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While doing an unrelated Google search, I discovered a Youtube video about a fascinating toy from the 70's. I've never owned or seen one of these, but the way they managed to make the toy seem to be intelligent is just amazing. There's no computer chips, no data processing, none of that. Just an 8-Track player at the heart of the thing. 2XL: The '70s Toy that Faked AI with an 8-Track: youtube.com/watch?v=amuRIydCoJ…

2XL - The ‘70s toy that faked A.I. with an 8-Track

2-XL - a smart toy created from a very simple idea. 00:00 Start 00:55 Power 01:54 Testing 1203:23 Player repair07:37 Cart repair11:18 First demo14:05 Talking...
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David Goldfield

I had a 2XL back in the day. It really was just an 8-track tape player with four buttons to jump too each of the tracks. Each track was recorded in such a way that, whenn you switched tracks at the right time, you'd get a different response. As you say, it had no intelligence but it sure did a nice job faking it. Unless you were one of thhose kids who understood how 8-track tapes worked.
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@DavidGoldfield I also had a 2XL, didn't know how it worked until long after they were both dead. I had two, not at the same time, and quite a few tapes. Some were, Battman's Gotham City, Riply's Believe it or Not, Spiderman (unsure of full title,) and Music Maker, which was the coolest one! It allowed you to use diferent musical snippets to make a song! Primitive now of course.
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Meme en seis viñetas: "¿Qué somos?! "¡¡Funcionarios!!" "¿Qué defendemos?" "¡¡Lo público!!" "¿Y qué queremos?" "¡¡Que no nos quiten la Sanidad Privada!!"

El abogado del Estado Edmundo Bal sobre MUFACE: "es una auténtica vergüenza que el Gobierno nos deje de...

El concierto de Mutualidad General de Funcionarios Civiles del Estado (MUFACE) ha quedado desierto. Las aseguradoras que hasta ahora prestaban este servicio, Adeslas, ASISA y DKV, han optado por no presentarse al nuevo convenio vigente para 2025-2026…
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Damnit 念无双people, why are you stingy with the promos??
Ok at this rate I want to say all I want is for A Moment But Forever to release now so that I can stare at the pretty people.
Ok ONE specific pretty person, admittedly.
Also realised that it's not that I dislike #xianxia. So much of xianxia is catered to the 20s demographic. I want the characters to be more mature and older. We older folks want our fantasy stories too & this is a rare one that caters to older audiences.

#Cdrama #Cdramas

#CDrama #CDramas #xianxia
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Cinco detenidos en #Brasil🇧🇷 (un policía y cuatro miembros de las fuerzas especiales del Ejército) por planificar el asesinato del entonces todavía presidente electo Lula, del vicepresidente electo Geraldo Alckmin y el juez del Supremo Alexandre de Moraes en diciembre de 2022

Detalle: han sido detenidos en Río de Janeiro, mientras operaban en la protección de la cumbre del #G20

#golpe #terrorismo #política #noticias
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#Brasil #noticias #política #golpe #terrorismo #G20
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Oha, das ist provokativ: Dieser Blogartikel sagt:

- Nutzt kein #PGP / #GPG
- Nutzt kein #XMPP + OMEMO
- Nutzt kein #Matrix (im Sinne: verlasst euch nicht auf die Verschlüsselung)
- E-Mails verschlüsseln ist sinnlos

Ich kenne den Autor nicht und würde ihn nicht erwähnen, würde der Artikel nicht in ernstzunehmenden ITSec-Newslettern zitiert

soatok.blog/2024/11/15/what-to…

Meinungen? #itsec #security


What To Use Instead of PGP - Dhole Moments

It’s been more than five years since The PGP Problem was published, and I still hear from people who believe that using PGP (whether GnuPG or another OpenPGP implementation) is a thing they s…
Dhole Moments
#xmpp #matrix #gpg #security #pgp #itsec

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Good morning Fediversistas! We walk out into winter once more, the snow thick on the ground, the dawn delayed by ominous clouds, the air sharp in our lungs, snowballs collect on leg fur and wellington boots, fingers tingle as we remove gloves to feed the swans, we are grateful for the snow, for the pictures it paints across the landscape, for the new day, and we walk on into it
A willow tree beside a brook in a snowy tree lined valley on a wintry morning

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Discover the Buddhist Diamond Sutra, the World’s Oldest Surviving Complete Printed Book (868 AD)

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Discover the Buddhist Diamond Sutra, the World's Oldest Surviving Complete Printed Book (868 AD)

It isn't easy to say which book is the oldest in the world, because the answer depends on what, exactly qualifies as a book.
Colin Marshall (Openculture.com)

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El nuevo reglamento de Extranjería incluirá una regularización excepcional de miles de migrantes que pidieron asilo sin éxito

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El nuevo reglamento de Extranjería incluirá una regularización excepcional de miles de migrantes que pidieron asilo sin éxito

La reforma del reglamento de la Ley de Extranjería será aprobada este martes en el Consejo de Ministros.
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Pro-democracy activist Benny Tai has been jailed for 10 years over organizing an unofficial primary election in 2020, as Hong Kong’s High Court delivered sentences in the city’s largest national security case to date. hongkongfp.com/2024/11/19/brea…

Benny Tai, Joshua Wong among 45 Hong Kong pro-democracy activists jailed up to 10 years in landmark national security case

Benny Tai was among 45 Hong Kong pro-democracy figures sentenced on Tuesday after being convicted of conspiring to commit subversion.
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🧣Artist: #DavidZinn in City: #Tipton #HiddenLakeGardens MI USA 🇺🇸 11/2024 - Title:
🟡 "Anastasia waits for good luck to
fall into her lap. 🍀🐹
🔴 "Anastasia wartet darauf, dass ihr
das Glück in den Schoß fällt."
#StreetArt #Art #Chalkart #Artist #SidewalkChalk #3DArt #Optimism #Luck #GoodMorning !
Streetart. A small hamster (named Anastasia) with a tree was painted with chalk on the tiled floor next to a flower pot. It sits next to a (painted) tree trunk in a (painted) hole and looks up into the treetops. However, these are not painted, but small shamrocks that grow next to the clay pot and have been integrated into the chalk painting without further ado. Title: "Anastasia waits for good luck to fall into her lap."
#art #artist #3dart #goodmorning #streetart #davidzinn #chalkart #sidewalkchalk #optimism #tipton #hiddenlakegardens #luck

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Want to see a more comprehensive list of uninstallable programs? Or want to get rid of a pesky program that just doesn't budge? Download this install/uninstall trouble shooter. It's pretty neat! support.microsoft.com/en-us/to…

Fix problems that block programs from being installed or removed - Microsoft Support

The Program Install and Uninstall troubleshooter helps you automatically repair issues when you're blocked from installing or removing programs.
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[Forum Topic] Brilliant Hack and Video! Buy the Base Model and Put your Home Folder on an External Thunderbolt Drive applevis.com/forum/macos-mac-a…

Brilliant Hack and Video! Buy the Base Model and Put your Home Folder on an External Thunderbolt Drive | AppleVis

This video popped up in my feed and I thought it was so great, I had to share it. the new Macs from Apple come with 256 GB as the base hard drive configuration in the Mac Mini and the iMac.
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