#computer technology

[destielmemenews]

"Microsoft will shut down the once-popular video conferencing app on May 5, and is encouraging all existing customers to switch to Teams.

“In order to streamline our free consumer communications offerings so we can more easily adapt to customer needs, we will be retiring Skype in May 2025 to focus on Microsoft Teams, our modern communications and collaboration hub,” Microsoft said in a statement."

PCMag

TechCrunch

CNN

[blondebrainpowered]

In 1965, Sister Mary Kenneth Keller became the first American woman to receive a doctorate in computer technology.

[garadinervi]

Jasia Reichardt, The Computer in Art, Studio Vista, London, 1971 [baseline_]

[basic-retro-programming]

Source: MunyArist on Pinterest

Post #265: Advertisement by Airflow, When your computer room air conditioner fails, you may adapt. But what about your hardware?, 2023.

[dronebiscuitbat]

50% of my job consists of finding an ancient machine filled with dust and insects and sadness and trying to see if it can rise from the grave long enough to preform an organ transplant, so that it may function for another 20 years.

Today, I waited 45 minutes for a computer to valiantly tell me it needed to catch up on ten years of updates before it's main processor promptly breathed it's last breath.

Fun times.

[datgreenmonstah]

Thermal rat

[thepastisalreadywritten]

This is a removable disk add-on for the Univac 1004/1005 computers from 1962.

It used to store 2.2 MB on a 14" disk. 💽

[stevepasztor]

[incomprehensible-comprehension]

my brain is like a computer, and my body is plugged into the motherboard

[leannsposts]

[walks-the-ages]

Anyone know of any good YouTube videos that teach you how to type properly lol?

Remembered I meant to look this up from that post.

We had exactly 1 computer class in elementary school and they didn't really teach us anything, so my typing is all self-taught. I can type with my eyes closed with reasonable accuracy but I recently realized I'm mostly just typing with one hand and only like, three fingers are doing all the work.

I type fast enough already, it would be fun to see how much faster I can do it with actual proper training

[destielmemenews]

"Eric Noonan, CEO of cybersecurity provider CyberSheath, told CNN it’s likely too early to tell if an attack caused the issues.

“One of the things that should always be taken with a grain of salt is any statements made in the short period of time, immediately after, or even in this case during an attack,” Noonan said.

Musk has a history of attributing technical snafus to cyberattacks. When his conversation with Donald Trump on X started 42 minutes late in August 2024, he said there was a “probability” of an attack."

CNN

Sky News

POLITICO

[anotheruserwithnoname]

This x 10. I'm of the era where people were able to make surprisingly effective software (apps we call them today) that ran great on computers with 8K of memory. And some of the greatest early computer RPGs of all time (Odyssey, Ultima, Akalabeth, Temple of Apshai, the original 2-D Wolfenstein, and any of the all-text games like Zork and Colossal Cave) took up almost comically small amounts of memory and hard drive space.

we should globally ban the introduction of more powerful computer hardware for 10-20 years, not as an AI safety thing (though we could frame it as that), but to force programmers to optimize their shit better

[garadinervi]

Radical Software: Women, Art & Computing 1960-1991, Mudam Luxembourg – Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean / Kunsthalle Wien / Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, 2024

Artists: Rebecca Allen, Elena Asins, Colette Stuebe Bangert & Charles Jeffries Bangert, Gretchen Bender, Gudrun Bielz & Ruth Schnell, Dara Birnbaum, Inge Borchardt, Barbara Buckner, Doris Chase, Analívia Cordeiro, Betty Danon, Hanne Darboven, Bia Davou, Agnes Denes, VALIE EXPORT, Anna Bella Geiger, Isa Genzken, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Lily Greenham, Samia Halaby, Barbara Hammer, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Grace C. Hertlein, Channa Horwitz, Irma Hünerfauth, Charlotte Johannesson, Alison Knowles, Beryl Korot, Katalin Ladik, Ruth Leavitt, Liliane Lijn, Vera Molnár, Monique Nahas & Hervé Huitric, Katherine Nash, Sonya Rapoport, Deborah Remington, Sylvia Roubaud, Miriam Schapiro, Lillian Schwartz, Sonia Sheridan, Nina Sobell, Barbara T. Smith, Tamiko Thiel, Rosemarie Trockel, Joan Truckenbrod, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Ulla Wiggen

Contributors: Laura Amann, Sarah Beaumont, Michelle Cotton, Rhea Dall, Ramona Heinlein, Hannah Marynissen, Astrid Peterle, Carlotta Pierleoni, Andrea Popelka, Clémentine Proby, Tina Rivers Ryan, Margit Rosen, Jade Saber, Bettina Steinbrügge

Graphic Design: A Practice For Everyday Life

Exhibitions: Mudam Luxembourg – Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, September 20, 2024 – February 2, 2025; Kunsthalle Wien, Wien, February 28 – May 25, 2025

Curators: Michelle Cotton, assisted by Sarah Beaumont

[basic-retro-programming]

Talking to a machine ...

Post #218: YouTube, The Computer Programme, BBC London, Episode #3, Talking To A Machine, 1980.