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by robarr 5y ago
Rom sites are going the way of dinosaurs while nostalgia 8-bit retro machines are offered at 700 euros. Meanwhile cheap chinense portable emulators are 10 dollars on Amazon and archive.org keep some of this jewels online until the next dmca
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by robarr 5y ago
Another classic stolen and then changed original people’s value. What represented the knowledge of ALL the tribe now means the knowledge of only a few. In any case this is what the OP refers to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by robarr 5y ago
The is a kind of ridiculous expression “you never forget your first one”. Well mine was a ZX81. I will never forget her. Thanks sir Clive!
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by robarr 5y ago
As much as most the reporting done on RT.com is probably honest and truthful, there is an undeniable anti-American sentiment to be read between the lines. Just keep clicking on articles and you will sense it. By the way I am not an US citiz
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With a global chip shortage, Microsoft is trying to get you to replace your PCs(twitter.com)
9 points by robarr 5y ago|1 comments
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Western Union suspend its services in Afghanistan(twitter.com)
2 points by robarr 5y ago|0 comments
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by robarr 5y ago
Whatever ‘human nature’ is, cultural and social layers make any answers rarely applicable to anything other than a relatively small universe of people, not universal truths. “Do people work harder in groups or as individuals?” For example c
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by robarr 5y ago
“ Are you concerned about lending legitimacy to what many consider a propaganda network? Is it a propaganda network? I don’t know. Is it any more than the BBC or the CBC or the French network or the Japanese network? I don’t know. I’m not
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Don't Understand with William Shatner(rt.com)
2 points by robarr 5y ago|2 comments
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by robarr 5y ago
The spam note : “Important: In light of spam causing potential issues with SMS forwarding, text message forwarding to linked numbers will stop on or after August 1." Only appears in the English version of the notes. I have not tested i
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New Light Shed on Once Top Secret Tacit Blue Aircraft by Veteran Program Manager(thedrive.com)
1 points by robarr 5y ago|0 comments
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by robarr 5y ago
It seems to be a global trend in countries where there is not proper legislation or heavy lobbying . In my country this has been happening the last four of five years and now the national football cup is now called the betsson cup and all a
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by robarr 5y ago
Is it pornography? is it art? a performance? Just money changing hands? I understand why some or a lot of people would watch but I don’t quite get what it is they are watching, or even if they know themselves. For a moment she put a stethos
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Amouranth Is Twitch's Smartest Troll, but She's on Thin Ice(kotaku.com)
2 points by robarr 5y ago|2 comments
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by robarr 5y ago
People with poor formal qualifications or habilities not longer marketable have little choice except double shifts to raise a family. Just imagine being 40 years old, no college or technical education, having only retail work experience.
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by robarr 5y ago
Some Maps and statistics about San Francisco criminality: https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/ca/san-francisco/crime https://www.sanfranciscopolice.org/stay-safe/crime-data/crim... https:
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by robarr 5y ago
Ernst gombrich ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Gombrich ) talked about a “motif in the artists’ inner world” in relation to art creation. There is not an inner world to be represented in the case of the Ai crea
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by robarr 5y ago
Edit: changed the title to convey the age of miss Funk.
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Mercury 13 legend Wally Funk (82) will ride with Jeff Bezos to the edge of space(theverge.com)
12 points by robarr 5y ago|3 comments
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by robarr 5y ago
It is hard to think of this as a ‘tech’ problem when it is rooted in the objectification of women and sexuality in general. There may be a back and forth of tech fixes and tech exploits but it will remain a societal issue.
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by robarr 5y ago
Some Maps and statistics to confirm or refute one’s perception about San Francisco: https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/ca/san-francisco/crime https://www.sanfranciscopolice.org/stay-safe/crime-
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by robarr 6y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_file
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by robarr 6y ago
I appreciate sarcasm but the use of ‘/s’ can clarify intentions to others not so inclined to enjoy it.
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by robarr 6y ago
Medical experimentation in Africa: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_experimentation_in_Afr... Although an op-Ed it is an NYT op-Ed: Why Africa Fears Western Medicine https://www.nytimes.com/2007&#x
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CD Projekt Red Files Distributed Online, Starting with Gwent(veryaligaming.com)
2 points by robarr 6y ago|0 comments
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by robarr 6y ago
What about the liabilities of sharing data with a third party? Your are sending all kind of data to a third party processor. Edit: I am not being critical, I am really asking.
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Users Upset as Raspberry Pi OS Now Pings a Microsoft Server During Updates(pcmag.com)
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by robarr 6y ago
Not for me. The link (I only tried the CPC 464) served a pdf thru docdroid.net. Although I tried on an iOS device. Sometimes this things are smart and check the user agent before pushing a payload.
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by robarr 6y ago
I was in high school in the early eighties in South America: we had TRSs in our computer lab and a schoolmate brought his dad’s 100 a couple of times. Except France, Japan, the UK and the the soviet block countries, which developed home com
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Anti-intellectualism in American Life – Richard Hofstader -internet archive scan [pdf](ia802903.us.archive.org)
1 points by robarr 6y ago|0 comments

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