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Oh, today is my 8th anniversary of working on Mastodon. I was 23 when I started, finishing my last year of university, still living at my parent's place. I had no idea what I was getting myself into or that it would consume the next 8 years of my life almost completely.

With a bit of help from the next phosh-osk-stub release can (optionally) hide when a keyboard gets attached.

The next time someone will try to take over the world will be when a printer company makes a printer that actually works. All offices will instantly buy it to replace their printer-shaped objects they have for some reason and they instantly get rich

The Macintosh Two-Page Colour Classic was quite a handful. MacWorld Magazine described it as "Perfect for small business and people with two eyes, it's the most two-page two-screen colour classic we've seen. With its unique built-in double-degauss floppy disk eraser, it's also the most secure".

First clip after the title. I can't believe it, he began the move *before* his opponent was below him... crazy. Few can think like that, last stock high percent, AND in finals, no less (I think it was finals).

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Check it out. The best player at our club was on again. Clip 2! youtu.be/rT8_wBy_ghA

Taking a game by using a recovery move downwards to kill off the bottom of the stage... gutsy. (Carguy, Sephiroth)

WaPo has a Mar. 6 story on its homepage that's a bit baffling. The headline is: Worried About the American Express data breach? [Checks notes: No]

I'm not aware of anyone who is worried, much less aware of a breach involving Amex. The story goes on to say Amex blamed a third party for exposing customer data.

But here's the thing: This kind of thing happens ALL. THE. TIME. It just so happens that Amex is somehow more willing to put out a breach notification than others when this does happen.

I know this because for a long time I used to read all of the breach disclosures coming out daily and indexed by the various state attorneys general offices. And a notice like this from Amex was a fairly regular occurrence.

Anyway, the story is about credit card fraud. But then the advice to "worried" consumers is to change their passwords and use 2FA.

washingtonpost.com/technology/

Happy #marioday everyone! What was the first ever Mario game you played and what console was it on?

Road to my own PC...

TV out works! I pushed it to 128x96
Keyboard input almost ;) got some interference/loose cables. I will buy a propper PS/2 connector later.

#Arduino #electronics #tvout #Keyboard #DIY

Americans alone have the right to shape their elections. Individuals like Mostafa Sarmadi seek to meddle. Aid justice and democracy by sharing any information on this individual.

You may be eligible for a reward of up to $10 million.

Whoever decided that using computers for voting is pretty naive.

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Damn, looks like Yuzu is donezo now.

Rip LDN for the time being, because afaik you need a Yuzu account to run that atm. 😔

#Yuzu #YuzuEmulator #SmashBros #Nintendo #LDN

Finally, a positive use for AI!

Been playing with a free new tool from the folks at Unit 221B that uses AI to read news stories or watch Youtube videos and give them a bias or "spin" score, based on a number of criteria (bias, fallacy, misleading info).

One potentially cool thing about this tool is that you can feed it a story you've written (but not published yet) to see if it contains any of those criteria. It even has an option to read a "bias-free" version of the story you've submitted, which alters the text in an attempt to temper or remove those biases.

The one downside is it can take some time to process a story and tell you what it thinks of it. Here are some links to Spin Score's analyses on different stories that came across my feed here today or that showed up on Youtube front today.

spinscore.io/?url=https%3A%2F%

spinscore.io/?url=https%3A%2F%

spinscore.io/?url=https%3A%2F%

spinscore.io/?url=https%3A%2F%

spinscore.io/?url=https%3A%2F%

spinscore.io/?url=https%3A%2F% (Fox News)

spinscore.io/?url=https%3A%2F% (MSNBC)

I might know a lot of things about computers, but one thing I don't know is why is using over half a gigabyte of memory.

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