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Chris Taylor, game designer/producer Stonekeep, Fallout 1, Star Trek Starfleet Command (Interplay)

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A Man Was Gifted His Dream Car by the Notorious Hacker He Put in Prison

thedrive.com
31 points·by xoxxala·vor 18 Tagen·1 comments

License Plate Cameras Will Soon Track Phones, Wearables, Infotainment and Pets

thedrive.com
34 points·by xoxxala·vor 24 Tagen·1 comments

NASA names Artemis III crew in next step to Moon landing

bbc.com
1 points·by xoxxala·letzten Monat·0 comments

The first British person in space

bbc.com
107 points·by xoxxala·vor 2 Monaten·59 comments

Over 200 Japanese firms have paid ransomware attackers; 60% fail to recover data

japantoday.com
1 points·by xoxxala·vor 3 Monaten·0 comments

Sony is testing dynamic pricing in the PlayStation Store

psprices.com
3 points·by xoxxala·vor 4 Monaten·0 comments

Gamers furious as Brit studio Cloud Imperium admits to data breach

theregister.com
3 points·by xoxxala·vor 4 Monaten·0 comments

First writing may be 40k years earlier than thought

bbc.com
3 points·by xoxxala·vor 5 Monaten·0 comments

comments

xoxxala
·vor 23 Stunden·discuss
Like T2, Jurassic Park is a blend of CGI with practical effects and animatronics. JP only had 63 CGI scenes with many more practical effects.

https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/20027-why-jurassic-park-s-s...
xoxxala
·vor 8 Tagen·discuss
We live two hours from the closest Costco. We make a day of it once every 45-60 days plus shop at other stores we don’t have in our small town and see some family. We don’t have an Amazon account and maybe order something online once a month. We prefer shopping locally or waiting for Costco Day.
xoxxala
·vor 11 Tagen·discuss
It would also be far cheaper to send that nuclear waste to Mars. It takes 55 times the energy to fly to the Sun than it does to go to Mars:

https://www.nasa.gov/solar-system/its-surprisingly-hard-to-g...
xoxxala
·vor 30 Tagen·discuss
The T-800s HUD scene in the first Terminator used 6502 assembly from Nibble magazine.

https://www.theterminatorfans.com/the-terminator-vision-hud-...
xoxxala
·letzten Monat·discuss
Thanks to Wikipedia TIL Johnny Cash released a song about Sequoyah called "Talking Leaves". From the same album as the much more famous "Ballad of Ira Hayes".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitter_Tears:_Ballads_of_the_A...
xoxxala
·vor 2 Monaten·discuss
My parents are retired fire-fighters. They had an American pygmy goat named Bleve. Those goats commonly have very rotund stomachs[1] that look like they are about to explode.

[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:American_Pygmy_G...
xoxxala
·vor 2 Monaten·discuss
When I say something inappropriate on the phone or over Discord, I always tell the NSA guy listening it was a joke.
xoxxala
·vor 2 Monaten·discuss
That was an excellent read for explaining why space isn’t just hard, but expensive.
xoxxala
·vor 2 Monaten·discuss
I've seen Magic the Gathering fakes that are higher quality than the real cards.
xoxxala
·vor 2 Monaten·discuss
The Jaguar catalog was mostly meh, but there were a few gems that I really enjoyed (Aliens vs Predator, Doom, Wolf 3d, Iron Soldier, and Tempest 2000). AvP alone was worth the price of the system.

I was a proud Turbo DUO owner. It had some fantastic multiplayer games, especially 5-player Bomberman. That got a lot of play, including tournaments at work. Dungeon Explorer is another one we played through multiple times.
xoxxala
·vor 2 Monaten·discuss
I design boardgames and it's easy to write a lot of rules. It's more difficult to write concise rules. Most of my time is spent editing rules to their absolute minimum.

"I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had time to make it shorter." - Blaise Pascal
xoxxala
·vor 3 Monaten·discuss
The website has some more info on the biometric vs. password debate and legal situation:

https://paniclock.github.io/
xoxxala
·vor 3 Monaten·discuss
> Also Bambu the company mostly is fine, but there's some worry that they'll eventually lock people into using only their filament, but doesn't seem to have happened yet. So buyer beware.

I'm not sure how Bambu could actually do that. They use RFID tags to identify their filament type/color. I taped a tag from a used roll to some prusa filament and the printer couldn't tell the difference.

Just in case, my Bambus are LAN only and don't get updated. I use Orca Slicer instead of the Bambu slicer.
xoxxala
·vor 3 Monaten·discuss
I'm reading this article and Weird Al's Don't Download this Song pops up on random play. Did Microsoft add Copilot to Media Player or something?

"Don't download this song (Don't do it, no, no) Even Lars Ulrich knows it's wrong (You can just ask him)"
xoxxala
·vor 3 Monaten·discuss
I don't need anything more than a simple text editor. Notepad worked fine for a long time, but the bloat is real. I tried a bunch of replacement editors, but none really scratched that Notepad itch. Surprisingly, I'm now a fan of MS Edit:

https://github.com/microsoft/edit

It's very simple and here's hoping they don't bloat this one out, too.
xoxxala
·vor 3 Monaten·discuss
There's a saying in poker that if you sit down at the table and can't immediately find the donkey(1), you are the donkey. At some point, anyone playing around in a prediction without insider info will be the donkey.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_poker_terms#donkey
xoxxala
·vor 3 Monaten·discuss
I had no idea such a thing existed until this post a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47631515
xoxxala
·vor 3 Monaten·discuss
Very neat project and an extremely enjoyable read.
xoxxala
·vor 3 Monaten·discuss
Or they were removed for other reasons than security.

In Star Trek: 25th Anniversary, we had a hidden animation of Captain Kirk's toupee jumping off his head and running out of the room. It was caught before release and they made us take it out since no one wanted to piss off William Shatner.
xoxxala
·vor 3 Monaten·discuss
https://www.firefox.com/