Ahh. 2000.

When Alpha and Transmeta was the future. No more of this Intel and AMD crap.

Just because you’re the best at something doesn’t mean you should stop trying to improve.

You use the same computer every day? Now that’s unhygienic.

I thought we solved this for good in the 80s?

I guess that particular question didn’t age so well.

We run Linux on them because they’re cheap and disposable.

Slackware in 1997.

I ran it on a 486SX/40 with 32MB of RAM and a 2GB harddrive.

It turned me into the man I am today.

Only if you want a visit from the thought police.

My first experience was with two floppy images I found on “So much shareware! Vol.2”.

It was labeled Linux 0.99b, no distro. It was not of much use to me at the time.

A couple of years later I got my hands on Slackware 2.0 on CD. So much time spent compiling your own kernel, because no modules and the whole thing had to fit in main memory (640kB). So much time spent fiddling with xf86config hoping you wouldn’t fry your CRT.

Good times.

Then came gentoo, which had package management. No more did you have to browse sourceforge for endless dependencies to install something. No more did you have to re-install slackware on your root partition to update. So user-friendly in comparison.

We spent a lot of time on IRC.

MUDs kind of bridged the gap between IRC and games.

I remember spending a lot of time playing abuse, snes9x, quake + team fortress and quake2 + action quake.

It was the bees knees a few years back. It feels like they’ve lost momentum.

Today, I’d imagine safetynet puts a lot of road bumps in running apps with DRM like Spotify and Netflix. Also banking apps and apps for bus tickets and such.

Apple had this undocumented function for screenshotting back on iOS 3.1, and kind of let you use it while waiting for better frameworks in iOS 4.0

At some point they started rejecting your app automatically if they found the symbol for that function in your app. I didn’t want to leave my 3.1 users in the dust for no reason, so I did the same trick to obfuscate the symbol name before dynamically linking it in.

It worked right up until they stopped supporting iOS 3.1 completely.

Even I can sell $350B worth of energy if I increase the price enough.

Apparently it just affects certain batteries. Those affected can go boom.

I would not go back to the previous version.

I wouldn’t think it’s one person. More like a state-funded project. I’m not really a conspiracy theorist, but it feels like russiayhas been playing some good 4D chess lately. Feels like the pieces are falling into place for a revelation like that.

Would it surprise you if the Russian state turned out to be Satoshi and holding on to all those early mined blocks?

Trump has already made it clear that he’s a Russian asset. The only question that remains is if he doing their bidding knowingly.

How would he go about transferring wealth to Putin & pals? He can’t do business with them, because sanctions.

Russia already owns 12% of the world’s crypto.

Trump can inflate their value by pulling shit like this.

Russia: profit.

Is GitHub considered social media?

Everything this man does is what a Russian asset would do to weaken the United States.

I’ve tried some of scopely’s games. They’re following this playbook to the letter.

You’ll be getting freebies when your friends spend cash. You’ll get time limited offers. You’ll be paying to “try again”, against other players.

Who wins when a wall street broker and an oil sheikh use their wallets to fight over a Pokémon gym? Scopely wins.

Sweden loves to have all their data publicly available. There are some sites that aggregate this, which is a bit of a legal grey area. Anywho, anyone can look me up and find that I own my house, what vehicles I have and that I have two dogs.

I’m hoping the authorities would look me up and do a welfare check on the dogs if both me and my SO were wiped out in a car crash or something.

We’ve had a way oversized bowl of water out since the Mrs was pregnant, just in case her health would have to take priority (also the neighbours were on standby to take care of the dogs). Plus extra bowls around the house. They shouldn’t go thirsty for at least a week.

Finland had to accept responsibility for being invaded by Russia. Also, they had to give away land mass that Russia failed to grab. Also, they had to give up some sovereignty. Also, they had to pay ginormous reparations and sign deals to buy army stuff from Russia.

Nice army stuff, though. I’ve been in a 1995 KRAZ with a wood frame for the driver. Also they don’t have a tap for draining motor oil, because who would expect them yo return from the frontlines?