rfarley04

889 karmajoined October 14, 2022On HN

I write about tech history. Otherwise, a dad, endurance racing amateur, TTRPG nerd, and craft beer snob.

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A bizarre Commodore 64 peripheral, a mime, and some pretty bad ads buttondown.com
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No GrapheneOS for Pixel 11 phones because Google cut a key security feature androidauthority.com
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Database-less link shortener and compressor github.com/p2r3
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Gateway 2000's hilariously bad ads in the 90s (Part II)buttondown.com
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GDID Windows – Cut the tracker that follows you even under VPN korben.info
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A doomed marriage and a bad ad for Corvus Systems' drives buttondown.com
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Gateway 2000's infuriating descent from awesome to bad ads in the 90s (Part I)buttondown.com
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Web Stalker – an artist-made browser that ignored images and formatting (1998)anthology.rhizome.org
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Zoom teams up with World to verify humans in meetings techcrunch.com
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Franklin's bad ads for Apple II clones and the beloved impersonator they depict buttondown.com
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Meta up 3% in premarket as it plans mass layoff amidst increased AI spending cnbc.com
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In 1985 Maxell built a bunch of life-size robots for its bad floppy ad buttondown.com
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A handful of wholesomely bad ads for 90s SPARC clones buttondown.com
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The hottest job in tech: Writing words businessinsider.com
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Malaysia and Indonesia Block Elon Musk's Grok cnbc.com
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Some not-so-bad ads from 80s computer magazines: Christmas edition buttondown.com
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The Fantasy Life of Coder Boys (2003)wired.com
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The strangest Excel functions you'll never use makeuseof.com
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USR's campaigns for the Password Modem were historically bad ads buttondown.com
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Everyone enjoys fewer lunch options (or, why I love pairwise comparisons)woolean.com
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