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Enjoy the Blue Screen of Death one more time
1+ week, 5+ day ago (370+ words) bsod.win is a single-serving website that mimics the classic 20th-century Windows Blue Screen of Death. Unlike the original, you can refresh the page to get a different outcome. Whether the Current Application Will Be Terminated or It May Be…...
Beholden to Big Tech, Grandpa Pudding Brains demands more data centers
1+ week, 5+ day ago (342+ words) Don't want a giant ghost building full of power-sucking, heat-generating computers at the end of your street? Enjoy being "backwards and poor," says Diaper Don. Folks building data centers for the AI bubble now eye neighborhoods with excess power and…...
The Digi-Comp I was a $5 plastic computer powered by rubber bands
3+ week, 5+ day ago (428+ words) The Digi-Comp I was a plastic and rubber band toy that sold for $5 in 1963. According to Chris Staecker, a Fairfield University math professor who posted a video about its operation, "This was the first digital computer." It didn't use electricity;…...