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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/47341163

Remember Win Elvis-n-Space? Or Lemmings Paintball? Or even Odyssey Legend of Nemesis?

Found this little gem of a site recently. Unfortunately, it hasn't been updated in a while (last blog post is from Sep 2025)

I would like to find a good forge to host a latex package. Not Github. Fuck Microsoft.

CTAN.org shows the repo for each of the packages known to CTAN, but I am struggling to get a list of repos. It seems we can only see one repo at a time by visiting each package individually. There is no public dataset, correct?

It would be useful to see which forge is the most popular (after nixing github).. or whether there is a gitea forge that is TeX-focused.

http://archive.today/2026.03.17-005756/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/us/politics/uss-ford-fire-iran-venezuela.html

It took more than 30 hours for sailors to put out the fire aboard the aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford last week, sailors and military officials said, as the beleaguered ship continued its monthslong slog through President Trump’s military operations.

The fire started in the ship’s main laundry area last Thursday. By the time it was over, more than 600 sailors and crew members had lost their beds and have since been bunking down on floors and tables, officials said.

The fire was only the latest in a series of maintenance problems on the Ford, the Navy’s newest aircraft carrier. It has had plumbing issues with the 650 toilets on board. NPR reported that the undersized and poorly designed toilet system frequently breaks down.

The Ford is now entering its 10th month of deployment. It will break the record for longest post-Vietnam War carrier deployment if it is still at sea in mid-April. That record, at 294 days, was set by the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln in 2020.

A major maintenance and refitting period that the Ford was supposed to undergo early this year at the Newport News Naval Shipyard in Virginia has been put off, military officials said.

Crew members on the Ford have been told that their deployment will probably be extended into May, which would put them at an entire year at sea, twice the length of a normal aircraft carrier deployment.

The Ford is conducting flight operations around the clock, Navy officials said.

A military official said that the Pentagon was aware that the carrier was reaching the limits of its deployment strength. He said that the U.S.S. George H.W. Bush is preparing to deploy to the Middle East and will probably relieve the Ford.

After 12 years , the "unhackable" Xbox One has finally been hacked thanks to the new Bliss exploit that triggers a hardware glitch in the Xbox One console Boot-ROM. In today's episode we take a closer look at the exploit and discuss what this could mean for all things unsigned code, homebrew and the preservation of Xbox One games.

Full talk YT video

Full technical write up

• WM: SwayFX + EWW
• Editor: VIe + tmux
• File Browser: Yazi

All dots on https://github.com/szorfein/dotfiles

OC by @Szorfein@lemmy.ml

1bitRbit

'Lympus E-M10II, 'Lympus M. Zuiko Digitial ED 75-300mm ƒ/4.8-6.7 II, 1/60s handheld, ƒ/6.7, 300mm, ISO /37, TTL GN 18'@/21. © All rights reserved.

Riker is being held captive in an alien medical facility, and strikes a deal with a medical worker who has an alien fetish.

Honestly, I'd also bone an alien if she looked and sounded like Bebe Neuwirth.

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http://archive.today/2026.03.15-183110/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/world/middleeast/fcc-broadcasters-iran-war.html

Brendan Carr, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, threatened on Saturday to revoke broadcasters’ licenses over their coverage of the war with Iran, his latest move in a campaign to stomp out what he sees as liberal bias in broadcasts.

As the war entered its third week, Mr. Carr accused broadcasters of “running hoaxes and news distortions” in a social media post* and warned them to “correct course before their license renewals come up.”

Mr. Carr shared a Truth Social post by President Trump that criticized the news media for its coverage of the war with Iran. Mr. Trump referred to a story published by The Wall Street Journal that reported five American refueling planes had been struck in Saudi Arabia, claiming its headline was “intentionally misleading.” He accused the news media of wanting the United States to lose the war.

The Trump administration’s messaging against the news media comes as polls show it faces low public support for the war and it tries to thwart Iran’s efforts to block a vital oil route amid skyrocketing global oil prices.

* https://xcancel.com/BrendanCarrFCC/status/2032855414233047172