Monday, September 07
Daily News Stuff 7 September 2026
Fantasy Dimension Edition
Disclaimer: An enigma and a mystery in meso-American history.
Fantasy Dimension Edition
Top Story
- Your Roku TV now offers AI slop for free! (Engadget)
Never mind the quality, feel the width!
- Your LG TV is spying on you. (Notebook Check)
For once this is not even overstated.
Tech News
- Flock taught cops how to surveil "No Kings" protesters. (404 Media)
Just follow the trail of bloodied victims and looted bodegas?
- Microsoft has announced a stripped down version of Windows 11 for AI developers. (Tom's Hardware)
It requires only 64GB of RAM and 250GB per second of memory bandwidth.
- A look at the retro tech making a comeback. (Tech Crunch)
Now that AI has eaten all the real tech.
- Behold the website that never asked, "are we the assholes?" (The Verge)
Yes, The Verge. Yes you are. You are all the assholes.
- Today: Finished hammering Ada into alignment with Ruby (you won't believe this one weird trick), extended my home computer emulator with a tile and sprite editor, a wavetable editor, a music tracker, Forth, and local networking, and it's still under 64k, and built the application server of the suite.
Plus I bought an asset library of tiles and sprites for low-resolution adventure games - the tile size is 8x8 pixels, perfect for a retro look.
The tileset is 800MB. The computer I'm emulating doesn't have even 800kB.
Speaking of which, my initial design allowed for 128k of ROM. The Atari ST, which came a little over a year later, had 192k, and the Amiga had 256k - although neither one shipped with working ROMs; you needed a boot disk. So that seemed reasonable.
I've so far shoehorned in a Basic interpreter, a Basic compiler, a full screen editor, an assembler/disassembler, the above listed modules, and now Logo, and I'm just shy of 64k.
Musical Interlude
Disclaimer: An enigma and a mystery in meso-American history.
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