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You know you've bought something good when the next recommendation you get is Savaged by Systemd.
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Home taping is killing software industry profits!

We left this side blank so you can help

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Encountered while reading computer program cassette inserts:
"YOU ARE ADVISED TO COPY THIS TAPE ONTO SEPARATE TAPES, RETAINING THIS COPY AS A MASTER SECURITY IN CASE OF ACCIDENT."

It was a different time and a different culture.

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Annika Backstrom

Pitch: self-driving cars but they're on rails and carry hundreds of people and have an operator and they're called "trains" instead.

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*electric adding machine noises*

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slyther wytch

if ur a robot and ur thinking do your eyes go like :loading: - :loading:

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This both complicates things and explains why so few keys worked. Both ribbons were almost completely separated at the connector, & the bits still clinging on snapped right off while carefully lifting the board out. Bits of keyboard are still in both connectors.

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Moki Awa

Boost if you are a transgender cyborg created to destroy civilisation.

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Oh, wow, fantastic ideas if I can't repair the membrane keyboard, made all the better by the fact that I work next to an indy Radio Shack dealer.

A DIY ZX81 Keyboard Period Document: zx81keyboardadventure.com/2018

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HRT Timeline

i didn't check the side effects for these pills, so i guess i'd better get used to being a gosh darn fox girl

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Grumpsec Spottycat

ah, the old "PR doesn't know the difference between "encrypted" and "hashed"". (And it turns out this is actually an important distinction)

🚨UPDATE: T-Mobile now says "encrypted passwords" were compromised in latest data breach.

We obtained a sample of one "encrypted password" and turns out it may be a Base64 string that decodes to a MD5 hash. In other words, it could potentially be cracked. motherboard.vice.com/en_us/art
twitter.com/lorenzofb/status/1

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On the membrane keyboard, it's definitely something you don't want to do a lot of typing on, with barely any feedback at all. I keep expecting it to beep like a microwave's keypad. But to be honest, the keys that work feel better than any smartphone's on-screen keyboard I've ever touched.

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It's so tiny that my 2007 netbook has a larger footprint.

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I now own a computer I've been wanting since the '80s for no reason other than it's as utterly cheap in price and quality as a fully functional home computer could get: A Timex Sinclair 1000. The picture quality is delightfully crappy. Unfortunately, half the keyboard doesn't work, which probably means its super-cheap ribbon cable kinked & broke.

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Coda

Apathy is indeed out in 2018

We’re out here giving a crap about ourselves and each other. I was gonna try to fit this into a joke format and then realized, “no, that’s not needed here”

A better world is possible

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crows call me breadlady

blog, "regarding why software is so bad" 

i wrote up some feels about software as a craft and why it's so awful right now

> Only together can we seize the craft from the industry. Only together can we demand and develop the high ethical standards that public infrastructure requires. We are not scabs or mercenaries. We are craftspeople, and we will do our craft justice.

garbados.github.io/my-blog/reg

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Thank goodness for the Big Book of Amiga Hardware. I had to take my (secondhand) A500 apart to see if a RAM upgrade I was eyeing is compatible, but I found this weird little Kickstart switcher card I couldn't identify in the ROM socket instead. bigbookofamigahardware.com/bbo

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Just put your 0.75 PB of data in a zip file & email it to yourself, Linus. If it's still too big, keep putting the zip file in another zip file until you're down to 64 KB. :V

(Linus Tech Tips exploring cloud storage solutions and exploiting Google Drive.) youtu.be/y2F0wjoKEhg

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Grumpsec Spottycat

Please don't install spyware on anyone's devices, even if they're your kids. Maybe especially if they're your kids.. motherboard.vice.com/en_us/art

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If LB isn't real, it probably should be.

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