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theres this one laptop i was strongly considering but i just found out the charging port is literally in the middle on the right hand side. and it isnt a right angle connector, it just pokes straight out. that's where my mouse goes! wtf

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Introducing the first beta release of SafeDiscShim, a tool that allows SafeDisc protected games of all versions to run on modern versions of Windows without the driver! See the repository and download the release at github.com/RibShark/SafeDiscShim !

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A fess on behalf of my cat, who pretends to dislike my dog. How do I know she pretends? Because I recently got home CCTV installed and I can see from my desk at work that she grooms him & snuggles up to him on the couch when I'm not there.

I now have a small collection of two boys and one honorary girl

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Google's getting rid of the ability to view cached pages. Even though they weren't a permanent archive, I'm going to miss it. Itโ€™s been such a useful way to find copies of pages with the actual search result on dynamic pages where the current version doesn't have what Google found.

theverge.com/2024/2/2/24058985

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proving that even the mightiest have a soft side ๐Ÿฆโœจ๐Ÿฆ

#lion

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A few times I have told the anecdote that the singly most baffling thing I ever saw in a code review โ€” not the most insecure, just the most โ€œhow could a real programmer have written this? how could this ever make sense?โ€ thing โ€” was simply a C++ variable โ€œnumber_of_trucksโ€ โ€ฆ declared as float. Unambiguously referring to real physical trucks in a fleet.

Reader, itโ€™s been over ten years and I am blowing the gods damn whistle. I had edited that story to protect the guilty: the variable was named number_of_planes. It was shipped by a company whose name begins with โ€œBโ€ and rhymes with โ€œGOING out of business.โ€

It is actually possible to make MediaWiki fully mobile responsive while retaining all its navigation and functionality you know! I did it with the theme I made for museum.12bit.club !!

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Fucking hate mobile MediaWiki themes that suppress half of the functionality of the thing. Tried to look at Zelda Dungeon on mobile and there's just literally no navigation at all. Had to set it to request desktop site to even see categories ffs

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Ok Mastodon, this is what you are supposed to excel at, niche shit. Let's find this a home.

My teacher has a few shelves worth of Japanese digital #Karaoke discs. It's free to anyone who wants it. Located in #SFBayArea #ใ‚ซใƒฉใ‚ชใ‚ฑ

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'Eating rice, China' (1901-1904) is probably the most important historical photograph I have ever seen.

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The stylish, unknown & extremely rare SEGA AI COMPUTER (1986) promised natural language processing and "artificial intelligence" via its Prolog interpreter.

We're making available today, for the first time ever: system roms, game cards, tapes recordings, scans, photos, MAME driver & more: smspower.org/SegaAI

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