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@britt

Some fun looking titles on Steam:

store.steampowered.com/wishlis

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Ariella  

That time I took the 23rd anniversary PDF and made it accessible by recreating it as a TXT file (with search based tags for navigation), and also a 5 document that preserved the PDF layout as much as I could manage. ;) (Jim Hall helped out by providing text copy used in the PDF.)

TXT drive.google.com/file/d/10flyo
WP drive.google.com/file/d/1RtQhg

Original PDF: freedos.org/books/download/23-

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Ariella  

3 years ago I volunteered to create a new edition of Ethan Winer’s 1990s BASIC programming book using LibreOffice (@libreoffice). Over the span of a year, with Ethan’s editorial input, I rebuilt the book layout from TXT sources in , and recreated all diagrams from scratch using , and . It turned out great!

ethanwiner.com/BTU_BOOK.PDF

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Ariella  

Want to find your follows that have accounts in a instance so you can re-follow them?

Use Debirdify:
debirdify.pruvisto.org/

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There's also a Windows version included on the installation CD. 😍

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Ariella  

New to my little physical retro computing collection and love of word processors/productivity suites: Appleworks 6.

This was my main productivity software throughout most of the early 2000s. Such rich features and a wide OS/cpu architecture support spread across classic MacOS through OS X, PPC and Intel.

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Stacey Vetzal 🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦  

From IETF RFC 1392
hacker (n):
A person who delights in having an intimate understanding of the internal workings of a system, computers and computer networks in particular. The term is often misused in a pejorative context, where "cracker" would be the correct term.

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Thomas 🔭✨  

Computer companies in 1982: OWN YOUR OWN COMPUTER

Computer companies today: pay rent on every first of the month

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Defective by Design  

There's no reason for digital books or **any** other digital media to have the limitations of physical media arbitrarily imposed on them. Digital "lending" is a solved problem: u.fsf.org/3eg #DayAgainstDRM #Libraries #ebooks

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Ariella  

Is anybody as geek-old as me to remember how we kept BBSes free so we could call them more often by writing BEL flood messages (full of ASCII code 7s) so that when users opened them their computer would start beeping madly and they had no choice but to hang up?

What about hiding files from one’s parents by creating folders with ASCII 255 white space characters as names?

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Amiga Love ❤  

The Big Bang to open-world RPGs: Ultima VI

#amiga #commodore #retrogaming #vintagegaming #rpg #fantasy #gaming

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Ariella  

Am I crying? I think I’m crying. Or drooling. Maybe horny. I’m very confused.

youtu.be/JfsNc1VzzWU?si=Msui0c

Every Apple product, most boxed, plus posters, plus plus plus gaaaaaaaah.

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Ariella  

Is it caffeine or love of warm drinks that while sipping the bottom half of a cup of fresh I begin brewing ? Happy cozy fall season! XD *twitch twitch*

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Ariella  

There was a partial eclipse in my area. I don't have a filter to photograph it properly, but I caught it in a lense flare. :D A nice accident.

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Ariella  

Sure, there's LOFI girl:
youtube.com/watch?v=jfKfPfyJRd

But have you met Apple's lofi GIRL?
youtube.com/watch?v=ti6r17_TWf

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Ariella  

Dammit why did you take away the ability to see a match’s scores after it ends (TAB key) in Overwatch? STOP HIDING EVERYTHING. You take away SR, you take away trophies, you take away the match’s standings…

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Tilly Bridges  

#Starfield

I can’t carry any more

Sarah: but-

YOU can’t carry any more

Sarah: …

it had to go somewhere

Sarah: Why do you even have this stuff?

…reasons?

Sarah: what could you possibly need a plunger for in space?

don’t go in the cargo bay if you don’t want to find out

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Ariella  

You ever watch the system.log file on an ? It’s hilarious. Shoutout to the developer(s) who added all the sass:

ThrottleInterval set to zero. You're not that important. Ignoring.
The TimeOut key is no longer respected. It never did anything anyway.
This service is defined to be constantly running and is inherently inefficient.
This key does not do anything: OnDemand
Service has increased maximum shutdown time to 65 seconds. This will create a poor experience for the user.

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Grégory Gutierez  

“I will have to continue to follow X, of course, because it’s part of my job. But it’s time to step back as an engaged user, one who for the past decade has posted several times a day and scrolled countless times more. My eyeballs are no longer for sale to Musk and whatever grotesque content he wants to serve up in front of them.”

The Moral Case for No Longer Engaging With #ElonMusk’s X
bloomberg.com/opinion/articles

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Ariella  

Happy Spooktober! Nice park welcoming display I saw recently. 🎃 💀

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Kindness is as kindness does  

"No one wants to work" is just "No one wants to date nice guys" but for employers.

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Ariella  

Tokyo Game Show 2023 live stream starts in 11 min

youtube.com/live/FWIjxkLGj8g?s

#2023

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Ariella  

Destiny Eris Lof-Fi beats? HECK YES! Bop while you tithe.

youtube.com/watch?v=ruystidIIS

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Ariella  

Oh shit. Sarah got into the sauce again. I asked Barrett to keep an eye on her and make sure she doesn’t get sick or trip and hurt herself on a bulkhead.

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