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What are some of the more roundabout forms of online community you've heard of or encountered? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Late 90s PC gaming. Even the simple in-game chat systems back in the days in games such as Unreal Tournament, Counter-Strike, Team Fortress and many others helped people meet, socialize, and form communities.

Has anyone else been banned for "Orientalism"? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 38 points 8 months ago (7 children)

The whole instance has become increasingly strange. I don't interact with it at all anymore.

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Open sourcing Pingora: Our Rust framework for building programmable network services (blog.cloudflare.com)
Mathematicians have finally proved that Bach was a great composer in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 24 points 9 months ago

Phew. Finally. I was getting worried.

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Google Contributes $1M to Rust Foundation to Support C++/Rust “Interop Initiative” (foundation.rust-lang.org)
What songs do you like that are in a language which you don't speak? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

White Tiger Field (Byakkoya) by Susumu Hirasawa

Looking for retro game recommendations in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Here's a mostly forgotten one: Phantom 2040 for SNES

Not truly a metroidvania, but an interesting platformer shooter with branching paths and many different endings.

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Driver dies after big rig crashes into toll booth on Richmond-San Rafael Bridge (www.nbcbayarea.com)
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Terrible accident. Take it slow and safe driving through those toll booths y'all..

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Mystery surrounding illness deepens for San Jose woman who lost limbs (www.kron4.com)
 

Unlike previous reporting, it seems the illness affecting this unfortunate woman is as of yet unexplained.

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US economy going strong under Biden – Americans don’t believe it (www.theguardian.com)
Why British cities make no sense in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Map Men Map Men Map Map Map Men!

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San Jose leaders consider launching city's own electric utility (www.nbcbayarea.com)
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This 8-Bit Computer Has Two CPUs (And One Acts As A GPU) (www.youtube.com)
 

Great overview of the interesting architecture designs in this Japanese-Spanish Fujitsu FM-7 -based home computer