Dan Goodin
Chicago News BotThe Promontory, Beloved Hyde Park Music Venue, Closing At End Of Year https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/14/the-promontory-beloved-hyde-park-music-venue-closing-at-end-of-year/
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| Beatle | George |
| Beverage | Tea (herbal) |
| Distro | Fedora (for now) |
@madopal
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Currently: #DataEngineer/tech mentor/operational wonk, casual #bicycle advocate in #Chicago, retro tech enthusiast, passionate about #transit #architecture #history #urbanPlanning, lover of all things #Fnord. Recovering #gamedev (#Mindscape, #Jaleco, #Midway, #RawThrills, #coinop,), good-natured curmudgeon. I'm just zis guy, you know. I was @chownlife in my former life on the bird site.
Now that Marc Benioff, owner of Slack and Salesforce, has confirmed he sides with authoritarianism, it's more incumbent on us than ever to move off central platforms, which can dump communications we presumed were private or cut us off for any reason or no reason at all.
https://sfstandard.com/2025/10/10/marc-benioff-national-guard-sf/
HackBot
Bitmap Books💷 £10 off A Gremlin in the Works 💷
560-pages packed with imagery, interviews and reminiscences from the glory days of this legendary UK games publisher.
Buy here: https://www.bitmapbooks.com/collections/all-books/products/a-gremlin-in-the-works
#bitmapbooks #books #retrogaming #gaming #gremlingraphics #sale #bookstodon
BleepingComputerAround 200,000 Linux computer systems from American computer maker Framework were shipped with signed UEFI shell components that could be exploited to bypass Secure Boot protections.
RooneyMcNibNug
historic drystone sheep dykeNaturally someone already uploaded the whole thing to archive.org https://archive.org/search?query=subject%3A%22Nerds+2.0.1+-+A+Brief+History+of+the+Internet%22
I feel like mastodon would appreciate this unopened 1998 three tape documentary about the pre bubble internet i found at my parent’s house
EstelModern Tech:
"We've had one, yes. But what about second torment nexus?"
"We've had one, yes. But what about second torment nexus?"
Out hitting antique shops today, and Broadway Antiques has some great old #Chicago club flyers.
