mainframegremlin

Recalling Norman Rockwell's "The Gossips," a slew of computer users share a disc made by a user, each user sharing it with someone else until it ends up in a new machine, beginning the story anew. Artist: Mike Hagel, RUN Magazine Mar/Apr 1991

Pass the word!

02.05.2025 18:05 — 👍 105    🔁 17    💬 4    📌 1

people regularly ask me what they should do to prepare for the possibility of mass violence and civil unrest. we give this advice often on It Could Happen Here but this is my list of advice in no specific order:

22.03.2025 00:50 — 👍 2175    🔁 548    💬 50    📌 6

if you were accidentally fired while transporting a nuclear warhead and currently need a place to stay with said warhead please know that i have a sizable backyard and an abiding desire to be a nuclear power

19.02.2025 00:31 — 👍 26849    🔁 3778    💬 485    📌 208

A type-in program from the August 1988 issue of micomBASIC magazine. The left page has instructions, and a tiny illustration of a wizard threatened by a flower. The right page has screenshots of the title scren, a starting stage, a kill screen, and an illustration of a softlock.

THE DEVILISH LABYLINCE (FM-7 and FM-77, 1988) (Source.)

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Would rather die than use Quicken on this.

26.01.2025 21:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Three months ago is of course not very long, but still absolutely flooring how much gravitas this talk relates to the past couple days.

23.01.2025 16:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

computers started local-first and will go back to local-first

22.01.2025 19:32 — 👍 383    🔁 31    💬 10    📌 3

My experience as well.
> hey this looks fun there’s some cool jokers too
100hrs later, somehow
> in this dissertation I will prove why flush and straight meta is bad and only one pair is good

22.01.2025 18:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

YouTube Monetized Countries [October 2024 List] Here is a updated list with countries where YouTube monetization is available:

I’ve recently had luck using Mullvad and tunneling through a country that has no monetization via YouTube, but any VPN with custom settings would work. Lately I’ve been defaulting to Albania, but this list has others: isthischannelmonetized.com/data/youtube...

22.01.2025 15:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

To further test TTFF, I built an automated sniffer with a pi zero 2 w running kismet - which is where the annoyances with gpsd.socket camping came up. I’ll write this up eventually. But anyways, it worked there too, so solution isn’t strictly for flipper.

21.01.2025 23:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

After a foray into unreliable GPS lock from the NEO6MV2/ATGM346H, I wrote a gist on what was an effective TTFF method. This was primarily tested via flipper dev board/ESP32 running marauder but also extends to Linux tooling with gpsd.socket and cgps. github.com/mainframegre... #flipperzero #wardrive

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