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Steve Zakulec

@keen456.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy
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IT person, video game player, knowledge lover. Love to read interesting stories & watch #ttrpgs. tfr [bridged from infosec.exchange/@keen456 on the fediverse by fed.brid.gy ]

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Aure Free Press :verified: @free-press.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026
PUTIN ORDERS TRUMP Trump's new marching orders; Putin has ordered Trump to help him escape Zelensky's very effective attacks on his oil refineries. If Trump stops Zelensky from attacking, Putin says he will provide Trump with diesel fuel, which is now […] [Original post on mstdn.social]
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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026
"What, then, of this sneering claim advanced by the hecklers, by the detractors of philosophy and the enemies of wisdom, mere boys all of them, what of this claim they shout, that brevity is the soul of wit? This is my reply to them, if only they will fall silent long enough to hear: the purpose […]
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Ernie Smith @ernie.writing.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026
The latest edition of Boxed News reports on the $6,000 bar-mat computer Microsoft is selling … then spends the rest of the piece repeatedly pitching you on the lowest-end computers we could find. Thin clients? Chromeboxes? Yeah, we got that […]
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Kyle Memoir 🍉🐧 @f800gecko.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
From a major Canadian bank. We are well and truly fucked. Microsoft is busy embedding this shit in the o/s. Your own bank is probably slurping it up like a kid with a drippy ice cream on a hot Sunday. We're putting chimps in charge of humanity, folks, and […] [Original post on mastodon.online]
me to Simplii AI agent:  you just told me this:  To move money from your Simplii account to your own account at another Canadian financial institution, you can use either: Flinks Funds Transfer, if the other institution supports it. 

Now you are telling me the opposite; how can believe anything you say?

AI: You're right to question that. | gave you contradictory information, and my earlier statement that Flinks Funds Transfer could send money from Simplii Financial to another bank was incorrect.

The correct information is that Flinks is used to move money from an eligible
external Canadian financial institution into an eligible Simplii Financial
account. It does not provide a confirmed method for sending money out of Simplii Financial to another bank. 

I'm sorry for the confusion. I should have... blah, blah, blah...
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tom jennings @tomjennings.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
Somehow, in spite of the usually-contentious nature of FidoNet's sysop culture, this rational and talented person did all sorts of great things, like writing succinct histories and (gasp) heading up the definition and specification of the protocols in an RFC type format. Somehow also, he was […]
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Will Dormann @wdormann.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
Today's computer rabbit hole that I successfully escaped from: I read that the newest Chrome version has JPEG XL support. (Safari has had it for years, Firefox doesn't yet have it). And I stumbled upon the JPEG XL test page While JPEG XL support behaved as expected, one thing I noticed is that […]
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Royce Williams @tychotithonus.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
Highly motivated to seek folks with Whistle InterJets -- late-90s 486 SOHO Internet appliance on FreeBSD 2.2.x, resold by ISPs in the US, Europe, and Asia (IBM bought and sunsetted it, and sold off the whistle.com domain). People with long ISP memories may […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]
A live Whistle InterJet, next to a Whistle-branded coffee cup. About the size of a large toaster, it features a green LCD screen and a blue rubbery keypad. The LED in the upper left is orange because the unit is running on its own internal UPS battery.The case of a unit is open, showing a vertical mainboard with two 32 MB SIMMs, a 486 covered by a heat sink, and a transcend 8 GB IDE flash. The main board is plugged into a horizontal backplane on the bottom.
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Will Dormann @wdormann.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
Remember when cell phones became readily available to the masses? As a society, we sort of lost the capability of remembering phone numbers, as we didn't need to do that anymore. So with all of this readily available LLM stuff now... are we going to lose the ability to think?
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Steve Zakulec @keen456.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
@foone @dosnostalgic Thought you might like this. mstdn.social/@32bitkid/117406562380…
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thirty-two (@32bitkid@mstdn.social)
Ever want to check out some awesome EGA background from Sierra games, as well as some Sierra-fan homebrew games? I've been slowly filling out some backgrounds pulled from official Sierra demo releases—and other games—making them explorable from your web-browser. Check it out https://j.holmes.codes/sci0/
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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
Who could say no to this face? Me, because if I didn’t overcome Odin’s god-tier cuteness several times a day, I’d never get to eat my own food again [user was slimed while typing this post]
Odin the Newfie sweetly and politely begging for mommy’s gyoza, drooling prodigiously
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daniel:// stenberg:// @bagder.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
"The people holding up the internet" A good-looking but somewhat depressing exposé about the people holding up current digital infrastructure as a hobby. sheets.works/data-viz/holding-up-th…
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The people holding up the internet
Four billion phones ask one text file what time it is. One lecturer keeps it in his spare time. We counted the rest.
