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[Raithe]

https://www.tumblr.com/whiteshipnightjar/740784061857071104/zoozve-my-beloved

"we don't live in a big clockwork, we live in a dance club" has to be a great takeout comment from that

[Gorth]

I sometimes come across these as recommended videos. I think they've done a good job at fixing the speed, frame rate and colorize some of these old clips from the late 1800's and early 1900's...

 

A personal favourite of mine, the last known footage of the Bismarck (movie shot from the perspective of the accompanying Prinz Eugen)

 

[majestic]

 

Yeah, Imma gonna go have some nightmares now.

[Raithe]

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-voyager-1-resumes-sending-engineering-updates-to-earth

Edited April 25 by Raithe

[Malcador]

Mexican morning TV is/was good stuff.

[Gfted1]

[Raithe]

https://archive.org/details/DontBeaS1947

"Don't Be A Sucker" -  A 1947 short film made by the US Army, in an attempt to teach US Citizens how to avoid falling for a certain type of people....

Admonishes Americans that they will lose their country if they let fanaticism and hatred turn them into "suckers." "Let's forget about 'we' and 'they' -- let's think about us!" In the context of the emerging Cold War, this film appears paradoxical.

[Gfted1]

TSMC's Lithography Machines Have a Remote Kill Switch in Case China Invades | Extremetech

[majestic]

https://www.iclarified.com/93724/icq-to-shut-down-on-june-26-after-28-years

Well, there goes a part of 'net history.

[Malcador]

7 hours ago, majestic said:

https://www.iclarified.com/93724/icq-to-shut-down-on-june-26-after-28-years

Well, there goes a part of 'net history.

Was a great IM tool, still recall my UIN, sadly 8 digits so not cool

[Raithe]

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/microsofts-new-recall-feature-will-record-everything-you-do-on-your-pc/

 

"We used to call that spyware..."

[Gorth]

7 hours ago, Raithe said:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/microsofts-new-recall-feature-will-record-everything-you-do-on-your-pc/

 

"We used to call that spyware..."

Windows 1984 indeed

[Raithe]

BBC - Mount Everest: Eleven tonnes of garbage taken off Himalyan peaks

It took troops 55 days to recover the rubbish and bodies from Everest, Nuptse and Lhotse mountains.
It is estimated that more than fifty tonnes of waste and more than 200 bodies cover Everest.
The army began conducting an annual clean-up of the mountain, which is often described as the world’s highest garbage dump, in 2019 during concerns about overcrowding and climbers queueing in dangerous conditions to reach the summit.
The five clean-ups have collected 119 tonnes of rubbish, 14 human corpses and some skeletons, the army says.

[Hurlshort]

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjll01220yeo

This story confuses the heck out of me. Is Wells Fargo evaluating employees by how often they jiggle their mouse? Why is that an important metric? 

The whole "try and look busy" philosophy makes no sense to me. Did you get your job done? Great, then it shouldn't matter how long you were jiggling your mouse.