Notices by Misty (misty@digipres.club)

Big news from the Video Game History Foundation - they’ve come into a huge collection of previously-inaccessible Sega Channel data. Largely unseen since it originally broadcast in 1994-1997. https://gamehistory.org/segachannel/

From Lake County Public Library last year: https://lakecountylibrary.tumblr.com/post/769064384357089280/library-wrapped

Saw someone referring to “their substack” again, which is just making me think again about this from @anildash https://www.anildash.com//2024/11/19/dont-call-it-a-substack/

FYI for people who have been sharing that Malwarebytes blog post about Gmail training on your email - they misunderstood and have updated their post with a correction at the top. https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/11/gmail-is-reading-your-emails-and-attachments-to-train-its-ai-unless-you-turn-it-off

I get that people are newly concerned about AI training in Gmail, but I hope the people upset about the AI training are aware that Google has been reading and acting on private emails since day one for things like ads. This is just what Gmail is.

@adr Your talking about Linux gaming reminds me, I've got a CD lying around with a Linux game from 1996(!) and I'm wondering if there's any way to get that running on modern Linux…

@rocky1138 @adr Oh no, it might be. I didn't even consider that. IIRC it also uses vgalib for video out, and I'm sure any compatibility shims for that are long gone.

I’m the 600-oddth speaker scheduled to call into today’s city meeting. They just called speaker 11. Maybe they’ll get to me by next week.

45 minutes later we've reached speaker 30. Average of 2.3 minutes a speaker (the max is 3 minutes), which suggests we're looking at close to *24 hours* of speaker time until we hit me assuming no breaks. Yeah I guess they'll reach me by Monday at the soonest

@giflian You're meant to dial in ~20-30 minutes before you're expected to speak, then stay muted on hold until they call you. So I'm not actually on hold right now. They'll send me a reminder email when it's approximately 20 minutes from my turn.

Question for the retro PC people out there: does this "PC2MAC" tool look like one you've seen before? I'm trying to figure out if it's bespoke to the environment I got it from or if it's a pre-existing general purpose tool.

@AmyZenunim The thing that always strikes me about video essays is the "produce a visually-engaging work that communicates a sense of authoritativeness" skill and "actually have deep knowledge and insight" skill are totally unrelated even though one implies the other

@xarph @thomasfuchs I like the idea that upgrading Python once a year is too much churn.

One last release without deno, huh? https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/tag/2025.10.22

I just came across *the* most Geocities site to ever exist. You want to see this one, I promise. https://web.archive.org/web/20010722223545/http://www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/Wharf/1014/

A REQUEST: If you own a French CD-ROM computer game called "Pop Anim'", please let me know. I could use it for some research but haven't been able to find a circulating copy yet. (It's at the BnF but I can't get there right now.)

Just a note for those wanting to act in solidarity that Kickstarter United have *not* asked for a boycott - their demands and ways of how to act in solidarity with them can be found in their messaging. https://union.place/@kickstarterunited/115304520313956505

I think the absolute best defense mechanism against toxic nostalgia is hanging around younger people who wistfully describe the years I think of as "after it all went to shit" as their long-lost glory days. It's not that I'm Right and they're wrong, it's that the whole frame is meaningless.

Anyone out there in Vancouver hired anyone to do Ethernet wiring for a home? Got a company or people you can recommend?

Genuinely fascinated a single bot can do this without getting instantly taken down.

https://github.com/gitcoincoactionpro/mo/issues