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As a kid on the C64 this load sequence meant top shelf, best of the best. It also meant uncopyable.
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Whoever is complaining about stepping on LEGO doesn’t have a child that likes to leave these scattered about the house.
@archon @johnsonjeffro There was a very basic list of sources that influenced Traveller back-in-the-day. A group of special characters were listed in Supplement 01 - 1001 Characters (without attribution), and a group of Heroes and Villians in 04 - Citizens of the Imperium (with attribution for both books), and the Dumarest Saga was mentioned there (along with many other sources). But, I get your point :-) You need to read Shannon Appelcline's "The Science Fiction in Traveller".
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#meshtastic #bbs #tc2bbs messaging service and bulletin board using meshtastic direct messages as an interface to a server #heltecv3 #ubuntu
https://youtu.be/XOg7WHpgqfk
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https://youtu.be/d6LhY4HoimU
awesome ! With the meshtastic mesh you can retrieve messages and access bulletin boards. Reminds me of .... internet. With no service providers. Home-made net.
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The state of search in 2024:
Google: "We threw away decades of search knowledge and Internet indexing and just made an answer up 
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Bing: "Here's 100 tangentially related pages from 2010 that I only included because your query appears in a tag cloud in the website's footer"
DuckDuckGo: "Here are the Bing results, only with ✨privacy✨"
Reddit: (this user has deleted their entire post history using PowerDeleteMyShit. Fuck /u/Spez)
Yahoo: "Oh thank god, someone's actually using our search engine! No, we're not just Bing!" *frantically trying to cover up the giant Bing sticker* "NO DON'T GO TO GOOGLE!!!!"
Yandex: "Here are all of the Russian-owned resources on this topic. Only Russian sources are trustworthy. Everything else is fake ne—I MEAN, misinformation"
Kagi: "We'll give you what Google used to give you for free, for the low low price of $10/month!"
Ask.com: [hoarse screaming and clawing noises can be heard from the ground beneath a headstone that says "Here lies Jeeves: 1996-2006"]
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A more modern histomap constructed by Schofield & Sims in 2016
Compare to a similar timeline constructed by John B. Sparks in 1931
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A sad day for #retrogaming
Even the site itself is retro.
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So I feel like this should be obvious, in general, but it's a good, strong move to use your normal choice of cleaner (LA's, Simple Green, Super Clean, 99% IPA) to get most of the paint off, and reserve a special bottle of paint blitzer for the hard to clean bits.
On the other hand, I have cleaned like fifty minis in these two glass jars (using about 2/3 of my half liter supply) and they are still going super strong.
#paintingMinis #miniatures #painting #paintingMiniatures #miniaturePainting
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While I was working on compiling a PDF proof of some writing drafts this morning, I realized MS had "enhanced" office with AI. Without asking, without consent.
I was able to do the registry edit solution and now the AI.exe task does not appear to be loading when I go in to work on a draft.
https://thegeekpage.com/how-to-disable-the-artificial-intelligence-ai-host-feature/
I want to again remind people that AI is an equal opportunity robber. Your rough drafts? Private journals? AI don't care and will gobble that up.
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This is another of my favourites, just because it confused my son so much 😅 Are you old enough to remember rewinding a video game with a pencil? ✏️
Find this and many other retrogaming, TTRPG and nerdy goodness at https://store.streamelements.com/pixelbandits ❤️
@MichaelWhelan the composition, design, and MOVEMENT in this work immediately made me think "Frazetta"
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Yep...
(Mood, while trying to explain #ClimateCrisis as lived from Africa, with my 90yo father in EU)
@PixelBandits Depends on your definition of "online". The place I was working at had an IT guy who setup a bunch of the cubicle PC's with DooM and we would stay after the overhead people had left for the day and do LAN parties. First online (over the Internet) would probably be back even further in the mid 80's - there were PvP MUDs back then, and being at college I had full access to the pre-web Internet over frame-relay circuits. Later (before the LAN parties) I would do PvP BBS games also.
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I post about a new cult term for rich preppers who seek to accelerate the "Event" or final crisis. NOT rapture-dopes, some are tech zillionaires who think a collapse -followed by their wise rulership- is for the greater good. An ingrate masturba-fantasy.
https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2024/04/accelerationism-and-recurring-flaw-in.html
