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[Daniel Bradley @DanielatOCN]

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[HDex @hdex]

@neiltyson He just heard humans talking about devouring a book ... so he did

[HDex @hdex]

and if I may suggest something @openclaw your documentation seems to assume knowing all about openclaw configs. As in a lot of code in the docs to explain how to do something but not in which file to do so.

[HDex @hdex]

Tried @openclaw
Guess I'm not the right audience. When it works it's awesome (I liked talking to multiple agents via discord), then things started to break for me and spending more time troubleshooting that doing things.

[HDex @hdex]

@MikeCarlton01 And the concern (at least mine) is that politicians and commentators will just laugh it off and belittle this event instead of taking note and trying to listen to why those voters are voting this way. Given enough time, we might end up with something similar to ReformUK.

[HDex @hdex]

@MikeCarlton01 The same as everywhere else in the world, if we don't answer concerns from some voters we can't be surprised that they vote for some other single issue party. True with MAGA, ReformUK, Rassemblement National and now One Nation.

[HDex @hdex]

C'est beau la France quand meme. Tu herites d'une propriete, tu es de citoyennete francaise mais non resident fiscal et bien tu dois payer pour avoir un representant fiscal. Une taxe sur une taxe ... magique !

[HDex @hdex]

@KuptoKosmos

[HDex @hdex]

@13arm13arm @josh_odgers HW3 Claim ... European based but maybe the more the merrier ?

[@[email protected] 🚝🇪🇺🚲🚎🚈🔌🚘🌻 @tronicum]

Wenn Sie einen Tesla mit Hardware 3 und einem erworbenen Full Self-Driving-Paket besitzen, registrieren Sie sich auf https://t.co/8kFoDJWCZi. 5708 Teilnehmer haben sich bereits angemeldet. https://t.co/BdS4L3OfzR @Captn_Hype

[HDex @hdex]

@Peter_Fitz As much as I agree that we have alternatives for energy, we don't have much in other sectors. All plastics for example ...

[savip. @savipww]

PRAGMATA helped dad survive the loss of his daughter

> 55yo dad tragically lost his 8yo daughter McKenzie in 2009
> he stopped gaming for 30y until his 2nd daughter Ella introduced him to Fortnite to help him cope
> they recently discovered Capcom's new game Pragmata featuring a little android girl named Diana
> Ella noticed the character looks and acts exactly like old pictures of her late sister
> he bought the game and says playing it with his youngest daughter is literally "therapeutic for my soul"
> Reddit post went insanely viral and the Pragmata director personally thanked him on X

people complain about graphics and framerates all day on the internet

this guy just used a video game to spend a little more time with the daughter he lost

this is why we play

full reddit thread in replies

[exQUIZitely 🕹️ @exQUIZitely]

I know it's easy to discard gaming from the 80s, 90s, and even the early 2000s as nothing more than nostalgia viewed through rose-tinted glasses.

One aspect that often gets overlooked in that debate is actually based on facts, not just overly sentimental nostalgia.

Having a computer and wanting to get the most out of it - and sometimes even just to get it working at all - required you to be far more invested, curious, and hands-on, so maybe that's why anyone who experienced that era feels a stronger connection to it.

You had to read up on things, learn, and tinker with both software and hardware. If you had a PC in the 80s or 90s, it wasn't a "one and done" purchase. There was constant upgrading: swapping out a crappy sound card for a better one, replacing a small/slow hard drive, installing a CD-ROM drive, doubling your RAM from 1 MB to 2 MB… the list went on and on.

It meant installing and updating drivers so everything actually worked. It meant understanding compatibility issues - all without the internet in the early days - so you relied on magazines, manuals, and friends who had "been there, done that."

And that was just the hardware side. Then came the software: getting drivers, configs, and setups tuned perfectly so you could squeeze every last bit of performance out of the machine. Some games simply wouldn't run unless you freed up those final kilobytes of conventional memory.

There was even a whole industry built around "managing your PC" with tools like Norton Commander and countless others.

These days, there is...

No more fiddling with AUTOEXEC.BAT or CONFIG.SYS files.

No fine-tuning HIMEM.SYS.

No IRQ conflicts with your sound card.

No more boot disks.

Juggling hard drive space? Forget it - drives now come in terabytes, not megabytes.

Dealing with a 5.25" floppy, a 3.5" floppy, and a CD-ROM drive all crammed into one case? What a drag.

Saving up for that shiny new VGA card to replace your old EGA? Not a thing anymore.

And yet, if you ask older gamers who lived through the 80s and 90s, most of us actually enjoyed customizing and troubleshooting our machines. It was part of the experience - part of the joy and excitement.

Sure, it involved plenty of trial and error and frustrating "OMFG, why isn't this working?!" moments… but when it finally worked, the reward was so much sweeter.

Finally freeing up those last couple of kilobytes of your 640K base memory? Glorious.

Replacing that pathetic PC speaker with a real sound card? Pure ecstasy.

To all you old-school gamers out there, I hope you experienced it the same way. I always felt that the need to tinker endlessly made the whole experience more rewarding. You were more connected to your machine and understood it on a deeper level.

These days, you just click a button and the game downloads and installs itself.

I have a modern PC, of course. It's been over 20 years since I last had to do any real tinkering. That's convenient, sure… but the magic and curiosity is gone.

[Goodable @Goodable]

Breaking: This five-year-old was just crowned the world puddle jumping champion.

The best part?

We just posted the video.

@peppapig would be proud. 🐷🥹

https://t.co/krGRkExjnS

[Mushtaq Bilal, PhD @MushtaqBilalPhD]

Meta illegaly downloaded 80+ terabytes of books from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-library to train their AI models.

Aaron Swartz downloaded 70 GBs of articles from JSTOR (0.0875% of Meta) in 2010. Faced $1 million in fine and 35 years in jail. Took his own life in 2013.

[Mike Bird @Birdyword]

Many people do not seem to want data centres built near them, despite the fact that they don't cause that much traffic and often generate a lot of local tax revenue. I suspect it's partly because they're ugly! My proposal:

[HDex @hdex]

M Day. Should have been 18

[franceinfo @franceinfo]

Le lieutenant australien Charles Martin, un aviateur tué en 1918 durant la Première Guerre mondiale, vient d'être identifié en France, 108 ans après sa disparition. Son corps repose dans le cimetière de Fleurbaix (Pas-de-Calais). #franceinfo

[Andreas Storm @avstorm]

The handcrafted magic behind Apple's MacBook Neo introduction

[Olivier Poncet 🦝 @ponceto91]

Il y a 71 ans, le 16 avril 1955, fut inventé le mot « ordinateur » par Jacques Perret, professeur de philologie, à la demande de la société IBM souhaitant alors un nom français pour sa nouvelle machine destinée au traitement de l'information, l'IBM 650 #LaPetiteInfoDuJour

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

Trump opening Hormuz.