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tomconteon How Trump's second term just made digital sovereignty a European priority

There are many alternatives. Check out https://european-alternatives.eu

tomconteon How Trump's second term just made digital sovereignty a European priority

I recently found this site: https://european-alternatives.eu. I think there are many EU-based alternatives to U.S. tech that are not very well-known.

I have started moving some personal stuff to Codeberg and statichost.eu.

tomconteon GitHub issue - resolved

Time for another coffee

tomconteon Bitcoin Approaches $10,000 a piece

I think most people buy Bitcoin for its speculative value but never use it as a currency to actually buy or sell stuff.

tomconteon The Unix Time Sharing System (1974) [pdf]

Annotated by whom?

tomconteon Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platform Code Editor

Get it from https://code.visualstudio.com/Download

tomconteon How we open sourced Instagram

Based on Brad Larson's GPUImage, amazing OpenGL based image filters library, very hackable if you learn GLSL :)

tomconteon Python for iOS

Does anyone have a list of all existing interpreters in the App Store? This would be a nice compilation for newbies to programming, teaching kids to program, etc.

tomconteon Developers in Demand: Patform As A Service Is Key to Growth of Mobile Cloud

Isn't he talking about "Backend as a service"? Shouldn't he mention Parse or StackMob or Appcelerator Cloud Services, etc.?

tomconteon Introducing the New Commodore 64

You may also like Michael Steil's awesome "Ultimate Commodore 64 Talk": http://www.pagetable.com/?p=54

Amazing technical overview of the C64, including the latest in demo effects, in 64 minutes.

tomconteon Introducing the New Commodore 64

OK, when in doubt about any C64 stuff, the only place to go is the Lemon64 forum, and this seems to be real...

IN 1982, BOTH THE ORIGINAL COMMODORE "C64" & DISNEY'S BLOCKBUSTER "TRON" WERE RELEASED. ALMOST 30 YEARS LATER, THEY BOTH SIMULTANEOUSLY RE APPEAR ON APRIL 5, 2011.

http://www.lemon64.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=37431&highl...

And if you are like me an Unbeliever, check out Disney's TRON partners page:

http://disney.go.com/tron/index_flash.html#/partners

tomconteon Introducing the New Commodore 64

I bought a HardSID 4U because I'm not a soldering kind of guy: http://www.hardsid.com/

Awesome little box.

tomconteon Introducing the New Commodore 64

This is obviously an April's Fools joke, except they missed the deadline, which is typical Commodore ;-)

In other news, if you want to join 60,000+ fans of the REAL C64, there's a Facebook Page for that: http://www.facebook.com/c64.fans