VonGuard

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by VonGuard 4y ago
Would you believe that SoulSeek is still a thing? It is. P2P 4evah.
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by VonGuard 4y ago
The MADE needs volunteers! Email info@themade.org to find out how to volunteer and help us restore old systems, teach kids to code, or just help people play games!
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Oakland's non-profit video game museum is back, and thriving(sfstandard.com)
197 points by VonGuard 4y ago|21 comments
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by VonGuard 4y ago
If it bleeds, it leads.
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by VonGuard 4y ago
This looks awesome! Get out from behind your computers, people, and go support some art in the Bay Area! It will inspire you.
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by VonGuard 4y ago
$3 a month per person is not a business model...
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by VonGuard 4y ago
OpenDNS built a business around this model: use our DNS servers and we sell the DNS hits to third parties looking to track traffic. I worked at a company that bought this data and resold it. Maybe the little VPN providers don't do this
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by VonGuard 4y ago
They, and ALL VPN PROVIDERS, sell your DNS data, as well. That's the real business model.
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by VonGuard 4y ago
After Dark now works in the browser thanks to Archive.org. Here are some examples: Disney After Dark: https://archive.org/details/after-dark-disney After Dark 3.2 for Windows: https://archive.org/detail
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by VonGuard 4y ago
The website has our hours and new location listed on the front page.
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by VonGuard 4y ago
Because this stuff is an important part of our cultural, artistic and scientific heritage. We do not get to decide what the future finds interesting. Therefore, we must preserve as much as we possibly can so that those in the future have th
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by VonGuard 4y ago
The Living Computer Museum was an absolute treasure, but it shows one of the major hazards in the non-profit world. I founded the MADE, a non-profit videogame museum in Oakland. Just about 100% of my time when I was the director was spent r
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by VonGuard 4y ago
2600 Magazine on the East coast and Noisebridge on the West Coast are the only 2 registered distributors of Club Mate in the USA. If you are in SF, you can get one at Noisebridge for $5.
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by VonGuard 4y ago
Guy gets a "job" as a software engineer with a WHOLE lot of work, onboarding, paperwork, etc. Then the first thing they ask him to do is deposit a check into his account and send them the Cash immediately, before the check clears.
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by VonGuard 4y ago
Depends on the team. Always worth applying and finding out. Generally, timezones matter more than borders, but sometimes that's not the case.
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by VonGuard 4y ago
Red Hat is hiring on the OpenShift and OpenStack teams. All sorts of jobs, from marketing to engineering to test and development. Almost all jobs can be remote, and we're Red Hat, so you're going to be working with and on open sou
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by VonGuard 4y ago
Bankman-Fried is in Argentina now. https://twitter.com/flightradar24/status/1591348369271971841 I doubt he's coming back.
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by VonGuard 4y ago
Standards can fix this stuff: https://spritely.institute/ Spritely is an effort to fix the problems that remain with ActivityPub.
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by VonGuard 4y ago
They also host the world's largest curated videogame collection. Henry is a treasure.
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by VonGuard 4y ago
Uptown Oakland is where the Sneakers' headquarters was located. Second floor of the Fox Theater.
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by VonGuard 4y ago
Last time I played Star Citizen, and granted, this was 1 year ago, it was so unoptimized and buggy that, when I went into an elevator in the star port, the floor I landed at hadn't loaded yet, and a fell through the geometry, into spac
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by VonGuard 4y ago
Anyone wondering why this is here should read or go see a performance of Arcadia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcadia_(play) Tom Stoppard is the greatest living American playwright. Some of his earlier stuff can be a
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by VonGuard 4y ago
I am told this is very specifically a default setting in the app that makes the minimum connections something like 100 or so. If you crank that down to 5 to 20 it goes much faster. YMMV.
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by VonGuard 4y ago
While I completely agree that Pelosi does this with insider knowledge, she and her husband also seem to be investing based on the hype they hear from people around them. Why else would the Pelosi's have taken such a bath on Roblox?! Th
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by VonGuard 4y ago
Bio-organic solar cells. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_solar_cell These things, in theory, could be everywhere. You can bend some of them, so you could wrap lamp posts with them, cover cars in them, put them ev
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by VonGuard 4y ago
Free hosting services very quickly fill up with bitcoin miners and Minecraft servers.
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by VonGuard 4y ago
Funny, I am working on a non-profit for just this type of thing: https://spritely.institute/ We are building standards for open distributed social media systems, with identity and security built in, and absolutely no centra
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by VonGuard 4y ago
Yep, this has been going on forever. That's why the Spritely Foundation and Project were created to put all the knowledge on this subject to use in a standards effort. https://spritelyproject.org/
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by VonGuard 4y ago
Foone is an absolute treasure. Everything they do is pure gold, I swear.
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by VonGuard 4y ago
That's pretty much exactly what happened in the 1980s

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