Caz @caz@computerfairi.es
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@internetarchive @mmasnick It seems that #Amazon universally turned off its "Look Inside the Book" feature at about the same time that Internet Archive reached a preliminary settlement in the case to widely restrict content access to books.
Are these two events somehow related?
As I understand it, Amazon's limited preview feature was always done in agreement with publishers.
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December 25, 1990 – The first successful communication between an HTTP client and server over the Internet. The client was Tim Berners-Lee‘s WorldWideWeb – later renamed to differentiate between the software and the project named World Wide Web.
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@SinclairSpeccy I have a partially working TurboGraffix. Unfortunately I have a lot of other tech that needs attention and repair funds, so the poor thing will have to wait.
When trying to save an old program called pgpfone, I clicked an unassuming link and was sent to an "interrogation" page. I wonder how paranoid the government spooks were about this program back in the mid 90's? #retrocomputing
https://web.mit.edu/network/pgpfone/pgpfone-form.html
@antoniusmisfit Not so much found, more so remembered. I loved using this search engine when I was a kid.
@kiwired That is...infuriating..and also very confusing. Does it work with any kind of proxy/vpn/vps setup?
The weirdest thing I've done since becoming a software archivist is go back to using dogpile.com. In this case I was trying to find a newer version of Simona Planner. Google couldn't find anything but usenet postings. Mamont couldn't find anything. But Dogpile delivered. #retrocomputing
@ActionRetro This setup would look pretty cool in that cyberpunk themed hackerspace in Berlin.
It's been a while, but I'm back.
How have you all been doing? Has life been treating you okay?
@feoh
A Sega Terradrive
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people leaving Twitter... ... for Threads
@ActionRetro
Man I really wanted to get on your server with my Pentium III rig and see how well Classicube ran on Windows 98, but right as I was setting it up my Mobo died. Lol, i guess I must have cursed myself, because the only other working old computers I have to test it with are Mac's XD
@amatecha You could always have 2 Linux gaming machines! Eventually Windows 7 support will be dropped by almost everyone.
If i ever host a video hosting platform all users are banned from putting "ITS OVER" and other time wasting clickbait titles.
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In 1968, at 30 years old, Lynn Conway transitioned. In doing so she lost her wife, her children, and her job at IBM. She continued on, living authentically as her true self and continued her career as an electral engineer. In 1978 she became an associate professor at MIT and taught a course in VLSI (very large scale integration) that became the basis of the Mead-Conway VLSI Design Methodology, changing how we design integrated circuits. In 1985 she became a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Michigan, and later the associate dean of engineering.
32 years after transitioning, Conway came out publicly as a transgender woman. Since than she has been a advocate for transgender people in the tech sector. In 2020 IBM formally apologized for firing Conway for being trans, over 50 years after the fact. Just a bit of #transHistory I learned today.
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#Debirdify has been suspended by Twitter without warning or explanation. Apparently it violated ‘Twitter rules and policies’, but that is all they told us.
We contacted Twitter support about the situation, but we are not particularly optimistic.
We always knew this could happen; it happened to other services in the past, so we are neither particularly surprised nor sad about it.
In the mean time, Fedifinder still works: https://fedifinder.social
Use it while you still can!
@bigattck@mastodon.social
No, it requires proton for games without a Linux version. Also, you could always just install windows on your deck.
@smallsco
I really wish I could get a mastodon experience like this on Windows 98
- My project
- http://bitbang.social/@windowsarchive
- My Archive.org
- https://archive.org/details/@aeong
34 she/her.
Joined Nov 2022
