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The Tandy Corporation-manufactured, Radio Shack-sold TRS-80 computer debuted in 1977. But now you can now add full polyphonic MIDI support. Assembly cost: about $35, via #opensource hw and sw.

People are making some amazing music with this rig. (In a separate hap, you can even do native video playback on the TRS-80 - seriously).

Vhttps://cdm.link/radio-shack-trs-80-tracker/

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Icepi Zero is an open source FPGA board in a Raspberry Pi Zero-sized form factor

Nearly a decade ago, Raspberry Pi showed that it’s possible to cram a fully functional computer into a tiny package that’s about the size of a stick of chewing gum or about the size of a USB flash drive. In time since the first Raspberry Pi Zero launched we’ve seen a bunch of updates as well as third-party boards with a similar design but different hardware.

But the Icepi Zero stands out for […]

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I just finished the 1st episode of the last #BlackMirror season. It hurt my feelings. And it feels very related to our current situation.

That's what would happen if we let corporations interested in maximum profit be the sole owners of the tech, and then control us.

And they are already doing so. We don't have a #FOSS #searchengine which works as good as #Google or #DuckDuckGo. Such these examples are very common.

And #AI/#ML techs are in hand of big techs, suited for them and not for the people. Of course, they publish the papers as #openscience. But what use is that when their models are built for expensive GPUs which a small company can't afford. Let alone common people like me.

Some people believe the way to fight these is regulation. But I highly doubt it. You can always find holes in the law. That's what lawyers commonly do.

But if we work on #opensource, on #opensourceai and on #OpenCulture, we can have a FOSS and #decentralized search engine which performs as good as the current mainstream search engines. Then Google will be automatically removed.

So next time someone asks me why I am a FOSS and #decentralization advocate, and why I so persistently pursue my goal of "AI for people"(and #wakegp as part of it), I'm gonna tell them watch few Black Mirror episodes so that they may understand which path chose the world has chosen for us, unless we choose a different path ourselves.

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@Vorinstanz Bin während meiner ersten Staatsarbeit 2006 auf OpenOffice umgestiegen, später dann LibreOffice. Habe es seitdem keinen Tag bereut.

(Verschieb mal eine Grafik in Word, ggf. auch auf eine andere Seite... 😉 Ich brauchte über 300 Grafiken für meine Arbeit. Wenn ich Datei heute, fast 20 Jahre später, öffne, sitzt noch alles, wo es sein soll. Das ging in Word noch nicht einmal nach einem Update...)

#OpenSource wo es möglich ist! Das ist fast überall der Fall!

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Collabora ist eine wichtige Stütze bei der Entwicklung der #LibreOffice-Codebasis und steuert ein Drittel der Programmentwicklung von LibreOffice bei. Collabora baut auf LibreOffice auf und macht dieses es für kleine, mittlere oder große Firmen unternehmenstauglich 💡

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