Hello there! I am Sinclair-Speccy and your local resident computer nerd. I like to emulate OSes in 86box and sometimes share retro tech ads. My website hosts reviews and guides I simply make for fun, so enjoy looking at my profile :)
I'm also over at Bitbang.social and have a website hosted on Github Pages
OC Slackware 1.1.2 in QEMU
https://files.bitbang.social/media_attachments/files/110/994/496/394/083/159/original/b1fc37116d794879.png
OC Might be appreciated here
Happened to find this for sale recently...
r/OpenAI reopened by ModCodeofConduct (lemmy.one)
Reddit’s infamous ModCodeOfConduct has reopened the r/OpenAI community, calling for new moderators....
You can't post ass, Threads is doomed (techcrunch.com)
Deleting your Threads profile will also kill your Instagram account (www.androidauthority.com)
Meta’s new Threads app is closely linked to Instagram, so much so that you can’t delete your Threads profile without deleting your Instagram account....
Inside the OS/2 personality of Windows NT 3.x (www.youtube.com)
Originally, OS/2 was a joint development between Microsoft and IBM.Though eventually they split up, and Microsoft went on to emerge Windows NT from what was ...
Bluesky temporarily halts sign-ups because so many people are joining from Twitter (www.theverge.com)
Bluesky, a decentralized Twitter-like social network, is pausing new signups “temporarily” to try and resolve performance issues it’s been experiencing after Twitter introduced limits on the amount of tweets you can see in a day. Even though you still need an invite code to be able to join Bluesky, it seems that the influx...
It appears that Twitter is DDOSing itself. (sfba.social)
Attached: 2 images This is hilarious. It appears that Twitter is DDOSing itself. The Twitter home feed's been down for most of this morning. Even though nothing loads, the Twitter website never stops trying and trying. In the first video, notice the error message that I'm being rate limited. Then notice the jiggling scrollbar on...
this is Nacho (lemmy.world)
And he does not look enthused with my human antics
Hey it's me again. I'm back in the mountains. Passo Gavia / Italy (lemmy.world)
Started riding about 20 km / 300 m below Bormio. As my timing was again fucked up it was sunday again. So i thought i would not go up Stelvio but Gavia, because i figured it to have maybe half the traffic....
If I gave you $1 million in cash to spend in 1 hour, after which the money will disappear, what would you buy?
I have asked this question to countless people (mostly in hair salons) as an alternative to small talk, and it always yields interesting results....
Unsinkable [OC] (lemmy.world)
If you like this, check out my website: www.VictorGnarly.com or go to my profile to throw me a coffee. Trying my best to get the word out about Lemmy. Take care!
Rule (lemmy.world)
Showing off my setup (lemmy.world)
Here is where I am at. Live in an apartment so space is tight and needed everything to be able to move into the closet. I’ve got SNES, N64, Wii mini, Sega Genesis, PS2, a vcr, receiver and stereo speakers, Extron switcher, and playing them all on a Sony PVM14L5. The rack is from Amazon and most are hooked up via RGB.
Reddit says it’s ‘not acceptable’ for communities to go NSFW in protest (www.theverge.com)
Reddit Admins Deny Subreddit Users the Right to Vote for Further Blackouts (teddit.net)
Like many other subreddits, r/Finland is allowing its users to vote for whether or not they should a) reopen as normal, b) remain closed, or c) remain in protest mode....
Reddit activated a word filter that whenever you say "fuck spez", your comment won't show up for anyone else. I just tested it on ModCoord. they're also deleting spez memes from the subs they nuked lol
r/ModCoord: The admins in charge of demodded subreddits are mass-removing images of Huffman previously shared on them...
Quick and dirty 😝 (sh.itjust.works)
EU: Smartphones Must Have User-Replaceable Batteries by 2027 (www.pcmag.com)
Apple could force a 111-year-old fruit company to change its apple logo (www.androidauthority.com)
Apple wants to claim depictions of actual apples.
TIL the German word "backpfeifengesicht," which means "a face in need of a punch" or "a punchable face" (Visual example/definition also included)
The internet is great again, thanks to all of you 🙂
I'm 32, I remember using the internet before google was a thing, discovering flashy websites, hanging out on all kinds of internet forums and chatrooms, ebaums world, MySpace, new grounds... I rember when YouTube was just starting off and it was exploding with all kinds of content....
[META] Creating a new community is easy, but to get people on board, you need to create some content.
If you create a community, please try and populate it with content. I see a lot of new communities with 0-1 posts from the mod. That's not nearly enough to get people engaged - users are going to see that it's a ghost town and leave....