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@mqsalmon@dice.camp and if standard ebooks doesn't have it there's gutenberg.org. This is where they source much of the collection. Standard eBooks beautifies from that starting point.
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mastodon 4.7.2+glitchMissing the age where 8 bits got you far, and 640K of ram was a dream. I've been computing since Knight Rider was so cool I turned off my Vic-20 to watch it.
I've loved making music since before the C64 SID chip ruled, and when the Atari 1040ST was hands down the best MIDI machine on the market.
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I'll repeat it again and loudly for the people in the back of the room: just because someone doesn't know what you're outraged about and asks for sources so they can form their own opinion doesn't necessarily mean they're acting in bad faith. It is 2026. The Internet is full of disinformation and other people acting in bad faith. Search engines deliver increasingly bad results that are full of slop.
Giving help to someone who asks for context and sources is a kindness. Name calling and sarcasm, even if they are acting in bad faith, is not the way.
And... blocking folks who are asking you to be polite is never a good look.
HumanOS has far too many unpatched critical flaws. These flaws go back at least 10,000 years.
The creators of HumanOS could not be reached for comment, however their representatives continue to refer to a vaguely written allegory that is thousands of years old.
Unfortunately these creators also tend to blame the HumanOS agents rather than themselves and promise to punish infractions. Eventually.
@_aD@hachyderm.io Yeah, they need to give slapd a kick most likely.
Hello everybody. I'm still here. I've just been too busy to post. I've been busy with work. Gotta keep those toasters flying.
This discord could have been an irc server.
In true cart before the horse fashion, I've validated the bus clock on my #rc2014 days after successfully powering it up.
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@hacks4pancakes@infosec.exchange I hear those weirdos eat with the fork and knife in the wrong hand too.
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@alexkidman@aus.social that also means that NIN's first album came out over 35 years ago. 35 years before that, in 1954, Frank Sinatra released "Songs for Young Lovers".
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@aliceamour@beige.party great, I broke my mouse from hitting like and boost so hard.
I guess I'll have to go try and wittle down my 1/2 bookshelf long TBR.
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soundtrack:
If the path of least resistance
Is all you ever take
Well at least you've been consistent
And for that I baked you a cake
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAASoPGT53A
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@a2_4am@mastodon.social thank you for this! I hope your health is already returning to normal!
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@mjdxp@labyrinth.zone THAT explains it! XP was a step up in this regard. I :blobheart: Iconfactory.
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@pussreboots@sfba.social if you squint really hard, "The Craft" has at least one road trip (we're the weirdos mister), and is a bit sapphic.
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@stargrace@gamepad.club I saw a cut of Big Bang Theory without the laugh track. It was deeply grim and unfunny.
At the time it made sense. Right on the edge of VCRs, between when people went to theaters and were used to the sounds of people enjoying the show with you.
But it definitely didn't age well.
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@rmd1023@infosec.exchange @akareilly@hachyderm.io It's also pot insights
Truer words have never been said.
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@TerminalTilt@social.terminaltilt.com I have been usingg OPNSense for quite a while, with their dedicated hardware device. Before that with a home built PC.
Polished. Powerful. It's for home use for a work from home systems/cloud engineer (me). There's also a nice plugin repository with community and enterprise support.
I would recommend this if you want to get a solid set up that you can set and then leave.
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@k3ym0 this is similar to how DeCSS (DVD decryption code) was distributed over 25 years ago when there was an attempt to suppress it online.
I fear that the acting is campy, the story a bit forced at times, and the effects have not held up per se. Babylon 5 has a good core of a story with strong points to make.
After all these years I'm able to forgive the failings of what are essentially window dressings. There's just an amazing story there, and of a scale never attempted in a show like this.
It's a series that somehow continues to get screwed over in spite of breaking so much new ground. I love it for that.
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@gloriouscow Thanks for this. I appreciated the kind of "Gallery of Regrettable Swag" feel you gave to it 😆
I was today years old when I realized why someone on here having a cat named Donut is hillarious. LIke, I knew it was hillarious, but didn't consciously make the Dungeon Crawler Carl reference.
