Posts by ryanfb@digipres.club
(DIR) Post #AjS4kNDRoaEVt3fXJQ by ryanfb@digipres.club
2024-05-14T22:03:36Z
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going down the rabbit hole with Alice in Wonderland #WozADay https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5al3f7ZVAY&list=PLXVtlqgyC7v2ACowTpMXcMrLbfX1qdBHE&index=1&pp=gAQBiAQB #AppleII #retrogaming #apple2
(DIR) Post #AjS4kOaWiGHw8vTTvM by ryanfb@digipres.club
2024-05-18T11:17:09Z
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karaoke & slime in Alternate Reality: The Dungeon (Apple II, 1987) - Woz A Day E362 #WozADay #AppleII #retrogaming #apple2 https://youtu.be/YXHRBdO93ng
(DIR) Post #AjS4kOigDwoIYDHzdI by ryanfb@digipres.club
2024-05-15T01:49:11Z
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thanks to @xot for alerting me to the existence of the incredible CD-i port(!) of this game https://youtu.be/66NoA9S4cwg
(DIR) Post #AjS4kPnKEA7VsuTDVo by ryanfb@digipres.club
2024-05-22T12:03:34Z
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forget it, Jake. it’s Moptown (Apple II, 1981) - #WozADay E363 #AppleII #retrogaming #apple2 https://youtu.be/LWoBiKORywY
(DIR) Post #AjS4kQgGvs4YdKB69o by ryanfb@digipres.club
2024-05-24T12:49:54Z
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going walkthrough-free with Space Quest II: Vohaul's Revenge (Apple II, 1987) - Woz A Day #WozADay E364 #AppleII #retrogaming #apple2 https://youtu.be/1hC3zqf822I
(DIR) Post #AjS4kglp701IXAtl20 by ryanfb@digipres.club
2024-05-24T19:46:01Z
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…and I just now learned that Sierra accidentally distributed about 70% of the Space Quest II source code on the retail DOS disks (in exactly the sort of way flux imaging will catch) https://lanceewing.github.io/blog/sierra/agi/sq2/2024/05/22/do-you-own-this-space-quest-2-disk.html
(DIR) Post #AjS4kiPuzPgbdofIAK by ryanfb@digipres.club
2024-05-30T00:21:40Z
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blasting our pains away in Alge-Blaster Plus! (Apple II, 1989) - #WozADay E365 🎂 #retrogaming #retrocomputing #AppleII #Apple2 https://youtu.be/UvE808x1Obk
(DIR) Post #AjS4kqqndLwTnVIsAy by ryanfb@digipres.club
2024-06-04T22:27:37Z
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the ORIGINAL physics-based puzzler https://youtu.be/4Ee0QQuML7U #WozADay #retrogaming #AppleII #Apple2
(DIR) Post #AjS4ks5N2fBxcz81Wi by ryanfb@digipres.club
2024-06-07T16:03:03Z
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Oops! All Die Hard Jug Riddle https://youtu.be/gKVIPNTmHao #WozADay #AppleII #Apple2 #retrogaming
(DIR) Post #AjS4kt3HRv78cn9ruK by ryanfb@digipres.club
2024-06-07T17:40:50Z
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at this point I actually do just want someone in the comments to tell me how to figure out the 7 + 9 = 10 puzzle from this
(DIR) Post #AjS4ktKIQej1TZ7SQi by ryanfb@digipres.club
2024-06-10T14:50:47Z
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Playing Every Apple II Floppy, E368 - rotate a cube in your mind https://youtu.be/KDC7Z02q0MQ #WozADay #Apple2 #AppleII #retrogaming
(DIR) Post #AjS4kunkwbsu3DuUzI by ryanfb@digipres.club
2024-06-25T22:47:53Z
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Playing Every Apple II Floppy, E369 - watch me make a .woz from scratch #WozADay #Apple2 #AppleII #retrogaming https://youtu.be/9d3TL9TRcW0
(DIR) Post #AlwjVenVBLDbAGi6Ns by ryanfb@digipres.club
2024-09-12T15:21:23Z
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Mozilla, reading the room extremely well, seemingly just recently flipped the switch to enable-by-default sponsored weather results from AccuWeather in every new Firefox tab you open. Clicking "Learn more" takes you here, with zero information on if your location is sent to AccuWeather every time you open a new tab: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/customize-items-on-firefox-new-tab-pageProbably only noticed because I normally have a blank new tab page but this showed up after updating Firefox!
(DIR) Post #AlwjVgCLyQgvVdLSl6 by ryanfb@digipres.club
2024-09-12T15:22:18Z
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Furthermore, would "hiding weather on new tab" actually stop this feature from still regularly sending my location to AccuWeather? Great question! I have no idea
(DIR) Post #AlwjVhUp9F3nXCzjBg by ryanfb@digipres.club
2024-09-12T15:39:42Z
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After checking about:config, "Hide weather on New Tab" sets the config value "browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.feeds.showWeather" to "false", but leaves "browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.feeds.weatherfeed" as the default of "true". So, my suspicion was correct, #Firefox is still sending your location off every 30 minutes to get the weather in the background by default even if you disable this new widget: https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/browser/components/newtab/lib/WeatherFeed.sys.mjs #infosec #privacy
(DIR) Post #AlwjViwVlmnm1MxLyy by ryanfb@digipres.club
2024-09-12T15:44:20Z
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I think "constantly broadcast my location to a 3rd party by default and don't tell me about it or what's happening with that data and then keep doing it when I think I've disabled it" is pretty obviously a terrible privacy default
(DIR) Post #AlwjVjqsODt8qBKMq0 by ryanfb@digipres.club
2024-09-12T16:19:11Z
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Even more concerning than just the privacy issue this presents on its own, is that this feature made it all the way through to wide release without these objections being heard or maybe even raised https://digipres.club/@ryanfb/113125414314546768
(DIR) Post #Aq3a6QLIkIC1J6JvMW by ryanfb@digipres.club
2025-01-14T01:00:08Z
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@foone unfortunately, the closer you look at floppies the more you realize the cosmic horror that they don’t have “bits” at all
(DIR) Post #AvzYHjahNFm8QLga6y by ryanfb@digipres.club
2025-07-09T20:55:46Z
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I've just uploaded a personal archive I made of some 2,458 images of papyri from the British Library website ca. 2021 to the @internetarchive here: https://archive.org/details/blpapimarchive #papyrology #PublicDomain
(DIR) Post #AvzYHo8sS7UYXVhvwO by ryanfb@digipres.club
2025-07-09T21:05:34Z
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As you may know, the British Library suffered a cyberattack in 2023, and still has been unable to restore full image services. A significant chilling factor in my uploading these images earlier was the British Library's prior maintenance that they somehow possessed a copyright for these images.But I don't think there could be a clearer-cut case for the fact that these reproductions of priceless cultural heritage belong in the #PublicDomain and should be freely available to all.