abadideabringing a gift from Chinese social media: someone misread a sign written in Classical Chinese calligraphy that says “diligence can make up for shortcomings” as saying “look! Du Fu’s got moves!” (Du Fu is an ancient poet) and an unspecified artist drew this gif to commemorate the occasion
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What *isn't* a part of humanity's cultural heritage? (rhetorical question)
What *isn't* a part of humanity's cultural heritage? (rhetorical question)
@hannah
I discovered The East India Company circa 1800 encoded their "most secret dispatches" using a book cipher. It might have been secure if it wasn't a dictionary and hadn't spelled out words using the dictionary's headers... https://twitter.com/dragondave/status/1411692803952873473
I discovered The East India Company circa 1800 encoded their "most secret dispatches" using a book cipher. It might have been secure if it wasn't a dictionary and hadn't spelled out words using the dictionary's headers... https://twitter.com/dragondave/status/1411692803952873473
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@CrusaderKings There was that time I decoded much of a 'most secret' dispatch from the East India company. Turns out their code book was in alphabetical order and they used the headers at the start of each letter to spell out words. D'oh! https://t.co/DZ5y6k8esI https://t.co/lAvrYbGaBN
luna the doggie 
@tripofmice rare picture of the holy ghost
@textfiles love that there's a copy of the auditing software in the archive (possibly non-functional without the other disk, not sure)
https://archive.org/details/msdos_shareware_fb_SPADIT28
https://archive.org/details/msdos_shareware_fb_SPADIT28
I had completely forgotten about this ten year old video making fun of Java but it's solid gold https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3418SeWZfQ
JavaZone 2013: Javapocalypse
@drj that is basically what curl is (okay, 150k C and 110k other stuff) :)
(https://codetabs.com/count-loc/count-loc-online.html , github curl/curl)
(https://codetabs.com/count-loc/count-loc-online.html , github curl/curl)
@textfiles elegantly nailing the "Windows XP desktop" look
RAM OK ROM OK 🕹️ICYMI: New free e-Book Flashpoint: a tribute to Flash games https://ramokromok.com/articles/new-free-e-book-flashpoint-a-tribute-to-flash-games.1408/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #News