The Fastest MS-DOS Gaming PC Ever
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The Fastest MS-DOS Gaming PC Ever
After [Andy]’s discovery of an old ISA soundcard at his parents’ place that once was inside the family PC, the onset of a wave of nostalgia for those old-school sounds drove him off the…Hackaday
Bernie Sanders is drawing record crowds as he pushes Democrats to 'fight oligarchy'
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/22/nx-s1-5334488/bernie-sanders-fight-oligarchy-tour-trump-musk-doge-democrats?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Best Things to See and Do in Puerto Rico - Puerto Rico Purple Travel Guide
Puerto Rico is a popular vacation destination and stop on Caribbean cruises. We provide you with detailed information on the best things to see and do, and we show lots of photos so you know what you can expect.Backpack and Snorkel Travel Guides - The Home of the Purple Travel Guides
Question re #SafeguardingResearch
We encounter 'web applications' that our current method of archiving don't preserve.
Things like imls.gov/imls-dashboard
(we already got the raw data & the website archived)
We are mostly using github.com/openzim/zimit to create WARC files and combining them into a single ZIM.
(This uses the browsertrix crawler)
Any ideas on how to archive not just the content, but also the functionality of such applications?
#DigiPres #Web #Archiving
GitHub - openzim/zimit: Make a ZIM file from any Web site and surf offline!
Make a ZIM file from any Web site and surf offline! - openzim/zimitGitHub
Every Font is Free
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Every Font is Free
Maybe pirating old fonts isn't the issue people make it out to be.Please listen to Sculpture Gallery!https://youtu.be/toWoIyUKMPAYouTube
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Excellent and detailed FT piece this week on the £100,000 "childcare trap".
If someone earns £99,999 and claims the Governments childcare subsidies, then a £1 pay rise can *cost them* £20,000.
I know things are bad on the open web…but it could get even worse. Imagine any of these scenarios:
1. What if the Internet Archive got shut down after all those lawsuits. Ref: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
2. What if Google suddenly stopped high-ranking Wikipedia links. Ref: mastodon.social/@ricmac/114205…
3. What if the next generation of internet users doesn’t read and so short looping videos *completely* take over. Ref: overcast.fm/+AA1Ledu9mbc
Scary times. All we can is continue to support #openweb.
Richard MacManus (@ricmac@mastodon.social)
@wdenton@cosocial.ca That Wikipedia page is brand new!? I must admit I didn’t know who he was, so googled him after seeing @tante@tldr.nettime.org’s post…the second link was the Wikipedia page.Mastodon
Here is this week's #Linux and #OpenSource News video! It's earlier than usual, but I'm leaving for Paris for the weekend, so, here you go!
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EU push for open source, GIMP3 is out, Firefox gets webapps back: Linux & Open Source News
Try out Proton Mail, the secure email that protects your privacy: https://proton.me/mail/TheLinuxEXPGrab a brand new laptop or desktop running Linux: https:/...YouTube
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Probably not, but project is #OpenSource and hosted on our Git repo at
github.com/Makerville/makervil…
GitHub - Makerville/makerville-badge: Makerville Badge
Makerville Badge. Contribute to Makerville/makerville-badge development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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Some European countries and Canada issue advisories for travelers to the U.S.
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/22/nx-s1-5336792/european-countries-canada-travel-warnings-us?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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#AOC and #Bernie drawing more than 34,000 people in #Denver, #Colorado.
From: lemmy.world/post/27202397
And here: 50501.chat/post/49846
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Trump has U.S. Indo-Pacific allies guessing on trade and security
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/22/nx-s1-5330434/asia-indo-pacific-security-trade-trump-tariffs-china?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Helper bots in online communities diminish human interaction
Bots that reply to online posts can help people connect with each other, but at the same time they also interfere with people communicating with each other.The Conversation
Ban anonymous accounts on civil #SocialMedia and the bot 🤖 problem goes away. The bots can have #Twitter 
aka #Xitter 🚽 and Facebook.
In the meantime, report ALL suspected 🤖 and #spam accounts.
Court hearing centers on Newsmax CEO's role in spreading election-fraud claims
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/22/nx-s1-5336770/newsmax-ceo-ruddy-election-fraud-claims-dominion-court-hearing?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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A primeira charla impartea @lucia_ferro no salón de actos, por se queredes vir
💰 UK freezes over $32B in Russian assets amid toughest sanctions ever. Britain joins allies in blocking $400B+ from Russia—4 years of its military budget. London backs using frozen assets to support Ukraine, including a $50B loan plan.
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UK sanctions freeze £25bn of Russian assets
New figures released today (21 March) show the impact of UK sanctions on Russia.HM Treasury (GOV.UK)
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Der Elko dieses LED-Netzteils ist sichtbar aufgebläht und führt zum Ausfall der Lampe. Der Austausch mit dem Lötkolben ist schnell erledigt.
The electrolytic capacitor of this LED lamp power supply unit is visibly blown and causes the lamp to fail. It can be replaced quickly with a soldering iron.
