franklint (m68k) @68km@retro.social
franklint, 29yo
they/them (& he/him)
I like old computers, pulp sci-fi and comic books
please, if we've never interacted, send me a PM to say hi before you follow
Joined May 2019
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If I don't know who you are, then I have to spend time reading your account. If I don't know who you are, then I have to assume that things that *might* be red flags *are* red flags.
You're the one who wants to follow me. Please do the minimal effort of reading my profile and following what I mention there
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Hey, I didn't even think to use tags. Check out this thread if you want to see photos of my #retrocomputing collection! It includes a #c64, #amiga, #TRS80, and #z80 machines :)
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#introductions time!
My name is Andrew and I run https://68kmentat.com
I'm interested in #retrocomputing and #retrogaming, particularly #Sega consoles, #Amiga computers, 8-bits, and Tandy-Radioshack computers.
I try to learn electronics and programming in my free time, but those projects move very slowly.
#AMA !
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This is a really great piece of short fiction about the first successful human brain upload...in the form of a Wiki entry!
"having the brain juice" is my expression to say around people who probably don't know what spoons are and would consider it a weird thing to say.
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Against my self interest: if you're qualified to do help desk, or even if you aren't, BB&T is hiring for mostly remote positions. No link or anything just heard it from someone in the IT division
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whenever i'm suspicious about someone, i go to the local library and scroll through microfiche to determine that they have a dark past
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Google is now tracking your visitors for advertising purposes even when you’re not using Google Analytics or Google Ads.
I took a closer look at Google’s FLoC initiative and how you can fight back and opt-out as a web user and a web developer
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yes, they're proggies. not programs, or apps, or scripts. doors are proggies.
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me: i invented a computer language, it's called-
a programmer: does it have strong or weak typing?
me: yeah how do you think you get the words in there
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"what if humanity became obsessed with reversing hash functions and used up all their energy resources to the task" sounds like something a cryptography researcher in 1996 might errantly come up with
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it's not actually normal in most countries to constantly be concerned about the internal politics of a hundred other countries all around the globe and consider everything going on in them somehow a "responsibility". the one exception, on both sides of this, is the US - people in other countries have to worry about our internal politics, and the reason they have to do so is because we refuse to stop concerning ourselves with theirs.
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worm life worm wife
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@myconidiosyncrasy wife worm, worm worm
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is there still no easy way to browse your outbox.json file? I just want to search my old toots without having to open 8mb of non-human-readable data on a single line in a text editor.
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CWs
... as a service.
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You know what? Fuck this *fringes your copyright*
If I don't know who you are, then I have to spend time reading your account. If I don't know who you are, then I have to assume that things that *might* be red flags *are* red flags.
You're the one who wants to follow me. Please do the minimal effort of reading my profile and following what I mention there
linux people are really just out there sending following requests without even looking at your profile huh
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Everyone is asking which vaccine I got, like "pfizer or moderna, pfizer or moderna?" Like, you gotta wait for my vaccine reveal party, sweaty
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running a web server by listening with netcat on port 80 and typing quickly
franklint, 29yo
they/them (& he/him)
I like old computers, pulp sci-fi and comic books
please, if we've never interacted, send me a PM to say hi before you follow
Joined May 2019
