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#Apple50 Day 1!

Kicking things off with the much‑loved Macintosh Color Classic (1993)! It’s one of my all‑time favorites. How could you not like it! Super cool design, adorable, and the first “Compact” Mac with a color 10″ Sony Trinitron display. I’ve had mine for 10 over years. It used the slower LC 550 board, but many upgraded to the faster Performa 575 with the famous “Mystic” mod. Sold from 1993 to 1995. Later came the CCII/Performa 275. The CC is a top pick for vintage Mac collectors!

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#Apple50 Day 2

I HAD to go with my old friend Mac Pro today after Apple announced yesterday that the computer is being discontinued😢

Mac Pro Dual CPU 12 Core 2.66GHz (2010)

I’ve had this beast for 7 years. It sat one step below the top 2010 config at $4999. The 5,1 refresh added new Xeon options, updated ATI graphics, and SSD support. Mine runs a Radeon Pro WX 4100, upgraded WiFi/Bluetooth, and macOS Sequoia via OCLP. Still one of the fastest, most loved Mac towers.

Good night, sweet prince🥺

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@PurpCat @gabriel To be fair, I think Tumblr is a lot more complex than a Twitter clone. Tumblr has custom HTML which can bring security issues if not implemented properly and Tumblr is notorious for not being advertiser friendly. It would probably be even harder for a smaller competitor.

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@gabriel I think the bigger problem though IMO, is "will people do shit".

What wasn't mentioned in the thread (because it focused on the RW aspect) was when Tumblr's userbase had their toys taken away, first with the 2018 porn ban and now today with the remaining users being some of the most caustic people online (and literal pedophiles, I'm not even making this part up).

While everyone spilled over to shit up Twitter and the rest of the internet, what isn't talked about is how none of them actually tried to "build your own" site. Even though the right did and got squashed over and over again or had to deal with life on ultra-hard mode (see: the state of KF right now), with Tumblr nobody tried or the alternatives have done worse than shit like Gab has.

No seriously. How is Pillowfort doing? Or Wafrn? Pillowfort is still "pay to sign up" and Wafrn is niche as shit in the fedi/bsky realm.

One of the biggest social media sites for a while literally got wiped off the face of the earth, has an audience where they had it on EASY MODE when it comes to the idea of "building your own site", and still couldn't do it.
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This really has been hands down the worst fucking console generation. No games, overpriced hardware, and a focus on dogshit services. Geoff Keighley (@geoffkeighley) The price of the PS5 is going up 100 USD on April 2 to $649 due to global economic pressures. PS5 Pro will increase 150 dollars to $899 — https://nitter.poast.org/geoffkeighley/status/2037527637451788698#m
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CSS is DOOMed!

I've build DOOM in CSS and every wall, floor, barrel, and imp is a div, positioned in 3D space using CSS transforms.

cssdoom.wtf

Try it out! But... not every browser can handle it. This is taking the browser to its limit. Chrome has some issues. Safari too. Bugs will be filed.

@sampler It's just going to be a basic run and gun platformer with a gravity switching mechanic. The Cave Story sprites are just place holders.

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@gabriel The only cereal box PC game I remember playing was some baseball game, but it was just a demo in that it was just a homerun contest. This listing seems to be the only info I can find on it.

poshmark.com/listing/Vintage-2

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In today's episode of "Can It Run Doom": DNS fucking TXT records.

Some absolute madlad (cough Adam Rice cough) compressed the entire shareware DOOM WAD, split it into around 1,964 chunks, shoved them into Cloudflare TXT records, and wrote a PowerShell script that reassembles and runs the whole goddamn game from DNS queries alone. Nothing touches disk. The DLLs are in DNS. THE FUCKING DLLS ARE IN DNS.

RFC 1035 was written in 1987. Those engineers are spinning in their graves fast enough to generate municipal power.

Bonus: this is a fully functional globally-distributed covert data exfil channel that your NGFW will never fucking see if you're not doing deep DNS inspection. Sleep well.

blog: blog.rice.is/post/doom-over-dn

repo: github.com/resumex/doom-over-d

Also lmao @ every blue team that has never once looked at their DNS query volume. How's that DLP policy working out for you.

It was always DNS.

#infosec #dns #doom #itisalwaysdns

I hate going to used game stores and seeing something that I can afford, but would regret wasting my money on or just know it would collect dust. I just been to one with both a Master System and TG16 at reasonable prices and just passed on both of them.

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In Mario Kart Wii, crashing the game and activating the crash handler will eventually start playing back the contents of the Wii's RAM as sound. Since the data was never intended to be interpreted like this, it ends up sounding like experimental harsh noise music.

@beardalaxy This makes zero sense. I thought the Lylat System was in the center of our galaxy, thus in our universe, but this film has Mario traveling the Mushroom Universe, so he shouldn't be able to encounter Fox.

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Now it's time for the most important meal of the day: pizzabeer!
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