Jun 19, 2022
The Floppotron 3.0 — Do you remember the guy who played The Imperial March with a couple of floppy drives? Well he's back to leave all of us speechless. I want so bad to play Monkey Island using this as the MIDI. (via)
#hardware #genius
Jun 3, 2022
Installing a payphone in my house — It's what the title says. Great write-up with a cute ending. Now I want one.
#genius #retro
Apr 12, 2022
Finding Waldo in π — Can we find Waldo in a bitmap representation of Pi? Turns out, we can (via)
#math #genius
Dec 5, 2021
Old Web Today — Browse the web as it appeared at any point in time, with era-appropriate browsers running in Mac OS and Windows emulators in your modern browser (via)
#internet #genius #nostalgia #retro
Dec 4, 2021
Emoji to Scale — This is why I pay for the internet (via)
#genius #internet
May 22, 2021
Floppinux - An Embedded Linux on a Single Floppy — Impressive due to the fact that it uses a modern kernel. Long gone are the days of bootable floppies with tomsrtbt or DOS 6.22 for recovery (via)
#linux #genius
Apr 22, 2021
Moxie Marlinspike on Twitter: "A few months ago Cellebrite announced that they would begin parsing data from Signal in their extraction tools. It seems they're not doing that very carefully. Exploiting vulnerabilities in Cellebrite's software, from an app's perspective: https://t.co/9ar6ypnPe2" / Twitter — Moxie finds RCE vulnerabilities in Cellebrite, triggered just by placing a carefully crafted file on any app, which render the software useless. This is hacking at its best and purest.
#genius #privacy #hardware
Mar 20, 2021
Dungeons and Directories — "Dungeons and Directories is a short text adventure game that you play in your file browser." Yes, you read it well. Try it! (via)
#videogames #genius
Mar 13, 2021
Mailoji: I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service — Do you want to own username@💩.kz? Now you can! This is one of those "why?-because I can" projects (via)
#internet #genius
Jan 23, 2021
I made a bot that turns reddit arguments into Ace Attorney — This bot turns Reddit arguments into Ace Attorney scenes. Extremely well done. (via)
#genius #nintendo
Nov 8, 2020
Color: From Hexcodes to Eyeballs — Excellent introduction to color theory. If you are interested in learning how color works, this post is a must read.
#genius #color #hardware #biology
Sep 4, 2020
SNES Code Injection -- Flappy Bird in SMW — Seth Bling manages, for the first time ever, to perform a 100% manual code injection on a SNES during a livestream. The target code? Flappy Bird. (via)
#retro #genius
Jun 4, 2020
The Lord of the Rings (1944) - YouTube — Hilarious 9-minute masterpiece that parodies LotR using cuts from black and white movies.
#humor #lotr #genius
May 29, 2020
An Altair connected to the Internet — SDF user jebug29 has connected their Altair to the internet, and set up SSH access to play with it!
#retro #genius
GitHub - jcs/progman — An OpenBSD window manager that mimics Windows 3.1. (via)
#retro #genius
May 21, 2020
Sxmo: Simple X Mobile - A Pinephone UI that is simple and suckless — If you ever wanted to manage your phone apps with dwm and compose your texts using vi, this is for you. (via)
#genius #mobile #unix
May 11, 2020
The FLOPKEY, a keyboard which you type on by inserting specially labeled floppy disks — I... am speechless. Please, you have to see this. (via)
#hardware #genius