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Some rare pictures of the making of Final Fantasy 7 found on ISOs on Internet Archive. These ISOs came from a 6-CD multimedia press pack given for the 1997 European Computer Trade Show.

Lots of vintage equipment and office cubicles~ (check out the professional monitors, and the SGI Indigo2 in the last image!)

(archive.org/details/sonyects19)

(via @retrohistories@twitter.com - twitter.com/retrohistories/sta)

- Dzuk

#gameing #gamedev #FF7 #1990s

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#saveyourinternet

Full text of the directive: europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDo

Why it means the end of the people's and creators' Internet: techdirt.com/articles/20180703

Under this law, Internet stops being a place where people can freely post their content, comment on it, and share what they find interesting - it becomes a TV, with a small amount of pre-approved publishers posting content for everyone to passively consume.

#DeleteArt13 #Censorship #InternetCensorship

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Here's Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)'s blog post on the case of LT, including our response to Hodder & Stoughton's lawyers attached as a PDF!

...I promise you'll enjoy reading it!

eff.org/deeplinks/2018/07/effs

#LT #languagetransfer #EFF #patent #copyright

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[due to my new internet regimen where I avoid sites that game your interest through fake notifications I have now run out of internet to see]

Changing between iOS and Android phones is a fun exercise in muscle memory. 😑

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Hey so etc - and other - if you liked the funloving Luddite pattern, I put it up on a society6 store
(full disclosure I get like a dime when you buy something there so... buy thousands of them)

society6.com/ohyran

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How to make a career move from proprietary to open source technology

opensource.com/article/18/7/ca

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The Pentium FDIV bug was ahead of it's time. That was closer to artificial intelligence than we've ever been. Most humans make miscalculations when dividing very large numbers.

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WTF is a personal information dashboard for your terminal
wtfutil.com/

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@rtwx @ben0_o Time to install Stylus instead! It's a much more modern and also tracking-free fork: github.com/openstyles/stylus

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If there’s going to be a privacy/decentralisation revolution it won’t be with a horde of poorly maintained VPSes and Raspberry Pis. I’m not even sure it’s a solvable problem yet. Any software project sufficiently resourced and organised to protect its endpoints would be decried as too powerful and centralised.

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What a bug... "Samsung phones are spontaneously texting users’ photos to random contacts without their permission" theverge.com/circuitbreaker/20

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Oh dang, I had no idea the "Stylish" browser extension went to the dark side. Thankfully I haven't used it for a while but I wouldn't have hesitated because it worked really well. robertheaton.com/2018/07/02/st

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Some of us install 'Stylish' to force wide columns on Mastodon.. Well apparently it's logging all your internet history to create a profile on users:

robertheaton.com/2018/07/02/st

Time to uninstall, folks :+\

Well I guess that's ok then, and I expect that the lack of that entry was why I couldn't play Spotify on my reviever via Spotify Connect.

Completely powered off receiver, restarted and now it works fine. Hmm. Am concerned about the notices I see where Spotify is removing support from some devices.

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When as a warmup you decide to continue doing cute little "old tech symbols" and now you can't stop...
Send help, making a cute cassette tape as we speak

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How many times will @SUSE be sold..lol.. itsfoss.com/suse-eqt-acqui…