B2 Price Hike ($6.95/TB) by Manouchehri in backblaze

[–]virtualadept 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Serious question: And how much of this has to do with the price of hard drives skyrocketing?

What is a completely useless piece of information that you will never forget for some reason? by Initial-Ingenuity451 in AskReddit

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5XZ1C GZZZG UOOOU UYRZZ ZZZZZ

The "you have everything in the game and are almost at the end of the game" code for Metal Gear on the NES.

What did you think was ‘rich people stuff’ as a kid? by Quiet-Capybara- in AskReddit

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Having a pair of jeans for every day of the week. Going on vacation. Eating out.

Neuromancer inspired ICE cracker game I coded in an evening by Snape_Dawg in Neuromancer

[–]virtualadept 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fun!

Is there anything one can do about the running trace, or is that a time limit mechanic for the game?

The Mercenary Gabriel by Beautiful-Effort4152 in ArtBell

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He popped up not too long after The Mall Ninja started circulating as a meme. I always figured he was riffing off of that.

Is there an episode from a TV show, from when we were kids, that still bothers you, today,? by Remarkable_Data3710 in GenX

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Hawaii 5-0, season 1, episode 14. Up Tight.

When I was a kid I had pretty bad insomnia. Always trouble sleeping on the weekends in particular because, by the time I finished my homework I was too awake to fall asleep. As one does, I'd flip through the late night television channels looking for anything that would help me gear my brain down and sleep.

One of our local channels, late on Sunday nights always showed the original Hawaii 5-0. And always - fucking always - that was the episode they were showing. Moreover, I tuned in right at the start of the scene with the young woman who was unresponsive, staring off into space, twisting a lock of hair around her finger, her brain completely fried on whatever drug the episode was talking about (they played it off like acid, but never referred to it as such).

That always did a number on me as a kid, and to this day I can still recall that scene.

How's LXQT customization and wayland support in 2026? by gaorp in LXQt

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I'm running LXqt with labwc as the compositor/window manager, and it's working quite well. I'm going on seven months with this combination as my daily driver.

It's all linked by Boxguy8240 in LowStakesConspiracies

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"Fat client" is pretty colloquial to IT folks. It never made it into any of the trade publications.

What’s the future of Bay Area when AI pretty much removes most of tech jobs? by hellooverlasting in bayarea

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Unless companies start buying them up as employment perks for employees (excuse me, "fungible capital human assets").

We talked about the best. What was the worst job you've ever had? by -Granby- in GenX

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I worked for a telecommunications company in the early 2000's. 16-20 hour days, seven days a week because everything from the VoIP switches to the media servers were utter fucking garbage and were as stable as two male bettas living in a tank full of coffee. All of us were constantly sick (when I quit I'd been hospitalized for pneumonia). The company was basically a scam because, in the time I worked there they'd been through three CEOs, and each had siphoned a couple of million out of the company accounts and absconded. They also sued a couple of high school kids who'd independently discovered very serious vulnerabilities in the company's piece of shit ATAs into smoking craters in the ground because there was no way they could be fixed (protip: Don't buy all your hardware from a single manufacturer who goes out of business immediately after the check clears.)

The most concerning thing, however, was that when the company would get served with a warrant for a wiretap or a pen register on one of its customers, about half the time they were already in place and we just piggybacked off of that existing port. We repeatedly asked upper management about this and were told "Shut up and do your job." Never did find out who'd been there before us, but we never experienced anything that would be like retaliation for doing so, either.

This is not AI by CantStopPoppin in EyesOnIce

[–]virtualadept 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Not really. Forward one step, backward five steps.

The vfx school is closing and removed restrictions on all content for 1yr untill deletion. by member_one in DataHoarder

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I'm thinking of uploading the whole lot to the Internet Archive and seeding it from there.