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Ariel Millennium Thornton

One of the most amazingly useless things I recently learned is how to do subtraction, multiplication, and division on actual late-19th/early-20th Century adding machines. True adding machines, mind you, the kind that don't have any subtraction or other arithmetic functions built in.

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Mx Moo

Handy tip:
If you see (+), (-) or (~) in a content warning, that's an indicator of if the content is positive, negative or mixed.

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Mx Moo

If your cyberpunk game doesn't include cosmetic, gender affirming upgrades, cyber tails, cyber taur bodies and more

Then it isn't a good cyberpunk game.

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Ariel Millennium Thornton

Adding picture captions in Tusky is a little less obvious than on your instance website but still easy. After picking the picture, tap on it & choose "Set caption."

Add captions for the sake of the fully sighted as well, not just the partially or fully impaired. It saves you from "what am I looking at" questions whose answers may be obvious only to you.

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read-only account (Rain 🚱)

Hey people, I've been noticing the number of posts with alt text going down. It might be because of all the new users who haven't learned about the feature yet, so for them and everyone:

yall should use alt text when uploading images! what are they??? hover over the images to find out! why are they good? the tldr of it is that visually impaired computer users exist and it helps them navigate the INFOBAHN better

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kasran, fourier transfemme

what do you call a mastodon instance with lizards, dragons, and kobolds on it 

scalable computing

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Tahajin

I’ve done a lot of art in the past, but this is still my absolute favorite series of pieces!

Remember everyone, #SylveonIsTrans.

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Ariel Millennium Thornton

But I now have a hardware reference for a DIY keyboard, not just a PDF scan.

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The keyboard ribbon has breaks going too close to the keyboard itself, so it's looking like I'll have to hit up sellmyretro after all.

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Nihl
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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Ariel Millennium Thornton

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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Ariel Millennium Thornton

*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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