
Information superhighway
Seer of the tapes! Knower of the episodes!

Information superhighway

Start saving for old age now. It might seem like a long way off, and you might not have much money right now to begin with, but being young and poor is way better than being old and poor.

It may be possible…
It may not be necessary…

A Nintendo64 with several game cartridges. It’s a little flaky, but it still works for the most part.


I’ve still got my Nintendo 64, and I sometimes boot up Goldeneye for old time’s sake.


Try HTTrack: https://www.httrack.com/
Terrible technique. Everyone knows it’s left hands only.

UI elements that expand and cover up other UI elements when you mouse over them.
“Flat” color schemes where you can’t even tell where one UI element ends and the other begins.
Infinite scroll instead of pagination.

He’ll have to show us his Earth certificate, though.

Some species of ants invade neighboring colonies and carry away larva to work as slaves.
We are Linux. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your hard drive will be reformatted to service us. Resistance is futile.


Some have stopped working, like SteamLink, but others still work. I know it’s just a matter of time.


Mine can because it also has Netflix, Hulu, etc. built in.
Almost certainly. You’d have to go out of your way to find a keyfob system that doesn’t. I administer a keyfob system at work, and I can tell you exactly whose key was used on which doors and at what times.
The system almost certainly will record every usage of the keyfob. It may also record opening the door from inside.

White noise. I bought a white noise machine years ago when I lived near a large emergency room that had ambulances going by all day every day. It really helped with the sirens, and when I moved away I kept using the machine. My brain now interprets the white noise as profound silence, and I sleep so deeply that I don’t know how I ever got by without it.


From a national security standpoint of the government, it absolutely does matter who has the data.

TestDisk and PhotoRec. TestDisk can recover broken drive partitions, PhotoRec can recover deleted files even if the partition table is borked.
Reminds me of the old trick on HTML forms where you use CSS to make one of the form fields invisible to humans and reject any submission that filled in that field.