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by waltbosz 4y ago
I don't understand, what was Uberspace hosting? Was it just an informational webpage about youtube-dl with no downloadable binaries? The article says the downloads were hosted on GitHub which was linked to by the Uberspace site.
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Cool project. I've always wanted to learn the semaphore alphabet, and I'm interested in alternative keyboards. The lifeguards at the beach I visit use it to communicate to each other from between lifeguard stands, and I'm alw
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by waltbosz 4y ago
I have an uncle who has walked across the United States several times. Here is an article about him: https://ithacavoice.org/2015/03/homeless-traveler-survived-o...
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by waltbosz 4y ago
I first saw the film in the mid 2000s. By that time, many elements of the film had become dated (the cars, the fashions, the hairstyles, etc.) For me, the dated elements are a major part of what makes the film so interesting. It's a so
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by waltbosz 4y ago
Philip Glass did the score for one of my favorite films, "Koyaanisqatsi" Here is a YT cover of the opening song. I find the music has lots of feeling to it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KC0FroHjB94
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by waltbosz 4y ago
It sounds like you never saw Django. The stated goal of the heros was to buy a slave from his owner to use for brutal boxing matches, but what they really wanted to buy was the freedom of Django's wife. The purchase of the boxing slave
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by waltbosz 4y ago
do you suppose that is the real reason Elon bought Twitter? To gain insight into that? it's a bit fun to imagine that is the case. It is reminiscent of the "buy the whole farm" scam discussed in the film "Django Unchaine
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by waltbosz 4y ago
For the past month, about 3 days a week, I've been doing 2 hour teams calls where I'm the primary speaker (I'm KTing an app to a new support team). For 4 of these calls, my home Internet has dropped randomly. It's kind o
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by waltbosz 4y ago
Would this new policy create a new attack vector for scammer sellers trying to damage the reputation of good legitimate sellers. The scammer would organize a distributed buy-and-return of their victim's product, which would trigger thi
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by waltbosz 4y ago
My first time using the modern Internet was at a computer lab at the University of Delaware. I was 11 years old and I used it to look up tips for playing Mortal Combat. My PLATO usage also occurred at UD labs. I was even part of a photo sho
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by waltbosz 4y ago
I was maybe 6 years old at the time. I don't recall what she coded in.
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by waltbosz 4y ago
My mom was a PLATO developer. She wrote computer based learning courses for it. What I remember about PLATO was the games. I think there was one where you could drop a flower pot on Mickey Mouse's head. Does that sound familiar to anyo
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Is the down time caused because they laid-off the employees that kept the servers up, or is it caused by an influx of more users who find themselves with loads of free time.
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by waltbosz 4y ago
I really like the photos. I'm not into sports at all, but his photos do a really great job of telling the story of a single moment in time. The good composition plus the exact right timing makes for great photos.
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I think the one that we had was Analog, that sounds familiar.
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by waltbosz 4y ago
I remember the BASIC and hex code. It's wild to think that software was once distributed on a printed page.
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by waltbosz 4y ago
I played this on the Atari 800. My dad and brother somehow wrote mods for the game to do things like make Rockford invulnerable, or make it so that Rockford could dig through anything (solid walls, boulders, slime, etc). I think they learne
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by waltbosz 4y ago
I just looked at the code for the keyboard event handler, and it appears that this version DOES NOT allow you to dig without moving.
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by waltbosz 4y ago
I used the same strategy. Same results with the bleed off. I was surprised how much I had to keep correcting my angle on the way up and down. Unbelievable, the crater is visible from Earth Score: 921.4 point crash Spe
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by waltbosz 4y ago
I had a chance to trade a 2001 multigame cabinet that I got out of a dumpster for a Popeye cabinet. I regret not making that trade, the old Nintendo cabinets were beautiful, plus Popeye is a great game.
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by waltbosz 4y ago
You guys all make excellent suggestions, but maybe I should have specified. More energy efficient, but still having a bit of tangibly physical charm to it like the lava lamps.
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by waltbosz 4y ago
Every time I see these lava lamps mentions I wonder if there is a more energy efficient way to do this. How about a bucket of mixed colored beads that is periodically vibrated ? A number could be derived from the order and colors of the bea
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by waltbosz 4y ago
I forked your code and made it a bit more fun. Presenting: the Magical Shrinking Emoji Family. https://codepen.io/waltbosz/pen/zYJKBEE
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by waltbosz 4y ago
Neat Google street view of the deck of the ship. Thanks for sharing.
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It's currently docked in Philadelphia across the street from an IKEA. It actually makes for a pretty nice view from the floor-to-ceiling windows of the IKEA restaurant.
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by waltbosz 4y ago
I remember being so frustrated by the ZZT programming language because it lacked so many fundamental features. IIRC, you couldn't even sum variables. But it didn't stop me from spending hours and hours creating ZZT games. At times
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by waltbosz 4y ago
Does anyone remember the shareware game ZZT? If you bought the full version, it came with printed maps. I still have mine somewhere. Also, has anyone tried to get ChatGPT/etc to play Zork?
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by waltbosz 4y ago
My cousin used to collect and restoring old electromechanical pinballs. They're actually pretty neat to look inside up close. If anyone is interested, I searched up this video that explains the insides of an electromechanical pinball m
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A homeless traveler survived outside on cold Ithaca nights(ithacavoice.com)
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I'm going to make my kids play this until they score perfectly every time. Our backyard is teaming with several of these plants.

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