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A huge shout-out to everyone who made it. The next meetup is pencilled in for the 25th July. #Code4Fun #Connect #Developers #Makers #OpenSource #RISC_OS #ARM

RISC OS Coding QnA at 1300hrs, live in 15 mins. #YouTube #Live youtube.com/live/Oy_mCJfQtJM…

I have found a somewhat lost link to the X-Word Scrabble client and engine. 🧐 And I have spent the last 2 hours playing against it on my Pi 400 running Risc OS. (And losing. 😅🤣)

You've Never seen RISC OS like this before #RISCOS

Cessation of public development of Kefir C compiler: 🔗kefir.protopopov.lv/posts/an… "Software development as a discipline has changed significantly with advancements in AI. This project in particular has been unconcerned with new coding practices so far, primarily, because I derive pleasure from hand-written implementations of my ideas, and believe that overcoming challenges the hard way is the main value I get from it. Yet, this shift made me re-evaluate the open source code publishing. Prior to that, I have been positive about free and open software, and considered this to be the default mode for work such as kefir. I did not require any justifications from myself to publish something. Now, however, I feel more and more that the main beneficiaries of my unpaid work are companies scraping the internet to train large language models. Currently accepted status quo in this area goes against my own intentions in licensing this work under GNU GPLv3. Publication has ceased to be the "null hypothesis" for me, and requires explicit mental justification which I am not able to provide."

Couldn't leave the DDE Apps out, so they got a refresh too!

Here is my prediction: The Magnificent Seven - Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, and Tesla - will continue to push AI down our throats despite diminishing returns to its users, simply because they’ve invested so much they’ve gone past a point of no return. That notwithstanding, the inevitable Great Implosion will happen to companies such as Anthropic and OpenAI because open source models that can be run locally - with minimal capex and zero risk of surveillance - are quickly and irreversibly becoming good enough. The whole ”AGI is just around the corner” is a meaningless and silly distraction.

Frosted and RO Classic Themes Now On PlingStore, Classic is ongoing but its preview is live! Its a revamped version of Sovereign

x.com/i/status/1924066868970… Influenced.

Arm was founded in Cambridge. It designs the chips in ~95% of the world’s smartphones- one of the most important tech companies on Earth, and it’s British. We sold it to SoftBank in 2016, spun as a post-Brexit win. In 2023 it IPO’d on NASDAQ, not London. Wall Street got the fees and prestige. London got the lesson. America blocks foreign takeovers of strategic tech on national security grounds. Britain sold Arm. We auction our future. They defend theirs. 🤬

Frosted got some more icons today, update to ThemeDefs Pack coming later this week.

Some @kev_soft Software getting the frosted treatment and heading its way into the RISC OS Distro for September, Thanks for allowing me to give your icons a makeover :)

This is a nice app, and now my website has its very own QR Code :)

R-Comp is now supplying Frosted as an option with New RISC OS Computers - rcomp.co.uk

RISC OS One #RISCOS

Revisit a son's tribute to his late father, Bob Redrup, who wrote a long-running column about text adventure games and Elite for The Micro User and Acorn User magazines in the 1980s and 1990s. #textadventures themadhattercolumn.wordpress…