Digital hoarder confession time: I’ve been thinking about the Amiga a lot lately. 2025 marks the 40th anniversary of the Amiga’s debut at the Consumer Electronics Show in 1985, and honestly, I’m still blown away by what that machine accomplished.
🎮 The Machine That Changed Everything
The Amiga 1000 wasn’t just another computer - it was a revolution disguised as a beige box. While everyone else was struggling with 8-bit graphics and basic sound, the Amiga was doing things that wouldn’t become mainstream for another decade.
Super Mario Bros didn’t just define a genre—it created the blueprint for what video games could become. Released in 1985 for the Nintendo Entertainment System, this masterpiece transformed a simple plumber into gaming’s most recognizable icon.
Blackberry’s executives were sitting around a table, debating what to do now after they ruined 98% of the companies’ products and brand and then somebody said, hey we actually worked on stuff and had some ideas at some point, right? Before we fired all the engineers, sooooo, let’s just go on a patent trolling rampage…
I still did not manage to see Alien Covenant, but at least now I know what
Alien could have been back in 1979 if they would not have insisted on
playing it so damn straight …
Okay, so there is a new Blade Runner coming in October. I am not sure what
to expect and I am a bit scared. Will this be the next “Prometheus”? Or will
it be good?
Guy’s a friggin’ genius, I tell you. The facts have been selected in a way
to really trigger people from the States, but maybe this even makes me
appreciate it more.
The backfire effect describes that when contradictory evidence is processed,
your beliefs (which are being contradicted) get even stronger. (good article
at the Boston Globe archive)
This great video on Vimeo shows how close these 2 movies link together.
Obviously firing the spoiler horn here!
The end of Rogue One, where Darth Vader is shown as the endboss he is,
leads perfectly to the start of Episode IV. It is not really clear how long
the chase in the meantime actually is, maybe days, weeks or months, but this
is where it starts.
This seems to be a bad week for virtualization. First vmware gets escaped
from during pwn2own Link to day 3
and now Project Zero finds a QEMU bug that allows unprivileged users in a VM
to insert code into privileged processes, allowing for unprivileged VM
takeover.
Interesting visualization. E.g. in capitalisms, the apples cost money, so you
cannot just eat them, not going to spoil the others. Especially the more
unorthodox ones.
Some guy quipped on twitter today “S3 is the internet’s harddrive” and boy
was there a harddrive hickup yesterday. And nowadays, with the internet
sucking up reality into its claws to morph into the internet of things.
Things really start to go to shit if there is no brain in your devices
anymore. You cannot turn on the light. The mouse on your desk ceases
working, because it cannot connect to its cloud-based settings. Your fridge
goes bananas because it does not know how to cool the single compartments.
Your door does not know anymore which transponder is the one that is
programmed to open it.
Google, with version 56 of their Chrome browser brings us another fun
security nightmare. The ability for the browser to fingerprint your
Bluetooth devices. If your browser viewport, plugins, colors, screen size,
browser version, operating system, fonts and all the other wonderful things
are not enough to track you, now your friendly tracking network can also
check how many and which Bluetooth devices you have, …
We are really ending up in a world, where you really, really, really need to
know what you are doing if you do not want to be tracked all over the place.
Great collection of magazine covers with British Sci-Fi covers. Great
Captain Futurey-vibe, this has. Maybe we got a bit of track with the stuff,
we actually built…
What are the things that you probably expect, when you are having to check a
lot of lockers, to make sure everything is safe and sound? Probably not
this…
Whenever Donald Trump mentions a specific company name, there is a
measurable effect on their stock price. Someone created a bot to take
advantage of this and make some profit mostly by short-selling (i.e.
speculating on a stock to fall / become cheaper very soon.)
There are some choices. Obivously I wanted to base this here site on a
font that gives a nice retro feeling. However, I do not want to load up
the site with unnecessary baggage, third party fonts, etc., so only
solutions are really acceptable that are natively supported.
So at the moment, my retro-feely-font is just the normal
