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• Post #1649529

  Since the demise of #Radioarchive and the other #Cheops sites, is there anywhere to get some of that old #BBC #Radio4 stuff? It's kind of ironic that the BBC calls out to people who have preserved their stuff in the past to fill in programme gaps for stuff that they then sell, and yet do their damndest to stop archivists preserving things that have now ended up lost again. Ever since I lost my old iPod with the 48 hour version of "This Sceptred Isle" on it, I have bee...

• Post #1649528

  The strangest thing about the #EFF leaving #Twitter is that ... Why the fuck were they still in that #NaziBar !?

• Post #1649527

  They are calling the bogroll guy "Warehouse Luigi": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpqhREBFIoo #Luigi #Bogroll #News #EatTheRich

• Post #1649525

  Since I am on an accidental #nostalgia (naustalgia?) trip in trying to find old #MUD things, this one popped up on my Facebook feed which may amuse the #RetroComputing #VAX #VMS and #History of the #Internet folks. This was UKNet's office in about 1994-1995 I think there are some #SUN and #SGI machines in there too, there definitely were somewhere. #HashtagAbuse

• Post #1601108

  A late birthday present. Next time I need to get online on my Apple IIe, I will be well sorted! #Apple #Computers #RetroComputing #Electronics #AppleII

• Post #1507421

  This one might be interesting to anyone interested in computer gaming history. https://dec10.uknet.net I spent the last couple of weeks finally finishing a project I started for Bletchley Park about 20 years ago. Recreating the original MUD and MIST on a mirror of the original Essex University system that finally closed in 1991. Roy Trubshaw and Richard Bartle wrote the first online multi-user game (MUD) on Essex University's DECSystem-10 in 1978 and it ran till I closed it in 1991. I dil...

• Post #1128351

  This is still my favourite personal hackery/security story, and the only one I have ever written about where I am on the naughty-side of the desk. Different times! https://artofsecurity.com/2011/humble #Security #InfoSec #Hacking #DEC #VAX #VMS #Teletype #Blog #History #UniversityofLeicester #FoiledAgain

• Post #928504

  Where are all my #VMS license PAKs when I need them! I used to have boxes of the damned things. #Retrocomputing #losttechnology #Archaeology #Librarians

• Post #687236

  @cstross@wandering.shop @jguillaumes@mastodont.cat @jlargentaye@mas.to Leeds University kept some of its DECSystem-10 stuff, or it had last time I was there in 2005. #Leeds #LeedsUniversity

• Post #682291

  @cstross@wandering.shop if you are feeling really brave... RUN ADVENT[42,42] Though you'd have to be really dedicated to retro gaming to want to play it. But at least I installed the #Stanford version that doesn't require caps lock stuck on to play it.

• Post #540523

  @Linza I'd love to see what POSTUS's historical record would look like in 350 years, if there are still people or records then.

• Post #467823

  Hey! That's me! @warandpeas https://mastodon.social/@warandpeas/116087323590365455

• Post #467821

  It won't be long before the Bellamy Salute is back. #USA #Politics #Fascism #Nazis #FCC #Television #Orwell #Propaganda

• Post #467818

  "Two more minutes of that and I'd be wearing a MAGA hat" - Jimmy Kimmel on the People's State of the Union. He's not wrong, the Democrats are begging to lose if that's the best they can do as their alternative. @MeidasTouch fucked up there big time; it felt like a high school protest without any of the energy and inspiration. #StateOfTheUnion #USPol #Trump #Epstein #meidasTouch #Politics #Protest #DNC #Democrats #Useless #JimmyKimmel #People...

• Post #467817

  Feels like this should be in the Entertainment section rather than the Politics one. https://globalnews.ca/news/11688507/conservative-searches-antifa-federal-government/ #Canada #Politics #AntiFa #RedNexit #CanPoli #Trump #MAGA #MapleMAGA #Globalnews @globalnews

• Post #314432

  Just one teeny question... Why would you send ICE, who have no powers of arrest, to investigate and arrest people for financial crimes? https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-reacts-fatal-minneapolis-shooting-11412712 #News #Trump #USPol #Minnesota #ICE #Crime #FBI #Lying #Liars #Who #Lie

• Post #314431

  Today I learned that there is no option in LinkedIn's "Report advert" to report an illegal job. #MinimumWage #Canada #Quebec #Montreal #HumanRights #Crime #Fraud #Online #Jobs #Recruitment #LinkedIn #Mercor #Abuse

• Post #314429

  This is my new favourite YouTube video of the year. It's a bit cringeworthy, but hey! Who doesn't need the world's most rusty anvil and an engine hoist in their living-room? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueCO4spGNPs Going to tag @alisynthesis because why not! #Guitar #Music #Engineering #Magnet #Music #Nutjob #DIY #Anvil

• Post #314428

  We get a fairly good history education in the UK, and I thought that the USA was built on the back of slave labour in the South and brutally exploited immigrant Chinese, Italian and Irish labour in the North. Debt bondage didn't (and still doesn't) suck dry any American hard-earned tax dollars. From where I am standing, you need all of those immigrants. Every one. The comments on Twitter are just as you would expect on a Russian bot echo chamber. https://x.com/Sec_Noem/status/...

• Post #314426

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDkhzVw0yBs #Music #Trump #Hitler #Protest #MAGA #USA

• Post #314425

  Somebody has rebooted https://zombo.com via its expired domain name. All I can politely say is that it was definitely done by white people. Once upon a time you could do anything on zombo.com. Anything was possible. I am so sorry for your loss zombo.com. #zombo #zombocom #relax #meditation #pirates is it #enshittification or #enshitification #whoknows #whocares #whitepeople #web

• Post #314424

  I guess #Keepa changed their free limits all of a sudden. Grumble. It would have been nice to yanoo, get a warning? #Amazon #eBay #Online #Shopping #Annoying #CustomerService

• Post #314423

  Dear Customer. No, you can't turn on your heat pumps because the internet site connected to the app on the phone in your hand is under maintenance. If our maintenance goes bad you will have to go out into the snow and try to open the frozen box and turn the thing off and on again and set everything up all over again, which will need the remote control which you haven't seen for about 2 years - WHICH IS WHY YOU ARE USING THE BLOODY PHONE TO CONTROL IT LIKE YOU TOLD US TO. #LG...

• Post #314422

  It's not shaming him. The grumpy old dude is dead, and has been for 350 years. It's merely accepting that history isn't complete, and sometimes new things are found about historical figures, and that sometimes your beloved historical "free speech" is pretty abhorrent when you frame it in modern terms. It's not rewriting history; it's looking at it with the benefit of a few centuries of learning and medical advances in treating bladder s...

• Post #109765

  Oh shit, I just realised that every time Trump is talking about countries "emptying their mental institutions and sending them over here", he's talking about asylum seekers. The orange moron doesn't understand the difference between political asylum and a mental asylum. It's hard to fathom how stupid that blob of rotting lard is. #Trump #USPol #Venezuela #Politics #Dementia #USA