Borland TurboVision (the PC text mode windowing UI used in Turbo Pascal/C++) has been open-sourced and updated to work seamlessly on Linux and with Unicode:
https://github.com/magiblot/tvision
It’s all in C++, though if someone hasn’t wrapped it in bindings for Python/Rust/&c. yet, surely they will
from my link log —
Typewriter pen plotters.
https://biosrhythm.com/?p=2143
saved 2025-12-05 https://dotat.at/:/QMRAL.html
@TonyPrintezis @patrickhadfield Seems like a good time to promote GetMusic - https://getmusic.fm/ - free BandCamp codes provided by artists to help new listeners discover them.
I've found some fantastic stuff this year using GM that I probably wouldn't have otherwise.
Taken from a Reddit post about bands repeating songs at gigs:
"Neil Young had just released Tonight's The Night. A classic, much loved album, no doubt. But it was new & no one really knew the songs yet.
So he plays the whole album front to back, with the audience getting increasingly agitated. Finally, after he finishes the last track, he says;
'Now for something you've heard before' to much cheering, applause & relief.
Then proceeds to play the whole album again"
IBM ThinkPad 550 BJ (1993) - Included an integrated Bubble Jet printer!
Last week in a seminar we discussed a text that was largely about sexual violence, including mass rape during war. Heavy stuff.
One student admitted they had not read the text but worked off a ChatGPT summary.
They had no idea the text was about sexual violence. ChatGPT withheld that information.
This wasn’t just a minor error nor a typical LLM hallucination.
About a third of the text, arguably its most important part, went completely ignored because it didn’t match OpenAI’s content policies
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Luckily I can clean this up with mutt (many other mail clients are downright refusing to show me the messages)
Re BR, I’d probably always put the Final Cut on now, for me.