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From my archives... this is what the command center of a mid-1990s dialup ISP looked like.

Later iterations would be more advanced, but this is how it started. A natural progression and leap of faith from the multi-line BBS it replaced.

#retrocomputing

OpenAI talks about ensuring AI is "aligned with human values" but if the CEO doesn't understand there are downsides to building a nuclear bomb and didn't even notice Mark Zuckerberg was the villain in The Social Network then it's unlikely the company is aligned with human values.

for just the price of a small silicon fab and injection molding equipment, we can deflate retro game costs to even lower prices

Elon Musk is about to ditch the “Twitter” branding.

This is literally not a joke.

“Today In X” sounds like an algebra equation.

I made a website today, by installing Microsoft FrontPage 98 on a 26-year-old laptop. And that website is about golf simulators. Well, more specifically, that website is about two bookshelves that contain golf simulators.

Get to know the Golfshrine at https://netizen.club/~wildweasel - retro browsers welcomed!

I’ve created a new C++ build system: g++ *

i was just locking down the office when in comes this dame. she looks desperate. husband's dead and coroner calls it an accident. his estranged brother was just made successor on his github she says. i take a drag. little did i know my life was about to git reset -- hard

i have found the patron saint of remote code execution

I am finally getting somewhere with #uxn! There's no collision or anything, but you wouldn't believe how much work it was just to draw this.

So many people lining up to see the new Margot Robbie movie. Which is fair enough. After all, summertime is...

[Lowers shades]

Barbie queue season

[Flees]

instant rainbow, just add battery.

Hack-a-day has some more information (not by me)

https://hackaday.com/2021/02/27/sounding-the-humble-led/

A/B testing, aka automatic remote gaslighting at scale

This is a bit of a #subtoot but I'm going to say it anyway:

If you're a new person to any project, open-source or not, doing "maintainer work" of re-organizing the code-base isn't as helpful as you think it is.

Go ahead and re-read that if you have to. Yes, every single project has a backlog of that sort of work. This file should be there. That include crosses module boundaries. Yes, it's a mess. Yes, it needs to be cleaned up. No, you're not the person to do it.

What this says to me is if anyone anywhere is still using Twitter as a commercial promotion / news feed, they *should not do so*, because Twitter will be not only withholding your new posts from logged-out visitors, they will be doing so in a "silent"/misleading way. A user who gets one of your tweets and follows it to your profile, rather than seeing news, will see a random post you didn't select, *and will not realize anything is missing*. They may then assume you have no more recent news.

Something I didn't discuss above, but is interesting:

I mentioned Twitter-logged-out users can't view links to profiles. What I didn't mention is you can still *access* profiles— — *sort of*.

Imagine someone links you a tweet, and you click the there-linked profile logged out. If you access the profile in this way, following a link from *within* Twitter, it *will* show you the profile

*Inaccurately*.

The tweets will be shown out of order (popular first?), and pinned tweets will not be shown.