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RetroBytes(John) @retrobytes.bsky.social · 4d

Personally I'm fine with with it killing that form of AI. The verison that weaponised copyright violation, against the creatives that produced the work originally can frankly die, and that would be a net positive for society.

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RetroBytes(John) @retrobytes.bsky.social · 5d

Personally I like a good (and short) intro sequence, however I feel for any new viewer to a channel that intro sequence probably wastes their time a little, and might cause them to click away.

RetroBytes(John) @retrobytes.bsky.social · 7d

That's a chunky PC !!

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RetroBytes(John) @retrobytes.bsky.social · 7d

Is there no longer a playexpo after party ?

RetroBytes(John) @retrobytes.bsky.social · 8d

This video has taken a long time for me to put together. However I think it might be the first time a Kubernetes cluster has been used to provide file/print services to a BBC micro using Econet. youtu.be/-Hs55amrFW0?...

Because we can: Retro Stuff on Kubernetes

YouTube video by RetroBytes

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RetroBytes(John) @retrobytes.bsky.social · 8d

For which platform and CPU arch, or are you building it for every CPU arch you are running Linux on ?

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RetroBytes(John) @retrobytes.bsky.social · 10d

You are officially moved in once you get broadband, and have stopped trying to work out which room of your new house gets the best mobile signal. In my case the answer was half way up the stairs to the attick.

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RetroBytes(John) @retrobytes.bsky.social · 13d

In a week where I've been feeling a little bit old, this in no way helped 😅

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RetroBytes(John) @retrobytes.bsky.social · 14d

As someone who is oftern travelling back in the small hours, after having done a gig, the idea of this appeals massively. A place where me and my fellow night owls can sit and have a slice of pie together.

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RetroBytes(John) @retrobytes.bsky.social · 16d

Someone is going to have to take a CRT monitor with them, and possibly a spare CRT monitor given the luck most of us have with moving CRTs.

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RetroBytes(John) @retrobytes.bsky.social · 16d

Oddly Kubevirt dispite being based on libvirt, which supports emulating IDE, it's self blocks you from using IDE emulation. Netware's sata support seems to be fairly broken, too. Hence emulating an lsilogic scsi card.

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RetroBytes(John) @retrobytes.bsky.social · 16d

no longer producing drivers by and large. Unsprisingly there are no virtio drivers for netware. So emulating an rather old scsi card it is then.

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RetroBytes(John) @retrobytes.bsky.social · 16d

Creating a new NetwareVM has proved a little bit more tricky than initially I hoped. I wanted todo a fresh install of Netware 6.5 as I wanted to see what the last version of netware was like. However it's an awkward OS driver wise, as it support some more modern hardware, but 3rd party vendors where

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RetroBytes(John) @retrobytes.bsky.social · 19d

You know there is something very baddly wrong with a given society, if anyone things they should and could get away with this sort of stepping over the bounds of acceptable.

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RetroBytes(John) @retrobytes.bsky.social · 20d

Capturing a lighting strike in a photo has a low probability, but getting two chickens to stand next to each other and pose for a photo, thats the marcellus part of this photo.

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RetroBytes(John) @retrobytes.bsky.social · 22d

Oh nice, it's a fine explanation.

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RetroBytes(John) @retrobytes.bsky.social · 22d

It's a nice view, and hopfuly will remain that way.

RetroBytes(John) @retrobytes.bsky.social · 23d

I bought a few copies of that magazine in the dim and distant past. Those multiformat cover disks where an absolute marvel. Was it Rob Smith who did a cracking video on how those worked ?

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RetroBytes(John) @retrobytes.bsky.social · 23d

I hear they evacuated a really large number of people (20k according to the news)

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RetroBytes(John) @retrobytes.bsky.social · 24d

Every time I do an event I completely forget to film/photograph anything until it's far too late and people are packing away.

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RetroBytes(John) @retrobytes.bsky.social · 25d

My kids struggle to believe CRTs where a thing that everyone had in their living rooms. They have seen more CRTs than most kids as well. The question they asked first however, was why was the screen the wrong shape (4:3), and why are some curved at the front and flat like some of the others.

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The Centre for Computing History @computinghistory.org.uk · 26d

It's just two months to go to the Retro Computer Computer Festival! Expect to see micros and consoles from the 70s, 80s and 90s running the very best of vintage and modern games. Tickets are selling fast, so grab yours here - www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/74558/re...

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RetroBytes(John) @retrobytes.bsky.social · 26d

For our particular nitch that feels like BS. There has not been an influx of new channels. If anything, a number of the bigger channels have hung up their boots or scaled back their output.

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RetroBytes(John) @retrobytes.bsky.social · 26d

Sorry for the Oracle flashbacks, there should be a support group for those of us who where forced to deal with that 😀

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Dr Johnny Blanchard @onlyretrofans.com · 29d

It seems there's a new thing on YouTube where you can hype any video withing 7 days of it's release, so if you wouldn't mind giving it a try on my last video it might help me out and please share, cheers #RetroComputing

youtu.be/T_zFVDuRcIM

J'adore l'ordinateur: The Thomson MO6

YouTube video by Re:Enthused

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