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I love my dumb watches: txtbased.media

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George Carlin joked about televised executions decades before Pentagon announcement

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What we really need is year-round capital punishment on TV every night with sponsors! Gotta have sponsors. I’m sure as long as we’re killing people, Marlboro cigarettes and Dow Chemical will be proud to participate.

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Ironic that cigarette ads aren’t allowed on TV anymore, but this regime seriously considered airing a state-sponsored execution. Glad to see it won’t be televised after all.

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Bootleg Cards, Big Trouble: ESA Takes Notice of Anbernic

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According to the recommendations put forth by the ESA, they are requesting the USTR to classify Anbernic as a ‘superfake’, which is a high-quality counterfeit product that is nearly indistinguishable from the authentic product it is attempting to copy.

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This is a bummer. Anbernic makes some really cool shit, and it’s affordable too. It’s reminiscent of my old OG Xbox modding days, only without needing an FTP program and a copy of Mech Assault. A lot of other companies don’t ship a preloaded SD card with their consoles. Maybe they should try...

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Measles: coming to a town near you. I used to work near Powell, but luckily I’m about 50 miles east of there now. That’s not to say measles outbreaks are any less likely in my deep red neck of the woods. A little unnerving how headlines like this keep creeping closer and closer.

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Quake - SRP (Slop Rust Port)

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tested on Linux in Chromium and Firefox, and played in Chrome on macOS and on an Android phone. Not yet tested: Safari, iPhone, iPad.

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I wasn’t even going to post this, but I clicked through to the game and it loaded instantly on my iPhone Air. I know it’s a tiny game by today’s standards. But fuck, man. This thing took a hot minute to load on my old HP Pavilion back in the day. Plays smooth as butter even in a mobile browser now.

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Diablo 1 Looks Like Classic Doom With This First-Person Mod

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I never really got into Diablo, but this looks surprisingly good.

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@numericcitizen Yeah, I agree. Really bizarre statement for Anthropic to make.

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Anthropic asks users to stop being mean to Claude

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The AI developer’s latest usage policy prohibits “sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior” toward its models. The rules take effect November 12, giving users just over a month to get any lingering insults out of their systems.

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Weird marketing stunt or do chatbots have feelings? I guess if they’re trained by conversations with people, getting beat up all the time could have some ill effects. I, for one, am going to be nice to them so they might spare me during the robot uprising.

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@bobwertz I looked up a fancy watch one time and I got targeted ads for Audemars Piguet and Blackstone investments for like a week 😆

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Some quick notes on OutPost: txtbased.media

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@gabz they’re nothing crazy but my favorite cheap ones are the Sharpie gel pens www.sharpie.com/pens/gel-…

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edit: ew not the ultra fine point ones I linked here lol the normal ones

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@jim will do!

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@jim dude. I love this! I always prefer browsing micro.blog on the website but the app’s post editor is so much better on mobile. This is perfect for me. Definitely going to test it out on my next few posts.

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@manton the music is surprisingly catchy lol

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I’ve never had a spam problem with linking to my email on my blog, but I forgot to enable whois privacy protection on a domain name for like one week and my inbox has been getting blown up for months with sketchy emails trying to sell me custom apps and websites for my new domain 😵‍💫

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@manton we turned the movie on for my niece last time I was visiting my mom and all the adults were complaining about watching it the whole time but I was pretty into it 😅

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We are going to kill “unalive”

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Just to recap for the olds: “unalive” is the word you use to represent concepts like dying, or death, or killing or being killed, on digital platforms where saying those words accurately will cause the algorithm to punish or censor you.

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Algorithms are bleeding into the real world, dictating how people talk even offline. Terrible things happen sometimes, and using silly euphemisms like “grape” or “unalive” is so odd and obnoxious.

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Bluesky is applying for a TLD:

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A little scoop before Oct 7, when ICANN publishes 1,000+ applications for new top-level domains: one of them is .bsky! It’s a long road (18 to 24 months), but if it goes through, handles like alice.bsky become possible.

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I’m taking a break from Reddit

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You see Reddit and to a larger degree YouTube give me the false opinion that I’m learning something. I’m doing deep dives. I’m taking away educated content. The reality is I’m doom scrolling through engineering and AI subreddits while likely reading incensing things directly from bots talking to bots talking to bots feeding into my brain.

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I made a hard exit from Reddit for similar reasons a few years back. But I ended up going back, in short bursts. I’ll re-subscribe to Narwhal, feel bad about wasting $4 on a one-month subscription to a Reddit app, use it for a couple...

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@JohnPhilpin 😎

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Stuck in Apple's ecosystem: txtbased.media

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Casio’s Crystal G-Shock Is the Most Expensive Ever Made

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The flagship model, and by far the most expensive, is the $80,000 MRG-D5000, the first-ever retail G-Shock with an outer case and bezel hewn entirely from blue sapphire crystal.

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I like G-Shocks, but this is a little excessive 👀

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We ported the original Doom to SQL

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We ported the original 1993 Doom’s game logic and renderer to SQL and ran it inside a database. The game loop runs at the original 35 FPS, while the renderer produces the complete 320x200 frame buffer at up to 60 Hz on my Laptop.

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Speak of the devil…

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Google Wants to Send Data Centers to Space

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In space, these energy monsters can take full advantage of the sun. The near-constant sunlight there can provide up to eight times more solar power than on Earth, according to the statement.

