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Most of the world's biggest advertisers have stopped buying ads on Elon Musk's X, exclusive new data shows by deepthaw in c/technology@beehaw.org

[-] deepthaw 26 points 1 year ago

I'm a bit sad that I've stuck to my guns on completely jumping ship from Twitter (and Reddit after the API fiasco) and so many people who said they would just ... didn't. It was an ad for white supremacy on Shitter that finally made me nope out.

Twitter's short link service, t.co, is adding a five-second delay to some domains. Like threads.net by deepthaw in c/technology@beehaw.org

[-] deepthaw 8 points 1 year ago

I work for a college. We use our internal link shorteners to make sure a given link points at the latest version of a resource and measure engagement by seeing what is the best way to get important information to our students and faculty. (Did people actually click on that announcement in our LMS?)

They’re terribly useful for us.

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A plenitude of Pikes (self.startrek)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by deepthaw to c/startrek@startrek.website

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Can I just say how fortunate we are that both of the recent actors for Pike did smash-up jobs? I’m talking about Bruce Greenwood in the Kelvin films and of course Anson Mount in SNW. Each brought something different and was a stand out in their respective appearances.

SDF EU takeover? by deepthaw in c/sdfpubnix

[-] deepthaw 11 points 1 year ago

Been a lot of trolls in COM lately. Probably one of them.

Twitter To Rebrand As X by deepthaw in c/technology@beehaw.org

[-] deepthaw 9 points 1 year ago

so Twitter was vi then he turned it into edlin and now he wants it to be emacs.

Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 2x07 "Those Old Scientists" by deepthaw in c/startrek@startrek.website

[-] deepthaw 46 points 1 year ago

HE DOES THE WALK

Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 2x07 "Those Old Scientists" by deepthaw in c/startrek@startrek.website

[-] deepthaw 18 points 1 year ago

They released earlier to coincide with screening it at SDCC.

Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 2x05 "Charades" by deepthaw in c/startrek@startrek.website

[-] deepthaw 18 points 1 year ago

The main thing I disliked is that it kinda of removed any chance of us getting a "Spock is split into his human and vulcan halves by a transporter accident and they totally don't get along with each other" episode down the line.

Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 2x04 "Among the Lotus Eaters" by deepthaw in c/startrek@startrek.website

[-] deepthaw 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

M'Benga

You mean "Dr. Seen-Some-Shit."

Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 2x04 "Among the Lotus Eaters" by deepthaw in c/startrek@startrek.website

[-] deepthaw 7 points 1 year ago

I like that the original away mission failing wasn't some weird magical thing - it was just a mission that went bad in a fairly mundane way.

Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 2x04 "Among the Lotus Eaters" by deepthaw in c/startrek@startrek.website

[-] deepthaw 14 points 1 year ago

This episode should have started in media res, with the away team already on planet and having lost their memories. Once we got the explainer as to what was happening, then we could return to the Enterprise to show the growing crisis there, and finally wrap everything up as the episode already did.

Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 2x03 "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow" by deepthaw in c/startrek@startrek.website

[-] deepthaw 9 points 1 year ago

So, does a genetic engineering lab now have the corpse of a man from the future with all the future vaccinations, immunities, and whatever else that may provide?

Is this the Kirk that was in the project Phoenix project?

Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 2x03 "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow" by deepthaw in c/startrek@startrek.website

[-] deepthaw 9 points 1 year ago

After the first episode of the season and seeing how he handled himself as a sparring partner, M’Benga should henceforth be called Dr. Seen-Some-Shit

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Brit Floyd and previous management company reach settlement - BF will continue to tour. (self.pinkfloyd)

submitted 2 years ago by deepthaw to c/pinkfloyd

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I saw Brit Floyd live once - it’s a fantastic show that really gives it their all. Glad to hear whatever legalese was going on is settled.

Following successful negotiations Chas Cole (for CMP), the long time producer for Brit Floyd, and Damian Darlington, Brit Floyd's Musical director, confirm that they have come to an agreement with regard to the rights in the name Brit Floyd pursuant to a confidential settlement agreement. CMP and Damian Darlington have agreed a long term deal which means that Brit Floyd's current North American tour (and future Brit Floyd tours) will continue unaffected, fronted by Damian Darlington and represented by Palladium Entertainment. Chas Cole and CMP continue to create and produce high quality bespoke rock tribute shows and promote their original artist tours across UK, Europe and North America.

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Which of you is this? (twitter.com)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by deepthaw to c/startrek@startrek.website

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Matrix Server? (self.sdfpubnix)

submitted 2 years ago by deepthaw to c/sdfpubnix

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Is the SDF Matrix server still active? My password doesn’t work and I can’t find a way to reset it in maint.

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Nibbler 16 years young (lemmy.sdf.org)

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Orpheus II: The Best Retro PC Sound Card in 2023? Perhaps! (youtu.be)

submitted 2 years ago by deepthaw to c/retrocomputing

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Too pricey for me, but damned sexy.

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Running Apple 1 software on a breadboard computer (Wozmon) (youtu.be)

submitted 2 years ago by deepthaw to c/retrocomputing

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Ben Eater has been doing a series where he builds a 6502 breadboard computer from scratch, and it’s at the point where it can run some Apple I software (Wozmon)

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One man’s nearly 40-year, 8-bit quest to finish his teenage Commodore 64 RPG (arstechnica.com)

submitted 2 years ago by deepthaw to c/retrocomputing

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The PC I’ve been working on… (self.retrocomputing)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by deepthaw to c/retrocomputing

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Wanted to get back into the DOS era of software and games (it’s what I grew up on.) I would have preferred something older, but I ended up with a Slot 1 Pentium III/500. Fortunately it has an ISA slot so all the truly DOS friendly sound cards.

Specs: Gateway 4W4 Something Pentium III/500 384MB Yamaha YMF715 ISA sound card (SoundBlaster Pro and OPL3) S3 Trio 3D/2X AGP mt32-pi (Roland MT-32 and General MIDI) Generic Compact Flash-IDE adapter Gravis Gamepad that still has that little joystick you screw in. 20” Dell Trinitron (forgot the model)

Testing it with Tyrian here, but my plan is to play through Ultima Underworld soon on it.

What’s everybody else’s vintage computer of choice?