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An important aspect of the hacker ethos is the "got so mad at broken proprietary thing that I fixed it myself" attitude. It runs explicitly counter to the cop mentality half of infosec has these days.

Photos of the original jury-rigged server for Ultima Online.

This setup was not remotely unique for the early days of online services. Most of those were literally just a bunch of hard cabled PCs put together.

(Thanks to Mr Talida for fixing the orientation)

Crunchyroll is shutting down the Funimation streaming service and deleting everyone's purchased copies of stuff, while also hiking their own prices.
Stop paying for streaming media. Buy things you actually own. Or get it elsewhere.

@tryst They may have not been great but I am fond of the form factor from an aesthetics perspective.

Really been enjoying playing Honkai Star Rail 2.0.

Here's some art we got last year, by knuckleb0ne of it as a Trailblazer!

Cory Doctorow @pluralistic : Companies like Tesla, Amazon and Cruise that claim to have replaced human workers with AI are often outright lying. Often, they’re instead replacing local employees with remote workers paid peanuts in India and other developing countries.

“So much AI turns out to be low-waged people in a call center in the Global South pretending to be robots that Indian techies have a joke about it: ‘AI stands for “absent Indian.”’”

pluralistic.net/2024/01/31/neu

@tryst It’s the same with my local place unless you’re willing to go and sit in the waiting room every morning. It’s incredible.

Oh no! I’m crushing!!!

Sharkler from “B-Robo Kabutack” is a REALLY cute shark robot!!!!

robot girl with "this machine kills fascists" painted on her chassis

Oh no! I’m crushing!!!

Sharkler from “B-Robo Kabutack” is a REALLY cute shark robot!!!!

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