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  Since the demise of #Radioarchive and the other #Cheops sites, is there anywhere to get some of that old #BBC #Radio4 stuff? It's kind of ironic that the BBC calls out to people who have preserved their stuff in the past to fill in programme gaps for stuff that they then sell, and yet do their damndest to stop archivists preserving things that have now ended up lost again. Ever since I lost my old iPod with the 48 hour version of "This Sceptred Isle" on it, I have bee...

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  The strangest thing about the #EFF leaving #Twitter is that ... Why the fuck were they still in that #NaziBar !?

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  They are calling the bogroll guy "Warehouse Luigi": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpqhREBFIoo #Luigi #Bogroll #News #EatTheRich

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  Since I am on an accidental #nostalgia (naustalgia?) trip in trying to find old #MUD things, this one popped up on my Facebook feed which may amuse the #RetroComputing #VAX #VMS and #History of the #Internet folks. This was UKNet's office in about 1994-1995 I think there are some #SUN and #SGI machines in there too, there definitely were somewhere. #HashtagAbuse

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  @WiteWulf And to be fair to the gods of time... My DecSystem 10 is in 1987 at the moment, since that gets the date and days mostly correct.

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  @WiteWulf Ah, noted - So I will be prepared for an annoying surprise - Though I don't really use the VMS anyway now I have TOPS-10 back. I dunno where I got the license .COM file from, but it looks like I am safe on the VMS end for those: $ show license vax-vms Active licenses on node CALDER: ------- Product ID -------- ---- Rating ----- -- Version -- Product Producer Units Avail Activ Version Release Termination VAX-VMS DEC 0 0 100 0.0...

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  @WiteWulf Thanks! I found those a few days ago, and a useful .COM to register every single possible license on the machine as well :)

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  This is where I need #KevinMitnick - Mr #Mitnick had copies of all my legitimate old licenses :) #Hacking #Archives

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  A late birthday present. Next time I need to get online on my Apple IIe, I will be well sorted! #Apple #Computers #RetroComputing #Electronics #AppleII

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  That's because you aint professional, innit #LinkedIn

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  This one might be interesting to anyone interested in computer gaming history. https://dec10.uknet.net I spent the last couple of weeks finally finishing a project I started for Bletchley Park about 20 years ago. Recreating the original MUD and MIST on a mirror of the original Essex University system that finally closed in 1991. Roy Trubshaw and Richard Bartle wrote the first online multi-user game (MUD) on Essex University's DECSystem-10 in 1978 and it ran till I closed it in 1991. I dil...

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  @Mer__edith Do you have an actual Trust & Safety team at @signalapp ?

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  This is still my favourite personal hackery/security story, and the only one I have ever written about where I am on the naughty-side of the desk. Different times! https://artofsecurity.com/2011/humble #Security #InfoSec #Hacking #DEC #VAX #VMS #Teletype #Blog #History #UniversityofLeicester #FoiledAgain

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  @cstross@wandering.shop @jguillaumes@mastodont.cat @jlargentaye@mas.to Leeds University kept some of its DECSystem-10 stuff, or it had last time I was there in 2005. #Leeds #LeedsUniversity

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  @Linza I'd love to see what POSTUS's historical record would look like in 350 years, if there are still people or records then.

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  Hey! That's me! @warandpeas https://mastodon.social/@warandpeas/116087323590365455

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  It won't be long before the Bellamy Salute is back. #USA #Politics #Fascism #Nazis #FCC #Television #Orwell #Propaganda

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  "Two more minutes of that and I'd be wearing a MAGA hat" - Jimmy Kimmel on the People's State of the Union. He's not wrong, the Democrats are begging to lose if that's the best they can do as their alternative. @MeidasTouch fucked up there big time; it felt like a high school protest without any of the energy and inspiration. #StateOfTheUnion #USPol #Trump #Epstein #meidasTouch #Politics #Protest #DNC #Democrats #Useless #JimmyKimmel #People...

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  Feels like this should be in the Entertainment section rather than the Politics one. https://globalnews.ca/news/11688507/conservative-searches-antifa-federal-government/ #Canada #Politics #AntiFa #RedNexit #CanPoli #Trump #MAGA #MapleMAGA #Globalnews @globalnews

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  @cstross@wandering.shop I am avoiding making any Canadian snowbirds quips.

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  Oh shit, I just realised that every time Trump is talking about countries "emptying their mental institutions and sending them over here", he's talking about asylum seekers. The orange moron doesn't understand the difference between political asylum and a mental asylum. It's hard to fathom how stupid that blob of rotting lard is. #Trump #USPol #Venezuela #Politics #Dementia #USA