Somewhat a subtoot: When is the Automan reboot going to happen? HMM?!? 😆
What a horrible TV show. I liked it as a kid well enough, but even then, felt (for probably the first time) that the show was actually terrible.
Today's quandry: I have always, even when they were still being made, wanted an Amiga. I used one once, maybe twice.
Now I'm wondering if investing in real hardware is a worthwhile pursuit. I have no real nostalgic connection to the system like I do my C64.
So #askfedi / #retrocomputing folks: What is your take on diving into hardware retrocomputing for a system you've never owned?
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@janbeta I adore mine as well. I reconfigured my office to have a "retro desk" and even shelled out for a venerable 1702 monitor.
Unsolicited advice: if you don't like the keyboard springiness on the starlight, there's a good brace design available to 3d print. It's a rather simple mod, and you can put in an onboard SD card in while you're in there :)
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@CodingItWrong@oldbytes.space recently, no. However, and especially when living in the mid Midwest: absolutely. Some towns DQ is the best day food you're going to get.
What on earth am I going to install onto my Thinkpad T450S.
I'm shooting for a low weight daily driver.
Last night it really hit me that Myst is really just an Infocom-style text adventure game with clicking and graphics instead of typing and text.
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@Linzington@kind.social not exactly a fit, but Sam and Max Hit the Road is a celebration of weird roadside attractions with nods to the trappings of road trips like gas station stops with kitschy games and items. It runs under ScummVM.
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@soapdog As a sidebar, I'd be really interested to hear about your MNT Pocket Reform adventures. I love the form factor.
And, unfortunately, the counterpoint to your post is that Linux is getting bitten by the age verification bug, and Android/Google appears to be closing up for developers as well.
I'm appalled at the idea of my OS requiring age verification, as that is the most user space of user space considerations. 🤷
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Oh dear. We're at the B5 episode where they have the creepy classist/eugenicist/asshole species that sign on... for interesting and unfortunate reasons.
This is really where the writing and buildup of a larger story arc started paying off in the series.
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@nixCraft@mastodon.social this is still relevant to pihilole users if you use the upstream resolver settings.
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@stargrace@gamepad.club Never seen it. How's the abruptness on a scale of Koyaanisqatsi to Monty Python's The Holy Grail?
Question for the day:
Where have you compromised freedom for convenience?
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@lproven@social.vivaldi.net this will sit on my mental shelf right next to Monkey Bagels.
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@gloriouscow@oldbytes.space it's also how I recall commercial software oriented the labels, if that helps validate.
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@jack_daniel@mastodon.social look, there's no need to call me out.
I kid. I avoid AI like a cat does a floor cucumber, but I do have this macropad.
#3319
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@soapdog Understood. My point was that the scope of the age verification kerfuffle in general has bled over into Linux as well. YMMV.
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@avilewis@mstdn.ca This comic is evergreen in this regard: https://pbfcomics.com/comics/deeply-held-beliefs/
As a person who lives in the world created by GNU tools and other Linux era developments, I can't understate how much I appreciate brew for my Mac.
I'm doing my damndest to not go full Gollum "Precioussssss" over the feel of my new keyboard. ZSAs keycaps are delightfully stimmy. There's just enough texture to feel grippy without feeling grindy.
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@gourd you would not have nano to play with and would, if you'd installed Pine, have pico instead. You can't get much earlier than by going off to SLS. This predates Slackware. It was also often knowing how to build software from tarballs - common Makefile modifications, xmkmf -a and the like. Java was a far off dream. It was just such a strange time and way for me to lean computing with an OS like Linux, in parallel with OS/2 2.x, with a brief glimpse of Warp before going win 95 / Linux dual boot.
You'd be a year or two away from a modular Linux kernal and there was no initrd. You booted this big old chunky kernal up and if it didn't know ext2 and your / partition (no logical volumes) was in ext2 then... Come back with a rebuilt kernal. Another fun dividing line is when we shifted from a.out to ELF. That was a nightmare to manage in Slackware.