* Posts by Ernst Blofelt

14 publicly visible posts • joined 10 May 2021

AI to power the corporate Windows 11 refresh? Nobody's buying that

Ernst Blofelt

the old skills of my 8 ,16 & 32 bit yoof

Fingers crossed my Paradox and Delphi skills will be back in demand again ;)

Macy's and Sunglass Hut sued for $10M over face-recog arrest and 'sexual assault'

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Re: Behind bars for a few hours

All inclusive by the sounds of things.

thank Jesus for Democracy innit

Nostalgic for VB? BASIC is anything but dead

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Why emulate when you can Z80-MBC2

Currently writing for BBCBasic on my z80 CP/M board

Basics will never die

Microsoft Basic80 and 85 are also available

on my Z80-MBC2 CP/M modern recreation of

the old 8 bit days

Currently building functions to send the escape

code to the terminal for changing colours and

drawing shapes.

It's got HiTech C, Assembler, Turbo Pascal, Turbo C

and forth available too

Glasgow staff form UK's first Apple union after historic vote

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Glasgow tips

One would imagine its more of a physical persuasion

than anything you could write down

What the Union anyway

IUnion ?

UK tax authority nudges net 'influencers': You may owe us for those OnlyFans feet pics

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Pay tax to kings cousin you can stuff it mate.

Pay tax, whilst we have a tax dodging Conservative government running the show

Well if it's good enough for the ex Chancellor or the current PM's Missus to avoid

any taxation then **** em.

Keep your heads down kiddies and just say no !

Apple seeks patent for 'innovation' resembling the ZX Spectrum, C64 and rPi 400

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Re: Size of a real keyboard?

I have a couple of these for my speccy collection

and even one for the zx81

Interesting to note most do not have a space bar !

This House believes: A unified, agnostic software environment can be achieved

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Re: You believe a unified software development method can be achieved?

Back in the 90's Greggs the Northern bakers ran on Delphi It's not just academic

A Windows 11 tsunami? No, more of a ripple as Microsoft's latest OS hits 5% PC market

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Good By M$ You planet destroying bollocks will not be tolerated any more

With the world on it's knees now it the time to tell M$ for F*** rite off with their bollocks

this is the time to tell them to stuff their totally artificial minimum spec where the sun

don't shine.

Facebook's greatest misses: The five nastiest bits from recent leaks

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And they had the cheek to ban me repeatedly

But on the plus side I get a lot more done these days

when Trumps social media site open anyway ?

Analogue tones of a ZX Spectrum Load set to ride again via podcast project

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Inner City Unit did this on vinyl years ago

Inner City Unit, a spinoff from Hawkwind, released an album called ... The last song on the record – 'ZX Spectrum Code' – contains the audio ...

Realizing this is getting out of hand, Coq mulls new name for programming language

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Back in the 90's

Back in the 90s in an Oil tech company we would not start a project until we had a worked out a rude name for the project.

it was the only we we could get the documentations done.

that was before we had project managers and all that bollocks

still the manuals looks lovely on the shelve.

Basecamp CEO issues apology after 'no political discussions at work' edict blows up in his face

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I'll lay off politics

I quite happy to lay off politics at work when they stop taxing me ;)

A trip to the dole queue: CEO of $2bn Bay Area tech biz says he was fired for taking LSD before company meeting

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Re: Acid - don't do it...

Do people still do LSD

It's been DMT round these parts for years now

Shift-work: Keyboards heaped in a field push North Yorks council's fly-tipping buttons

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Re: Some white ones visible on the pictures

Never mind the noise when doing the actual dumping