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Taking a Look at Autodraw

13 Jun 2019 1 minute read 0 comments CosmicCitadel

Autodraw I recently came across a website called Autodraw, which is an AI experiment by Google. With this website you draw various things and the software tries to guess what it is you’re trying to draw. Clicking on one of the guesses will replace wh...

Adding monitoring and dashboards to my servers

12 Jun 2019 6 minute read 2 comments Solominer

The last three or four days have been spent working full time in the terminal. Working with my LBRY Spee.ch Server that hosts all of my photography on the blockchain you see on my blogs. My lbrynetapplication was pretty outdated and I was experienci...

OSPU - Brave Review

18 May 2019 7 minute read 2 comments mad_cat

Since this is my first post for Old-School Power User, I want to quickly tell you a bit about who I am. When it comes to Cryptocurrency, I'm a Schmo, but when it comes to computers, I'm a Power User. I have a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Networking....

Is AI Dangerous?

14 May 2019 1 minute read 0 comments gduran

Back in the 70's and 80's I lived in what was then a small and relatively backward town , in the 70's I was in secondary school and finished high school, for most of the '80's I was a bum. But I had some talents that were very useful to me and made m...

Paperboy on the Commodore 64

4 May 2019 1 minute read 0 comments CosmicCitadel

The classic game of Paperboy on the Commodore 64. The game controls aren’t the best, with the NES version being better. This is one of those games that was really only ported to the Commodore 64 because it was such a popular game and sold so well th...

Lazy Jones on the Commodore 64

4 May 2019 1 minute read 0 comments CosmicCitadel

This is Lazy Jones on the Commodore 64. This is certainly a different sort of game. In this game, you play the part of a hotel worker going from room to room playing all the little mini-games that are in them while earning points. It’s arguably not...

A View From the Moon | Krita and Gimp

4 May 2019 1 minute read 0 comments CosmicCitadel

Lately I’ve been using Krita (https://krita.org) to do my pixel art, so this time I decided I wanted to give Gimp (https://www.gimp.org) a try. I’ve used Gimp before with other projects, just not pixel art, and I can say that both Gimp and Krita are...

Adding Game Levels and Writing Games

2 May 2019 1 minute read 0 comments CosmicCitadel

As I’ve progressed through developing my current simple game, which is only the second game I’ve written with the D programming language (https://www.dlang.org) and the Dgame library, I’ve reached the point where it’s time to start adding more levels...

The connection between computers and human chemistry

23 Apr 2019 2 minute read 0 comments dtwo

I was sitting here observing my thoughts, Sometimes I can detach myself from my mind. Do you understand? Hard to explain             https://pixabay.com/photos/laptop-computer-technology-monitor-3190194/ ForethoughtThe mind, the brain, is a compu...

Quantum Computing in China

30 Mar 2019 1 minute read 1 comment kennbmondo

The National Laboratory for Quantum Information Sciences, slated to open in 2020, has two major research goals: quantum metrology and building a quantum computer. Both efforts would support military and national defense efforts, as well civilian...