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   Rob, :goose_honk: value 71 :GoldenEgg: (ricci@discuss.systems)'s status on Friday, 12-Sep-2025 22:41:33 JST Rob, :goose_honk: value 71 :GoldenEgg:

   I want a custom #MechanicalkKeyboard keycap that says "Open The Pod Bay Doors"

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     Dan Ports (dan@discuss.systems)'s status on Sunday, 12-Apr-2026 01:55:07 JST Dan Ports

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     • itgrrl :donor:

     @itgrrl @ricci also, this reminds me of a story I recently learned about and had been meaning to post about. Did you know that Margaret Hamilton used to bring her daughter to the lab when she was working nights and weekends, and let her play with the AGC simulator?

     Her daughter crashed the simulator by accidentally invoking program 01 and resetting the guidance system to believe it was back on the launch pad.

     Hamilton felt that was a pretty serious bug but was told "no, there's no way a trained astronaut would accidentally do that."

     A trained astronaut did, in fact, do precisely that while Apollo 8 was on the way back from the moon.

     She was allowed to fix it for Apollo 9.

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     itgrrl :donor: (itgrrl@infosec.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 12-Apr-2026 01:55:08 JST itgrrl :donor:

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     • Dan Ports

     @dan @ricci

     Rich Felker and Steve's Place repeated this.
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     itgrrl :donor: (itgrrl@infosec.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 12-Apr-2026 01:55:09 JST itgrrl :donor:

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     • Dan Ports

     @dan @ricci well since you mention it… I also made these stickers 🙃

     the switch & the stickers (& a life-size standee of Margaret Hamilton & a DSKY) were for a display on the Apollo Guidance Computer that I put together for a recent vintage computer fair here in Canberra 💁♀️

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     Dan Ports (dan@discuss.systems)'s status on Sunday, 12-Apr-2026 01:55:09 JST Dan Ports

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     • itgrrl :donor:

     @itgrrl @ricci amazing!

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     itgrrl :donor: (itgrrl@infosec.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 12-Apr-2026 01:55:10 JST itgrrl :donor:

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     • Dan Ports

     @ricci @dan I have this one… 🙃

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     Dan Ports (dan@discuss.systems)'s status on Sunday, 12-Apr-2026 01:55:10 JST Dan Ports

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     • itgrrl :donor:

     @itgrrl @ricci appropriate for a steely-eyed missile person

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     Rob, :goose_honk: value 71 :GoldenEgg: (ricci@discuss.systems)'s status on Sunday, 12-Apr-2026 01:55:11 JST Rob, :goose_honk: value 71 :GoldenEgg:

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     • Dan Ports

     @dan that is up there with the wildest URLs I have ever seen

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     Dan Ports (dan@discuss.systems)'s status on Sunday, 12-Apr-2026 01:55:12 JST Dan Ports

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     @ricci genuinely surprised these guys don’t make one; would you settle for the pumpkin spice chemtrail controls?

     https://www.concordaerospace.com/products/pumpkin-spice-discharge-panel