https://www.pcmag.com/news/20-years-later-how-concerns-about-weaponized-consoles-almost-sunk-the-ps2 it's a pretty weird and interesting story. Mostly bullshit anti-terror scare tactics though

Is anyone else having issues accessing notifications? I think the server crashed or something.

For the first eight months or so, you basically got it to be a DVD player (which to be fair, was a stupendously awesome bargain to grab a DVD player at that price that would eventually have awesome video games too). It took until the following summer with Gran Turismo 3 to be the first real million-plus-seller “you…

The PS2 is a console I have really mixed feelings about.

[huddled on floor in fetal position]

Who holds back the electric car?

Scarlett Johanson

Black cats are the best. 

Can confirm. I have a black cat and I’ve basically only gotten three or four photos of him in his long life that aren’t an eye and some shine off his fur.

Looking at my local APL, black cats don’t seem over-represented. I see tabbies and torties and white and siamese and B&W.

People are garbage.

Ah, the perpetual pain of working in computer security, where failures are really visible, but doing your job well looks like business as usual.

My aunt was a programmer back in the 80s and wound up re-entering the workforce in the late 90s doing Y2K compliance. She said they all knew back in the 80s that two-digit years would cause the program to crash once the year turned over to 00, but memory was too tight to spare additional digits, and it seemed absurd…

This is really important to remember. A huge number of dedicated, smart, creative nerds spent tons of time and energy...and, yes, earned tons of money in many cases...to turn a disaster into a punchline.  Y2K wasn’t going to rise to the apocalyptic level that some were predicting at the time, but it was going to be…

The distant future.

Scarlett Johannsen maybe

This is interesting. In a single, 2D image pulled from the sunset-riding scene, there may certainly be implied depth (via an examination of elements that manipulate perspective, which I assume this new show will try to examine among other things), but I think to say the image itself holds actual depth is definitely…

I don’t think it makes any sense to construct a 3D space to educate us on a 2D image.

Maybe that should have been the Aviary Club?

Ya wanna buy a monkey?