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Software and video game preservation and development enthusiast.
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[depths of wikipedia! @depthsofwiki]

length of the table of contents in "united states involvement in regime change"

[Krasnaiaesgorria @Krasnaiaesrojo]

Un programador egipcio ha creado una página dedicada a cada víctima del genocidio palestino. Hasta ahora ha registrado 72 000 nombres. Cada punto de luz representa una víctima y, al pulsarlo, verás su nombre y fecha de nacimiento. Puedes filtrar por edad.
https://t.co/1dCihg3ixC

[GOG.COM @GOGcom]

As we celebrate the community’s efforts in video game preservation, we’re giving away Alone in the Dark: The Trilogy 1+2+3, a cornerstone of survival horror history and part of the GOG Preservation Program.

Grab these masterpieces before February 5th at 2 PM UTC and enjoy them forever 💜

Oh, and the 2024 reimagining of this title is available at a 60% discount for the duration of the giveaway, alongside its DLCs!

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

Hello, this is Yanis Varoufakis with a piece of news that would have been hilarious if it weren’t so scary. This morning, two policemen appeared on my doorstep to serve a summons ordering me to the police headquarters to be interrogated by the Greek DEA, our drug busting police department. Not as a witness, expert or not, but as the accused. Accused of what?

Shortly after New Year’s, I appeared on a podcast organised by young people to answer their questions on everything that concerns Gen Z today: social media, the meaning of life, their job prospects, what I call technofeudalism etc. At some point, they asked me if I had ever used drugs. Determined not to do a Bill Clinton (remember the laughable “I didn’t inhale”?), I said I had. Apart from pot, I told them, I had one experience of taking ecstasy in Sydney 36 years ago. It was pleasant, I danced for 16 hours effortlessly but then, I added, it gave me a migraine for a week – and so I never used again. That was my introduction to making the point that, however pleasant drug taking may seem, there is a price to pay. And that the ultimate price is dependence, addiction – “the end of liberty”, I said emphatically.

Do you see where this is going? Yes, the Greek police have opened an investigation of me under the charge of... aiding and abetting the narco-mafia. [Do me a favour folks: Please don’t tell Trump, OK?]

Seriously now, at a time of war, genocide, stupendous exploitation and so on, my little trouble with the inane Greek police is neither here nor there. But it is important. Here, in Europe, many people still live under the illusion that we have liberty, rationality and freedom. We don’t. Dark forces are at work, pushing us into a postmodern version of the Dark Ages.

So, beware, people! They are out to take away the last remnants of autonomy and freedom we have left. Resistance is, literally, existence.

[Supper Mario Broth @MarioBrothBlog]

Using a combination of glitches in Super Mario World, Yoshi can be taken into the final battle, where he can eat Peach upon Bowser's defeat. With Peach gone, the ending will not play, and Mario and Yoshi will simply stare at each other forever.

[Alison Burke @TiredActor]

Happy 5 year anniversary of this dumb thing

[Stormslayer -HD Remasters/Gamedev @StormslayerDev]

https://t.co/vhJciFkH8H

[grizzy @Furbeti]

Someone made a Jeffrey Epstein connection database with 500+ different nodes.

The website allows you to search for official documents that connect affiliates and co-conspirators.

https://t.co/hPx6jET5ZC

[Censored Humans @CensoredHumans]

"The Romans occupied England in the 5th century, so anyone of Roman descent has a historical claim to the land."

It's one of the best sketches I've ever seen, it is so accurate and highlights the situation in Palestine.

[Ted Timmins @JustTeddii]

Cheeky Christmas gift to myself this year was a GameBoy Advance prototype that connects through a Nintendo 64 cartridge, but is played with a Super Famicom (Nintendo) controller. Three videogame generations in one! Love videogame history and preservation, it’s going to be fun to replay some of my favourite GBA games again on this ♥️ 🤍

[krikzz @krikzz]

I have good news today. The EverDrive GBA series has finally received the long-awaited update with the PRO version. It now supports cheats, save states, sensors, and more. Cartridge already available at https://t.co/eIkI80Y0so We will start shipping orders in January.

[Ben Norton @BenjaminNorton]

The actual poverty rate is 67% in Argentina's US-backed libertarian Javier Milei regime, when it is measured with a multidimensional index.

Official Argentine government statistics grossly underestimate the poverty rate, because they only measure it as a certain threshold of income, which has failed to take into account the enormous inflation in Argentina and the skyrocketing cost of basic services.

When researchers used the multidimensional poverty index -- measuring other factors like access to electricity, water, housing, health care, sanitation, nutrition, education, etc. -- they found that two-thirds of Argentines are living in poverty in Milei's "anarcho-capitalist" experiment (despite the tens of billions of dollars of funding given by the US and IMF to prop up Milei's regime).

The multidimensional poverty index is already officially used by Mexico, Brazil, and Chile, but not by Argentina, likely because the government wants to make poverty appear much lower than it actually is.

Source: https://t.co/I5FbcMmNMW

[Maximiliano Firtman @maxifirtman]

Si alguien tiene aires acondicionados de BGH cuya función "smart" vía app dejará de funcionar en 10 días: logré entender el protocolo interno y tengo una integración para Home Assistant ya funcionando totalmente local.

Se podría ahora hacer una app para Android o iOS; por el protocolo que usan no se puede hacer en web lamentablemente. Si hay algún interesado, avise. Funcionaría solo dentro de la red WiFi del equipo (no remoto).

Acá el proyecto en Github: https://t.co/JRaqpSyUmQ

[Jimy Drive @JimyDrive]

Gracias a la comunidad, se han recuperado 142 ROMs de Sega Channel y prototipos de Mega Drive que se creían perdidos, incluyendo "The Lost Levels" de Garfield y un navegador web experimental.
¡Un gran triunfo para la preservación del videojuego!
https://t.co/rZn1zkUnAF

[zabutom @zabutom]

Realtime code, handmade ascii animations and raw tracker music. The demo ’CMOS Cosmos’ by Razor 1911 in 2025 #demoscene #ascii #msdos

[Obsolete Sony @ObsoleteSony]

In 2008, Sony introduced the ZEGO BCU-100, a rackmount server platform based on the PlayStation 3

[RohanKar @RohanKarMooN]

https://t.co/Kxs5YtbIxQ
Need for Speed: Underground (2003)
Widescreen and Controller support, with QoL features and a surprise for lostprophets fan
Extract and Enjoy 😄😄😄

--CREDITS--
> SilentPatch - Silent
> Extra Options - ExOptsTeam
> HD Reflections - AeroWidescreen
> Widescreen Fix - ThirteenAG
> XtendedInput - xan1242
> ZPatch - Zolika1351
> Smol Model Fix - AJ_Lethal
> Eclipse Body Vinyl Fix - speedforneed

[Wuschel @ElWuschel]

Un amigo tuvo la ambiciosa idea de hacer un juego que te enseñara a hacer un emulador de NES. Desde el assembly hasta lao módulos de audio y video. Todo con feedback en vivo.
El desgraciado lo hizo https://t.co/ntIFFxYyE0
Cuenta con modo libre donde podes emular otras consolas +

[Jose Coixao @notnotzecoxao]

the surprise that was supposed to happen this week was the ps3 rom, a team of people currently has it but still didn't find a way to decode it properly, unlike others we have come across. so we're at an impass lately and we have been trying all sorts of decoding attempts