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its called x86 because you take a normal processor and multiply the amount of instructions it has by 86

It'd be fun if a monitor maker would put a "degauss" option in one of their LCD monitor menus, causing it to make a fake image and color worble effect of a CRT degauss.

Won't actually do anything, just be there as a nerdy in-joke.

all internet communities are fundamentally temporary. even if they stay up, there's such turnover that i dont rly expect anywhere to stay similar over the course of a year or two

people leave. people change. communities fall apart. we're all nomads on an endless digital plain.

Imagine if the avatar came back but he was like old and shitty

Boomeraang

I just learned that Super Tux Party is a thing. Alpha stage, but still, this is awesome. anti.itch.io/super-tux-party

Reddit, bots 

Now the bots are questioning their own simulated subreddit

semi-regular reminder: the #Firefox (also Chrome, if you must) add-on Bypass Paywalls lets you easily get past the article-hiding nag screens on numerous major media websites, even that jerk-ass WSJ

both mozilla and google rudely delisted it from their add-on sites so you have to get it from the author's github:

github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-p

github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-p

The kids' halloween costumes at the town event were like...

30% Elsa
15% Spiderman
40% other Disney-owned characters
10% Pokemon or other Nintendo
5% not a licensed intellectual property

(me and my daughter were in the "other disney-owned characters" category since we were Pixar characters)

where is the future of culture supposed to come from when the universe of kids' imaginations has already been collected and circumscribed under a single corporate copyright holder?

Oh, I got to visit the Soviet Arcade machine museum. I missed one in Moscow, but thankfully we got to go in Spb and it was a lot of fun. It also had one of the most frustrating pinball machines ever, I don't think any of us managed a game longer than uhhh 5 seconds?

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