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I don't remember where I got them, but I think they could be copied with an EEprom programmer.

Going down this rabbit hole, I realize that ST hardware for musicians is still huge. And the dongles as still working as intended, apparently.

And then this blew my mind:

https://re-falcon.com

Quite the underground scene:

https://indyclassic.org

Is the software still attractive to use, after all those years, or why are you going to these extremes? Sounds it's somehow intimately intertwined with the dongle, if the check routines can't simply be patched.

Didn't know, thanks for pointing that out. Never used GEM outside Atari, just something I read at the time.

Wow, I just remembered using AES when I wrote an 'accessory' (menu bar app) that converted bitmap to vector for an ST DTP app that supported both. An early form of plugin I suppose. Pretty ahead of the MS mess at the time.

Dongles were a thing, certainly the expensive MIDI programs used them. Cubase, Steinberg and C-LAB Creator were the big ones.

As I recall, there were tons of books about GEM for the Atari ST, at least in Europe.

Apple sued DRI, which resulted in the crippling of GEM, the glaring one I remember were static windows. You heard that right, windows were not resizable but had fixed screen locations in the PC version.

Thankfully Atari licensed GEM for their 68000 machines before the lawsuit, and wasn't affected by these changes. The Atari ST (Sixteen/Thirtytwo) was very Mac like at the time. It even ran the Mac OS from Apple ROMs (Spectre 128 and Aladin) on its much cheaper hardware.

When the Mac and Atari ST first hit the market in the 80's, there were Comics created in this 1-bit "ordered-dither" style. For error-diffusion dithering (Floyd-Steinberg etc.), you needed more bits per pixel, to carry the error.

SHATTER:

https://imgur.com/gallery/shatter-1984-was-first-commerciall...

Robot Empire:

https://www.reddit.com/r/atarist/comments/xgs4rh/comicbook_c...

Thank you for the follow up! Big fan of your models here, thanks for everything you are doing!

Works fine on MacOS now (chat only).

On Ubuntu 24.04 with two GPU's (3090+3070), it appears that Llama.cpp sometimes uses the CPU and not GPU. This is judging from the tk/s and CPU load for identical models run with US-studio vs. just Llama.cpp (bleeding edge).

Andrej Karpathy got one from Jensen Huang.

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/gtc-2026-news/#dgx-station

Tried to build from source on MacOS, but got this error:

  (base)   unsloth git:(main) unsloth studio setup
  ╔══════════════════════════════════════╗
  ║     Unsloth Studio Setup Script      ║
  ╚══════════════════════════════════════╝ 
   Node v25.8.1 and npm 11.11.0 already meet requirements. Skipping nvm install.
   Node v25.8.1 | npm 11.11.0
   npm run build failed (exit code 2):

  > unsloth-theme@0.0.0 build
  > tsc -b && vite build

  src/features/chat/shared-composer.tsx(366,17): error TS6133: 'status' is declared but its value is never read.

Can Unsloth Studio use already downloaded models?

For posterity, I can very much recommend MacMousefix. It's $2.99 to own, totally worth it to me. Open source.

https://macmousefix.com/en/

Also available via brew:

  brew install mac-mouse-fix

And on Github too:

https://github.com/noah-nuebling/mac-mouse-fix

Can it do FizzBuzz in Brainfuck? Thus far all local models have tripped over their feet or looped out.

Great job, really well done.

Also cool: https://sunclock.net

I enjoy running clocks on this 5" inch circular touch screen IPS display from Waveshare: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C14CZ2GG.

The content is provided by a Raspberry Pi 4, and these Javascript/CSS/SVG clocks can be quite taxing. Especially a smooth running seconds hand often causes visual stuttering. Chrome had the best FPS I recall.

If anyone knows of other large circular displays, please post here.

The new BMW Mini has a gorgeous 24cm circular OLED display, but that's not generally available, OEM only [1][2].

[1] https://www.mini.com/en_MS/home/new-family/a-digital-quantum...

[2] https://www.bhtc.com/en/news/bhtc-entwickelt-erstes-rundes-o...

Building Llama.cpp from source with CUDA enabled should get you pretty far. llama-server has a really good web UI, the latest version supports model switching.

As for models, plenty of GGUF quantized (down to 2-bit) available on HF and modelscope.

So great to see my two favorite Open Source AI projects/companies joining forces.

