-of-other-fixes/ #SteamDeck #TLoU

Anyone we’ll versed in tinkering with controllers in #RetroArch ? #retrogaming

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#arcade #controller #sony #Playstation #PSX #PS1 #PS2 #videogames #retrogaming #80s #90s #Geek

Lemmings was one of those games that mostly passed me by, had a little go or two on the Amiga back in the day but of course spent more time fiddling with AMOS.

So, tonight at 20:30 BST on #twitch I am going power up the Master System and play the 8 bit port in FULL RF quality!

Mastodon Accounts (millions)

#DerStandard, one of austria's largest newspapers is ("for the time being") shutting down the #Twitter-account for it's Web- and IT-news, despite it having 120.000 Followers, because "Traffic is too minimal" and the "expenditure is too big in relation to the ressources".
https://twitter.com/webstandardat/status/1646461860365967360

That's a different reasoning than #NPR, #PBS and #AmericanPublicMedia, but it fits to my experience. And @web is already on #Mastodon, even its own #instance.

#TwitterTakeover #SocialMedia #ElonMusk

Slowly but surely journalists are finding their way to the Fediverse. These tech & digital media reporters are already active on Mastodon:

@couts — Wired

@caseynewton — Platformer

@mimsical — WSJ

@pierce — The Verge

@drewharwell — Washington Post

@harrymccracken — Fast Company

@jank0 — Lowpass

@joannastern — WSJ

@jr — Computerworld

@mathewi — Columbia Journalism Review

@stshank — CNET

@taylorlorenz — Washington Post

@willoremus — Washington Post

#FollowFriday #Journalists #Tech

40 years after its #Atari2600 release, Activision's game Enduro has been ported to #Atari8bit computers https://forums.atariage.com/topic/350369-enduro-ported/ #atari #retrogaming