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This is a proposal to expand the tried tl;dr standard for further usecases.

The authors propose

pw;dr - paywall; didn't read
ai;dr - ai, didn't read

This is a draft.

When do doctors get angry? 

negative commentary on obesity rhetoric I was just reminded exists :/ 

is killing the 😭
No more blue screens... it's now the Black Screen of Death 🥲
theregister.com/2025/06/26/mic
But the though... aw.

At this point just using *any* Microsoft product, let alone Windows, is inherently a security risk.

theregister.com/2025/07/23/mic

Complaining (sorry) 

Arguing online is annoying, it seems like my points never get across

Windows 10 dies Oct 14, 2025. Microsoft wants you to buy new hardware. But if your PC’s from after 2010, it’s not obsolete — just held back. If you install Linux there are no license fees, no forced upgrades, no ads and spyware. You can find help at the endof10.org/

Current thoughts on #DonkeyKongBananza… it’s grown on me a lot. The controls and mechanics are excellent, the worlds are all fun and well designed, and the atmosphere is top notch throughout.

If you liked Donkey Kong Country, Donkey Kong 64, Banjo-Kazooie or Super Mario Odyssey, you’ll love this game.

I have found 20 news orgs in the #Fediverse thanks to #Ghost:

@feed@404media.co (404 Media)
@tangle_news (Readtangle)
@team (Kinoki)
@index@urbanandcity.com (Urbanandcity)
@feed@leicester.news (Leicester News)
@index@socialmediawatchblog.de (SMWB)
@feed@platformer.news (Platformer)
@index@levernews.com (Lever News)
@index@thebrowser.com (The Browser)
@index@roscoenews.com (Roscoe News)
@index@mag7.fr (Mag7)
@index@thespillmag.com (The Spillmag)
@index@howfenjournal.co.uk (Howfen Journal)
@index@newbostonpost.com (New Boston Post)
@index@hawkesburygazette.com (Hawkesbury Gazette)
@index@evangelical-times.org (Evangelical Times)
@index@magasinetroest.dk (Magasine Troest)
@index@aretenews.com (Arete News)
@index@malayalamtribune.com (Malayalam Tribune)
@index@verdelehti.fi (Verdelehti)

Some main project goals:
* Not too many 74-series chips required to create. [Terribly rough estimate: under 150 chips]
* The ISA and physical architecture elegantly line up.
* The ISA doesn't highly prioritize ISA future-proofing.
* Not a drag to asm program in!
* About as powerful as a 16-bit machine might be expected to be. Practical (not like Ben Eater's CPU), but more barebones than Bill Buzbee's CPU.
* No microcode -- pure bare-metal.

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Inspired by Buzbee I decided to design-in virtual memory into my system as well; my current design has 128KiB virtual address space (per process), 4KiB pages, and up to 256MiB of physical memory. Unlike Buzbee's computer, mine unfortunately doesn't support page faults; the virtual memory system is solely for memory protection, allowing fast memory reallocation (e.g. no memory compaction), and allowing more than 128K of physical RAM.

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I have a new ISA for this one which I'm calling Bones. 32 op(codes), 16-bit word, 16-bit memory byte, MISC, 5 general-purpose regs and a stack, reg+offset indirect addressing, and more, all designed to be relatively easy to make out of 74-series logic chips.

There is a user mode and kernel mode.

There are no immediates, you use an instruction to set the high byte of the next instruction's literal if you need numbers further from 0 than -128 through 127.

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So I've had a dream for a long time to create my own physical computer CPU. I've designed lots of ISAs, my favorite of which is SubSky (my best one; I've written an emulator for it, Sbse).
But now that I know about physical implementation, I can try my hand at my own homemade computer from 74-series logic chips (commonly called "TTL logic chips"), like Bill Buzbee's -1 computer (check it out! homebrewcpu.com/ ).

A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any other invention in human history, with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.

— Mitch Ratcliffe

#computers

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