Since I don't see it mentioned here, LlamaBarn is an awesome little—but mighty—MacOS menubar program, making access to llama.cpp's great web UI and downloading of tastefully curated models easy as pie. It automatically determines the available model- and context-sizes based on available RAM.

https://github.com/ggml-org/LlamaBarn

Downloaded models live in:

  ~/.llamabarn

Apart from running on localhost, the server address and port can be set via CLI:

  # bind to all interfaces (0.0.0.0)
  defaults write app.llamabarn.LlamaBarn exposeToNetwork -bool YES

  # or bind to a specific IP (e.g., for Tailscale)
  defaults write app.llamabarn.LlamaBarn exposeToNetwork -string "100.x.x.x"

  # disable (default)
  defaults delete app.llamabarn.LlamaBarn exposeToNetwork

I learned programming on a Sharp MZ-80K. Rectangular sheet metal case with an amber monochrome monitor and a built in cassette tape drive for storage. The keyboard keys were neatly squared up, zero ergonomics. You could flip it open like the hood of a car. And I faintly recall that there was some kind of UV erasable EEprom inside, not sure what for.

You can point CC at other models, e.g. via OpenRouter. It only requires three env variables to be set.

Make it an SVG and it's down to 1kb.

Maybe cut a slit across your concrete driveway with a diamond concrete saw and drop fiber in, seal with some polymer afterwards?

The autobiographical graphic novel "Time Zones" by Sven Diekmann describes an attempted balloon escape from the GDR in 1977, but it was thwarted at the last minute [1].

It is a powerful book, quite chilling as it describes life under the totalitarian puppet government of East Germany. I also often found it eerily reminiscent of our current times.

I can highly recommend it, both for the suspenseful narrative and great visual storytelling. A great read for HS/college kids that are into history too.

[1] https://store.bookbaby.com/book/time-zones

[2] Authors website: https://www.svensiekmann.com/bio

Evolution has us covered.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3010660/

Cool technology, thanks for posting.

The current state of the art UVC (short wave, e.g. 255nm) LEDs have very low efficiency, compared to UVA (long wave, e.g. 365nm). How efficient are these 220nm solid state chips?

Do they emit other frequencies, or are they monochromatic?

This is an affordable 255nm UVC flashlight (buy filter separately due to US patent bs):

https://convoylight.com/products/gray-c8-uvc-255nm-uvb-310nm

Do you know a good source for finding the latest, most efficient LEDs for DIY projects?

I've built 12V mercury vapor UV-C (254nm) lights for fluorescent mineral hunting, and that wavelength is quite harmful, requiring skin and eye protection. Mercury vapor lamps produce a spectrum of wavelengths, also in the visible spectrum, which gets filtered out since it distracts.

According to this [1] article, the 222nm range is safe for exposure, but the Krypton-Chloride bulb in the far-UVC lamp does also produce harmful wavelengths (256nm), therefore a filter is absolutely necessary. Thankfully simple plastics should work fine for that.

I would still be extremely careful deploying these lights in occupied spaces.

Edit: Come to think of it, filtering the harmful UVC (256nm) from KrCl excimer lamps with acrylic would probably also block the far-UVC. Which makes me wonder what material the filter is. Regular glass stops UVC, which is why UVC lamps are usually quartz or special glass formulations.

"What really needs to be understood is that an unfiltered 222nm Far-UV peak from any KrCl excimer lamp emits a wide band of wavelengths starting at 200nm, past the human safe zone of less than 230nm, all the way to the end of the UVC spectrum at 280nm -- with a very worrisome second harmonic peak at 256nm."

"the 222nm excimer lamp's second harmonic peak at 256nm exclusive to KrCl Far-UVC lights should be treated no different than the well-established carcinogenic hazards involved when using 254nm mercury-line UVC germicidal bulbs."

[1] https://www.prweb.com/releases/222-nm-far-uvc-cancer-risk-wi...

Did I hear that right, dream car vs. asshole bucket?

Along these lines, a current Kickstarter project, which uses a 3D printer and a saltwater jet in a very clever way to ablate metal electrochemically. It even presents the prospect of doing metal deposition printing by reversing the process/current (skip to 9:50).

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/athenatech/liquid-blade...

Goldilock's "miracle" - a result enabled by the Riemann zeta function's log prime basis (Euler prime product)

podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RH9-CQxdDJw