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   occult (occult@vox.ominous.net)'s status on Saturday, 07-Mar-2026 01:28:10 JST occult

   • Devine Lu Linvega

   @neauoire new Radiohead album art just dropped (1988).

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     occult (occult@vox.ominous.net)'s status on Saturday, 07-Mar-2026 01:27:50 JST occult

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     Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.

     #UNIX

     James Morris and prettygood like this.
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     occult (occult@vox.ominous.net)'s status on Saturday, 07-Mar-2026 01:27:54 JST occult

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     Boss: I need art for an article on #UNIX networking technologies for the next issue of UNIX WORLD.

     Artist: come back tomorrow.

     GreenSkyOverMe (Monika), Silver Huskey and prettygood and 3 others repeated this.
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     occult (occult@vox.ominous.net)'s status on Saturday, 07-Mar-2026 01:28:01 JST occult

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     Editor: quick! I need art to accompany the article on internationalization of #UNIX for our Dec 1985 issue!

     Illustrator on shrooms: say no more.

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     occult (occult@vox.ominous.net)'s status on Saturday, 07-Mar-2026 01:28:03 JST occult

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     • Devine Lu Linvega

     @neauoire we need to normalize Lisp fan art like this.

     #lisp

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     occult (occult@vox.ominous.net)'s status on Saturday, 07-Mar-2026 01:28:07 JST occult

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     There’s an LLM coding joke in here somewhere.

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     occult (occult@vox.ominous.net)'s status on Saturday, 07-Mar-2026 10:33:43 JST occult

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     • EVHaste

     @Haste Imagine thinking this illustration was appropriate for UNIX WORLD magazine in 1985, geared toward business users, not realizing that in 2026 it could be used as banner art for an LGBTQ+ self-hosted Mastodon instance.

     #UNIX

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     EVHaste (haste@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 07-Mar-2026 10:33:44 JST EVHaste

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     • Ysabeau

     @Ysabeau @occult oh that’s the thing, she’s actually casting a spell using computer magic

     I mainly do it to hex Republicans, and to compel the release of the Epstein files.

     Rich Felker repeated this.
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     EVHaste (haste@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 07-Mar-2026 10:33:45 JST EVHaste

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     @occult can confirm this is how I use technology already, get on my level 2026

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     Ysabeau (ysabeau@piaille.fr)'s status on Saturday, 07-Mar-2026 10:33:45 JST Ysabeau

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     • EVHaste

     @Haste @occult Wonderful, and you do what with this way of using technology? On the photo the woman seems to wave some threads.

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     occult (occult@vox.ominous.net)'s status on Saturday, 07-Mar-2026 20:25:42 JST occult

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     It's summer, 1985.

     I get a call from my buddy to open this month’s issue of UNIX WORLD magazine to page 110.

     I see they are preparing to standardize the C programming language.

     I say, “This is a good thing" under my breath.

     I am still punk as fuck.

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     occult (occult@vox.ominous.net)'s status on Saturday, 07-Mar-2026 20:25:54 JST occult

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     Oh, this is good...

     From UNIX World, 1985: "It finds the subtle bugs in my C programs" - Claude B. Finn.

     40 years later, people are using Claude to find bugs in programs. What's old is new again.

     #Anthropic #LLM #Claude #ClaudeCode #AI #Security #Programming #UNIX #C

     Deniz Opal repeated this.
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     occult (occult@vox.ominous.net)'s status on Saturday, 07-Mar-2026 20:26:05 JST occult

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     Hey #Fediverse! See you all at the 1985 California Computer Show.

     #UNIX #RetroComputing

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     occult (occult@vox.ominous.net)'s status on Saturday, 07-Mar-2026 20:26:18 JST occult

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     From a 1991 SunExpert magazine article about “What’s to come” for network protocols. The article depicts a man traveling into the 2020’s, seemingly unaware of the chaos he’ll find.

     He’s going to pass @prahou traveling back in time to 1991 to get some mint condition Sun workstations.

     #SunMicrosystems #UNIX

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     Miakoda (hellomiakoda@pdx.social)'s status on Sunday, 08-Mar-2026 00:11:58 JST Miakoda

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     @occult Wow, they predicted the world wide web sucking the ID and credit card straight out of your hands!

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     Miakoda (hellomiakoda@pdx.social)'s status on Sunday, 08-Mar-2026 02:58:06 JST Miakoda

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     @occult Well, I live in America. Those of us aware of reality tend to be pessimistic

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     occult (occult@vox.ominous.net)'s status on Sunday, 08-Mar-2026 02:58:09 JST occult

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     • Miakoda

     @hellomiakoda Well, that’s one way to interpret it. I don’t see it through such a pessimistic lens.

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     occult (occult@vox.ominous.net)'s status on Monday, 09-Mar-2026 08:48:06 JST occult

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     OBEY.

     BYTE Magazine, October 1983.

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     occult (occult@vox.ominous.net)'s status on Monday, 09-Mar-2026 08:48:09 JST occult

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     When someone asks me what the #Fediverse, #Mastodon or #ActivityPub is I'll use this illustration from UNIX Review, April 1985.

     #UNIX

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     occult (occult@vox.ominous.net)'s status on Monday, 09-Mar-2026 08:48:10 JST occult

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     These article illustrations are truly something.

     UNIX Review, April 1985.

     #UNIX #unix_surrealism

     Evan Prodromou and Tim Chambers repeated this.
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     occult (occult@vox.ominous.net)'s status on Monday, 09-Mar-2026 08:48:11 JST occult

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     Hey @prahou is your computer sad or happy?

     Is this Mr. Computo?

     From the May 1985 issue of UNIX WORLD magazine.

     #UNIX

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     occult (occult@vox.ominous.net)'s status on Monday, 09-Mar-2026 08:48:12 JST occult

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     They should re-create this steel-bound UNIX reference manual.

     #UNIX