Home by Christmas is what I am hearing.
06.03.2026 00:56
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Home by Christmas is what I am hearing.
An interesting request:
wanted.scene.org/post/286/req...
Maybe one for @4matofficial.bsky.social ?
![[We see a close up of a young white male, tanned, white teeth, coiffed hair clearly an influencer on social media. It is an image such as you see when social media posts are shown on the news. In the corner of the screen is named a location: DUBAI. He is staring slightly off-camera for several silent panels of the comic strip. His eyes move slightly. He is having a thought.]
From off-screen a newsreader’s commentary comes:
NEWSREADER:
Extraordinary images here
of an expat in Dubai
[The influencer’s eybrows raise slightly]
…Having their first ever geopolitical thought.
[CUT TO a BBC news scene. The BBC newsreader CLIVE MYRIE is talking to an interviewee next to the screen showing the social media influencer’s face. The interviewee’s name is David Jones].
CLIVE MYRIE:
To explain the significance of this moment we’re joined by David Jones, our Expat Thoughts correspondent
DAVID JONES:
Clive, this is momentous
It was caught on film at the end of an Instagram post titled: ‘Dubai Is Brilliant’.
[Pointing at the screen, the influencer’s expression still the same]
You can clearly see in the eyebrows here, the dawning realisation that there *might* be something in the world beyond his dickhead self.
It marks a *huge* departure from all the Dubai Expat’s previous thoughts.
CLIVE MYRIE:
Which are…?
DAVID JONES:
You've Got To Get Yourself Out Here Mate, Everything Is So Clean, I Don't Have To Pay Taxes,
I Am Incurious As To Why I Do Not Have To Pay Taxes, and Spa.
CLIVE MYRIE:
And might we see an expansion of these new Thoughts in coming days?
DAVID JONES:
I think we can expect to see:
“I Deserve To Be Airlifted By A Country I Pay No Tax To”
CLIVE MYRIE:
Mmm.
[Ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreibu6vuc7ofetq5hla3gfcknocotbfl3yk2ajczk6qfd2hnjxrav6q)
[We see a close up of a young white male, tanned, white teeth, coiffed hair clearly an influencer on social media. It is an image such as you see when social media posts are shown on the news. In the corner of the screen is named a location: DUBAI. He is staring slightly off-camera for several silent panels of the comic strip. His eyes move slightly. He is having a thought.] From off-screen a newsreader’s commentary comes: NEWSREADER: Extraordinary images here of an expat in Dubai [The influencer’s eybrows raise slightly] …Having their first ever geopolitical thought. [CUT TO a BBC news scene. The BBC newsreader CLIVE MYRIE is talking to an interviewee next to the screen showing the social media influencer’s face. The interviewee’s name is David Jones]. CLIVE MYRIE: To explain the significance of this moment we’re joined by David Jones, our Expat Thoughts correspondent DAVID JONES: Clive, this is momentous It was caught on film at the end of an Instagram post titled: ‘Dubai Is Brilliant’. [Pointing at the screen, the influencer’s expression still the same] You can clearly see in the eyebrows here, the dawning realisation that there *might* be something in the world beyond his dickhead self. It marks a *huge* departure from all the Dubai Expat’s previous thoughts. CLIVE MYRIE: Which are…? DAVID JONES: You've Got To Get Yourself Out Here Mate, Everything Is So Clean, I Don't Have To Pay Taxes, I Am Incurious As To Why I Do Not Have To Pay Taxes, and Spa. CLIVE MYRIE: And might we see an expansion of these new Thoughts in coming days? DAVID JONES: I think we can expect to see: “I Deserve To Be Airlifted By A Country I Pay No Tax To” CLIVE MYRIE: Mmm. [Ends]
There's so much that I do not like about AI, but I have to say the main reason I do not use it is the gushing sycophantic tone of every response and the "aw shucks I'm super sorry" shtick it pulls when you point out it's wrong.
I also do not like working with humans who do this, coincidentally.
This brings back lot of memories from Turbo Pascal days. That compiler's inline assembly only understood 80286, forcing us to use lots of db 66h/67h to make things faster on 80386.
Confusing Anthropic's valuation with their revenue is weird...
Ministerstvo práce a sociální věci se zbláznilo a rozhodlo se vědomě a PŘÍMO porušovat zákon.
V rámci nového "Jednotného měsíčního hlášení zaměstnance" musí firmy PRO KAŽDÉHO ZAMĚSTNANCE vyplnit
- nejvyšší dosažené vzdělání a kdy k tomu došlo
- školu, obor a fakultu ‼️
- město 🤷
A pak je na řadě trojlístek Chomsky-Epstein-Bannon. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
DOJ website just published some old photos from Prague!
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
I'd like to contribute as well, but I would also really like to avoid double charge of EU->US->EU. Please let me know if you have any luck avoiding that!
The link still works for me! Perhaps they put it back when they realized taking it down just brings more attention to it?
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
I'll try grabbing a better video soon, because it actually looks quite different on my 486 than this one, and run at a slower speed (which seems to match the music better): www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdLB...
Coincidentally, I just got a VGA monitor to be able to watch stuff like Luminati (Tran's '21-bit color' demo) or Copper by S!P (some kind of extreme scanline hackery). Here's a bit of Luminati:
Try to guess which demo it is!
Hint: it's a stone cold 64k classic!
(Answer in the replies)
I was present for the birth of the web, the explosion of personal sites, and the blogging revolution, and you know what we never had to do? Beg people to use our shit.
Looks like they finally reached the 'depression' stage of grief.
Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
Looks like it! Another clue: when I start the unpacked cd2.exe from Watcom 11 wd.exe debugger, and then I swap the exe for the original one before actually running the code, it seems to work fine.
Not sure it's a PKLITE thing. When I run the repacked cd2.exe (UNP then non-Pro PKLITE 1.12), it seems to run perfectly fine again despite the few different bytes. When I pack it with PKLITE 2.01, it crashes with "FATAL ERROR: Out of memory".
Proof that CD2.EXE is using PKLITE:
1. Unpack cd2.exe with UNP 4.11
2. Repack it with PKLITE 1.12 (-e option)
3. fc /b cd2.exe cd2new.exe shows that apart from the copyright header, only 5 bytes are different - min/max memory header field, and first instruction ("mov ax, 4DFFh" vs "mov ax, 4E00h")
Unfortunately, the unpacked exe crashes when started. I never looked into that. Might have to do something with handling of the overlay part of the EXE. Or perhaps the Triton guys employed some kind of protection. If you ever find out, please let me know!
Look like it, although it's been long time since I messed with MZ EXE structure. Headers in PKLITE.EXE itself use the same approach. Another interesting is the overwritten PKLITE header in CD2.EXE at offset 1E, a common scene practice. When I put the original text back, the EXE still works :-)
I have not verified that, I just used the good old UNP tool by Ben Castricum to unpack it, which detected the packer as PKLITE v1.12 with "-e" option.
The original cd2.exe is packed by PKLITE and its unpacker starts executing at file offset 0x60, which becomes CS:0x100 when loaded. But somehow, I feel this is not the answer you are looking for...
They spent $46B on this and their collision detection still sucks.
And this might actually be faster than 5fps! :-)
www.pouet.net/prod.php?whi...
With GUS+SB16 and a PCI-based S3 Trio 3D/2X, it might be a great machine for late DOS demoscene stuff, like this:
www.pouet.net/prod.php?whi...
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Good morning!
That's actually a bit of a problem for me - I have more of those cases than matching boards. This is the workaround I used for my 486 at 120 MHz :-)
It looks like I have the same case! But much more yellowed.
