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โ€œThe totally cool way to run and network your computerโ€ sounds just as stupid as it did when I first got these boxes. I paid $2 for them at a HAM radio convention 11 years ago and theyโ€™ve just been sitting sealed ever since. Got them out of storage today and I think Iโ€™ll open them. (Thread time.)

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๐ŸงตThread. I collect photos that people took of their TV screens (in the days before home video) because they wanted to capture a historical moment, or at least something of personal significance.

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New on the Secret Area, it's Cold Fear.

A Resident Evil-inspired survival horror game made by the folks who made Alone in the Dark: A New Nightmare. And it's surprisingly alright!

Shares and comments appreciated, as always.

asecretarea.com/2025/10/11/col

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Here are my current set-on-install about:config options for Firefox, as well as going through Settings and turning off anything related to telemetry, "studies", or a Mozilla product. I'm not sure I've captured everything. At one point I was trying to be real rigorous about documenting my preferences but as Firefox became more and more hostile it became harder to fight back in a systematic way

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I threw away a permanent marker the other day. Today it showed up on my desk again with the word "permanent" slightly bigger and underlined

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The part that took me the most time was writing a decoder for a video from 1991. The video is a demo of the $HOME MOVIE system, 1152 x 900 with voice and music. HD video from 1991, folks!

youtube.com/watch?v=1j3WYV2sQno

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I made a tour of an obscure window system called Bellcore MGR, made by the Bell Core Research and bearing a strong resemblance to Plan 9's 8.5.

The tour also comes with a short overview of the $HOME MOVIE film authoring tool from 1990. There are many screenshots, a 40-minute long video with Mozart and Liszt, and a hard disk image for 86box.

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ninakalinina.com/notes/mgr/

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Another unapproved use of WD-40. But a fun one.

art: TaniDaReal, x.com/tanidareal / merch @ www.tanidareal.com

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