😱 Original Wilhelm scream found, terrible pixelated clothes, 20 foot tall Donkey Kong arcade game, and more - This Geek in Review for 2023-04-14
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Geek
- MIDIDesaster
- Preserving the Sunset Editorial Sound Effects Library from the USC Archive | The Freesound Blog
- For the first time, you can now watch every Star Trek movie in 4K HDR | Ars Technica
- Parallel Computing On The PicoCray RP2040 Cluster | Hackaday
Retro
- Loewe’s pixelated clothes are here, starting at $590 - Polygon
- Portable MSX2 Brings The Fun On The Go | Hackaday
- Someone Built A NES That Could Probably Murder You
- absorptions: The sound of the dialup, pictured
- The Apple Lisa was a design revolution — and it still feels like one today - The Verge
Videogames
- Here’s the tech used to create a nearly 20-foot-tall Donkey Kong cabinet | Ars Technica
- » Wing Commander IV The Digital Antiquarian
- Mario Kart Players Land Groundbreaking Trick After 27 Years
- Microsoft crackdown disables emulators downloaded to Xbox consoles | Ars Technica
Technology
- GitHub - cyphar/paperback: Paper backup generator suitable for long-term storage.
- FBI says you shouldn't use public phone charging stations
- There’s a new form of keyless car theft that works in under 2 minutes | Ars Technica
- Web fingerprinting is worse than I thought - Bitestring’s Blog
- Open garage doors anywhere in the world by exploiting this “smart” device | Ars Technica
- Thieves cut a hole in a bathroom wall to steal $500k worth of devices from Apple Store - 9to5Mac
- Why ChatGPT and Bing Chat are so good at making things up | Ars Technica
- Bitcoin white paper is hidden away in macOS’s system folder for some reason | Ars Technica
Pop Culture
- The 20 Greatest Simpsons Episodes Of All Time
- Opinion | Online Ads Are Serving Us Lousy, Overpriced Goods - The New York Times
Pot Pourri
- There’s a reason every hit worship song sounds the same - The Washington Post
- Floor796
- Elevator door-close buttons don’t do anything
- Leaked Classified Documents Also Include Roleplaying Game Character Stats
- How to beat roulette
- Feds Spend Trying To Evict A Billionaire’s Massive Transformers
- CatGPT