Hoe Poetin onze kinderen kan recruteren; makkelijk. Havo-scholier ging op pad voor ‘coole’ pro-Russische hackers. Een 17-jarige jongen, handig met computers, wordt door – vermoedelijk – 🇷🇺 hackers ingeschakeld om veldwerk te doen. Nu staat hij terecht wegens spionage. www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
Havo-scholier ging op pad voor ‘coole’ pro-Russische hackers
Spionage: Een zeventienjarige jongen uit het midden van het land, handig met computers, wordt door – vermoedelijk – Russische hackers ingeschakeld om veldwerk te doen. Nu staat hij terecht wegens spio...
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December 26, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Hoe Poetin onze kinderen kan recruteren; makkelijk. Havo-scholier ging op pad voor ‘coole’ pro-Russische hackers. Een 17-jarige jongen, handig met computers, wordt door – vermoedelijk – 🇷🇺 hackers ingeschakeld om veldwerk te doen. Nu staat hij terecht wegens spionage. www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
My point is that it is entirely possible to put cops in computers (printers also have cops in them!).
December 26, 2025 at 7:43 PM
My point is that it is entirely possible to put cops in computers (printers also have cops in them!).
I mean there’s a cop in ~every computer already! HDCP is exactly that. Without getting into the normative claims, it is entirely possible to put cops in computers!
December 26, 2025 at 7:41 PM
I mean there’s a cop in ~every computer already! HDCP is exactly that. Without getting into the normative claims, it is entirely possible to put cops in computers!
Even though I can do arithmetic in my head, I still use computers to calculate their grades because they're less likely to make an error. This is the opposite of what LLMs do.
December 26, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Even though I can do arithmetic in my head, I still use computers to calculate their grades because they're less likely to make an error. This is the opposite of what LLMs do.
Bradley: "Some computers will start thinking soon."
Gibbs: "Won't that be grand. The computers will start thinking and the people will stop."
- Tron (1982)
Gibbs: "Won't that be grand. The computers will start thinking and the people will stop."
- Tron (1982)
December 26, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Bradley: "Some computers will start thinking soon."
Gibbs: "Won't that be grand. The computers will start thinking and the people will stop."
- Tron (1982)
Gibbs: "Won't that be grand. The computers will start thinking and the people will stop."
- Tron (1982)
There's something extra in music made by humans playing instruments together that computers and synthesizers just can't do, though I do enjoy some beats and hip-hop.
December 26, 2025 at 6:38 PM
There's something extra in music made by humans playing instruments together that computers and synthesizers just can't do, though I do enjoy some beats and hip-hop.
Absolutely. Never exceeded 125 dollars in a month. I know exactly what uses the most electricity (the AC in summer in the south), the daily always on (computers, and related), and the least (the LED bulbs which includes the christmas tree lights). Suggest you do some reading on the topic.
December 26, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Absolutely. Never exceeded 125 dollars in a month. I know exactly what uses the most electricity (the AC in summer in the south), the daily always on (computers, and related), and the least (the LED bulbs which includes the christmas tree lights). Suggest you do some reading on the topic.
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💻Yes, in 1987, a fake email Christmas card hit IBM computers. Open it, and you'll see a tree… but it secretly sends itself to everyone in your contacts.
👉 Follow @digital.debriefs
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December 26, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Fact Check #Friday:
🎄 Did a computer virus ruin Christmas in the 1980s?
💻Yes, in 1987, a fake email Christmas card hit IBM computers. Open it, and you'll see a tree… but it secretly sends itself to everyone in your contacts.
👉 Follow @digital.debriefs
🔗 digitaldebriefs.com
#OSINT #december #hack
🎄 Did a computer virus ruin Christmas in the 1980s?
💻Yes, in 1987, a fake email Christmas card hit IBM computers. Open it, and you'll see a tree… but it secretly sends itself to everyone in your contacts.
👉 Follow @digital.debriefs
🔗 digitaldebriefs.com
#OSINT #december #hack
well like the last millennials had computers and internet their whole school journey we were the prototype zoomers are the early access and maybe gen alpha is just alpha?
December 26, 2025 at 6:09 PM
well like the last millennials had computers and internet their whole school journey we were the prototype zoomers are the early access and maybe gen alpha is just alpha?
There is still a large portion of them who still think that Japan is the only nation associated with Asia that modernized and has both internet access and gamers... and that almost the entire world has no internet access, computers, and even electricity, and are trapped in the 1930's technology wise
December 26, 2025 at 6:03 PM
There is still a large portion of them who still think that Japan is the only nation associated with Asia that modernized and has both internet access and gamers... and that almost the entire world has no internet access, computers, and even electricity, and are trapped in the 1930's technology wise
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It's a shame because one thing computers are excellent at is storing records accurately.
December 26, 2025 at 5:16 PM
It's a shame because one thing computers are excellent at is storing records accurately.
to be fair, music made on computers is also human made, unless it is "ai" made. then it is completely lifeless nonsense and i agree.
but there is a lot of soul and emotion to be found in music made with computers, sometimes just with one instrument too, like a single analogue synth.
but there is a lot of soul and emotion to be found in music made with computers, sometimes just with one instrument too, like a single analogue synth.