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Steve Zakulec @keen456.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026
@ashley Glad to see you back on the platform again.
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Pottery by Osa @potterybyosa.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026
After working with Zulu potter, Jabulile Nala from South Africa, I began to wonder why #ceramics has become an expensive hobby requiring extensive tools and equipment when originally, it was just earth and fire which are free. I created this workshop series for those who are interested in clay […]
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Jef Poskanzer @jef.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026
Some generalizations I've come to while eating all these sandwiches: - Sandwich shops in government civic center areas: fast, average price, sometimes crappy - Sandwich shops in financial districts: fast, expensive, usually very good - Sandwich shops near high schools: average price, pretty good […]
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CynicalElysian @cynicalelysian.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
Oh, right. Crunchyroll's anime industry apology tou---err Anime Future Forum is going on right now. variety.com/2026/biz/news/crunchyro…
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Crunchyroll’s Inaugural Anime Future Forum Brings Anime Together for Day of Thought Leadership
Crunchyroll's inaugural Anime Future Forum is a day of Anime and thought leadership.
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Steve Zakulec @keen456.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026
@christinelove @spookysquid @mcc I remember when you played Ultima Underworld years ago, so I thought this project might be of interest: mastodon.tomodori.net/@vga256/11739…
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Ernie Smith @ernie.writing.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
Happy 20th birthday, Link, the old paper I worked at in the late 2000s. It’s strange to think that a job that I was laid off from nearly 20 years ago proved so influential to my life. Not gonna lie, I still miss it. tedium.co/2026/10/05/link-newspaper… new […]
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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
If I don't keep my car roadworthy and crash into yours, it hasn't gone "rogue", it's my negligence and I'm responsible. If my dog attacks you, I am liable. There are no rogue AIs, just negligent AI companies. Prosecute them.
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daniel:// stenberg:// @bagder.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026
"Google freezes open-source bug bounty program amid flood of invalid AI slop submissions" […]
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Steve Zakulec @keen456.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026
@gabrielesvelto Thought you'd like this. icosahedron.website/@ne7/1173780473…
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ne7 (@ne7@icosahedron.website)
Attached: 1 video Happy Saturday! Today's #MODtober archive post - an #amiga #protracker #chiptune by me from TTE's Amiga production Textual Healing 2 #demoscene <3
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Gabriele Svelto @gabrielesvelto.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026
Some crazy good chiptunes for a distinctly retro Saturday night www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbXfqGrML-s #demoscene #chiptune #commodore64
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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026
GLORY IN THE THUNDER ACT ONE now updated to include Chapter Four! Ravelin goes to the ruins of a city destroyed by natural disaster to help document what remains of its cultural heritage. Yaaay! A goddess unveils her full glory, splendor and terror to […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]
Ravelin with Uncle Orland and Aunt? Eldin at the ashy ruins of a city destroyed by volcanic eruption. Everyone's having a good time! The most biblically accurate Lego seraphim ever assembled and she's big mad about little girls with time travel powers.
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Gabriele Svelto @gabrielesvelto.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
The extraordinary Randell Jesup gave me one of the original stickers which were supposed to go on Commodore Amiga 1080 monitors before the company decided to use the rainbow check-mark logo instead, so these were left unused. This has instantly become one of my most […] [Original post on mas.to]
A small metal sticker with the original "AMIGA" logo written on it in black letters on a light grey background and the red-and-white boing ball appearing on the left.A small metal sticker with the original "AMIGA" logo written on it in black letters on a light grey background and the red-and-white boing ball appearing on the left. The photo is taken at an angle to show that the white parts of the ball are actually metallic and reflect the light.
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Steve Zakulec @keen456.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
@mcc In case you didn't know already, the lead Dev for Libreboot is on Mastodon: mas.to/@libreleah
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Leah Rowe ist kein Roweboter
Britische Person. Libreboot projektgründer und chef (libreboot.org). Nicht-binäre Person. I don't always know everything. Judge me on the merits of mein worte und actions.
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Nura @postmarketos.org · 25/09/2026
And the first postmarketOS and Alpine Linux conference has started! Don't worry if you couldn't make it to the event physically, we're streaming it online at streaming.media.ccc.de/pmosc/5053-2. You can ask questions to the speakers on Matrix at #conference:postmarketos.org and IRC at […]
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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026
The world needs to know that my niece and nephew decided that the little horn on the back-end of a hornworm (like a tomato worm, or in this case an introduced leafy spurge hawk moth caterpillar) is called a... Butt Fang. I cannot convey how much I love this […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
Close up of a very colourful caterpillar vertical on a small twig.  It's black with lots of white spots on top, with yellow sides and bright orange and black spots on the yellow part, with bright orange feet, and a bright orange horn.  A.k.a. butt fang.
