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🕹 If you like video games, there's a good change you'll like Smiley Crew's ArcadeFest
The Smiley Crew’s Arcadefest has a couple of html5 games with the old arcade feel. All for free!
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💾 Saving bash history across terminals
I’m very comfortable with bash, and I use it a lot with tmux. However, I didn’t like how I would lose command line history across these multiple terminals. After doing a little research, I figured out how to save my history for each terminal. Not only that, but I can also search all of the history. Now I don’t lose commands!
Setting up your .bashrc Here are the relevant lines from my .
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⌚ How to get 67% more speed with external drives on your M1 Mac
OWC found out that you can get get up to 67% faster Thunderbolt drive performance with your M1 Mac simply by using an external Thunderbolt display.
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🎥 Raiders at 40
A couple of retrospectives on one of the greatest movies of all time, Raiders of the Lost Ark. The Enduring Myths of Raiders of the Lost Ark and Karen Allen, Harrison Ford, Spielberg Revisit Raiders of the Lost Ark – The Hollywood Reporter.
For some reason I don’t remember seeing it in the theater, although I know I must have. It ran for 10 months, so I figure I saw it at least a couple of times.
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🍽 Here's a microwave that runs Linux
Here’s a microwave that runs Linux for voice control. It’s only a matter of time before Doom is ported to it.
Also, one step closer to getting Linux on my toaster.
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💾 Linux on a single floppy, again
Remember in the past when you could fit a bootable copy of Linux on to one single floppy drive? Well, remember no more because you can now do it again with a modern Linux kernel.
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👩🔬 Fortran forever
First it was COBOL programmers that were needed and now we find out that Fortran programmers are also needed.
Too bad I left my COBOL skills back in the 80s, I could be sitting pretty right now.
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👏 Ding, dong, Internet Explorer is (almost) dead
First we have the death of Adobe Flash and hot on its heels is the death of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. Well, it’s only on life support, the plug will be pulled in June of 2022.
Does anyone still run IE?
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👎 Thumbs down to thumbs up
A University of Cambridge researcher was written very succinctly how social media likes are lazy and useless.
“It is a form of pseudo-engagement which absolves us of the guilt of not responding to others’ posts but creates the bare minimum of human connection.”
A couple of years ago I read the book The Circle bu Dave Eggers. He saw back in 2014 how useless likes were. If something doesn’t require effort, how much value can you really place on it?
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