Dr. Guillermo Power @gpowerf@social.cleverlibre.org

You. Are. Cheese. Dip.

Guess who recently hit 39K followers

Why doesn’t someone create an instance for spam lovers and ask spammers to send all of the spam to them?

My #MidweekMuseum today is the Centre for Computing History (or Computer Museum) in Cambridge. I took so few photos when we visited here because we were so busy playing games or trying to remember some BASIC or COBOL, or, in the case of vintage machines like the IMSAI 8080 that was used in the movie WarGames, simply enjoying the sound and feel of flicking the switches. Stupidly fun feast of nostalgia.

#Museum #Computer #ComputerMuseum #Cambridge #WarGames #Nostalgia #Vintage #Classic

RT @BradTakei: She's not wrong 🤷‍♀️ https://t.co/k5cYg05Qvq

Game 74: Guardians (1991), by Loriciel.

What do Guardians do? Well, they place blocks coming from the "reservoir" on the upper "plane" to form "cohesions" so that the "Triffids" from the lower "plane" cannot escape and destroy your blocks (and score). You also have a limited amount of "time."

A bit like Tetris or Match-N games, but French.

#retrogaming #msdos #triffids

8 Video Games Released After Their Consoles DIED
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4NtuFZP0-Y&ab_channel=WhatCultureGaming

Tesla’s new version 11.4 of its "Full Self-Driving Beta" software, in which a Tesla can choose not to stop or even slow down while driving past pedestrians crossing the road, is an admitted improvement over version 11.3, in which the Tesla would speed up while flashing the message “Assassination Coordinates locked.”

If you launch a game without text and UI scaling - why do you hate my eyes?

What could Google have been thinking when it started selling dot-zip top-level domain names. This is such a terrible idea that you have to wonder whether something beyond stupid is involved..

In any case, you should NEVER, EVER click on a URL that ends in .zip.

https://medium.com/@bobbyrsec/the-dangers-of-googles-zip-tld-5e1e675e59a5

Mood

I strike a fierce pose for the camera, then another, and another.

“Can you just stand still?” the x-ray tech sighs.

Genie: I’ll give you one billion dollars if you can spend 100M in a month. There are 3 rules: No gifting, no gambling, no throwing it away.

SRE: Can I use AWS?

Genie: There are 4 rules.

I haven’t used #Windows as a daily driver in more than 5 years, so when I look at it, it’s with the eyes of someone who is not used to its weird, or, frankly, bad, design. I’ve worked in UX for 10 years, and some decisions Windows made are really sub-par.

And still, the bad user experience of Windows has a negative impact on #Linux desktops. Here is why!

https://youtu.be/GkxAp2Gh7-E

No need to worry. My suggestion is to begin with a straightforward and user-friendly Linux distribution. Once you become comfortable with the command-line interface and other functions, you can switch to a more advanced distribution. Personally, I utilize the Ubuntu LTS desktop as my primary operating system for completing my tasks. As I am occupied with work, I don't have much time to experiment with the latest technologies. However, your experience may differ.

I thought this series is a really good explanation on why Egyptions are mad about the #Netflix Cleopatra documentary.

Part 1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wK9zuEh1O4&t=624s

Part 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KVRXt5FVX8

#Documentary #Culture #Egypt #Cleopatra

#Clubbing