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andypiper, 1 month ago to random

Aaaaaahhh person on train is taking a call on speakerphone at full volume and it is so annoying!! Headphones, people.

falken, 1 month ago to random

Wish #flashback was as forgiving as #fullVoid

#game #retro

amigalove, 1 month ago to apple

All these years later (27 years since its creation?) I’ve now got a fully UNLOCKED copy of NewtHack. This means I no longer am forced to stop after beating LVL 1.

To the Amulet of Yendor! Let's go!!!

@blakespot

#apple #retrogaming #rogue #dnd

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falken, 1 month ago to apple

Done it !

#appleNewton to modern laptop's #libreOffice via Windows 3.1 and #virtualBox

#retro

#BruceBoxleitner #MiraFurlan and #BillMummy

#babylon5 #scifi

falken, 1 month ago to apple

Holy shit it's moving.

Not sure #apple expected their #appleNewton tools to run in the 21st century. On #linux

#retro

simon_brooke, 1 month ago to linux

Back in the day, when memory was expensive, the general advice was to have a swap partition on your UN*X box that was about four times the size of your physical memory. Now, if you do a default install of any mainstream #Linux distribution, you get a swap partition, but it's of trivial size.

What's the rationale for this? What's the point of even having a swap partition if it doesn't allow you more virtual memory than physical memory?

falken, 1 month ago to apple

It's really really alive !

Using VirtualBox, Windows 3.1 and a USB to serial adapter.

No joy under Wine as just crashes.

#retro #AppleNewton

/cc @newtontalk

TheSpaceshipper, 1 month ago to random

Lost in Space (the movie) was released 26 years ago today.

"The Robinson family was going into space to fight for a chance for humanity. Now they are fighting to live long enough to find a way home."

HeavenlyPossum, 1 month ago to random

So the World Central Kitchen convoy a) cleared its route with the IDF beforehand, b) traveled on an approved route, and c) departed at an approved time, so d) the IDF knew exactly who it was killing when it struck the convoy three (3) times.

It was so obviously deliberate, and so deliberately cruel—not just to murder these people, but to terrorize other aid workers into abandoning the Palestinians to be starved to death. To prove the IDF’s impunity and reach, and to compel the IDF’s defenders into apologizing for yet another unforgivable atrocity.

falken, 1 month ago to random Javanese

Top 4% !

#minimotorways #game

AsylumDEG, 1 month ago to random

"Give me a ping Vasili. One ping only please..."

https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2024/04/u-s-navy-submarine-first-in-world-fitted-with-silent-caterpillar-drive/

falken, 1 month ago to ps1graphics

It's alive!

Hope caps last long enough to back it up...

#reto #appleNewton

jann, 1 month ago to DoctorWho

#DoctorWho Showrunner Explains Why Disney+ Deal Had to Happen - Comicbook.com
https://apple.news/AutS55xlBTkS3FjYKYj3GnQ

mjg59, 1 month ago to random

I love that Debian discovered both the failure of crowdsourcing a web of trust via keysigning parties (someone used ID in their name but issued by a fake country) and the failure of assuming upstream is trustworthy (an upstream buried code that wouldn't trigger on the Debian maintainer's system but would everywhere else) back in the 2000s but the free software ecosystem is still trying to come up with social solutions to a technical problem

cobbpg, 1 month ago to c64

I finally managed to piece together the new sprite multiplexing system to display a record number of cars (with overlays!) in a #C64 racing game with a 3D perspective. The next step is to add some content streaming logic so we could see several different models at the same time. I'm still not sure how feasible that is, but I'm hopeful.

It's a nice exercise for the readers familiar with C64 programming to try to figure out how this system works. 😉

Testing the sprite multiplexer for displaying heavy traffic in My Day on the Highway.

amigalove, 1 month ago to random

About a week ago I posted about NewtHack, a Roguelike for Apple Newton that only lets you play level 1 unless you buy a key. I was complaining how so many of these old games/softwares were soft-locked now by asking for codes we can no longer provide.

Someone here sent me a code for an earlier version to try. But now that reply is GONE, apparently deleted. Are you still here, anonymous kind soul? Can you send it to me again?

#MARCHintosh

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brooke, 1 month ago to random

that's it the only safe way to compute now is to migrate everything to my Atari 800 XL

• no speculative execution side channels
• not compatible with windows or linux malware
• guessing passwords takes too long to run, enemy will just give up

of course it's probably easier to crack the wifi dongle remotely than the atari

Edent, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

You want to add an SVG image to your website.

Which of the following do you do - and why?

revk, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

OK, screen scraping Monmouthshire council site.

Seems to work, we'll see how it copes with the changes on the day.

Backlight LEDs know bin colours too :-) (boring when only one is green)

GossiTheDog, 1 month ago to random

HT to @wdormann here - somebody has backdoored the open source project XZ which has downstream impacts.

For example, although OpenSSH doesn’t use XZ, Debian patch OpenSSH and introduced a dependency which translates as the XZ changes introducing a sshd authentication bypass backdoor it appears.

One dude bothered to investigate in his free time about why ssh was running slow, so it was caught fairly early - i.e. hopefully before distros started bundling it.

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/29/4

spaceflight, 2 months ago to solar

📆 2023 This #SBSP study by #Astrostrom for #ESA proposes a 29,339 m2 #solar ☀️ collector at the #Lagrange point, #SolarPanels from #Lunar 🌙 materials, transported by a #SpaceElevator 🚠 from the #Moon https://nebula.esa.int/sites/default/files/neb_study/2753/C4000136309ESR.pdf

#ISRU #MoonMining #SpaceBasedSolarPower #SpaceRobot