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Doom nerd. Author of Chocolate Doom and other Doom things. 
Joined Aug 2018
@matt nowadays it's usually amazon that's trying to sell you the thing you just bought
There's a current wave of social engineering / malware attacks being conducted on Discord against game developers. Be very wary of messages you might get, even from friends:
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john romero, unlike most other well known id alumni, continually manages to avoid being problematic, and i am very happy about it
@GeoffWozniak by grabthar's hammer, what a great movie
@phooky i'll pray for you
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OLPC, Birdsite
Great thread on OLPC and how it... didn't quite work out.
https://twitter.com/gauravsingh961/status/1438503323594723343
@niconiconi maybe Queen - I Want To Break Free was also about a security engineer trying to exploit heap corruption bugs
Life imitating comedy
(Sketch is from 1983: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYxmPHLU9oA)
@alexshendi1 `pkg_add gzdoom` will almost certainly work. You'll need the original IWAD files (or use Freedoom)
alcohol, food
@thatonecalculator thanks!
My first computer was a Sinclair. I think most of us in the tech industry from the UK owe a lot to Clive Sinclair.
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Home computing pioneer Sir Clive Sinclair dies aged 81
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/sep/16/home-computing-pioneer-sir-clive-sinclair-dies-aged-81
(submitted by haasted)
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When you don’t create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. Your tastes only narrow and exclude people. so create.
— Why the Lucky Stiff
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It's a kind of theft, really.
Programming is magic. We are wizards for knowing it. We should be summoning daemons, calling things up by their true names, touching the source. We should be wanderers, like Ged or Gandalf, transforming the world around us in subtle and powerful ways as we move through it.
Somehow, this vision of our role was stolen from us in favor of business casual and "disrupting" industries.
@libc i was disappointed that ghidra didn't work on old DOS binaries
@libc I probably should have CW'd this for eye contact
Doom nerd. Author of Chocolate Doom and other Doom things.
Joined Aug 2018
