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I really like this specific collection PCjs [1]. The emulator runs extremely smooth.

[1] https://www.pcjs.org/software/pcx86/sys/windows/1.01/ega/

there was a tweet[1] in the original post with a photo of that

[1] https://twitter.com/d_feldman/status/1740108692203430006

I noticed something similar to this on my Insta360 ONE X charger. Initially I thought I could just use any USB power adapter but after many tries it turned out that the vendor implemented their own voltage on their charger sold separately. Quite a disappointment as charger broke after two years.

I usually go with the followings: Sidebar[0], Kottke.org[1], Waxy[2]. Obviously, Twitter and Hacker News get interesting links first, so typically these 3 websites repost after something becomes famous.

[0] https://sidebar.io/ [1] https://kottke.org/ [2] https://waxy.org/

It's scary how much information browsers give out for free, I wish I could use a browser that completely blocks and limits fingerprinting but nowadays I can barely watch YouTube or completing an online purchase flow with ad-blockers enabled

This is insane, was there additional software installed by your employer that might have conflicted with the updating process? In my case we have lots of remotely controlled macOS updates that get triggered and supervised by the company I work for.

I have used the Floppy-EMU from BMOW and it was incredibly powerful I was able to emulate hardrives and floppies on both Apple II and Macintosh Plus that I own. Glad to see this guy is still making new products for the retrocomputing community!

I recently wrote a blog post [1] about the comeback in popularity of these web desktops, especially after seeing a lot of these being posted on HN recently. OS.js was one of the early projects I started tracking years ago, and it's really well designed and documented. The interface always reminded me of those mid 2000's distros with GNOME 2, which is a nice thing since most nostalgic web desktops tend to have Windows 9x themes.

[1] https://system31.simone.computer/blog/desktops-zip

> The prevailing wisdom is that hacking this kit would be prohibitively expensive due to the high cost of ground stations that communicate with the orbital birds, and that such hardware benefited from security by obscurity

I can really relate to this a lot. I've recently purchased a Flipper Zero and oh my god, so much tech is exposed based on NFC and Sub-GHz protocols. Many devices simply were not developed with security in mind because no one ever came up with such a tool to mess with. I wouldn't want people to mess with something floating on top of my house.

That’s really cool, I wonder effective these designs really are! This reminds me of a font that came out 10 years ago ZXX [1] that was presumably designed to hide from OCRs.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/zxx-fonts-that-google-cant-r...

I love this kind of projects, it reminded me a lot of Memorex by Smash TV [1] I can totally see you put a lot of effort into this, congrats!

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAm1EU_pu80

Nice article I would say the most cyberdeck looking computers from 80s would probably be MSX/MSX2. I remember reading a blog post from a guy converting an old MSX to a working cyberdeck using Raspberry Pi. Now I want to look up the article again!

I think most of this comes down to the fact that these bootcamps are there to freshly bake people to work on the latest shiny tech completely ignoring the basics of computer science. I, like yourself, was very lucky to attend a university course that gave me exactly those fundamentals.

I loved your moviecode project, spent countless hours during college reading at these random snippets of code :)

I would add a shuffle button that opens a random blog so it’s nicer to discover something new compared to endless paginations.

The design is very neatly done especially when the docks disappear and you place an app into full screen mode. I really like the concept overall, this looks like a cool side project!

As a matter of fact there is [1] I'm personally curating it and check up on the links weekly.

[1] https://github.com/syxanash/awesome-web-desktops

I love these kinds of sandbox games, Orb Farm is super nice to have it running directly in the browser for a little procrastination break. Although my favorite is probably The Powder Toy [0], I've been following this project for years.

[0] https://powdertoy.co.uk/

I've been twice to the one in Berlin, and it's absolutely gorgeous. It's such a great place full of machines and arcades you can actually play with.

This is very interesting what was the Aphex Twin’s track with this concept?

I recently came across this video [1] made by a famous youtuber who was able to interview a scammer that regularly creates copycats accounts of his youtube profile to scam his user base. It gives an interesting backstory and if the scammer was actually telling the truth, there must be so many people who still fall for these schemes.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iROF9Dd7FXA

Today I learned Neocities uses Sinatra, thanks for sharing your point of view and for the work you're doing on Neocities!

yet another comment about Sinatra, I've been using it for 10 years, first on heroku now on fly.io. It's such a great and stable framework, most people probably don't even need RoR.

Great point, I actually wonder how these are going to handle wet surfaces and water getting in contact with bearings

As a passionate rollerblader who's been practising for over 10 years, I've lost count of the multiple attempts at reinventing shoes with wheels, maybe people should just learn how to skate? :)

Most likely HN kiss of death, their backend [1] returned 500

[1] https://gptduck-production.up.railway.app/query

I totally misunderstood the purpose of this extension. Now that you've pointed it out, it's clear that it's quite useful. I was previously manually entering all the users into the search box, which was a pain. I'm glad this extension exists to automate the process. It would be even better if Mastodon integrated something like this natively.

I wouldn't install a browser extension just for this. I think you can use a simple Twitter query[1] that will show you if your users mentioned mastodon links in their profile. Personally, the accounts I'm following are slowly moving out, so keeping track of the links is quite easy.

[1] https://twitter.com/search?q=filter%3Afollows%20mastodon%20-...

Really neat idea, it would be even nicer if it suggested some domain name hacks with other TLDs other than .coms

All these tools are great, and I've been using some myself to reconnect my network on the Fediverse, but after 2 weeks I've already started seeing people going back on Twitter, it really feels like it was just a phase.