GEM is truly truly outrageous

Rest in Piss Dick Cheney. You getting a peaceful death doesn't seem fair for the amount of pain and suffering you have brought in your lifetime.

digital portrait of myself done without much refinement or care for the details. Drawn bust up, I'm a white woman with a calm but weary smile and long, straight red hair that dissipates into wavy curls near the bottom.

it's turtleneck season so here's a somewhat low effort self portrait to commemorate it
#art #digitalart

Classic X, opening a link where you can nazi it

Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not 247 points by stillatit 10 hours ago | hide | past | favorite | 200 comments Just saw the CEO of Substack celebrating traffic from X/Twitter shooting up thinking they stopped suppressing tweets with links[0]. Actually, this traffic is because now any time you open a tweet with a link, the in-app webview loads in the background, and displays when you press the link. I run an ecom store that gets a lot of its customers from Twitter. I was also shocked to see my traffic double or triple overnight and thought the algorithm had blessed me and my business. Soon realized what was actually happening. Thought other traffic-monitors might appreciate this explanation. Meanwhile Nikita Bier is pretending they never suppressed tweets with links to begin with, offering the alternative explanation: "a common complaint is that posts with links tend to get lower reach. This is because the web browser covers the post and people forget to Like or Reply. So X doesn't get a clear signal whether the content is any good"[1]. A bit of a rewriting of history since Elon and his mom both tweeted about how it wasn't fair to use his platform to promote other links/platforms, even banning people who shared profiles of other social networks (including Paul Graham for a period). They suppressed all links shortly after. [0] https://x.com/cjgbest/status/1985464687350485092 [1] https://x.com/nikitabier/status/1979994223224209709

Looks like X is juicing web visit numbers by opening a browser WebView in the background whether the user visits the link or not.

They've re-invented pop-under fraud (allegedly).

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4580...

They sometimes demanded extra work because they couldn't picture what their colleagues were pitching them. "Frequently, management staff don't come from dev backgrounds and won't be able to understand what they see unless it looks like a final game," explained producer Masao Kobayashi. To appease these leaders, developers produce what he called "fancy concept art and highly-polished, super early demos."

seriously how do you get to a lead role in the games industry without understanding concepts such as "greyboxing" or "bugs not yet fixed in this version". like what is the career path, for these people?

All eyes are on New York City today. As they are every other day cuz it’s DA GREATEST CITY IN THE WORLD BABY LOVE DA METS

YouTube video by Technology Connections I was right about dishwasher pods, and now I can prove it

Folks, I have a new video today where I'm very excited to announce a new dishwasher powder on the market.

Why am I so excited? Because it's vindicated every single one of my detergent opinions.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAX2...

apparently ko-fi marks things as business instead of friends/family and they're holding a big chunk of money (and taking fees). i may be able to use this as collateral to borrow for rent but if you sent me some, you might be able to help out here by going to paypal and confirming the transaction.

turned off opengl in dosbox, which seems to have solved the hangs, try it again now

ssh bbs@haxxed.com

slowly reaching a semblance of stability, i'm ready to let people loose on this

behold, to the best of my knowledge the only running Citadel-86 anyone has seen in some time:

ssh to bbs@haxxed.com to connect

#BBS #Citadel #Citadel86 #Minneapolis #retrocomputing #bbsing #dialup #dialupdays

Tekswamp Prysm PR-TD2 Laser Tile Phosphor Display LPD 030-00031-00 Monitor Prysm PR-TD2 Laser Tile Phosphor Display LPD 030-00031-00 Monitor Tile Display

Laser-powered phosphor display screen panels are starting to pop up on places like eBay and Amazon... If I was more of a tinkerer I'd love to try and get one of these working as a consumer display

www.amazon.com/Tekswamp-Pho...

It's basically a CRT that uses a UV laser to light the phosphors instead of a cathode ray tube. If you were going to make new CRT style screens in the modern day, this is the closest you could get

The Lumo demo WIP went down well at Amiga Belfast today despite being bugged to flip. Might have sold a couple of 2umo as well :)

Also got talking with ex-Codies artist Johnathan Temples, who literally lives round the corner from me now!

