Jenn Dolari @dolari@driveinsaturday.org

There's a "game" called Telehack.

If you're unfamiliar with it, it's a simulation, or possibly a experiment, or a giant fucking rabbit hole, or just a singularity where time works funny.

Anyway, it's "set" in the Old Internet, it's text-based, and you explore remote systems and collect information, and discover hidden things and it's fun.

What's more fun though, is aside from the game-related clues and information is that the whole thing is seeded with real documents and posts from the era.

So, I just "broke into" a BBS in Texas and found a text file a friend of mine wrote in 1992.

https://telehack.com

Check it out.

The hero Polish hackers who fixed DRM-bricked trains have explained how they did it. There was DRM that killed power to trains and broke compressors if trains had been to independent repair yard. One train was also programmed to arbitrarily break on December 21, which actually happened two weeks ago:

https://www.404media.co/polish-hackers-explain-exactly-how-they-fixed-trains-that-the-manufacturer-bricked/

Join the Second Life Cycling Federation and Race For A Cure! The event launch and first lap is on January 6th at 1pm PT and the big race is on January 20th at 1pm PT. All proceeds go directly to the American Cancer Society.

Register soon ➡️ https://secondlife.com/destination/race-for-a-cure

#SecondLife #virtualworld #metaverse #FeaturedEvents #RelayForLife #RFLSL #ACSSL #RaceForACure

Oxford's 2023 Word of the Year is "rizz". For the less hip out there, this is slang for risotto.

Example: "I hate it when chefs try to make rizz on cooking competitions. These are trained culinary professionals, they should know it takes a long time to cook rizz properly."

A month ago I found a cute meme on the internet that I thought would look excellent on my office wall. The bottom of the image said “National Park Service” and some quick image searches found it was originally from the nationalparkservice Instagram account, part of a promotional series to encourage park safety. But Instagram resizes things for the web. So, of course, I did what any internet weirdo would do; I filed a DOI FOIA request for the original artwork. Today the DOI found it for me!

"The universe generally fails to be a fairy tale....But that's where we come in!"

Basically, that's it, that's the show. #DoctorWho