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@f-w-l.bsky.social Hi Frank, I noticed a couple of odd bold letters in your article about the LHC (S in "begins" paragraph 2, Z in "analyze" paragraph 5). The HTML source proves they're really there and not a rendering bug on my end. Do you have an explanation?
futurism.com/science-ener...
The Large Hadron Collider Is Being Shut Down
The Large Hadron Collider will be shut down, paving the way for a major upgrade, and perhaps its eventual, even bigger sucessor.
futurism.com
January 4, 2026 at 2:24 AM
zmac.me
I've already migrated to Pale Moon and WebPositive for personal browsing, and I only keep Firefox around for Discord at this point (another dumpster fire that I can't wait to ditch for good). I don't trust the manpower behind forks like LibreWolf to keep fighting against the tide of Mozilla forever.
cyberciti.biz nixCraft @cyberciti.biz · Dec 16
Mozilla has a new CEO and he just announced that Firefox will evolve into a modern AI browser. This is a good example of how management doesn’t understand its own user base and why they go out of their way to install Firefox on Windows, Android, iOS and other devices blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/l...
A screenshot from the official Mozilla blog that reads: Firefox will grow from a browser into a broader ecosystem of trusted software. Firefox will remain our anchor. It will evolve into a modern AI browser and support a portfolio of new and trusted software additions.
December 17, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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seerofthenight.bsky.social
catching up on this now and I wasn't expecting to see that the Video Game History Foundation had uncovered the earliest documented Sonic OC
hand drawn colored pencil, marker, and pen artwork showing a red Sonic-like hedgehog wielding a katana fighting a cat lady wielding sharp claws. Text reads "Curt Hedgehog vs Psycocat SEGA Chanel battels it out with new members!"
December 16, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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digitalfoundry.bsky.social
The cable-TV powered Sega Channel for Genesis/Mega Drive has been preserved and over 140 ROMs recovered. Here's the remarkable story: www.digitalfoundry.net/news/2025/12...
Sega Channel Preserved: Over 140 Mega Drive ROMs Recovered
Unreleased prototypes, never-before-seen MD web browser.
www.digitalfoundry.net
December 16, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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bhaalspawn.bsky.social
Half Life (1998) is now as old as the first ever arcade game, Computer Space (1971) was when Half Life was released.
November 19, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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lukeusher.bsky.social
Today we have released ares v146. This release is significant because it introduces emulation for the Pioneer LaserActive, which has never been emulated successfully in the past.

Read more at ares-emu.net/news/ares-v1...
Get ares at ares-emu.net
August 26, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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pepesalot.bsky.social
Finally, it's the character reference sheet of your nerdy girl next door Donna Bright! 👓✨
#ドーンナブライト
#キャラクター設定資料 #キャラ設定
May 31, 2024 at 11:26 PM
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johntrterry.bsky.social
hell yeah @williamfleitch.bsky.social
9. If you use Al to write something for you, it is meaningless and we'd all be better off if you had never said anything in the first place. This is the thing: Writing is meaning. The reason we write things is to express some sort of meaning, to pass along important information, to convey a human emotion or sensation. It doesn't matter whether the writing is grammatically correct, or vividly expressed. It matters that it came from you. That is the point of writing. If you ask a Chatbot to write something for you, you are being fundamentally unhuman and foundationally dishonest. I am not going to bend on this one. If it requires an Al bot for you to express something to me, you and I are probably not actually friends.
July 20, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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chriscovell.bsky.social
The Super Mario 2 level data video by @rgmechex.com was really illuminating, making me appreciate the layers of compression the game used. I also wanted to hack the game a bit to reveal the location of mushrooms in the main level. Haven't found the logic yet, but a quick hack can change its tiles:
Making the mushroom visible in the overworld via Phantos
May 22, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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archive.org
Can a digital “sale” be real if it can vanish overnight?

Sen. Ron Wyden, Internet Archive, Public Knowledge & allies are calling on the FTC to protect true ownership in the digital marketplace.

More ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/05/07/p...
Image tile featuring a small Internet Archive logo to the lower right. Text of image reads: "[O]wnership rights are critical to restoring and maintaining the public's trust in digital marketplaces. Without them, Americans are paying the same or even higher prices for digital goods that can be revoked, altered, or rendered inaccessible without warning..." Letter to U.S. Federal Trade Commission from public interest organizations
May 8, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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nebularinkstain.com
CS in university goes so hard!!🧵

Here's a thread of some old renders from a semester long computer graphics project. I CODED THESE!! (1/8)

#earth #blueskyartshow #screenshotsaturday #rendering #raytracing #computergraphics #c++ #texturing
An sphere with an earth texture, sitting on a checkerboard grid. The light squares are reflective mirror surface, and the green squares are a less reflective brushed rough metal, creating an interesting pattern in the reflection.
April 26, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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rabidrodent.bsky.social
~Thread of misc. Discmaster finds~

Sonic the Hedgehog wallpapers for Windows 3.1, from 1993.
discmaster.textfiles.com/browse/10781...
March 11, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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phablix.bsky.social
I'm an artist too! :D
#gamemaker #gamedev #indiegame
April 15, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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jbzfn.bsky.social
Haiku ❤ Nvidia (porting Nvidia GPU driver)

discuss.haiku-os.org/t/haiku-nvid...

#haikuos #beos #opensource #nvidia #osdev
Haiku ❤ Nvidia (porting Nvidia GPU driver)
As many people already knows, Nvidia published their kernel driver under MIT license: GitHub - NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules: NVIDIA Linux open GPU kernel module source (I will call it NVRM). This…
discuss.haiku-os.org
March 23, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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nyazsche.bsky.social
October 11, 2024 at 12:46 AM
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lowqualityfacts.bsky.social
We made a comic about a job interview.
May 21, 2024 at 3:52 AM
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nyazsche.bsky.social
April 23, 2024 at 1:16 AM
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mightyandross64.bsky.social
The Arwing used in the cutscene sequences of Star Fox Snes, viewed straight from the game's imported source code.

SFView is currently WIP so there'll be errors here & there, but it's amazing what it can do thus far!

#starfox #snes #supernintendo #Nintendo #arwing #3Dmodel
April 8, 2024 at 10:59 PM
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thatweissguy.bsky.social
The rules developers were required to follow for creating games for the Sega Saturn:
March 10, 2024 at 7:23 PM
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crtpixel.bsky.social
SUPER MARIO BROS. 2
NINTENDO 1988
NES
Mario in 4-2, standing on a whale who's blowing water from its blow-hole. Happy Mar10 Day
March 10, 2024 at 10:11 PM
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ocornut.bsky.social
The stylish, unknown & extremely rare SEGA AI COMPUTER (1986) promised natural language processing and "artificial intelligence" via its Prolog interpreter.

Available today, for the first time ever: system roms, game cards, tapes recordings, scans, photos, MAME driver & more: smspower.org/SegaAI
January 31, 2024 at 3:04 PM
zmac.me
Hello, Bluesky.
November 24, 2023 at 8:15 PM