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I went to the Glasgow one a few weeks back, finally got hands on a real Vectrex (there were loads of them there!) and got a go on the Vic-20 version of Gridrunner as well. Got a book signed by John Romero too, he was very nice.

Someone has created a tool that allows you to use a (crude) 3d model to bypass the checks.

https://github.com/promptpirate-x/disco ... ypass-tool

Rebecca Heineman, Space Invaders champ and co-founder of Interplay.

https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry ... -has-died/

I've been using Github Copilot with Claude Sonnet 4 and I've found it's great for throwaway projects, creating prototypes from nothing, and little helper projects. It's quite interesting how it will implement features that you didn't ask for, and it makes creating apps really fun using the things ...

Gnome
That's your problem. I mostly like GNOME and have used it a lot over the years, but binned it as it has memory leaks that are inexcusable.
Ubuntu is not as spectacular as it used to be either.

As for Teams, is using it in your browser an option? That's what I used to do.

I've recently ...

I have noticed a few issues over the past couple of days.

Have had phpBB messages and generic 503s.

Looking at the response headers shows that the server is still running php 5.3, which is rather out of date. The latest versions are miles faster. And totally not backward compatible.

Hope you have a speedy recovery.

My old man said getting cataracts was the best thing that ever happened to him, as after being operated on, his eyesight was better than it had ever been!

I use Ubuntu 22.04 with Gnome on my work laptop, and it is godawful.

With 16gb of RAM, it was literally unusable, running a couple of VScode windows, plus a few firefox tabs and dbeaver open would send RAM usage to 100%, which in turn would max out the CPU at 100%, meaning the laptop had to be ...

Happy belated birthday! Or possibly belated happy birthday!

Vivaldi is good, blocks a lot of stuff by default, and is compatible with Chrome extensions.

https://vivaldi.com

Brave is good on mobile.

https://brave.com

New laptop has 1920x1200. Much better than 1080p.

On the bright side, it means this $100m for Reform is probably not going to happen. Can't see the gammons wanting to vote for a party that is pro invasion by Johnny yank.

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Had a few good ones at work over the years, recently Cristal Merth and Todd Huffer (only really funny if you listen to Athletico Mince).

My all time fave was Qing Dong.

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