Lee Benfield
@benf.org
Retro fan, some time hobby reverse engineer, author of CFR java decompiler and random other pointless rubbish. He. https://www.benf.org
I occasionally remember that the actors who play Montalbano and Lolita Lobosco are married and this makes me very happy.
www.telegraph.co.uk/money/consum... I fricking love that the torygraph, that campaigned on and on and on for *expletive redacted* brexit, is now telling people how to lead a pale shadow of the life they could before. Fuckers.
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IMPORTANT AND EXCITING NEWS!!!! We have finished the Christmas Cake.
...a few years ago we did some Zippy content and were contacted by Tom Hayes, regular listener of the pod and son of Geoffrey. He informed us that Zippy and George were happily living out their retirement with Tom's mum following the passing of his dad in 2018... 2/3
I wanted a job as a lifeguard but there were too many red flags.
badly drawn bee 🐝@soapachu.bsky.social · 2w agoI got a job as an optometrist but I made a spectacle of myself
Holy crap I didn't know about this and now I have to have one and oh god they're a grand on ebay.
JetSetKyoro@jetsetkyoro.bsky.social · 2w agoThe Sega Nomad was a complete commercial failure but it's simply one of the coolest looking gaming handhelds of all time. I kinda wish I owned one...
rte.ie/brainstorm/2026/0717/1540979-headphone-dodgers-bare-beating-sodcasting-people-not-using-headphones-on-public-transport/ share.google/Hwbyt0cmKCiq... Tldr - they're assholes.
Why do some people play their phones out loud on buses & trains?
New social norms and behaviour are behind the rise of headphone dodgers on public transport showing zero consideration for those around them
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Anyone else remember (and occasionally quote to general confusion) Bravestar? STRENGTH OF THE BEAR!
I mean, sure, I used them once over 11 years ago but maybe that's more than 30 days. This is what happens when you randomly rebuild CRM databases I guess.
The 6502 had no hardware multiply, so programmers used lookup tables. Store the squares of 0-511 in a table, then use the identity (a*b) = ((a+b)^2 - (a-b)^2) / 4. Two table lookups and a subtraction instead of a shift-and-add loop. The 6502 taught you math tricks no textbook covered.
Welp, I've owned a switch2 since christmas and finally got to 2 games...... silksong on preorder. Hey nintendo and Sony yes people ARE obsessively physical.
www.gamesradar.com/games/playst... Yes, these things are exactly equivalent. Many people kept presentation shelves of apple software. Many people obsessively collected apple CDs. Exactly equivalent.
PlayStation ending physical games is "like Apple removing the CD Drive from its laptops," says analyst: "Not a single person is complaining about it today"
"This time a new laptop will cost $5k and my old one with a disc drive works just fine"
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🪽 “Ho-oh” Straw Sculpture — Wara Art Festival in Niigata, Japan 🇯🇵
I have elderly not very computer-comfortsble parents at a distance. Trying to talk them through registering for NHS online has destroyed me. Film yourself reading these random numbers? Come *on*.
absolutely insane story, and yeah, just looking at this chart... with the exception of maybe two people, this entire class was cheating like motherfuckers
Jacob T. Levy@jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 4w ago
From the Archives (17 Mar, 2019): Revealed! Iain McCaig, the man behind the Monkey Island VGA portraits — “We exclusively reveal the artist behind The Secret of Monkey Island's VGA close-ups, and get some fascinating behind-the-scenes tidbits!”
Revealed! Iain McCaig, the man behind the Monkey Island VGA portraits
We exclusively reveal the artist behind The Secret of Monkey Island's VGA close-ups, and get some fascinating behind-the-scenes tidbits!
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