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online safety tip: your digital fingerprint can't hurt you if you just keep posting. never stop posting.

So I picked up this absolute wreck of a PowerMac 8500/120 off of eBay last week.

Seller said it “chimes, no video” which sounded like a reasonable problem for me to diagnose and fix.

Took it all apart, inspected the motherboard — looked 100% pristine — reseated all the memory, and plugged in power, keyboard, Mac->VGA video dongle, and a BlueSCSI, and wouldn’t you know it… it fired right up.

Also, not stock! Has a 604e/233 card in it!

#VintageMac #PowerPC

If you see this at a restaurant you’re about to have the best meal of your entire life or severe food poisoning. Or both

I get indication from KDE Connect that Facebook Messenger on Web is constantly playing a ten second long audio or video clip. There is never anything actually playing in the foreground, so I'm wondering why Facebook do this. To prevent tab hibernation? Some sort of fingerprinting?

norton disk doctor 8.0 for windows 3.1 let you play midis in the background while it scanned/repaired your drive 😎

#win31 #msdos #dosgaming #retroComputing

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i know it's been a while but i remain utterly baffled by the (not particularly even that high) popularity of coding LLMs.

when i have to solve a coding problem, i just think about it and then type some code. this has worked very well for me my entire career before chatbots were even a thing. i get a good result from doing this because unlike a chatbot, i'm actually quite good at programming.

why do we want to give that up again?

spinal tap have got nothing on me. it goes up to eleven? slaps top of multitimbral midi module this bad boy goes up to one hundred and twenty seven

Sometimes when I have to enter my passkey, instead of the screen I watch my fingers and it always seems wild to me that I hit all at a rate of like 250 / minute, pretty much in the sequence I mean to, all the time. Somehow I can get the ordering pretty much right. Watching myself type it seems so weird I could've learned to do my keystrokes in the right order nearly all the time.

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