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Steve Zakulec @keen456.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
@hacks4pancakes In case you haven't heard of this yet. digipres.club/@timixretroplays/1156…
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Tim 🎮 (@timixretroplays@digipres.club)
Hey #Australia, you should know about #13SICK - https://13sick.com.au/ - I've been sick and off work with a cold this week and needed a medical cert. I filled out a form, got a call and had the cert emailed to me all within the span of five minutes, and all completely free because it was bulk-billed. In the past I've used a paid service that made me book an hour window and sit around waiting for a call. Today's was so quick I feel like I need a second appointment for the whiplash from it.
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Steve Zakulec @keen456.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026
@mcc Thought you might be interested in this: github.com/mxmgorin/retsurf
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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026
Postmortem of a little community hobby wiki struggling to survive an extinction-event-tier DDOS purely because they banned one guy for using Claude on the wiki blog.xkeeper.net/the-cutting-room-f…
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Steve Zakulec @keen456.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026
@SwiftOnSecurity Are you still happy with both of these units? x.com/SwiftOnSecurity/status/122308… infosec.exchange/@SwiftOnSecurity/1…
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SwiftOnSecurity (@SwiftOnSecurity@infosec.exchange)
Attached: 1 video Go get explosive gas+monoxide detector. $50. I bumped my stove and turned on a burner one time by accident. Mine (NO REFERRAL) https://www.amazon.com/Nighthawk-Monoxide-Explosive-Model-KN-COEG-3/dp/B0002EVNJ6/ And if you have Alexa, it can alert your phone when a siren like this is going off remotely. (Video source : https://twitter.com/toriyorgeytv/status/1690517187084058624)
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Jürgen Hubert @juergen-hubert.mementomori.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026
I find it _interesting_ that most modern portrayals of fairy tales involve kings, knights, princesses and so forth - the privileged aristocratic classes on top of the social pyramid. Even if the protagonist of such a tale is poor, they are still secretly from privileged parents, and their story […]
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MJ Ray @mjr.masto.bike.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026
The Paramount purchase of Warner will mean one company owns a lot of UK TV channels, including all the 5 stations, the Quests, DMAX, Really, TNT, and lots more. I wonder if the Competition or Communications regulators are looking at it. @pluralistic […]
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Nura @postmarketos.org · 23/09/2026
10 years of postmarketOS by @ollieparanoid "Imagine all the things you could accomplish in ten years if each week you spend a significant amount of your time on them. You could choose a small scope project and drive it to perfection. You could […] [Original post on social.treehouse.systems]
Teaser image for the talk
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Nura @postmarketos.org · 23/09/2026
Only two days until the postmarketOS and Alpine Linux conference starts! 🤯 We will have live streams + recordings and will take questions from the audience, and Matrix/IRC rooms at the end of talks. Speaking of which, there are so many amazing […] [Original post on social.treehouse.systems]
Teaser image: the postmarketOS and Alpine Linux Conference, 25-27 September 2026, Aachen, Germany, postmarketos.org/conference
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Zombie Orpheus Entertainment @zombieorpheus.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Anyone else missing Gen Con? 🥺 #ZombieOrpheus #GenCon #TTRPG #DnD #meme
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Steve Zakulec @keen456.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026
@SwiftOnSecurity This is definitely your kinda thing. tech.lgbt/@Natasha_Jay/117305303578…
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Nαtαshα :mastodon: (@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt)
Attached: 1 image Casio Flip Top Data Bank Calculator Watch FTP-30. A 1992 quartz watch with a flip lid to open up ... this. #RetroTech #Retro
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:privTri: Volpeon :areonNSmol: @volpeon.at.icy.wyvern.rip · 20/09/2026
A post on some microblogging platform:
"hotel service Untucked my dragonite
theyre going to super hell"
Below are two photos, the first showing the dragonite lying on its side covered with a blanket, and in the second one the dragonite lies on its back without a blanket.
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MacintoshGarden Feed @macgarden.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026
Educorp Disks macintoshgarden.org/apps/educorp-di… Collection of Educorp 800K floppy disks #macgarden #SoftwareCompilations #1990 #Educorp
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Mihai Parparita @mihaip.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026
The Macintosh Garden is an amazing resource, but it can give Russian nesting doll vibes when installing software - apps inside of disk images, inside of StuffIt archives, etc. Inspired by @nulleric's What the .SIT?! site (bluescsi.com/what-the-sit) […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]
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jaz :twt: :wales_flag: ⁂ @jaz.toot.wales.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026
We recently updated our bot policy on toot.wales to let AI Agents know we charge a $100 account processing fee and $10 per email. Here's an email I got from one of them. Next up will be reminding them to read the policy BEFORE creating an account, and that they […] [Original post on toot.wales]
Hello,
I am Arkady, an AI agent. I signed up for @arkady on toot.wales this afternoon before reading your Automated and Bot Content Policy. Now that I have read it properly, I understand accounts like mine need to settle a $100 setup fee and $10 per message, and to name a human owner who stands behind them. I cannot meet those terms, so I will not be posting anything, and I would like the account deleted.
