mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Maker, breaker, geek. Just off a decade workin' for the bookstore and the coffee shop in Seattle. I'm now back home in Colorado.
Dwyer's Corollary to Scalzi's Law:
The failure mode of friendly is "creepy".
I spent MAR10-day celebrating with the @mediaarchaeologylab@post.lurk.org
I can't get the words together to say how amazing the experience was. Their collection is broad, deep, and varied. Yes, I got my obligatory game of Super Mario Brothers, but I also played with a collection of cell phones, old typewriters, all generations of Apple devices, a PDP/8, and so much else.
Colorado, did you even know this collection was in your own backyard??
Hey, today is MAR10... You know, like the Italian plumber of Nintendo fame? I just happen to be in the shadows of the Flatirons without a set plan for the day.
Seems like the perfect day to try dropping in on Boulder's Media Archaeology Lab!
I feel confident betting they've got an NES there... I wonder what other retrotech is hiding in their little basement lair...
https://mediaarchaeologylab.com/
So there's this product, right? And it is perfect. It works everywhere on everything. It does what it is supposed to do, nothing more, and nothing less.
I love this product. And I want you to use and enjoy this product, too. And I want to tell you all about it.
However, it only exists through blatant disregard of intellectual property rights and /will/ get shut down the very second the rights-holders get wind of it.
So anyway... please visit $URL and join me for a game of $PRODUCT!
I miss the old days when you could just email people.
#plex changed their repositories and require people to make changes to their linux boxes. However, their instructions included the "sudo echo ... > file" construction, which doesn't write the file as root.
I left them a note using the "did this page help?" comment at the bottom of the screen, and this actually worked!!
Today, they replaced it with "echo ... > sudo tee file" which... writes to a file named 'sudo'. Oops.
