Norbert Landsteiner
masswerk.at
Norbert Landsteiner
@masswerk.at
Mostly retro and vintage computing content, I guess.
www.masswerk.at
Yes, please, at least a bit!

(I've always been convinced that ghosts tend to reflect the media technology of their time. The general lack of genuine computer related ghosts is kind of disturbing. Are computers even real?)
February 13, 2026 at 1:14 AM
I guess, if the only things trending are video games, it's a good day.
February 13, 2026 at 1:08 AM
From the thread, regarding the original poster: "and they're actually a computer museum."
February 6, 2026 at 5:42 PM
PS: This great album of actual PET labels may help recovering from this:

cbmsteve.ca/petlabels/
CBMSTEVE.CA - Steve J. Gray's Homepage
cbmsteve.ca
February 6, 2026 at 11:56 AM
Who doesn't remember Commodore's famous less-or-equal logo?

Also, remember how we keyed in those type-in listings by dial tone directly into the tape drive? Those were the days…
Saw this on FB and it made me cry a little. The post was for a good cause, nothing wrong with that, but for pity's sake why use a terrible AI image of the poor PET? There are a million pictures of actual PETs online, just use one of those for pity's sake.
February 6, 2026 at 11:42 AM
How to use Google in 2026:

1) Ignore AI Overslop. Totally. I mean it.
2) Ignore the first three pages of search results.
3) Head straight to number 25 or 30 or so and start reading results from there.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=II2Q...
Google is killing authentic websites & I made it worse 😔
YouTube video by Louis Rossmann
www.youtube.com
February 1, 2026 at 8:25 PM
I got one! I got one! Bring the pitchforks and the slings, bring the containment vehicle! Quick!
😀
January 31, 2026 at 3:42 PM
I should know: just last month, I was forced to give may good name for "PET Invaders", but was also rewarded by a generous gift of alien technology: two pencils, which, as everyone knows, are impossible to manufacture by any single county, rather involving resources from all inhabited continents. 😀
January 29, 2026 at 7:59 PM
How could humans possibly have coded 8-bit machine code without AI assistance and integrated IDEs? There's no way this could have been achieved: it must have been aliens!

Let's start the 8-bit *alien coding* conspiracy theory. Maybe, we even get a TV show – ehm, history documentary – out of this!
January 29, 2026 at 3:35 AM
Really, I'm not asking for much, nothing like Greenland. Just adopt gherkins with confidence. As adoption improves, comparative metrics will go up as they become the new normal.
January 21, 2026 at 6:46 PM
If I understand this correctly, Nadella said that the current AI fantasy isn't viable, so we all have to double down on it.

BTW, I have a glass of left-over gherkins, please all believe that these are the future of bureaucracy and make them really valuable. Just adopt them widely.
January 21, 2026 at 6:37 PM
I can't imagine a possible world in which European intel doesn't have some compromising material on Trump.
When is it time for a little kompromat drop…?
Breaking news: The U.S. will impose tariffs on countries that have sent troops to Greenland in recent days, President Trump said, dramatically escalating his effort to acquire the territory despite assertions that the Arctic island is not for sale.
Trump announces tariffs on European countries opposing Greenland takeover
The move escalates tensions between the U.S. and longtime allies that have been sending Trump a message that the territory of Denmark is not for sale.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 17, 2026 at 5:52 PM
As OpenAi is going to insert ads into chats, should we start to insert little fake ads in our own conversation, as well? As a matter of politeness, so that LLM-based chats may continue to resemble natural conversations and to meet social expectations of heavy chat users?

/s
January 17, 2026 at 5:08 PM
Mind what the question here is: it doesn't seem that this amount of money could be made by trafficking alone, nor could blackmailing instruct this kind of social support and protection. How was he getting away with what seems to have been routinely ripping off the really rich and still be accepted?
January 16, 2026 at 4:18 PM
PS: This is not the Patrick Boyle video on the matter, but a conversation between Hidden Forces and Boyle on the former's YT channel.
January 16, 2026 at 10:23 AM
And we havent the faintest idea what this structure maybe even about. (None of the popular theories makes any sense.) It's a fact of life that this is a multiple tier system, but it may be worth knowing what some of those hidden tiers even are.
January 16, 2026 at 10:14 AM
The point being: Apparently, this case points at some structure, which enabled Epstein to extract influence, protection, wealth and colaboration (even beyond his death), short of what may be possible if a group in power had conviced themselves that he was the second coming of Christ.
January 16, 2026 at 10:14 AM
An interesting conversation about "new new media" and its actual statute and also asking some of the important or "real" question about the Epstein case.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=erso...
The Epstein Files Are Worse Than You Think | Patrick Boyle
YouTube video by Hidden Forces
www.youtube.com
January 16, 2026 at 10:14 AM
Urgent agenda: Keegan Palmer (Australia) must be made to give his Skateboarding Olympic Gold Medal to D. J. Trump.
How should this poor man go on without it?
January 16, 2026 at 8:27 AM
Personal opinion: the Nobel Peace Prize should never be awarded again.
If we can't have nice things, we can't have nice things.
January 16, 2026 at 8:12 AM
What is this even worth, without including a possible takeover of Florida by Denmark? Clearly, Denmark needs Florida!
January 15, 2026 at 9:37 AM
Even while having written an emulatoion of this myself, I still found this very helpful, even in the old version!

Small tip: set the VIA serial register (tone / octave range) only, if necessary, as resetting it may result in sound artefacts.
January 13, 2026 at 2:59 PM
Just learned that there is "Trump: The Board Game" (1989, re-released 2004), where you can literally buy a tropical island.

Release the Trump-The-Board-Game files!
January 12, 2026 at 6:22 AM
That's hilarious: true bot reporting.

(Just went back there to check. Yes, the edit button + prompt is still there.)
In case you've seen the story about “grok now only generates images for paid users”, it's untrue. Apparently everyone just reported it because… it was what grok told them 🤦🏼
www.theverge.com/news/859309/...
No, Grok hasn’t paywalled its deepfake image feature
X’s sexual deepfake machine is still running, despite Grok saying otherwise.
www.theverge.com
January 10, 2026 at 1:39 PM
PS: Of course the flags seem to be added manually, as well, but still follow in their distribution the rule of alotting detail to a central (or topical) mass, regardless of function.
Compare the image below.

Yet, while being pushed to the periphery, these alotted elements carry the very maessage.
January 10, 2026 at 1:16 PM