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teen witch posted:as an avid user of tumblr from 09 to 2017/8, they got exactly what they loving deserved. genuinely some of the most insanely boneheaded decisions and ended up alienating the base that kept it afloat. it’s still around but honestly? maybe five years max I still like it for its endless waterfall of content, but they are not doing themselves any favours. I mean, the porno ban I wasn't so upset by, plenty other places online to host that, but the automatic recognition they are using is still abysmal.    and the human moderation checking department is absolutley no better.
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Bulgakov posted:i was doing some spring cleaning and ran across a ye olde eye-fi pro x2 SD card featuring 8gb of memory along with the built in wifi Yeah I covered a few shows in the past and could wifi jpgs direct to my ipad (while leaving the raws on the CF card) and publish quickly-edited preview pics to social media during the first intermission running tethered off my phone data. Folks were amazed back when it was less commonplace.
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psiox posted:surprised there isn't a sidetalkers gangtag the guy playing NGAGE while inhaling sports car exhaust
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lol there was a really early release of a Neil Breen movie I saw mentioned somewhere last year, but it was posted to Usenet 'incognito' with only an ID string as a filename, it wasn't picked up by any indexer so I picked up a no-poo poo Usenet reader to download and boy I'd forgotten how far we have come in ease of use for internet tools.
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ssergE posted:I remember borrowing a “learn to program in basic on the c64” vhs from the library. the instructor would go through a listing, then tell you to put a cassette recorder near the tv and hit record, then blast out the code listing in audio. you could then load the listing into your computer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeKWMXuSGCc&t=91s lol This may work on your computer, give it a try! quote:This clip is from Tomorrow's World (6.55pm on 3rd December 1981). Presenters Kieran Prendeville and Su Ingle demonstrate how computer programs are save on cassette tape, with a plug for the new BBC Micro. They then transmit a program for the Apple II and ZX81 but the program does not work on the show. The following week Su showed the program running and people wrote in to say that it had worked I also remember a show doing a thing where you got a very simple light sensor schematic to build & plug into your home micro from writing off to the show, and then you stuck it in the corner of your tv screen and they would blink a bit of the screen throughout the show and you would end up with some software downloaded. NoneMoreNegative fucked around with this message at 17:01 on Jan 16, 2021 |
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The Nautilus is not responding to pings Are you sure you have the correct subnet?
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President Beep posted:i bet you play “games” on your ipad too. 
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goblin week posted:<haddock voice> im fin
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Progressive JPEG posted:lowtax bring back cranky steves map reviews  no dont
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klosterdev posted:I was a lot of people's hero because I could offer to make their monitor not-painful to look at You knew where the 'On' switch was.
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mediaphage posted:i loved lightscribe You should look at 'DiscT@2' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1pehz1hNtk lmao I love Precambrian tech where all manner of weird poo poo was tried just to see what would work.
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Statpedia Ian banned me for repeatedly making a 'Good Beep Posts' chart, said something about stub pages.
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Wild EEPROM posted:serious Sam had a big crab that just followed you and attacked you non stop but you also couldn't kill it there's probably something existentially shaking for a video game character when a giant crab attacks you and you look but it doesn't have a glowing weak spot.
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eschaton posted:Touch the tip-top, get the snip-snop! American Male Sexual Health boiled down to the bones.
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Muskishly oh boy do I have an internet service for you!
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EIDE Van Hagar posted:anyone remember how in 1998 we were gonna buy everything with java rings? 
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Mr.Radar posted:the zalman reserator, a fanless pump/reservoir/radiator for the first wave of "silent" PCs circa 2004: Simply add two or three of these to your PC to have it totally standalone and off-grid 
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worst thing when building old pcs; when the motherboard had the 'misc' pin header block of maybe 10x2 single pins and a diagram where you'd have to connect other single pin-header cables from your peripherals / fans etc, usually once the board was in the case and you were fishing about a 7inch deep case with limiter clearances trying to hook the correct header to the correct pin.
