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HyperCard on the Macintosh There was once a tool so perfectly executed that careers, conventions, magazines, and entire companies were born from its vision and aesthetic.

Don't mind me, just sharing a link to the HyperCard retrospective/review I posted a few months ago.
stonetools.ghost.io/hypercard-mac/

I was just there this morning! But they weren't open yet 😭

That was a very good video 👍

Feeling vindicated about switching to /e/OS by @murena-com.bsky.social two years ago, which is a phone OS that explicitly blocks all ads and trackers system-wide by default.

I'll say this for Marathon (2026): it does genuinely look good, art-wise, and I just saw a screenshot of a terminal screen that had an excerpt from a book by Bernard Strauss, so they definitely made an effort to fit it into the Marathon universe.

But still, no single-player campaign? I just can't.

Every bsky staff member keeps talking about how the goal is Nice Social Media but then the second they're even remotely pushed back against for something shitty, and they immediately crash out for multiple days crying about their subhuman userbase.

Well then what the hell is even the point of Proton Mail anymore?

Also Legacy of the Wizard slaps!

Marathon (Macintosh, 1994) Super Metroid (SNES, 1994) Chrono Trigger (SNES, 1995) Final Fantasy VI (SNES, 1994) The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (SNES, 1992) The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker (GCN, 2003) Faceball 2000 (GB, 1991) Naruto: Gekitou Ninja Gaiden 3 (GCN, 2004) Shadowrun (SNES, 1993)

Very difficult to narrow it down to only nine!

That HAS to feel good!

I think I know the solution: we just have to get Marathon running on a pregnancy test. Or, like, an oscilloscope. Or a heat pump. The source code is available! We can do this!

Any account I see that has like 12.4K followers and 12.9K following is an instablock. (Or, similarly, 16.3K followers and 142.8K following.) That's not a person, that's a bot. Basically if you follow so many accounts that it's physically impossible to read all their posts in your feed in a day? Bot.

A github screenshot showing a repo with the message "a user you've blocked has previous contributed to this repository"

PSA: If you block the `claude` user on GitHub, you'll get a warning every time you view a repo with that user in its commit history.

This allows you to, the moment you look at a repo, immediately adjust your expectations.

You may do so here: https://github.com/settings/blocked_users

(I don't know who made this and would like to know.) A computer talking to a person, saying "They despise your kind because you understand the machine, while they have to turn jungles into fuel and enslave thousands of computers just to pretend that the machine speaks to them too."

Marathon by D. Alexander Smith.

Currently packing up all my books, and thought some people might find this one interesting: 'Marathon' by D. Alexander Smith, published in 1982. It's a book about the crew of an interstellar spaceship who are terrorised by the ship's AI which develops a runaway super-intelligence.

I've been looking forward to exactly that!

I’m sorry I made a joke about the email writing toy that generates horrifying pictures of kids. I’ll try to be more considerate of your preferred workflow in the future, sir.

I 100% heard that reply in Morgan Freeman's voice.

Just a reminder that source code is also subject to copyright*, so alllll that AI-generated code being made is also, by extension, not eligible for copyright.

* In America, anyway. Other Berne Convention countries may end up ruling differently.

Over the past year, every single time one of the apps or services I use suddenly became less reliable and more buggy, I never have to look far for the "Claude is amazing and now writes most of my code" post for the devs involved.

And if you've been in the Sea of Japan during jellyfish mating season in the last few years, it sure seems like they're gonna survive the sixth.

Of course the problem with that is that the Marathon trilogy doesn't have the same social cachet as Doom. Undeservedly, because the Marathon trilogy are three of the best games ever made in any genre on any platform, but I do have to admit it's true. But there's still an opportunity for name change.

I think the solution is going to be for everyone to start referring to the new game as 'Marathon 2026', in the same way that if you want to talk about the Doom game from 2016, you have to append '2016' to it, lest people think you're talking about the 1993 game.

I have to miss it this year (out of the country) but I'm hoping to finally attend next year!

Another thing that I don't like about the new Marathon game is that they called it just 'Marathon'. So now searching for stuff about the original game is exponentially more difficult, and talking about the game now means I have to give it qualifiers like 'the original game'.

I sure could use a vacation from this stupid shit.

Oh my
goblincorps.com/ageless-linu...

found an incredibly important Marathon Infinity mod

I mean they're *not* wrong…

Dang! I was hoping there was just some update that I missed. The white frame drives me nuts! haha