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This, but you're the cat
Need to do a search in a manpage or in a file you've sent to a pager? Use
"/search_word". To repeat the same search, type "n" for next or "p" for
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-- Dru <genesis@istar.ca>
Here's the original, unaltered U.S. floppy disk version of SimCity Classic for DOS. With file dates from August of 1993, this is the very first revision. Sorry for the delay, but I imported these from the USA. For the retro collectors!
https://archive.org/details/simcity_classic_kfx
Have fun building your dream city!
#SimCity #Maxis #DOS #MSDOS #RetroGaming #DOSGaming #RetroGames #DOSGames #PCGaming #80s #90s #EGA #VGA #Oldschool #Retro #FloppyDisk #Diskette #86Box #Emulation #Emulator
Breaking | Israeli occupation forces detonated several residential buildings east of Gaza City.
You think your laptop sticker game is strong? 😉
Uploaded here -- this is great! 🤩 https://stickertop.art/main/
CIT paper is boring, we issue tickets on holographic paper!
(Kidding)
Breaking | Israeli occupation forces detonated several residential buildings east of Gaza City.
People call me a tomboy but that offends me because I’m more refined and proper, so I'd prefer to be referred to as a Thomasboy.
If you can’t articulate the other side’s point of view during an argument or debate, then you haven’t eliminated the possibility that what you have is actually a miscommunication not a conflict.
@carnage4lifeDare Obasanjo This is the root cause of almost all technical conflicts I need to mediate. People wasting their time arguing, instead of understanding.
The eng leads at YouTube had a great way of addressing this. One of the ground rules for any VP-level Eng Review was that each side needed to be able to articulate the other sides perspective, including pros/cons and top concerns. If you failed to demonstrate this during the review (either explicitly or implicitly), then the meeting was stopped and rescheduled for later. Both sides were told to go back, understand each other's points, rework the deck, and come back when they could articulate each other's side.
SVPs shouldn't waste their time mediating catfights. They need to focus on making hard technical decisions that will determine the success or failure of the company. Putting this ground rule in place (and living by it) quickly got the message across -- don't bring us fights, bring us hard problems with difficult tradeoffs.
Worked wonders.
A visualization of the RGB space covered by named colors
Link: https://codepen.io/meodai/full/zdgXJj/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45748816
An Illustrated Introduction to Linear Algebra, Chapter 2: The Dot Product
Link: https://www.ducktyped.org/p/linear-algebra-chapter-2-the-dot
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45798741
Tashqurghan, #Afghanistan
A person sits in the remains of a house in the Khulm district of Samangan province after a 6.3-magnitude earthquake. At least 20 people were killed and hundreds injured after the quake struck northern Afghanistan.
Photograph: Atif Aryan/AFP/Getty Images
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-- Dru <genesis@istar.ca>
ってどのシーンや
って思ったらあれか、空手教室を休めってことか
Some weeks ago on Mastodon I saw in passing the mention of the name of an author who apparently is working on a new book to be published as part of the MIT Platform Studies series, about the Atari 8 bits.
At the time I went looking for any hint on the author's website that such a book was in progress, then searched more widely, but could find nothing. And then I forgot the author's name.
Perhaps the fine person who namechecked the author on Mastodon is here, and can remind me? ...and perhaps mention how they're aware of this work?
(I know Joe Decuir is working on a book - this is not that book.)
Please boost for reach!
I'm thrilled that Laurenz Stampfl, a student at ETH Zurich, has completed his Masters degree, and has published the thesis: https://ethz.ch/content/dam/ethz/special-interest/infk/inst-pls/plf-dam/documents/StudentProjects/MasterTheses/2025-Laurenz-Thesis.pdf
The work is based on prototypes I did in the last few months, but is a complete reimplementation with lots of optimizations, including portable SIMD. I believe it's the fastest pure Rust CPU renderer, and also shares a lot of logic with vello_hybrid.
Mastodon users, you might want to check out the "timed mute" option, it's really useful! It lets you set a period (6 hours to 30 days) when an account is muted. It's handy for taking a break from someone.
To make a timed mute, you'll need to be using the website, web app or some third party apps. Mute as usual but before confirming the mute click "show options" and select a time period.
If you want to still get notifications from them, untick the "hide notifications" box.
Gyeongju, South Korea
A cyclist rides past a tumulus tomb.
Photograph: AFP/Getty Images
Severodvindk, Russia
The Khabarovsk nuclear submarine is readied for launch at Sevmash shipyard.
Photograph: AP
Not sure if hangry or "mit der Gesammtsituation unzufrieden" :/
Age verification laws forcing platforms to restrict access to content online have been multiplying in recent years. This is bad news for your privacy. https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/05/06/age-verification-wants-your-face/
Age Verification Wants Your Face, and Your Privacy
Age verification laws forcing platforms to restrict access to content online have been multiplying in recent years. The problem is, implementing such measure necessarily requires identifying each user accessing this content, one way or another. This is bad news for your privacy.
www.privacyguides.org · Privacy Guides
Link author: 
Em 
@Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange
Feel it's time for a bio update
yo dawg
i heard you like linux
so i put linux in your linux so you could linux while you linux
¿Por qué no ambos?
I am adopting an aggressive nail trimming and filing routine with the sole goal of making my 2025 pair of liner gloves last longer than a single cycling season
New from 404 Media: you can't refuse to be scanned by ICE's new facial recognition app, according to internal DHS document I obtained. Photos captured by the app are stored for 15 years, including U.S. citizens. We've seen officers scanning faces w/ phones on streets
It's annoying to have my body slowly but steadily leaking, but at least it's snot and not any of the other alternatives. Most of them are messier.
(I guess sweat is technically 'leaking' and I do put up with that a lot due to biking.)
CIT paper is boring, we issue tickets on holographic paper!
(Kidding)
능지이슈;;
The phone number "3" just called me?? No extension, no country-code. Litterally like the number "3"....
HUH?!?!!?!?!
평가 규칙이 점점 이상해지고 있다.
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2025)
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45800465
[$] An explicit thread-safety proposal for Python
Python already has several ways to run programs concurrently — including asynchronous functions, threads, subinterpreters, and multiprocessing — but all of those options have drawb [...]
The #OTel project is thrilled to announce the first release of #OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation (OBI)!
Use OBI to instrument all applications, all programming languages, all libraries with a single command. 👏 Zero effort. 👏 Maximum gain.
Read our latest blog post to learn more!
https://opentelemetry.io/blog/2025/obi-announcing-first-release/
yo dawg
i heard you like linux
so i put linux in your linux so you could linux while you linux
Art is from:
https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/phineas/prompting-with-hitler/
(and I borrowed his alt text too)
Linux in the browser? That's old. Linux compiled with a new WASM architecture: wow, that's fast! https://joelseverin.github.io/linux-wasm/
Along a walkway at the bottom, into the rain forest, there is plenty of scientific information. But every now and again, the human element and what that means in relation to the forest and the falls is given a little boost.
#TLHHTravelling
On the walk through the forest, I remembered Fediversians, especially followers of #Mosstodon
The rain forest here is full of it.
#TLHHTravelling
Control structures in programming languages: from goto to algebraic effects
https://xavierleroy.org/control-structures/
Xavier Leroy
If you’re interested in donating or becoming a member and would like to *double* your contribution, make sure you jump on the matching campaign generously organized by Glyph and others. It ends tomorrow (Nov 4th), so don’t wait! https://mastodon.social/@glyph/115459561050304121
@ThePSFPython Software Foundation Don't forget to mention employer matching - that could triple the donation. 1 from the individual, 1 from 
@glyph et al, and one from the company you work for!
낮 동안 우리를 활기 있게 하신 저의 주님, 날아다니는 스파게티 괴물 님,
당신과 함께 있으리니, 자는 동안도 지켜 주시어 편히 쉬게 하소서.
"19. 내일의 도전을 위해 거룩한 탄수화물로 저희 영혼을 채우시어, 새 힘과 용기를 얻게 하소서."
🍝 날아다니는 스파게티 괴물 님께서 여러분과 함께.
😋 또한 주교의 면발과 함께 하소서.
🍝 기도합시다.
저의 주님, 날아다니는 스파게티 괴물 님, 이 밤을 편히 쉬게 하시고, 거룩한 죽음을 맞게 하소서.
2025-11-04T02:37:42+09:00
#날아다니는스파게티괴물님 #성면 #면발 #스파게티 #라멘 #파스타파리안 #성무일도 #성무일과 #매일전례
#FlyingSpaghettiMonster #FSM #HolyNoodle #Noodle #Spaghetti #Ramen #Pastafarian #NoodlyAppendage #Pastafarian #FSMism #FSMist #DivineOffice #DailyOffice #Breviary
I want to find and learn about non-fiction books I cannot read.
Looking for Untranslated Non-Fiction From Across Europe
rationale:
https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2025/11/looking-for-untranslated-non-fiction-from-across-europe/
topics e.g.:
technology, data, philosophy, futurism, communities, change, democracy
This is also a thing you hear about tech unions—why do overpaid software devs need labour protections—and it stems from 1) totally overgeneralizing the makeup of software devs, the vast majority of whom don’t have SV salaries despite being beholden to their trends, and 2) fundamentally misunderstanding the role of software devs as waged labour and thus still vulnerable to abuse and exploitation. If the union protects one person who needed it then the union is worth it.
Skyfall-GS – Synthesizing Immersive 3D Urban Scenes from Satellite Imagery
Link: https://skyfall-gs.jayinnn.dev/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45798881
Learning to read Arthur Whitney's C to become Smart (2024)
Link: https://needleful.net/blog/2024/01/arthur_whitney.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45800777
Several civilians, including two children and a girl, were injured after being shot by Israeli snipers during a family wedding held inside Al-Zahra School in the Shujaiya neighborhood, east of Gaza City.
Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) 
Stefano Marinelli
Foone🏳️⚧️
earthling
Sven Peter
jnkrtech
Misty
Dr. Anna Latour
