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Amiga Emulator

The emulator code is based on the Open Source Universal Amiga Emulator which is 400k lines of C code, which were ported to Native Client. All the code is available in Open Source for anyone interested in porting their own C/C++ code to the web.

Drunk at Christmas

a PSA for you fuckers

Body by Design

transhuman chic

Buttcoin mine children

Children are being forced to mine for blocks to add to the master blockchain. But the difficulty is astronomical. These kids don’t even earn the transaction fees they’re mining for.

Paris metro PSA

C’est les jours de grosse chaleur, tel le manchot empereur, bien gardes les bras le long du corps et prendre sa meilleure prise en bas du poteau, pas tout en haut.

yes, this happened.

Military kills with bad design

what’s with cheesy logos & the military-industrial complex? they are totally just asking for it. for many more

Buttcoin qualities?

i have made a lot of fun of bitcoin recently, because it attracts the worst speculators and confused “down with the man” types. if you peel away all that, there are interesting properties in the protocol that i hope will see the light of day, like Contracts . if we are lucky we can get rid of most banksters and also most lawyer types. that’s real progress 🙂

Tab Closed; Didn’t Read

interstitials: even more desperate and even less effective than the pimples of the web, social media buttons.

If you’re going to insist on obscuring your content with some stupid social shit, a promo for your shitty app or a full-page newsletter signup form, then I’m not going to read your content. Or click on your ads. Or help you generate revenue in any way.

Snake oil firewalls

“firewalls” have been obsolete for years. instead of protecting a perimeter and then assuming (incorrectly) that your corp network is safe, only let devices on your network that can cryptographically prove they belong there. it requires that you have your inventory shit together, of course.

Wedding scams

the wedding-industrial complex thrives on a string of mistakes nearly everyone makes. it starts with paying a fortune for a material that isn’t actually rare (diamonds) and continues through overpaying for every little bit that is somehow wedding related.

Because this event is (ideally) once in a lifetime, that also means that vendors can appeal to consumers’ sentimentality, urging them not to cheap out on the “most important” day of their lives. Because of similar concerns about guilt-tripping salespeople, the Federal Trade Commission requires funeral homes to provide its bereaved customers with an itemized price list.