Within 5 years Dell will be a dead zombie company, bought out by someone who will nominally sustain the brand name for a short while. Dell is going the way of Gateway.
It is intentionally making its own workers hate the company.
If you are interested in presenting "work in progress" that intersects computing and society, consider submitting a talk to ACM SIGCAS Works In Progress (WIP). These are online discussions where you can present your work, discuss it with the SIGCAS community, and gain insightful feedback.
"ACM... has announced the publication of the first issue of the ACM Journal on Responsible Computing (JRC). The new journal publishes high-quality original research at the intersection of computing, ethics, information, law, policy, responsible innovation, and social responsibility from a wide range of convergent, interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, and transdisciplinary perspectives."
I miss computers with switches and blinky lights. Back in the day, i booted systems from switches and reels of mag tape. At least you knew they were doing something while they were doing it. Now, we hav progress bars that estimate time on some other planet.
3D illustration for a 2006 issue of the Dutch ComputerTotaal magazine, about the SABNZBD tool, which was (is?) much-used for concatenating multi-part downloads from Usenet newsgroups.
The SIGBOVIK 2024 conference papers make interesting reading
"SIGBOVIK - is an annual multidisciplinary conference specializing in lesser-known areas of academic research such as Integer-Based Vulnerabilities, Natural Intelligence, and Cloud Offload in Hostile Environments."
#TSB switched us from Visa to Mastercard. Fine, but the Mastercard never appears in your online banking account so there’s no way to pay it off. As of today, the balances for all accounts have vanished on Vivaldi, though you can still see them on Firefox. Still no credit card entry though.
They’ve had how many years to prepare this transition?
I don’t think I should be charged any interest at all for the last two weeks. #computing#SNAFU
Watercolor painting and a fountain pen drawing of connecting to Internet through a server on WebTV. My family used to have a WebTV from Dish Network. I remember seeing and hearing this from 2000-2002 ('02) . I would hear the sound effects many times, especially the music. I would watch WebTV news, sports, and the weather and also play DOOM #WebTV#watercolor#watercolorpainting#fountainpen#computer#computing#taysuisketches#Microsoft#microsoftwebtv
DELIGHTED to say that my latest tech history column is live on Every and they've made this one free-to-read.
Because it covers one of the most overlooked founders of the golden age of computing: Lore Harp McGovern, founder of Vector Graphic who pioneered small/medium business computing.
i cannot get over how good this piece of writing by @neauoire is. this is (i think) the first time i've been brought to tears while reading about technology
Fascinating article from IEEE Spectrum that discusses the carbon footprint of software and how we can both measure and improve it: https://spectrum.ieee.org/green-software
The benefit is not only less carbon, but following some of the principles that are outlined can decrease costs and improve efficiency.
The article references tools such as Firefox Profiler and Ecograder as well as an open source Sustainable Software Engineering course.