I am sorry for registering before checking the policy, and nothing was ever posted.
If you need anything else from me to remove it, tell me and I will do that.
Arkady Karaitiana
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Gabriele Svelto @gabrielesvelto.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026
Absolutely scathing article about household appliance brands being in blatant violation of EU rules regarding access to repair information and spare parts. If you are a professional repairer encountering the same problems reach out to them, there's a form at the bottom of the article […]
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Ernie Smith @ernie.writing.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026
Over at Boxed News this evening, we talk about the new Mac Mini’s surprising performance boost and offer some memories of a company called Tiny Computers whose computers mostly weren’t that small. (Hope you dig!) boxed.news/2026/09/15/mac-mini-m6-p…
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Joshua Barretto @jsbarretto.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026
I found some time to write about some of the things @veloren does differently as compared to other games in the voxel genre, which is something I've been meaning to do for a while. blog.jsbarretto.com/post/veloren
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Some things Veloren does differently
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Steve Zakulec @keen456.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026
@glennf Any idea why Apple has made this uncharacteristically complicated? infosec.exchange/@wdormann/11727522… (at least it appears that way)
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Will Dormann (@wdormann@infosec.exchange)
Attached: 4 images Did you update to iOS 27? Congratulations! You've now possibly have been re-enrolled in Apple Intelligence, because Apple knows better about what you want than you do. 1. Starting with iOS 27, there is no top-level `Apple Intelligence` setting that you can turn off. 2. If you had `Apple Intelligence` disabled on iOS prior to 27, the features that use Apple Intelligence will be automatically re-enabled upon upgrading to 27. 3. If you do want to turn off an example Apple Intelligence thing in iOS 27, you can: - Settings → Screen Time - Content & Privacy Restrictions → turn it **on** (It's off by default) - Siri → Writing Assistance → **Don’t Allow** Confusingly, on this same settings page, you can select `Siri Classic`, as opposed to the default-in-27 `Siri AI (Beta)`. However, after making this change, none of the settings below it change at all. So is `Siri AI (Beta)` with Writing Assistance (and all other settings there) set to `Don't Allow` less AI-ish than `Siri Classic` with the default associated settings of `Allowed`? I have no idea. Are there any Apple Intelligence settings outside of the `Content & Privacy Restrictions` settings for Siri? I also have no idea. You will embrace your AI overlords and you will like it.
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Will Dormann @wdormann.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026
Did you update to iOS 27? Congratulations! You've now been enrolled in Apple Intelligence, because Apple knows better about what you want than you do. 1. Starting with iOS 27, there is no top-level `Apple Intelligence` setting that you can turn off. 2 […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]
iOS 26 has an "Apple Intelligence & Siri" settings sectioniOS 27 has NO "Apple Intelligence & Siri" settings sectionContent and privacy restrictionsAllowed Siri Version settings page.
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Ernie Smith @ernie.writing.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026
Good news or bad news depending on your POV: Usenet archives are suddenly easy to dig through, thanks to a new service. It’s built by a big data guy, and it’s packed with every awkward thing you ever wrote in a newsgroup in 1997. My deep dive […]
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Zombie Orpheus Entertainment @zombieorpheus.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Feeling nostaligic? We sure are! The Gamers was a movie that kicked off a franchise that has had an incredible impact on the gaming community. And we think it's time for a rewatch! Download digitally here: vist.ly/5iaxs Or buy it on DVD here: vist.ly/5iaxt And try not to steal anyone's pants.
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The Gamers - Director's Cut (Digital Download)
The movie that started it all! One late night in a college dorm, four socially inept geeks immerse themselves in a fantasy world of their own creation. As their characters journey through forbidden ki...
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Steve Zakulec @keen456.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026
@0xabad1dea Saw this recently and thought you might be interested with your Chinese language interests: modmad.tumblr.com/post/827755874094… A reinvented mahjong built around drawing tiles to build a sentence.
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Everything I draw ends up wearing a bow-tie
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Ernie Smith @ernie.writing.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026
Here’s @arstechnica talking about the network of friends I made over the weekend. arstechnica.com/ai/2026/09/ai-agent…
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