https://petrovs.info/post/2023-01-12-shaiba/ This is my USB rotary dial. It's always fun with the young people when I bring it to IT conferences.

I bet the reaction was similar to what my teenage kids had when I showed them some VHS tapes I found in storage.

The initial reaction was - What is that? How do you play the video? I happen to have a old VCR in storage and a USB 2.0 capture dongle. Hooked it up and showed them some old family videos. So their final comment was - why is the video quality so bad?

What was their reaction like, for those of us who don't have teenagers at home to repeat the experiment on?

It's generally "how do I dial?", followed by them trying to press the holes in the dial, and, when told to rotate it, they rotate it to dial before picking up the handset.

It might have been similar to your reaction when you saw (depending on your age):

a floppy disk (3.5")

a floppy disk (5.25")

a floppy disk (8")

I'm flattered, but you're only speculating, and at least for me this is not helpful.

It does not tell me what their reaction was, which is a little sad, because I am curious what happens when somebody for whom Facebook is ancient tech encounters video cassettes.

FWIW, I thought 8 inch floppies were weirdly big, but that's just a different form factor. It was normal to use floppies, tape or vinyl records for data and media storage. These days things are magically beamed through the sky in the most normal fashion. I think video tapes may seem a little weirder than just a larger box.

There are reaction videos on YouTube, like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kesMOzzNBiQ

(The person I asked originally replied while I was typing the above. Their reply is in a sibling comment to my original question.)

Writing without AI agent assistance? How is that possible?

Cool! It would be even better if it was able to create simple web pages for vintage browsers.

That would violate the do-one-thing-and-do-it-well principle for no apparent benefit. There are plenty of tools to convert markdown to basic HTML already.

Awesome!

From the GitHub README:

"If you use the VMOS Pro Android 5.1 ROM for internal use, commercial profit or uploading to the app market without authorization, we will collect evidence and report to the police (copyright infringement) or prosecute. Anyone who reports unauthorized or illegal use of VMOS Pro Android 5.1 ROM code to develop products will be rewarded upon verification. We will keep the identity of the whistleblower confidential!"

The repo has no license, so it's not open source. I think Microsoft Windows has an implicit similar warning.

I'm not sure what this project does exactly. IIRC Android has a mix of GPL for the kernel and Apache for the userspace. If they modify only the Apache part, I think it's legal to release with a proprietary licence.

>Chinese company threatens to prosecute copyright infringement

Ha! What a riot!

Rights for me but not for thee (goes both ways, I guess)

Really nice! I had this idea since years. A simple open source tool that may replace the random websites for file conversions in small and middle companies. The traffic from the search engine results may be redirected to an internsl tool with a proxy for example.

Unfortunately, Google have the tendency to kill their cloud products.

In eastern Europe this is just normal :D