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"Susan found her way into the hacker underground through the phone network. In the late 1970s, Los Angeles was a hotbed of telephone culture: you could dial-a-joke, dial-a-horoscope, even dial-a-prayer. Susan spent most of her days hanging around on 24-hour conference lines, socializing with obsessives with code names like Dan Dual Phase and Regina Watts Towers. Some called themselves phone phreakers and studied the Bell network inside out; like Susan’s groupie friends, they knew how to find all the back doors."

simple covers of songs composed on the PO-128. (Algorithmic search results, so the further down you go the more likely it's just some other random video from this channel)

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"Before a show at Bowery Ballroom, the singer-songwriter takes a stroll through New York City’s last old-growth woodland, in the Bronx."

An in-depth analysis that explains how this console works internally
"One[sic] another topic, have you ever wondered what causes games to lag? When the V-Blank interrupt is called to allow graphics update, sometimes the game is still executing some heavy code and skips the V-Blank window, graphics can’t be updated until the next V-Blank call and since the frame wasn’t updated, this is manifested as a drop in frame-rate."

"Of course, the reason for the lack of innovation is simple. A small group is unlikely to have the resources to build their own software. If they have any development skills, they're far more likely to be directed towards minor tweaks to an existing system. On the other hand, the companies making money out of this (Slack, Discord, etc) can't innovate much because they're trying to provide a uniform service to a wide range of different groups."

"It doesn’t seem very useful to reassess our ledgers of privacy without also considering our ledgers of power. Those companies that have invited the most criticism for their erosion of privacy have become vastly more powerful than the people doing the complaining. The alleged surplus of “obsessive” worry didn’t do much to stop that; stories like this one, from 1990, which concludes that we have “no way of knowing all the databases that contain information about us” and that “we are losing control over the information about ourselves,” don’t seem pathetic or wrong-minded in retrospect. Mostly just ill-equipped."

"free yourself of daylight's culinary limitations. become a midnight gourmand.
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