Eric Woodward

#TIL that, according to Windows 10, the definition of "networking" in "Safe Mode with Networking" only includes wired connections... Because most laptops are obviously rack mounted and hardwired... 🙄

#TIL that someone made a film adaptation of Jack Chick's "Dark Dungeon" tract, and it premiered at GenCon 2014: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Dungeons_(film)
#games #rpg #DnD

#TIL the Internet Archive hosts #C64 games, too... And they've got some real classics in their collection. https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_c64

#TIL that `journalctl` has it's own clean-up flags (`--vacuum-size=BYTES`, `--vacuum-files=INT`, `--vacuum-time=TIME`). after using them, I cut the WonderDome's journal storage space in a third (and made it way faster when parsing the logs). #Linux #Ubuntu #sysadmin

HT https://askubuntu.com/questions/1012912/systemd-logs-journalctl-are-too-large-and-slow

#TIL about how to decompress an `xz` file (via the `unxz` command alias) and how to generate a SHA256 sum (via the appropriately named `sha256sum` command). #NixCraft

#TIL my #PS3 plays #PS1 discs.

Time for some Battle Arena Toshinden 3!

#games #videogames

#TIL that #Firefox thinks the word "installable" is spelled incorrectly, and suggests "uninstallable" as a replacement. 😕

#TIL about Dual_EC_DRBG - the "cryptographically secure" algorithm that was pushed by #NIST and (allegedly) backdoored by the #NSA. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_EC_DRBG

#TIL that there's a medieval-fantasy version of the Hulk called Greenskyn Smashtroll.

And he has a surprisingly cute Lego Minifig.

#TIL that Teletubbies is actually radical utopian fiction, featuring a "paradise based on infantilisation" and a central machine intelligence that manifests as a sun-baby. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletubbies#Analysis