The Canadians who want the country to be annexed by the US are the ones who wish they could move to the US but have no marketable skills and don’t stand a chance in hell of ever getting a work visa. That or they cosplay being an American but don’t want to have to actually life a finger to become one. Just leave ffs - you want to be American, go do it the normal way and emigrate you terrible c*nts.
So you want to use XT-IDE on your retro or vintage computer, but don't have either a network card, card that has a ROM slot, or an XT-IDE card? Check this out, you can run XT-IDE BIOS from a floppy disk, very simply! XUBDISK: vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=981…
Let's see if it works on my Compaq SLT/286 laptop. How useful will this be for retro/vintage laptops - getting around those harddrive BIOS limitations!
I’ve been spending more of my free time on RPGs than I have on social media lately. Six of one, half dozen of the other. I’m finding tabletop RPGs and social media to be roughly the same thing: a fake world populated by made-up characters, with the only reliable way to get rid of trolls is to use fire or acid.
"Archie, first crafted by Alan Emtage while a student at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, allowed for the searching of various 'anonymous' FTP servers around what was then a very small web of universities, researchers, and government and military nodes. It was groundbreaking; it was the first echo of the "anything, anywhere" Internet to come. And when The Serial Port went looking, it very much did not exist." arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/0…
With all the renewed interest in terminal user interfaces over the last few years, I am convinced that simple graphics capabilities in a text terminal are very useful and should make a comeback. What people are doing with Textual and plotext shows a clear need. Then there are new image protocols like kitty. Maybe it's time to stop bolting on features to X3.64 and rethink terminal emulation?
@ParadeGrotesque The thing about Sixel is that it was originally designed to display images on a VT125 and to print on a DECwriter IV dot-matrix printer, which is why it was called "DECwriter graphics" in the VT125 manual. The GIGI also used Sixel when printing.
Doesn't mean it isn't useful or that I am not happy that it's still around, but it was designed around async serial lines and low memory systems. We are talking 1981 here.
Thinking more about my GURPS campaigns, they could use a couple more suitcase nukes to liven things up. Especially my Dungeon Fantasy campaign.
It would be easy - stat up a world/dimension-hopping chronoterrorist with a penchant for nuking random places in random eras. Make the terrorist completely batshit so I don't have to come up with a plausible motive for doing so.
Cripes. Got put in Facebook jail for posting "My GURPS campaign could use a few suitcase nukes", which apparently goes against their acceptable use policy for "inciting violence".
Meanwhile, my wife and her activist friends routinely face threats of violence and FB does nothing about it.
Suppose the algorithm only takes action against make-believe violence.
Sorry for the random follows, folks - I'm selectively migrating my Mastodon and Diaspora accounts to Friendica. @powerbook5300@diasp.org @The September Agenda
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