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Bill to end vote-by-mail slows Oregon legislative website to a crawl in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The website couldn't handle 9000 submissions? That's embarrassing for us Oregonians... 😊

New bill proposes repealing vote-by-mail in Oregon, public invited to testify in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Public comment made. Thanks for the heads up.

The Making of Infocom Text Adventure Games in 1985 | BBC Archive in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Love it. I played so many of these games in the 80s. Makes me a nostalgic for a simpler time.

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans in c/[email protected]
Notes on coreutils in Rust in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Rust has some big binaries due to static linkage, and the Rust coreutils gets around this Busybox-style, compiling everything into one binary that you hard link to. Pretty neat. The project is easy to build and mess with without installing if you're curious about it. And you could add the build dir to the front of your path if you want to try it out with low risk.

Invisiclues.org - interesting new Infocom fan site in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

This is awesome!

Chinese company’s ‘dark factory’ will no human workers soon be the norm in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

That escalated quickly. Uh... "Bring manufacturing back to America!" Or something.

US Department of Education launches civil rights investigation at University of Oregon, other universities in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Someone is still there to do this?

Meta seeks to block further sales of ex-employee’s scathing memoir in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

More like "I'm not paying for DRM books". If they want my money, they can sell a non-DRM book. I buy those all the time.

Meta seeks to block further sales of ex-employee’s scathing memoir in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

Is it DRM-free on bookshop?

Elon Musk says X hit by 'massive cyber attack' as users unable to log in in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago

"In the Ukraine area"... Smells like code for "Russia" that Trump is going to use as additional rationale for abandoning Ukraine.

Oregon’s GOP congressman Cliff Bentz: ‘I fully support’ Trump’s efforts to cut spending in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I don't enjoy watching rural Oregon get screwed.

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Using black magic to make a fast circular buffer. (lo.calho.st)
 

Neat article about avoiding a memcpy in a circular buffer.

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Sega Jet Rocket: The trailblazing '70s arcade game with no computer or screen (newatlas.com)
 

This is a pretty cool analog arcade game. I never saw one when I was a kid... I'd have been hooked.

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How does a car cigarette lighter work? (www.lumafield.com)
 

This is an ad for something CT-scan-related, but it contains a good breakdown of how an old car cigarette lighter works. And it has a couple interactive CT Scan explorers past the video.

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Vintage Infocom collection on eBay (www.ebay.com)
 

Can be yours for a mere $155,000. (No, I'm not the seller, but I'm curious who is!)

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GPT adventure game generator (github.com)
 

This coder rigged up GPT to create IF games.

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