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gabensraum posted:in grade nine i was given a disk with a dos exe that i played on my new pentium 75. it played four short vanilla porn scenes in grainy grayscale, each one obviously just a handful of frames looped for half a minute. some kind of proto-gif (?) that was cut well enough to give an illusion of a longer bonk. lol you dislodged a memory; I had a disc for the Atari ST from the release group Sub Humans In Turkey where there were several short porno loops that you had to animate the frames by waggling your joystick left and right (  ), obviously holding the stick at crotch height. Each clip was opened by a very scratchy sample of Jack Nicholson 'Gentlemen, let's broaden our minds!' I would lomarf if I could ever find it archived online, or find the disc in a box at my folks place.
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lol I used to have all sorts of dumb poo poo on my old Nokia as message alerts and ringtones, and its all still zipped up on my dropbox from 2013. https://www.dropbox.com/s/bnh6s6bqngz2ogk/phonemisc.zip?dl=0 the ringtone from CRANK got a lot of use as I recall. edit: lmao I forgot the beautiful_day.mp3 from Live & Let Die was my morning alarm sound for the longest time.
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FMguru posted:superflue turpis et maxime inefficax 
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Corla Plankun posted:i dont know why but the bigcursor thing always felt so anthropmorphic to me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgDh3ZRtzJg&t=1070s
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Kitfox88 posted:my first time installing new hardware, specifically a voodoo 3 2000 so I could play deus ex Your card wouldn't have worked without the Blood Consecration anyway.
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FMguru posted:some excellent forum name change selections in there "Yeah it's like a Clamato juice, only... actually better you don't ask"
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carry on then posted:i know of at least one guy who wanted to intercept pressing escape so he could finish his web-based emacs clone Shaggar posted:those kinds of people should be in institutions All I wanted was an ESC Key
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Car Stereo Status: Did anyone else follow the EMPEG Mp3 Linux Head Unit at the turn of the millennium, thinking it was going to be The Year of Linux on the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empeg_Car It's fun to look stuff like this up and get back a bunch of 1999/2000 web pages that are still alive https://www.anandtech.com/show/622/4 
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whom amongst us doesn't enjoy good knobfeel..?
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brb doing a cover of Suicide Commando's 'Hellraiser' but changing the chorus to Hans Reiser
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funy tech: my 6tb cold store in my pc is almost full, Maybe I can buy a big external drive and shuck it? https://www.amazon.co.uk/18TB-Elements-Desktop-External-Drive/dp/B09TYZCN61/ The 20tb enclosure here is cheaper than the 18tb 
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funy video tech LGR just did a thing about the original Slingbox (the SB servers are getting shut down so this is the last chance to test it working) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XDlvegECG8 I'm surprised it went as flawlessly as it did here for him
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The_Franz posted:I'd love to know just how many cubic meters of landfill are consumed by all of that e-waste that will probably never decompose. At least you could reuse the floppy disks, the CDs just went straight into the trash or were destroyed in creative ways (drill, hammer, targets, etc…) lol my first job in the local press was on the photo desk, but having some small knowledge of 'online' I was shifted role to their new 'Internet' department for the local paper in maybe 1996? The place had a large staff, and the word got around we were starting 'Internet' for the paper and a lot of folks got the idea that the 'Free Internet Hours' CDs you got shoved through your home mailbox etc every day would be of use to us; we ended up with a double stack of CDs floor to ceiling in a corner of the office.
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A fun thread: https://twitter.com/GerryMcBride/status/1591907714208518145
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SUS MAX Scientific :amogus:
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nudgenudgetilt posted:it was also fun to roll up outside a friend's house and message them on icq to say you were outside. totally normal 17 year old rolling around town with a laptop, power inverter, and cell cables strung all over the passenger seat. *ahem* WarDriving 
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funy tech: has anyone noticed that spam in your gmail spam box has dropped to close-to-zero, I used to be getting 30 or 40 bits a day in there and now its 3 emails that are not spam but are always misclassified. Absolutely zero other real spam, and because the 'not actually spam' mail is in there I know Goog aren't just blanket deleting all spams now. Did some big spam provider get busted or is it a knock on from other current techworld fuckery?
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