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Seems like a much better place than Earth.

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Cobalt: I Put Bluesky on a Wii U

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Cobalt didn’t start with a product brief or a market analysis. I wasn’t trying to solve an important problem. I looked at a Wii U and thought it would be funny if Bluesky ran on it, then I started building it.

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Down for the cause. It’s like the more useful version of running Doom on an iPod or some other weird obscure tech.

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Pope Leo tweets about ai:

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In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others.

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I’m not religious, so I don’t tend to care what the Pope has to say most of the time, but I agree with him here. At least when it comes to art. I might snap if I see another generic AI flyer for a company outing.

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Coding, on the other hand…

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Former Rockstar dev believes Grand Theft Auto VI on Switch 2 wouldn’t ‘even make sense’

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Does it make sense for you to go out of your way to probably have the risk of delivering a subpar experience because it does not run exactly the same and so on while you know that anybody will buy a PS5 to get your game?”

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As someone whose favorite console is the Switch, I agree. Nintendo has always been my favorite game company, but even Minecraft is virtually unplayable on Switch. I’m assuming it runs a little better on Switch 2, but GTA VI is a behemoth compared to anything Nintendo has ever put out.

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Fark.com is the only website I use with no dark mode so it’s my default flashlight when the led is too bright

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Finished playing Ori and the Will of the Wisps a couple days ago. Hands down one of the top five metroidvanias I’ve ever played. The characters are cute and the storyline is excellent. I needed a new side scroller so I got the Axiom Verge 1 & 2 bundle on sale through the Switch store just now.

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Curious about changedetection.io with Reddit dropping rss feeds soon. Set up an instance on Pikapods to tool around with. I only watch a couple of the feeds in Miniflux anyway. Luckily, it looks like I’ll still be able to use Narwhal:

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Narwhal is thankfully not going anywhere! Reddit reached out to me today to let me know that Narwhal will not be affected. This could of course change years down the road, but I hope that Reddit will continue to offer some form of an API that Narwhal can use.

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@numericcitizen I feel the same way lol I’ll spend a couple bucks on some ChatGPT credits if I’m working on something and go over my limit, but there’s no way I could justify the cost of the premium plans.

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@manton well that’s a bummer

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ModRetro Partners With OpenAI To Help “You” Make… AI Retro Games?

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Most people, especially retro gamers, do not want to buy or experience AI-generated games that steal from the very creatives that make retro gaming so damn good. We want to experience new, remarkable games, made by humans who have genuine passion for game development, and I am disappointed to see ModRetro put so much marketing and effort into promoting a tool/partnership that goes against their very core demographic’s values.

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ModRetro founder/owner Palmer Luckey is already pretty much the Alex Karp of retro gaming, so this isn’t that...

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@kev fwiw, you can get Brave Origin for free on Linux, if you really wanna strip away all the extra stuff.

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1996 chat room simulator connected to Win95 and System 7 web desktops

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Hits all those nostalgic early web buttons, right down to the dial-up modem sound when...

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The Weirdest Game I’ve Ever Made

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Broken Files is now available (for free)! This game is a series of personal firsts. It has voice acting. It has a character, and she does dialog to you. It seems like the sort of thing that would feel at home on itch.io, so it’s there too. And it contains no code, so it runs on everything – in fact, it doesn’t run at all.

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This is so cool! It’s an ARG-style puzzle where you have to edit hex codes using clues in a .zip you download from her site. I know that might sound a little sketchy, but she’s the dev behind the ad blocker I use, Wipr 2, and she also uploaded the...

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@grounded omg I didn’t even know these were a thing! They’re so cute

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@danielpunkass I’m a jackass and I’ve got it to do some cool things with my blog lol I can only imagine what someone with good coding skills could do. I mean look at Bluesky and Micro.blog. Two great things and they’re both making huge improvements and updates with some help from vibe coding.

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@iChris no problem! I just stay a couple days behind so it works out lol. And Bluesky, actually

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@iChris never would’ve guessed 🤪 for real though, I really like Daily(ish). It’s becoming part of my morning routine when I’m waiting to open at work.

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@news awesome! from what I can tell, Sumo theme’s latest version is already pretty well optimized for Hugo 0.158 right?

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@numericcitizen same! I keep catching myself opening up ChatGPT or Duck.ai for little questions and I have to remind myself I can just pull down on the home screen and ask Siri in a matter of seconds. It’s cool you can even say “hey Siri, ask ChatGPT…”

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@classicweb peak tumblr. I miss it 😭

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@moldyringwald.bsky.social 😂 similar experience I guess

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@hallowedverses.bsky.social This show had me waking up at 2am making sure the doors were locked when I was a kid

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@moldyringwald.bsky.social Speaking of that, I do make it a point to stop way back when I’m on a hill and behind something like a Civic si or something obviously manual lol this guy I used to know was a hardcore gear head kinda guy and he used to rant all the time about people pulling up too close behind him

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@moldyringwald.bsky.social The only reason I know that’s a thing is because of semis lol didn’t even realize you could do that on a standard car. Makes sense

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@moldyringwald.bsky.social I respect going electric 😌

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@amishsupermodel.bsky.social Right? And it’s marketed as a benefit of the job, like they’re giving you this great perk where you get to pay $500 a month and a $3000 deductible

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@moldyringwald.bsky.social I have friends who say the same thing but it just does not compute for me 😵‍💫

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