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UncleSlackyon Where did all the starships go?

"The future is socialism or barbarism" (Rosa Luxemburg). I fear we have chosen the latter.

UncleSlackyon Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

The author has updated the site to address this:

"Note: I’ve seen some online chatter about the possibility that the footage shared in this post could be AI generated. Which is pretty depressing, but here we are I suppose. I just wanted to clarify that it is not. It would be pretty daft of me to be knowingly posting AI generated footage on a blog that I’ve worked hard to keep on the up and up. The footage was captured by a CBS news team, and they followed up with an interview of Atari employee (I’ll share that at a later date). Same goes for the images – they’ve been around for a while but clearly were taken at around the same time. The footage was upscaled a little on export from the editing software I used to clip irrelevant parts from. Hope this clarifies – enjoy!"

UncleSlackyon X offices raided in France as UK opens fresh investigation into Grok

France has a little more than that...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Force_de_dissuasion

UncleSlackyon Floppinux – An Embedded Linux on a Single Floppy, 2025 Edition

There was also "Tom's Root Boot" distro that fitted on a floppy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomsrtbt

UncleSlackyon Floppinux – An Embedded Linux on a Single Floppy, 2025 Edition

You can force YouTube to use H264 instead (via extensions like H264ify), that should reduce the processing load.

UncleSlackyon Television is 100 years old today

Also this site, which shows how the recorded Phonovision broadcasts were eventually recovered:

http://www.tvdawn.com/earliest-tv/phonovision-experiments-19...

UncleSlackyon Douglas Adams on the English–American cultural divide over "heroes"

Also:

- Monkey Dust

- The Fast Show

UncleSlackyon Douglas Adams on the English–American cultural divide over "heroes"

That probably also explains the (repeated) failure of American Fawlty Towers remakes - Basil Fawlty is a loser, and Americans can't play them convincingly.

UncleSlackyon Sinclair C5

There was a rain cover available, but it was a little...basic:

https://95octane.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/sinclair_c5_...

UncleSlackyon How to make a damn website (2024)

Still using Seamonkey Composer here (descendant of Netscape Composer/Kompozer):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SeaMonkey#Composer

UncleSlackyon Xfce is great

There's still Trinity DE if you want an updated KDE 3.5:

https://trinitydesktop.org/

UncleSlackyon Rob Reiner has died

Aren't they a Beatles tribute act?

UncleSlackyon Rob Reiner has died

Anybody want a peanut?

UncleSlackyon The true story of the Windows 3.1 'Hot Dog Stand' color scheme

Opera 3.62 seems to be the latest browser available for Win 3.x, though I think Dillo might also be a possibility:

https://computernewb.com/wiki/How_to_browse_the_web_on_very_...

UncleSlackyon Tiny Core Linux: a 23 MB Linux distro with graphical desktop

Haiku OS:

https://www.haiku-os.org/

UncleSlackyon Frinkiac – 3M "The Simpsons" Screencaps

Also /r/The_Leftorium...

UncleSlackyon Wacky Fun Physics Ideas

The electron-as-trapped photon model goes back a ways, to at least Roger Jennison (one of my old profs):

"What is an electron?": http://gsjournal.net/Science-Journals/Journal%20Reprints-Qua...

More recently, Larry Reed has developed a theory very similar to that mentioned in the article:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/364333320_Quantum_W...

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/390318893_Origin_of...

UncleSlackyon Atlas Shrugged (2024)

"A is sometimes F"

UncleSlackyon The VanDersarl Blériot: a 1911 airplane homebuilt by teenage brothers (2017)

George Cayley would beg to differ: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Cayley

(or Leonardo da Vinci, for that matter)

UncleSlackyon I've wanted to play that 'Killer Shark' arcade game briefly seen in 'Jaws'

I'm sure that I used to play this (or something very similar) a lot in the late 70s - I don't remember there being much "background" but the extremely bloody shark graphics were memorable!

UncleSlackyon Linux on the Fujitsu Lifebook U729

TL;DR: When in doubt, update the BIOS before doing anything else.

UncleSlackyon All praise to the lunch ladies

> The 'working poor,' as they are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society.

Hence the title of this book:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ragged-Trousered_Philanthr...

UncleSlackyon The last-ever penny will be minted today in Philadelphia

Then include the sales tax in the sticker price, like every other country does.

UncleSlackyon The last-ever penny will be minted today in Philadelphia

They could do what every other country does, and include the sales tax in the shelf label price.

UncleSlackyon 1973 implementation of Wordle was published by DEC (2022)

And the Mastermind variant "Word Mastermind" came out in 1972:

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/5662/word-mastermind

UncleSlackyon FBI tries to unmask owner of archive.is

.is is Iceland, not Israel (that's .il).

UncleSlackyon Framework supporting far-right racists?

There is no ethical consumption under capitalism.

UncleSlackyon How England misplaced its first king

Macbeth II of Scotland, but also Macbeth I of England...

UncleSlackyon EPA tells some scientists to stop publishing studies

As LBJ famously put it:

"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."

UncleSlackyon The Early Television Foundation and Museum

Another good site about early (electromechanical) television, including restored off-air recordings made on discs which couldn't be played back at the time:

http://www.tvdawn.com/