Celso Martinho

Man, Fallout's "okey-dokey" is contagious, now I use it all the time.

That’s one the problems, but the main one is that I need to stop buying classic computers out of impulse.

I never owned an Atari when I was young, but had a friend who had a 2600 and I remember playing Pac-Man and other classics on it.

The problem is that it seems I can’t stop adding retro classics to my collection.

I may have a problem.

#SuperBowlLX featured many creative ads, and as we have done in the past, we used aggregated, anonymized 1.1.1.1 DNS Resolver traffic to identify some of the most popular ones. Traffic growth was calculated by comparing request volume to a pre-game average baseline.

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Haunting.

Can't believe Djokovic defeated Sinner! 🤯

This was fun.

Politics and the English Language, January 2026 Edition Tim Cook’s call for “deescalation” is meaningless without specifying which side he’s calling upon to change course, and there’s no weaker sauce than the weak sauce of “both sides”.

It's colder in Minnesota, but the wind is gusting in Cupertino.

daringfireball.net/2026/01/po...

The EU Cookies law is burning forests now.

Storm Kristin hit Portugal early this morning with winds up to 150 km/h (93 miles/h), causing power and communication outages. Internet traffic dropped ~70% in Leiria after 04:00 UTC and remains impacted. Coimbra saw a ~52% drop from 05:30 but is now recovering.

We're living a unique moment in time where both half of the HN top posts are about AI and one post, trending, is about learning 6502 Assembly news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4677..., a CPU from the 70/80s. Love it.

Bubble Bobble: Lost Cave C64 by Dave's Retro Forge A true spiritual sequel to Bubble Bobble on Commodore 64!

Bubble Bobble is the game where I invested the most coins at the arcades. In single player mode, the game was endless bubblebobble.fandom.com/wiki/Bubble_... and I was skilled enough to play for hours on a single coin. Love this sequel for the C64, 40y later after the original version was released.

@adriansdigitalbasement.com looks like your website certificate expired

Nooooooo

Do I have a problem?

Hare Tarot Lies

Good stuff

Oh no, not he Château Margaux.

Portogallo

In the AI age what used to be a "ping" in the chat, is now "Dear Colleague, I hope this message finds you well. I am writing to inform you that I am currently present in the designated meeting room, awaiting your arrival for our scheduled discussion. I understand that unforeseen circumstances.......

Loving KiCad! It's been on my list to learn how to use it for ages. I will def. look into using buses to replace all those wires. Thanks for putting so much effort into the project, I will donate.

Same here.

- Playing on a Sinclair ZX81
- Talking to someone in Canada, from Portugal, over radio, antenna on my roof
- Connecting to a BBS over 1200 bauds, no error correction
- Engaging in Blueboxing (look it up, kids)
- Unix, UUCP, Usenet, X.25 comms
- The Internet, Gopher, Mosaic, first websites.

Commodore 64'ers know that '10PRINT' maze, the same can be achieved on a ZX Spectrum, using two lines

5 for i=0 to 7: poke usr "a"+i,2^i : poke usr "b"+i,2^(7-i) : next i
10 print "AB"(int(1.5+rnd));: goto 10

the result is as follows:

Dogs defecate in accordance with earth's magnetic field, research finds A scientific study has revealed that dogs adapt their excremental habits to be aligned with the earth’s axis

Who needs a compass when you have a dog? www.theguardian.com/news/datablo...

How it started: I'll just get this rare thingy to work, shouldn't take long. How it's going: I might as well reverse engineer the board, learn KiCad and draw the schematics.

The nominal restoration of #Internet connectivity in #Iran that was observed earlier today was apparently short-lived, as the small amount of traffic seen again fell to near-zero at 11:00 UTC (14:30 local time).

radar.cloudflare.com/traffic/ir?d...

Also já tenho uns 6 C64s em casa, alguém não iria gostar de mais um :)

Not what I was expecting.