IX

ixband.bandcamp.com/album/actual Actual is the fourth album from IX. 12 tracks of leftfield electronic soundscapes. Available from all outlets now. #darkwave #soundtrack #indiefilm #space #electronica #leftfield

@mjsimpsonfilms @HiddenYorkshire A surprisingly high percentage of vinyl buyers don’t even own a turntable!

@HiddenYorkshire I would have thought most people buying vinyl are audiophiles with ridiculously expensive decks, amps and speakers, all connected by cables that cost more than the records they play.

I'm an anti-vinyl hipster. I can say that because I served my time being 14 and obsessed with collecting records and playing them on my mum's Dansette player, only to realise that I was fooling myself. Unless you're playing them on a very good, high-quality turntable and speakers, in the vast majority of cases there is no way vinyl *actually* sounds better than mp3. It's Emperor's New Clothes. A £££ turntable and speaker set? Okay, now we're talking. But let's be real here, most of your vinyl hipsters are using a terribly tinny HMV portable suitcase turntable and convincing themselves that it's somehow more ~authentic~ than Spotify. Just let it go. It's all about performance and aesthetics. You feel cool handling a record and posting about to Insta, but for actual musical quality, I'll stick with a good pair of headphones and my phone.

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Douglas Adams being deeply prophetic. But Tom Baker being an obsequious software agent is nearly too much

@Donone243 @petermac2 @punt_rd Ron’s look was based on Charlie Chaplin.

@petermac2 @punt_rd Distinctly possible, but the name Sparks and Ron copying Tesla's hairstyle, mustache, and of course the suit & tie combo make me think it was a bit more than a coincidence, but maybe not.

John Lennon’s phone call to fellow Beatle Ringo Starr after a UK TV appearance by this band… “You won't believe what's on television—Marc Bolan is playing a song with Adolf Hitler!" The near unknown most famous band you’ve never heard of…….Sparks!

it was taken in Mick's garden along the south circular road as were these~ approximately 2005 judging by my son's age

Man and Space by Arthur C. Clarke (1964), illustrated by Ed Valigursky.

@vancouverhamwx @Feline_Musk_ @cqcqcqdx How did he do that?

@Feline_Musk_ @cqcqcqdx You should read how he f*#$ed over #Atari in the early days. He was and is a complete douche canoe!

Did you know Microsoft didn’t develop MS-DOS, but bought it off of a programmer named Tim Paterson? Tim Paterson (born 1 June 1956) is an American computer programmer, best known for creating 86-DOS, an operating system for the Intel 8086.

@Feline_Musk_ @cqcqcqdx No one believed that, we already knew where DOS came from pretty much from the get go, it was hardly secret

@cqcqcqdx Back in the early 90's there was a very popular story about how Bill Gates locked himself in a room for a few days & created MS DOS for the IBM PC because he was a master programmer. Everyone believed it but I guess it was a lie spread by him just like everything else in his life

@MarkFGrogan Had an STm upgraded to 2.5mb and 45mb hard drive, then an STe with 4mb and the same HD, then a Mega STe with 4mb and 120mb HD and finally a Falcon. The Mega STe was my favourite by far.

Afternoon campers - following on from yesterday's Amiga 500+ tweet, what can you tell me about the Atari ST? . .

@abhitwt Books, courses and trial and error

How did people even learn coding back when there were no docs or youtube tutorials?

@VintageAudioLuv I loved the Optonica stuff. The green lighting really worked well.

@lukecodez Hugely

Does working with monitor increases your productivity ?

Videos on Facebook claim a new law bans music being played in moving cars. As you may have guessed, this isn’t true. It appears to be yet another example of the fake stories about personal freedoms we’ve seen all over social media lately. fullfact.org/politics/video…

Why is writing windows apps such a faff now? It used to be easy under VB6. So much extra nonsense involved now 😔

@RealIggyLibre @alphafox Yes

@alphafox Very interesting. Did we really land on the moon?

@gecffmn Another one who slept through science. It moves because there’s no atmosphere to dampen it.

Never thought the moon would be breezy!!😂😂

@nalinrajput23 Cmd line vi

what was the first code editor you ever used ?

@iyoushetwt I find it much easier learning from a book plus less hallucinated “information” than you get from AI sources. Has to be paper with post it noted, kindle etc no good.

do people still read coding books?

@r0ktech I’m that old you couldn’t buy off the shelf programs for most things so you had to write your own.

What made you fall in love with programming?

@dev_maims Windows 11

A group of bugs is called?