Duke87

Duke87

@duke87.bsky.social

Transportation geek. Classic video game nerd. Engineer brain is autism brain. (He, Lui)

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I am once again begging people making podcasts to publish text transcripts of them so that anyone who is hard of hearing or experiences sensory overload when listening to recordings of people talking isn't excluded.

"Oh there's this great podcast, you should listen to it" Buddy you might as well be suggesting I sit there and listen to you scrape your nails across a chalkboard. NO.

Ah yes, the days when trademark infringement in DOS games was cool and common. (Jill of the Jungle by Epic Megagames, 1992)

Yoooooo the full registered version of Jill of the Jungle is available for free on GOG Guess what I've been playing for the last hour!

US heritage railroads are really something. The Bellefonte Historical Railroad Society operates trains that stop by the Amtrak station in Tyrone. So you can get on the train here transferring from Amtrak, right? No of course not why would you be able to do that - you can only get on in Bellefonte.

Instead, the train stops in Tryone where they suggest you go check out the small museum inside the old depot immediately adjacent to the Amtrak platform before reboarding the train back to Bellefonte.

So I guess don't count on account age alone saving you, Discord is not convinced I'm an adult in spite of my account being over 8 years old

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for a people who spend so much time talking about dog whistles lefties sure aren't very good at realizing when we're the dogs

Vituperative Erb@vituperativeerb.bsky.social

This ad is a pro-trans dog whistle virtuously designed to mislead hogs. “Washington needs to stay out of it” the only thing Washington is doing is trying to impose a national ban, Washington staying out of it means “no ban”

IT'S TIME TO KICK ASS AND CUDDLE PLUSH AND I'M ALL OUTTA PLUSH

Glenda Adams@gmatom.bsky.social

OMG. 29 years ago I put an Easter egg in Duke Nukem 3D Mac, that replaced two of the in-game posters with pictures of a couple plush animals I had. I never told anyone other than my wife about the code (DNGLENDA) and completely forgot I did this. 1/2

So I'm in Boston and every time I get on a green line train and tap the reader by the door, the screen turns red and says "Tap CharlieCard on farebox" But the farebox by the driver is switched off and does nothing when you tap it. I see Cubic is being Cubic.

So apparently IMDb is now automatically creating accounts for users without their consent if you visit the site on a browser that is logged into an Amazon account (It uses your Amazon login and automatically links it). These tech companies are fucking out of control.

Since people are flipping out, something y'all need to understand: Horses didn't exist in North America before Europeans brought them here. They're an invasive species. BLM has also been capturing them and sending them off to get slaughtered for quite some time, it isn't something Trump started.

Specifically to prevent recurrence in people who've already had it, not for broad use to stop people from getting melanoma in the first place, but still a positive development. And if it can work for melanoma it can probably work for other types of cancer too, expect more R&D here

Hi what the fuck people are going to die because of this

More Perfect Union@moreperfectunion.bsky.social

AI is now answering 911 calls in New Orleans. The AI handles incoming calls and is supposed to analyze and prioritize the calls so that if multiple people phone in about the same incident, the chatbot will handle the repetitive calls about the same incident. /1

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So my wife mentions there's a movie coming out where a woman marries a dude made out of wicker (like the basket material). And of course in response to this I start singing "The Wicker Man" by Iron Maiden. I have no interest in seeing this movie but they're doing it wrong if that song is not in it.

Things I can now say I have done: typed "rm -rf *" into a Terminal while I had an external backup drive plugged in. Don't worry, nothing bad happened, I had already navigated to a specific directory I was seeking to cleanse before doing this. And yes I took a gooood look at that before I hit enter.

I need everyone freaking out about air quality to understand that chronic somewhat elevated levels of PM2.5 are far worse for public health than occasional tranisient really high levels. Diesel exhaust is making more people sick than wildfire smoke is.

Related to the previous post, shout out to anyone who used to think "automatic" was also a fancy word for "black". After all the font color in word processing programs would default to "automatic", but the text was clearly black, so...

As a kid I used to think "plu" was another word for fruit. After all all the fruits at the grocery store had stickers on them that prominently said "PLU" and then had a 4-digit number in smaller text, so logically...

Resultingly, I have no clue how much rain fell locally the last few days because what should be the official source for this information is unavailable! (and no I don't trust AccuScare or The Weathertainment Channel to provide this info)

Another achievement of the day: rode a BMT D-Series train from Court St to Hoyt-Schermerhorn and back. It has not been possible to ride between these two stations in regular service since 1946.

It's 85 degrees Fahrenheit (29C) with 65% humidity at 2 AM and I would like to wish everyone who poo poos air conditioning a very "eat this". (we have central AC, we're good)