Notices by Misty (misty@digipres.club), page 2

I really can't get over how irresponsible it is for MS to tell people to throw away or recycle perfectly working computers. There are so many machines people *could* keep using for much longer if not for Windows 11.
https://mastodon.social/@dosnostalgic/114184937238415364

BTW I should mention that this is a screenshot taken via oldweb.today, a website that lets you emulate a bunch of old browsers to browse the wayback machine or even the live web. https://oldweb.today

It's a @webrecorder project, and *very* cool IMO.

Pizza Hut website (ca 1996, in NCSA Mosaic 3)

For years and years, I've been searching for a rare Canadian computer game - and I finally found it. Really excited to get to share Crosscountry BC.

If you grew up here there's a good chance you played Crosscountry Canada at school. This is the local BC version, made just for local schools, and tracking it down was *really* hard.

https://cdrom.ca/games/cancon/2025/03/18/crosscountry-bc.html

Really interesting seeing @mirlo prioritize keeping the service cheap to run for its users running their own instances. Often not a priority for this kind of open source web service. https://mirlo.space/post/222

"The Net's gotten so big that it's hard for people to find you." December, 1996
https://muffin.industries/@wayback_exe/114119227095914582

Wow, this is pretty: https://defector.com/its-snowing-sea-cucumbers-at-the-bottom-of-the-sea?giftLink=b15c1b7edf12030a6d7bf1c84800f30b

Trying to track down the source of stuff online is so weird these days. Ars Technica mentions the “Brother printers blocking third-party ink" thing that just started blowing up is I guess because someone made a video that's sourced from a three-year-old reddit post? https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/brother-denies-using-firmware-updates-to-brick-printers-with-third-party-ink/

So what's up with the "fediverse chick" spam anyway? It's relentless

Truly incredible moment in time https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Gay_Girl_in_Damascus

There's a Black Voices in Gaming event going on on Steam right now! Really nice seeing Spirit Swap right on the front page; *great* game. https://store.steampowered.com/curator/30894338-Media-Indie-Exchange/sale/bvig-bhm25

Discovered to my horror today that Python's unpacking can unpack characters from strings as though they were arrays.

a, b = "ab”
a #=> "a"
b #=> “b”

Managed to find one of my white whale CD-ROMs, and started writing a blog post on it... hoping to have something to publish soon. Really exciting find for me

This is a new one. I've never actually seen a website admit that autoplaying videos are a punishment for users they don't like, rather than a way to try to attract users.

You mean the PowerBook G4 is back in stock?

This is today - Bandcamp are donating their share of money to California wildfire relief. It's a good day to buy some music!

They've also published the schedule for regular Bandcamp Fridays, when their share of revenue goes straight to artists. The next one of those is next month.
https://digipres.club/@misty/113952370497187154

Heads up: Bandcamp is doing a Bandcamp Friday-style event this Friday for charity. Bandcamp's cut of every sale is going to support musicians affected by the California wildfires. https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/bandcamp-fundraisers

Very interesting-looking job posting for emulator programmers: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4142833817/

Some of you may have read about this Canadian petition asking the country to end the safe third country agreement, and to update travel guidance to the US. Please also phone your MP and write them a letter - on paper, if you can. https://www.momentumcanada.net/pathways

Recently got reminded of one of my all-time fave tumblr posts https://www.tumblr.com/captoring/682822077371269120