December 26, 2025 at 5:01 PM
to be fair, music made on computers is also human made, unless it is "ai" made. then it is completely lifeless nonsense and i agree.
but there is a lot of soul and emotion to be found in music made with computers, sometimes just with one instrument too, like a single analogue synth.
but there is a lot of soul and emotion to be found in music made with computers, sometimes just with one instrument too, like a single analogue synth.
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Some bullshit mercenary hacker organizations existed so long ago? Ah well I guess CIA or something similar started using this kind of bullshit for politics when it might've existed for scam and blackmail purposes since the dawn of computers.
December 26, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Some bullshit mercenary hacker organizations existed so long ago? Ah well I guess CIA or something similar started using this kind of bullshit for politics when it might've existed for scam and blackmail purposes since the dawn of computers.
Banking and insurance is bad enough.
I've been dealing with my state's unemployment benefits site this year; forget tech debt, it needs to declare technical bankruptcy.
Next, let's talk about the need for perfect code when dealing with small systems: computers in vehicles, hospital equipment, etc.
I've been dealing with my state's unemployment benefits site this year; forget tech debt, it needs to declare technical bankruptcy.
Next, let's talk about the need for perfect code when dealing with small systems: computers in vehicles, hospital equipment, etc.
December 26, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Banking and insurance is bad enough.
I've been dealing with my state's unemployment benefits site this year; forget tech debt, it needs to declare technical bankruptcy.
Next, let's talk about the need for perfect code when dealing with small systems: computers in vehicles, hospital equipment, etc.
I've been dealing with my state's unemployment benefits site this year; forget tech debt, it needs to declare technical bankruptcy.
Next, let's talk about the need for perfect code when dealing with small systems: computers in vehicles, hospital equipment, etc.
Yep.
Coder bro oligarchs are running the planet. The Bond movie "Skyfall" was creepily instructive.
Physical currency was a good countermeasure, but people are lazy and gave it up for computers.
Coder bro oligarchs are running the planet. The Bond movie "Skyfall" was creepily instructive.
Physical currency was a good countermeasure, but people are lazy and gave it up for computers.
December 26, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Yep.
Coder bro oligarchs are running the planet. The Bond movie "Skyfall" was creepily instructive.
Physical currency was a good countermeasure, but people are lazy and gave it up for computers.
Coder bro oligarchs are running the planet. The Bond movie "Skyfall" was creepily instructive.
Physical currency was a good countermeasure, but people are lazy and gave it up for computers.
Oh boy, I can't wait for the entire airline industry to get shut down for a few days again.
I had a programming teacher who once told the class "Computers are not smart, they are like 2 year olds. You tell them one wrong instruction and everything falls apart."
I had a programming teacher who once told the class "Computers are not smart, they are like 2 year olds. You tell them one wrong instruction and everything falls apart."
December 26, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Oh boy, I can't wait for the entire airline industry to get shut down for a few days again.
I had a programming teacher who once told the class "Computers are not smart, they are like 2 year olds. You tell them one wrong instruction and everything falls apart."
I had a programming teacher who once told the class "Computers are not smart, they are like 2 year olds. You tell them one wrong instruction and everything falls apart."
From one tonne of old #computers and notebooks… we can recover 70 kilograms of #copper 140 grams of #silver and 30 grams of #gold
December 26, 2025 at 4:42 PM
From one tonne of old #computers and notebooks… we can recover 70 kilograms of #copper 140 grams of #silver and 30 grams of #gold
December 26, 2025 at 4:40 PM
I had a dream last night that today was broken and only had 17 hours because the other ones were corrupt and couldn’t be loaded. I think I need to spend less time around computers
December 26, 2025 at 4:37 PM
I had a dream last night that today was broken and only had 17 hours because the other ones were corrupt and couldn’t be loaded. I think I need to spend less time around computers
Ok, I'm no IT professional, but if the BIOS is so important to keeping the computer running long term, why doesn't it update automatically? Why all this work to a) figure out that's the problem, and b) update the thing? #computers #stressful
December 26, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Ok, I'm no IT professional, but if the BIOS is so important to keeping the computer running long term, why doesn't it update automatically? Why all this work to a) figure out that's the problem, and b) update the thing? #computers #stressful
It's because EVs are moving from an expensive niche market to mass market. Similar things were happening in relation to resale values of computers which were expensive 12-18 months previously in the nineties for the same reasons - the newer ones are both better and cheaper.
December 26, 2025 at 4:30 PM
It's because EVs are moving from an expensive niche market to mass market. Similar things were happening in relation to resale values of computers which were expensive 12-18 months previously in the nineties for the same reasons - the newer ones are both better and cheaper.
using AI is just another abdication of the regular human responsibility to actually live. most of the things computers do for us would be great skills to have, like remembering phone numbers, driving in reverse, or actually relating to another human being face to face and learning social skills
December 26, 2025 at 4:28 PM
using AI is just another abdication of the regular human responsibility to actually live. most of the things computers do for us would be great skills to have, like remembering phone numbers, driving in reverse, or actually relating to another human being face to face and learning social skills
Hehe! There's more info about the machine (this one is the same but rebranded) here - chrisacorns.computinghistory.org.uk/Computers/LT...
Chris's Acorns: LTM Portable
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December 26, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Hehe! There's more info about the machine (this one is the same but rebranded) here - chrisacorns.computinghistory.org.uk/Computers/LT...