Attempting to Install NetBSD 10 to a 25Mhz MicroVAX (w/ VO) [7 hrs.]

If you liked that, you'll love the rest of the ongoing saga:

• Debugging NetBSD 10 on a 25Mhz MicroVAX -- (Semi-Silent, Active in Chat) [11.5 hrs.]
• Looking at broken lcg.c driver, write-up, and script ideas ... (LIMITED VO) [8.25 hrs.]
• Will OpenBSD/vax run on the MicroVAX? [9.75 hrs.]
• Installing OpenBSD/arm64, and then converting OpenBSD CVS to git history with tags -- cvs2git [4 hrs.]
• Importing OpenBSD's history from CVS to git: IT RAN OUT OF RAM! [10 hrs.]
• Cross-Compiling OpenBSD from AMD64 to ARM64 so I can debug why its so slow on M2 MacBook Pro [4 hrs.]
• Investigating Performance Issues On Virtualized OpenBSD/arm64 [7.5 hrs.]
• Figuring Out How To Cross-Build OpenBSD/vax 5.8 [8 hrs.]
• I got OpenBSD 5.8/i386 running on the NAS. Now To Compile ... [Currently Ongoing]

Michael "NCommander" Casadevall has an interest in software preservation and history. Besides his YouTube channel he also has a blog where he posts about things like Restoring Xenix 386 2.2.3c (Part 2, Part 3, Part 4)

Microsoft, HP, Dell and others unveiled a new kind of laptop tailored to work with artificial intelligence. Analysts expect Apple to do something similar.

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Microsoft held a live event today showcasing their vision of the future of the home PC (or "Copilot+ PC"), boasting longer battery life, better-standardized ARM processors, and (predictably) a whole host of new AI features built on dedicated hardware, from real-time translation to in-system assistant prompts to custom-guided image creation. Perhaps most interesting is the new "Recall" feature that records all on-screen activity securely on-device, allowing natural-language recall of all articles read, text written, and videos seen. It's just the first foray into a new era of AI PCs -- and Apple is expected to join the push with an expected partnership with OpenAI debuting at WWDC next month. In a tech world that has lately been defined by the smartphone, can AI make the PC cool again?

Apple’s mid-range tablet gets larger screen option and more power, being ‘pro’ enough for most

Apple has more options than ever for those after a tablet with different sizes, prices, screens and power, but the iPad Air is fairly simple to understand – it is the premium big-screen iPad for those who don’t want to fork out thousands for an iPad Pro.

The Air starts at £599 (€699/$599/A$999) and is now available in two screen sizes: the original 11in and a larger 13in model for big-screen viewing. That puts it right in the middle of Apple’s lineup, with the 10th-gen iPad starting at £349 at the bottom and topped by the new iPad Pro M4 starting at £999.

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CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is a ubiquitous markup language for describing the layout and design of a webpage separate from the content, typically specifying things like text formatting, background color, page alignment, etc. But as with emoticons and ASCII art before it, CSS can be repurposed to become the content. Enter CSS drawing, an intricate art form that uses the conventions of the language to create illustrations and even animation using only standard design elements. Some standout examples from around the web: A Single Div, where every new illustration is contained within one <div> tag; designer Lynn Fisher also has a previous version along with a whole catalog of "weird websites, niche data projects, and CSS experiments" - Another collection of single-div projects - Start a digital bonfire - The Simpsons (animated!) in CSS - 173 CSS drawings on Dribble - How I started drawing CSS Images - css-doodle, a web component for drawing patterns with CSS - Creating Realistic Art with CSS - The CSS Zen Garden, a collection of beautiful CSS stylesheets - CSS previously on MeFi

In a cautious new paper, scientists tried to determine whether an interactive speech board might enrich the life of a parrot named Ellie.