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1. Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 27-Apr-2024 07:03:05 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

   You know, in the 80s people often said things like "in 40 years, everything will have computers in them", and while they weren't wrong, they severely underestimated the situation.
   Our computers have computers in them. Those smaller computers often have even smaller computers inside them.

   We didn't get a "everything is a computer" future, we got a future with fractal computers. The fuckers have metastasized

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 27-Apr-2024 07:51:50 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Andy

     @rasteri I've joked before that the fundamental logic gates (of which all computers are built) are AND, OR, NOT, XOR, and 8051

   • Andy (rasteri@mastodon.scot)'s status on Saturday, 27-Apr-2024 07:51:51 JST Andy

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     @foone they probably didn't expect that the computer that's in everything (8051) would be one that already existed

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Monday, 29-Apr-2024 07:06:50 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • llewelly

     @llewelly we're living through what future geologists will call the Turingiferous Period

   • llewelly (llewelly@sauropods.win)'s status on Monday, 29-Apr-2024 07:06:51 JST llewelly

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     @foone
     I'm hoping an organism will evolve that breaks down computers and eats them. Happened for wood, millions of years ago. (May have taken a long time though.) And it's starting to happen for plastic.