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Game Idea [GB mockup] 

Maplebot Mayhem

Oh no! The maplebots have all set off on an ill-advised game of hide and seek in the five Lands Of Thematic Unknown Strangeness! Lost and alone, they are unable to return on their own. Venture out as maple herself and reunite them with their moms and charging stations!

In stores April 1998

@squirrel I may have done a thing, oops.

Life pro tip! gouge your eyes out to avoid seeing the horrible comment sections on transgender articles. redd.it/8qh53o

Thinking about how people did advanced math before computers reminded me that there's a team of people trying to build the ultimate steampunk computer, Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine: plan28.org/

There are two working & correct Difference Engines, proving his designs sound, but an Analytical Engine would dwarf both of them together & can't be hand-cranked.

pol (meta) 

I've been so out of it that I didn't see last boost until now, from anyone here or birdsite, and in spite of having a politics/rant account on birdsite.

pol 

This picture was taken at the G7 meeting today

I've never seen the phrase "listen up you little shit" rendered quite so perfectly as a facial expression

international house of... THIS IS NOT MY BEAUTIFUL HOUSE!

It's not going to be a flashy apocalypse.

It will be a slow decline into the Internet of ISP gatekeeping, and you probably won't even know what neat services and helpful resources you're missing.

I'm trying to think of the most evil thing to set someone's default editor to, and I'm not able to do much worse than making it this shellscript:

#!/bin/sh
cat $1 - > $1

I can't help but think that, if we were to attempt terraforming Mars or any other planet, the first thing we'd have to do is find a way to generate an Earth-like geomagnetic field to stop the solar wind from stripping away atmospheric water & oxygen (or in the case of low-grav planets like Mars, virtually the entire atmosphere altogether).

Today, I leveled up my computer fairy skills. 

New challenge already. I just found out that restore(8) works with a ZFS filesystem & UFS dump image, but dump(8) doesn't like ZFS filesystems at all.

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important: there exists an SD card with Wi-Fi which you can write LUA programs for

but that’s beside the point, because this SD card has a mascot with a doujinshi (more or less like a zine) series, and she’s *wonderful*

When it comes to UX design, Windows 95 is a landmark in the history of that field

Windows 95 took millions of dollars, almost 5 years, and plenty of man-hours to create; UX research was turned into a science with meticulous research and strong testing

and it paid off for Microsoft; Windows 95 flew off the shelves

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