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Capacitor tutorial:
derreparierer.codeberg.page/de…
#repair #reparatur #electronics
George Foreman, boxing champion and entrepreneur, dies aged 76
The death of the heavyweight champion boxer was announced by his family in a post on InstagramGuardian sport (The Guardian)
US tourism industry faces drop-off as immigration agenda deters travellers
Westerners increasingly hesitant to travel to US out of fear of arrests and detentions as Trump enforces crackdownRobert Tait (The Guardian)
Use of pesticides on UK farms to be cut by 10% by 2030 to protect bees
Campaigners welcome long-delayed proposals to reduce pesticide-related harms to pollinatorsHelena Horton (The Guardian)
Paul Weiss’s Shameful Surrender Makes Every Lawyer There Complicit In Trumpian Constitutional Desecration
In what may be one of the most shameful displays of institutional cowardice we’ve seen, law firm Paul Weiss has completely capitulated to Donald Trump’s ridiculously unconstitutional ex…Techdirt
Putin lost his 900,000th Russian soldier Thursday (dead, wounded, and captured).
He lost another 1210 soliders today.
For a long time I wondered if Russia had prostetics for all the wounded… but then I saw numerous videos of Russian soldiers executing their wounded.
And I wondered if Russia could find coffins for all the dead, but then I read that Russia is not even bringing all the dead bodies home.
A Win for Encryption: France Rejects Backdoor Mandate
In a moment of clarity after initially moving forward a deeply flawed piece of legislation, the French National Assembly has done the right thing: it rejected a dangerous proposal that would have gutted end-to-end encryption in the name of fighting d…Electronic Frontier Foundation
Fast-track visa reimposition: a strengthened tool for EU immigration control and external relations policies?
Professor Steve Peers , Royal Holloway University of London Photo credit : Sixflashphoto, via Wikimedia Commons How and why can shor...eulawanalysis.blogspot.com
As Israel bombs, shells and bulldozes northern Gaza, Palestinians have few places to go
@photography @palestine
#Gaza
#displaced
Meanwhile in Wales, evidence is mounting (confirming) that 20mph speed limits reduce deaths on the roads.
As Lee Waters (ex-Welsh Transport Minister) point out: 'There is still this idea that 70 or so road deaths a year in Wales is acceptable. But we would never accept 70 deaths a year on the ferry to Ireland, or on buses'.. Indeed!
And it not an unpopular policy (except among cultural warriors trying to claim its an imposition on 'drivers' rights'.
theguardian.com/world/2025/mar…
Wales’s 20mph speed limit has cut road deaths. Why is there still even a debate?
Research suggests the scheme may be more popular than thought, with consultations dominated by a loud minorityPeter Walker (The Guardian)
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Vaccination rates are falling. It is the media as much as populists who are to blame for this.
Falling confidence in vaccination illustrates how the media’s obsession with balance and impartiality, and its aversion to regulation, can kill.
In the United States it is easy to view falling rates of vaccination for diseases like measles as a simple consequence of a right wing pop...mainlymacro.blogspot.com
… currently starting to think a little differently about scraping after catching up with @pluralistic on thinking about scraping:
pluralistic.net/2023/09/17/how…
(Thanks @urixturing )
#books #reading #writing #publishing #copyright #AI #bookstodon @bookstodon
While AI scraping might not be a copyright problem (though model output most definitely can), it is a common infrastructure problem. Just from the last week
thelibre.news/foss-infrastruct…
Using copyright to tackle it might not be the right approach (CFAA could be a better fit at this point LOL), but saying that "Scraping against the wishes of the scraped is good, actually" without any qualification is at best problematic.
Even if put human (not corporate) consent aside, there's both material and moral difference between institution responsibly collecting data in public interest and extractive enterprises imposing massive negative externalities on publicly available resources.
@pluralistic
@JaneraTiciano
@urixturing @bookstodon
FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies
LLM scrapers are taking down FOSS projects' infrastructure, and it's getting worse.Niccolò Venerandi (LibreNews)
@dustyattic @JaneraTiciano
> saying that "Scraping against the wishes of the scraped is good, actually" without any qualification is at best problematic.
Good thing that article has over 300 words of qualifications relating to that statement, then.
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Finally learned how to do 3D sketches. Until now I was constrained to 2D space and it was annoying.
Can't wait to see what kind of shenanigans I can do that will make bestie's solidworks eyes bleed.
Meta settles UK 'right to object to ad-tracking' lawsuit by agreeing not to track plaintiff | TechCrunch
A human rights campaigner, Tanya O'Carroll, has succeeded in forcing social media giant Meta not to use her data for targeted advertising. The agreementNatasha Lomas (TechCrunch)
Travel Guide for Hokitika and Paparoa National Park, New Zealand - New Zealand Purple Travel Guide
Paparoa National Park is known for its limestone karst formations, caves, diverse flora and fauna, outdoor activities and the spectacular Charleston Glowworm Cave.Backpack and Snorkel Travel Guides - The Home of the Purple Travel Guides
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in reply to Dan Neidle • • •They don't get back to where they were until their gross wages reach £145k.
So in this situation it's not rational for someone just under £100k to accept a pay rise/promotion, work more hours, take on more clients etc, unless it puts them well clear of £100k