Notices by LittleAlex 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇩🇪🇳🇴 (littlealex@infosec.exchange)

Gerade gefunden in einer nicht genannt werden wollenden Behörde des Bundes...

PS: Nein, auch wenn es so klingt, es war nicht Sachsen, sondern Preussen.

Brilliant, the youth is not completely lost.

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#ai #punk #GenAlpha

'Nations need to prepare now': Key Atlantic ocean current is much closer to collapse than scientists thought | Live Science

#science #climate

https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/climate-change/nations-need-to-prepare-now-key-atlantic-ocean-current-is-much-closer-to-collapse-than-scientists-thought

#trump #uspol #ballroom

How 12,000 Tonnes of Dumped Orange Peel Grew Into a Landscape Nobody Expected to Find

https://www.sciencealert.com/how-12-000-tonnes-of-dumped-orange-peel-produced-something-nobody-imagined

#science #environment

John Bradley, the author of XV died. Who ever had a computer in the 1990s used his picture viewer.

#rip #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing

Paul Iadonisi on Gab: 'Got some very sad news this week. For anyone who h…'
https://gab.com/markofafreeman/posts/116290669616400528

A Wind-Powered Tumbleweed That Heals the Desert as It Rolls

#science

https://www.yankodesign.com/2026/03/20/a-wind-powered-tumbleweed-that-heals-the-desert-as-it-rolls/

#jailbreak #hack #f35 #uspol

Researcher builds bizarre 128-byte USB drive the size of a dinner plate using ancient pre-semiconductor magnetic core memory technology — data disappears once it is read, requiring special handling

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/usb-flash-drives/researcher-builds-bizarre-128-byte-usb-drive-the-size-of-a-dinner-plate-using-ancient-pre-semiconductor-magnetic-core-memory-technology-data-disappears-once-it-is-read-requiring-special-handling

Europe often sees Ukraine only as a victim. That is a dangerous oversimplification.

Ukraine is a major military power in its own right. For the last two centuries, most so-called russian victories depended heavily on Ukraine.

Against Napoleon Bonaparte, the Russian Empire relied on Ukrainian manpower, food supplies, horses, and Cossack cavalry. Against Adolf Hitler, millions of Ukrainians fought in the Red Army, while Ukrainian industry, agriculture, and territory were decisive for Soviet victory.

The same pattern appeared in darker chapters of European history. The partition of Poland, the Warsaw Pact’s military threat, the war against Finland, and even the war in Afghanistan were all enabled by imperial armies that included massive Ukrainian participation.

In the USSR, the most advanced intercontinental ballistic missiles were designed and manufactured in Ukraine and serviced by Ukrainians until 2014. Ukrainians made up roughly 40% of Soviet army officers in the 1980s. The world’s largest cargo aircraft was built in Ukraine. russia wants all of this back — and without Ukraine, its missiles now explode on roughly every second launch.

Ukraine also possesses around 30% of the world’s black soil, the most fertile agricultural land on Earth — an enormous source of strategic leverage. In addition, Ukraine holds major mineral resources, including uranium, ranking among the top ten countries globally by uranium reserves.

History shows a simple rule: russia looks strongest when it controls Ukraine.

If russia absorbs Ukraine today, Europe will not face a tired or weakened aggressor. It will face the strongest and most experienced army on the continent — reinforced by Ukrainian manpower, battlefield experience, and industrial capacity.

“Without Ukraine, russia ceases to be an empire. With Ukraine suborned and then subordinated, russia automatically becomes an empire.” — Zbigniew Brzezinski

Ukraine can become the backbone of Europe’s defense against russia. Or, if left unsupported, it can be forcibly absorbed — and then brought to Europe’s doorstep.

Supporting Ukraine is not charity. It is strategic self-defense.

Author: Volodymyr Kukharenko

#ukraine #russia #nafo

Trolling influencers is the best trolling.

#trollingisaart

Trolling is a art.

#trollingisaart

In 1967, the "Urbanina" was an innovative electric microcar launched in Italy, marking the second generation of electric cars in the country.

Designed for efficiency in urban transportation, this compact vehicle focused on sustainable mobility long before this concept became popular.

The Urbanina represented a pioneering vision of mobility in urban environments, anticipating the current ecological transport solutions.

