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go to the cloud they said
itll be fine they said

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/manufacturer-issues-remote-kill-command-to-nuke-smart-vacuum-after-engineer-blocks-it-from-collecting-data-user-revives-it-with-custom-hardware-and-python-scripts-to-run-offline

Israel just arrested the former top lawyer for the IDF for leaking a video of Palestinian prisoners getting viciously sexually abused.

(Barely a peep in 🇺🇸 media about this)
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Micro Machines/Region coding - Sega Retro

Examples:

https://segaretro.org/Micro_Machines/Region_coding

https://segaretro.org/Puggsy/Region_coding

Suppose you're curating a library of 60Hz English language games. Now suppose a game was developed for 50Hz PAL & officially released in NTSC/PAL-M regions, but *without* having the game speed adjusted for 60Hz. Do you think it belongs in said library? Explain.
#retrogaming #everdrive #emulation

“They were careless people… – they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” - from the actual novel, by F. Scott Fitzgerald […]

Facebook is in the wrong, I guess, but it's really hard to sympathize with manipulative "content" mills.

My point here is that if we want to look at game console history from a global perspective--and we should--then we cannot treat regional histories as isolated from one another. They never have been.

Observations that "well we really didn't care much about consoles at the time" and "we liked Sega better anyway once we started caring" are fair enough. But concluding that the Crash and subsequent NES boom had only a "local" impact is at least as myopic as centering the Crash to the exclusion […]

Had the crash not cleared the way for the undisputed reign of the NES in North America, considering the console didn't gain a strong foothold in Europe or Latin America, it's doubtful their current global output would look take the same shape. Assuming they didn't give up on non-Japanese markets […]

Coleco had been in talks with Sega about distributing ColecoVision in Japan. Sega's subsequent SG-1000 console used nearly identical hardware. It became the basis for the Master System, which became part of the Mega Drive's hardware as well.

It's wrong to say that the 1980s game console crash didn't impact game console history outside the United States or North America. The Japanese console market that eventually reached the rest of the world was directly influenced by the American one...

@vwbusguy that's what my brain does constantly without being told

Former chair of the Tennessee libertarian party 👇🏽

Updating my #GOG library offline backup and enjoying some #Halloween vibes 🎃🦩
#vaporwave
#desktop

Killer quote:

“I’m going back to the Fediverse. Back to Mastodon. To the nerds, the hobbyists, the idealists. The people who don’t talk about reach, but about relevance. To those who understand that decentralization isn’t nostalgic, it’s the future. That digital sovereignty isn’t a gimmick […]

Screenshot of an article headline "AI layoffs to backfire: Half quietly rehired at lower pay" with "at lower pay" being highlighted

This is sometimes read as "look 'AI' isn't working". But the opposite is true.

_This_ is what "AI" is _for_. Push down labor power, push down wages, make employment more insecure.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/forrester_ai_rehiring/

Dear #CocaCola. Please see the popularity of #MountainDew #BajaBlast and bring back #Surge in all of its original glory. Thank you.

Hi, It’s Me, Wikipedia, and I Am Ready for Your Apology “Wikipedia, the constantly changing knowledge base created by a global free-for-all of anonymous users, now stands as the leading force for the dum...

Ice cold https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/hi-its-me-wikipedia-and-i-am-ready-for-your-apology

Anti-immigrant sentiment is fucking nuts if you think about it.

"Hey. Hey you. The dirt you were born over sucks. My dirt forever!!! My country is great. I had nothing to do with this, mind. But still, fuck you."

Original post: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:knj5sw5al3sukl6vhkpi7637/post/3m44voqujb22f

Sky News: They are miles apart politically, but there is one thing Farage and Polanski have in common - anal... [a photo of the two]

It's going to be so amazing being alive in 2026 because the front page will say "BREAKING Mamdani Received Free Cheese Pizza From a Local Vendor, Calls to Resign Mount" and then on page 3 you'll see "Hegseth's Pentagon Rape Dungeon Raises Legal Questions."

Three weird things about social websites:

1) If you run a a social website, you don't actually have to allow nazis and demagogues to sign up.

2) If the nazis and demagogues sign up anyway, you can kick them out. It sounds weird, I know, but it's totally a thing you can do!

3) If you've signed […]

Me: (Stops posting anything)
Also me: Why don't I have any messages?

The only explanation for this is that these people would disprove the administration’s narrative about the identity of the people we are murdering. I’m a little surprised they didn’t just straight-up murder these two in custody. That’s who the government is now.

When you go to tomorrow's protests, make sure your phones are either off or on airplane mode. ICE and police use fake cell towers to figure out who's protesting.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/the-wiretap/2025/09/09/how-ice-is-using-fake-cell-towers-to-spy-on-peoples-phones/

#NoKings […]

A photo of a building with a long row of identical large posters on the wall. The posters say "DON'T OBEY" with a drawing of the Portland inflatable frog's face.

An extremely common problem I have noticed among traumatized young adults who have difficult parents is that they don't realize they're adults. They reason about their parents as if they're still 8 years old and subject to absolute authority.

If you're over 18 and live with your parents – […]

AJ West • 1h Find your own holiday instead of stealing. Today is Columbus Day as designated by the federal government Reply 6

lol “find your own instead of stealing” in defense of columbus day