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jkrauskaon Donkey.bas is 45 Years Old – 131 line of Glory

yep. gamer

jkrauskaon Donkey.bas is 45 Years Old – 131 line of Glory

you can play as the donkey cheat mode sexy bill

jkrauskaon Donkey.bas is 45 Years Old – 131 line of Glory

maybe fixed. https://github.com/jkrauska/DONKEY.BAS/pull/4

jkrauskaon Donkey.bas is 45 Years Old – 131 line of Glory

Inspired by the 45th anniversary of the IBM PC, I got my slopmachine cracking on a port of DONKEY.BAS to work in a browser. Pretty happy with the result. As a young person I remember being fascinated that you could make a game like this with so little code.

jkrauskaon Understanding Round Robin DNS

Check out what happens when you use IPv6 addresses. RFC 6724 is awkward about ordering with IPv6.

How your OS sorts DNS responses also comes in to play. Depends on what your browser makes DNS requests.

jkrauskaon Ask HN: Why is the Wikipedia Foundation's begging tolerated?

All the other top websites [1] either are selling my information (Meta) , exist to show me ads (Google), or I pay monthly for (Netflix).

Wikipedia runs one of the busiest websites in the world with a staff much smaller than any of those other sites. Like any company -- there's going to be priorities different than mine and waste.

But I'm ok being asked to chip in for what I get.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_visited_websites