#ev #verkehrswende #electricvehicles

The renaming of the "Gulf of Mexico" to the "Gulf of America" has nothing to do with projecting dominance or even conveying meaning. It is more like Stalinist propaganda. That was not about convincing anyone either, but about dividing people into groups. Those who repeat it – they are "your people." Those who protest against it – they are the ones you need to deal with. Those who say nothing – they don’t matter; they will stay silent on other things as well.

https://www.theverge.com/news/609772/google-maps-gulf-of-america-rename-mexico

#trump #usa #gulfofmexico #gulfofamerica

It's a Commodore Plus/4, some already wrote this.

The Commodore Plus/4 is a 7501 or 8501 microprocessor-based home computer from the US manufacturer Commodore International.

The device was initially designed in mid-1983 under the name Commodore 264 as an inexpensive addition to the successful Commodore VC 20 and Commodore 64 home computers. In addition, the new model was primarily intended to take market share from the Sinclair ZX Spectrum. The technical and design data of the computer had to be subordinated in particular to the maximum manufacturing costs of 50 US dollars specified by the company management. The special TED module was then used to significantly reduce the number of electronic circuits and design a smaller housing, but without maintaining backwards compatibility with Commodore VC 20 and 64. While the TED was still being developed, Commodore decided to realign the product towards an application-oriented device for smaller offices. The associated upgrade to 64 kilobytes (KB) of RAM and the implementation of the permanently installed 3-plus-1 application software ultimately led to a considerable increase in price and the renaming of the computer to Commodore Plus/4.

The device, which was initially only delivered in North America from autumn 1984, was advertised as a „productivity computer“ (home user computer) and offered in retail stores for 299 US dollars. Shortly afterwards, other sales markets such as Europe were added. Due to the poor sales, sometimes drastic price reductions quickly followed, which resulted in a complete sale by Commodore after Christmas 1985. The computer gained notoriety in West Germany mainly through the computer learning course that Aldi offered on sale from 1986, a package consisting of Commodore Plus/4 along with a data recorder and additional beginner literature.

Due to the low hardware and software compatibility with the previous models, a lack of graphics capabilities for the gaming sector (sprites) and only limited sound generation, the Commodore Plus/4 was not a great commercial success despite otherwise good technical key figures and powerful peripheral devices. In contrast to the Commodore 64, the Commodore Plus/4 was only able to contribute a small part to the original goal of wresting market leadership from Sinclair with only around 830,000 devices sold worldwide. Production –including the technically limited entry-level variants Commodore 16 and Commodore 116 – was discontinued in 1985 after gradual throttling, as sales of the older but better supported Commodore 64 reached unexpected heights. In addition, significantly more powerful successors were now available with the company's own models such as the Commodore 128 and the Amiga 1000, but also the ST series from its direct competitor Atari.

The integrated 3-plus-1 software package consists of four closely interlinked application programs whose data can be easily exchanged with each other using a simple window-based user interface. The built-in word processing, with its limited range of functions (formatting commands, searches, character replacement, output of 80 characters per line supported) and the cumbersome operation (control characters only effective when printed), is not suitable for professional purposes, nor is the spreadsheet due to the maximum screen column width of only 40 characters, the tables can only display small excerpts (3 × 12 of 17 × 50 fields) and are therefore very confusing. In addition, the included graphics program does not take advantage of the Plus/4s capabilities to display the table data, so that the number series can only be visualized in the form of roughly resolved column diagrams. With a maximum of 17 fields of 38 characters and therefore a total of only 999 storable pieces of information, file management also meets non-professional requirements such as use in warehousing.

#retrocomputing #challenge

@mxk @stirz @Thorsten_Guenther @onion
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@cymaphore @blakespot

Guess the computer from a look at it's backside!

#retrocomputing #challenge

Today in 1959 Dave Brubeck quartet released their single "Take Five". It's one of the Jazz standards today, was used in several movie sound tracks and still receives a significant radio airtime.

The song was not written by Dave Brubeck as many believe but by Paul Desmond (on saxophon).

#jazz #davebrubeck #takefive

Guess the computer from a look at it's backside!

Hint: It is very close related to Linux.

#retrocomputing #challenge

FYI it's still 2024.

Office network, ca. 1970

#vintagecomputing