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I spent much of this afternoon playing xNetHack[1] on Hardfought[2]. My first exposure was 30 years ago to a DOS port laboriously downloaded from a dial-up BBS. No web, no documentation, no wiki[3]. And I've loved every minute of it...

[1] https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Xnethack [2] https://www.hardfought.org/ [3] https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Main_Page


I have long wanted this[1] for my ringtone...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lA-PXhRHPnE&t=388s


Reminds me of a hockey goalie mask...


This is the poem I used for speech contests in high school...


Lynx[1] supports only HTTP/1.0 and HTTP/1.1. Most denials seem to come from nginx sites. I assume it is their default...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(web_browser)



Fascinating site...


My introduction to jumping spiders was as a child on a long, boring drive in the back seat of a Buick. One emerged from somewhere down in the door and crawled onto the glass. When I moved closer it would back away. When I moved back it would follow me. When I tilted my head to get a better look it tilted in response. We kept this nonsense up for the rest of the trip...


When I was a kid my dad gave me his war surplus radio. He had been a communications officer in WWII. It was a huge metal box with a separate speaker. Inside it was full of tubes, wires and other stuff. I knew nothing about it so I turned it on, ran a wire outside for an antennae and started spinning dials and flipping switches. It kept me amused for years. Eventually I stumbled across actual broadcasts such as BBC and Radio Luxembourg. But the funniest was the English language Radio Moscow. It was filled with vignettes of happy working couples in their modern apartment living a fulfilling life in the Soviet Union. The stuff was risible to even a child in the 1950's...


My admittedly US-centric solution is NPR[1] and PBS[2], both primarily funded by donations and contributors...

[1] https://www.npr.org/ [2] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/


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