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with a return to normalcy comes a return to CHAOS. it's One-Star Heroes, the two-day show in which i play bad games to pay my bills! Sunday, March 23 and Wednesday, March 26, starting whenever i'm awake and ending when i'm all gamed out, over at twitch.tv/rachelretro

I'm working in a co-working place today & they have a load of random coffee table books lying around that obviously no one ever reads

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a thing capitalists did that's clever is that tax bills are itemized on your paycheck (and the precise way taxes are presented serves reactionary ends but that's neither here nor there) but at no point does a paycheck show a worker's revenue generated. it's not even like this would be hard to do; even for something abstract like service jobs you could simply print the business's revenue for the days worked on the paycheck, divided by the number of people employed. it would be pretty rough but massively clear how much your boss exploits you

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I'm reading a 1987 Japanese magazine named Hacker and it's adorable. Besides talking about all kinds of bootlegs and erogames, it's got how-to instructions for how to defeat copy protection on PC-88 games. Like, here's how you format a disk and then run this BASIC code to copy the WIZARDRY game disk.

It's on the archive. There's some nudity in it, so beware:

archive.org/details/Hacker-No-

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i draw my furry characters as humans sometimes, but i also sometimes draw my human characters as furries!!!

#art #anthro

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OH but they do have a mail-only paid plan which was completely hidden away... it's much cheaper than the "unlimited" plan and still gets you 1 custom domain.. so i COULD get that and not bother with drive

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Famiclones all look the same more or less, they said. If you saw one, you've seen them all, they said...

Well, that was before I accidently saw this beast of a clone with a built-in b/w TV: The Sonye 986 II. It's not mine and I know nothing about it.

#famiclone #famiclones #nes #famicom #nintendo #vintagecomputing #retrogaming

i SUPPOSE i could justify the proton cost if i, like, ditched dropbox for proton drive (is that any good?) and eventually migrated my personal email to a proton one as well. hmm

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considering moving away from gmail for my email & i was thinking about using my 12bit club domain; i don't want to self host though. just want a service i can use a custom domain with. anyone have any recommendations? i was looking at proton but it's only supported on their paid plan & that seems kinda expensive for an email address i would only use for "taizou stuff" which i don't use email THAT much for yknow

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Please share, especially with your trans, queer, and furry friends: I'm redesigning my website and am looking for an artist to make a tiny sleepy fox icon for my header. Paid of course, and I may need some more illustrations down the line. 🦊

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Remember the old BBC computers? Dr Sophie Wilson, one half of the duo that designed the BBC Microcomputer, is a trans women. As part of this work, she developed ARM microprocessors, without which we wouldn't have laptops, iPads, mobile phones, smart watches, etc etc.

Find out more about Sophie and her route into STEM:
pcgamer.com/computing-pioneer-

#Trans #Transgender #Nonbinary #LGBTQIA #LGBTQI #LGBTQ #Queer #STEM

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If your criticism of "big tech" is merely a result of the unhappiness about the fact that Meta, Google and Microsoft aren't EU-corporations you are missing the point.

There is nothing that indicates that SAP or Deutsche Telekom would hesitate a second at the chance of becoming the equally violent and exploitive forces.

The solution to Big Tech isn't EU Big Tech. It's de-commercialisation and democratization of tech.

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