#amiga #AmigaBelfast #retrogaming #northernireland

PASS IT ON ‼️

slowly reaching a semblance of stability, i'm ready to let people loose on this

behold, to the best of my knowledge the only running Citadel-86 anyone has seen in some time:

ssh to bbs@haxxed.com to connect

#BBS #Citadel #Citadel86 #Minneapolis #retrocomputing #bbsing #dialup #dialupdays

a magazine with a curvy font stating 'this stockbroker just got warped' in all caps. hes holding one phone to his ear and another in the other hand, the one in his hand has a center button of some sort. they're old round earpiece style phones. one black and one white with coiled cords. the man is wearing a white dress shirt, and dark patterned tie.

THIS STOCKBROKER

JUST GOT

WARPED

Go Computer Now! – The Story of Sphere Computers A book telling the extraordinary story of Sphere, a 1970s Utah personal computer maker far ahead of its time—until its sudden collapse.

Just learned about this #retrocomputing book Kickstarter that still needs some backers to meet its goal. It's the story of a small computer company that designed ahead-of-its-time products and then disappeared just as the personal computer revolution was getting started.

A digital poster in the style of a World War II propaganda piece. Isolaed on a yellow background, a normal, squarish, 20-something guy with glasses is sitting working on a laptop. A ghostly figure of Hitler has his arm around the guy and is grinning and shaking a fist triumphantly looking at the laptop screen. On the lid of the laptop where an apple might otherwise be is an openAI logo, bright green, and dripping green ooze down the lid. Text on the poster, in combinations of sans-serif type and brush script reads: Using Generative AI? You’re prompting with Hitler! GenAI is a Fascist Project! Try using your brain instead Don’t surrender your creativity to the tech billionaire’s control

New awareness campaign

bsky app should add dialup modem sounds at startup to complete the experience

My favourite thing about American techbros is they think everywhere is like America in terms of infrastructure and if it isn't well then that's just too fucking bad isn't it

This subskeet brought to you by shit Australian internet that won't fucking load the replies on this fucking website

dear developers,

using the radio costs power.

signed,
everyone's battery

Normalise calling people who are obsessed with bringing trans people up in every argument “weirdos” and “perverts” instead of debating them

A screenshot of the dance in kitsune tails, with kiri dipping a shocked looking yuzu. Above them is a pull quote: "Nintendo wasn't brave enough to put lesbian fox girls in Super Mario Bros. 3" GamesRadar+

Kitsune Tails will be on Games Done Queer later today, check out the schedule here: gamesdonequick.com/schedule/61

It also happens to be 30% off on itch and Steam, and you can get this award winning gay fox girl platformer on either platform via kitsunegames.com/kitsunetails

I don't have a dial in line right now but my Citadel-based BBS (originally online from ~1998 to ~2003) is back online although it rarely sees any activity anymore... even I forget to log in for months at a time. And it's here in the Twin Cities!

I rarely have positive things to say about many politicians, but I like Zohran, he comes across as very genuine and seems to like his community. Hope folks across the pond get a good mayor.

My BBS memories began with a stack of linefeed my uncle gave me with a list of local BBS numbers. I'd dial some.. hear a human voice mangled through the PC speaker and get scared.

I dialed one, and an ASCII top down view of the Enterprise scrolled past. I was in awe.

an inverted image of discatte on an amdek MDA monitor, turned into a haunted orange image with jpeg artifacts. the text 'treehouse.exe of horror' is written in STOP font each word is a different color, red/green/blue, with crt mask effect.

Welcome, foolish mortals, to the haunted Intergalactic Transistor Lounge (and Spooky Cat Cafe). I am your host, the ghost of disk sectors gone foul. Mwuahaha.

Our tour begins here... on the motherboard of an innocent computer.. 🎃🧵

4 sony vaio picture books with various stages of lcd polarizer delamination (melty or vinegar syndrome). the screens are bubling and chakly, with wavy patterns near the edge where the glue has leeched or let go

Now that you're settled in..

Go a head. Use one of our complementary Picture Books..

Please, be our guest..

Let all your troubles MELT away

a laptop with internal battery.. but the battery cable has been modified to reach out of the case, to an rca connector. for separate charging? the cables are held in with electrical tape. the two rca connectors are different brands/shapes with one grey cable and one black.

the same battery with its plastic sheath removed. revealing battery goo soaked and rotting cardboard tubes surrounding leaking metal cans and blue corroded wires.

Tales of those with tails.. are not always as they seem..

This poor soul rewired for DC over RCA.. hi-infidelity indeed.

Try not to dance until you drop... your mortal coils