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Sad to see a decades-old, community written, open source platform emulator declare that it will go into "maintenance mode" because someone used a LLM to reverse engineer the OS and re-implement the entire thing as cross-platform native code. It used to be fun to take things apart on your own.

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Me: I want to put more content out there, maybe I should post more to Bluesky? Or forums? [rebuilds personal site using 11ty so he can easily just write markdown files and fucking publish them like it's 2002] I'm nothing if not predictable!

GUYS US TOOOOO! GUYYYYSSS WE’RE DANGEROUS TOOOOOOOOOO

HaJ3FgupAm8RrDJW3MHgT9X7Ft27eVaD What is that? That's a hard-coded API token that Flock cameras use to identify themselves and get OAuth credentials, which can then be used to talk to Flock's production servers. Like, anyone on the internet can probably do this right now.

It's about fairness in sports = it's about ethics in journalism.

Telling everybody we just got the Nobel Prize

Good thing we don’t have a long history of people incorrectly projecting human traits on computers and overestimating what they’re really doing.

Tell your friends! Bother your coworkers! Beg your family! WE ARE ON SALE!

It's normal to reuse take out containers, to mend old or damaged clothes, to use table cloths, sheets or curtains for fabric, to turn your left overs into a new meal, to have mismatched cutlery, to buy second hand & refurbished tech.

Dear Bluesky, Doing some spring cleaning? I'm collecting clip art books, binders, individual sheets, CDs, floppies, and anything else in that realm. Mail 'em to me! DM me if you have files. Thank you! 📎🎨 Wilshire Online ATTN: Clip Art 6135 Wilshire Blvd Los Angeles, CA, 90046

Hey remember how they promised that 3D TVs were the future, but they withered on the vine because they solved a problem no one had, so no one bought them? We can still do that for generative "AI" and chatbots, it's not too late. This crap is not a foregone conclusion.

While our neighbors on the street sleep outside in -30° C weather, it's a good time to remember that the city of Toronto spends more on policing than it does on community housing, public libraries, fire services, and EMS combined. We can have cops or we can have real safety.

We have to make our spaces hostile to fascists. If we don't, they become hostile to the most vulnerable by default.

Folks in Canada watching this horror unfold should not think of it as an American problem. During a housing crisis, alarming food insecurity, and cuts to every meaningful social support at the federal and provincial level Canada is hiring more CBSA agents & increasing border & military spending.

Call the thing by its name. A thread:

I say this with zero irony: if you are even tangentially a part of a retro video game community, it is your civic duty to push back against this company and shun anyone who doesn't. This is fascism tapping gently at the door and as soon as you let it in, it's going to invite its friends.

I think it's time to do videogame and film of the year! Videogame: Blippo+ Film: Blippo+

📡 ATTENTION EARTHLINGS! You are now free to nominate Blippo+ for the 2025 Steam Awards, from now until December 1st. Stay Tuned, Lisa Duo Your Television Executive store.steampowered.com/steamawards/...

New addition to the collection, Sharp PT-9000 from 1994. You know it's rare when you can't find anyone else who owns one online. Serial number ends in 00011. The touchscreen digitizer is giving me problems, it's practically impossible to complete the pen calibration #vintagecomputer #dos

HOPE has been banned from St. John's University. www.2600.com/content/hope...

coffee will fix me

Jeez maybe buy me dinner first, random cybersec person

Everytime you want to use AI to make some ridiculous image or video, ask yourself - is this worth the lives of Congolese people? droughts in low income US cities? exploitation of artists & cultural producers? extinction?

if you smoke near me, i should be able to extract an equivalent number of hit points from you

Translation: After we built an addictive tool based on stolen data, exploited labor and plundering the environment, which pushes kids to commit suicides, we were like, why not cash in on "erotica"? After all, this is what building so-called AGI that "benefits humanity" looks like.

Steve Shirley escaped the Holocaust as a child & went on to found one of the earliest software startups. The really impressive part? She employed women programmers who had been pushed out of the workforce after having kids, & allowed them flexible, family friendly, work from home jobs—in the 1960s!

What the world needs now

I think I need to buy an elevator just so I can play the Blippo+ soundtrack in it

The postal service & public transit are public social services & community infrastructure. I hate to break it to you, but they're not meant to make money

I skeet for people who still miss Google Reader.

I wonder if there's someone who might be able to prevent him from having his way on this. I can't think of anyone at the moment. Maybe it'll come to me

Listen, I'm going to need us to stop saying that humans are horrible and that all the injustice in the world right now is our collective doing. It's the doing of a handful of people, and we know their names.

A bit rich coming from Poilievre when his own wife retweeted a post by Andrew Scheer directing the right-wing mob to go after @rachelgilmore.bsky.social. His family’s safety matters. No so much those who don’t subscribe to his political project.

Economists and financiers and bankers and capitalists have absolutely no idea what's going on

Is gardening speech? Do we have a constitutional right to let our lawn go wild? @matinsarfraz.bsky.social reports on a fascinating case in Ontario.

So many programmers are around today thanks to the colorful illustrations and clear language of the Usborne computer guides

Should you find yourself the only masked person at work or in a store, please, do not despair, instead just think back to kindergarten and your teacher asking “if everyone else jumped off a bridge would you do it too?” and know that at least you can honestly say: no.

Tournament days in the humidity

Canada, no more foot dragging. Let's do it already www.cbc.ca/news/world/f...