@RussSharek @TheGibson If you're outside the blast (where you'll be instantly incinerated) and outside the shockwave (where you'll be suffocated), it'll still shake the earth a bunch, basically simulating on earthquake. You'll have a little bit of time to get under a desk and be protected from your soon-to-be-falling ceiling.

If there's any part of Hackers that seems unfamiliar to you or inaccurate to your experience with hacking or hacker culture it's because the characters aren't living in some hypothetical hacker culture they've read about on the internet, they're participating in a living, breathing hacker culture that they themselves are continuously influencing. They build their own tools, invent their own fashion, and speak the language whose meaning they've collectively defined. They hack culture just as much as they hack computers.

Just because we're used to electricity doesn't mean it isn't literally magic. We can communicate across vast distances just by bending wire in the right shape and enchanting it with lightning. That's magic.

The reason people don't use IRC isn't because they aren't as enlightened about its wonderful benefits as you are, it's because it doesn't fit their needs and ignoring those needs or saying they're irrelevant isn't going to make them start using it and telling you how right you are.

Someone please convince me to not try to start an actual publishing company.

Just want to remind everyone filing taxes in the US that if you made less than $73,000 you can file your taxes for free online through a lot of tax software providers. The IRS has a nice tool to help you find providers you're eligible for: https://apps.irs.gov/app/freeFile/

I like that Hackers canonically takes place in 1995 but feels like it takes place in the future. I think we need more stuff like that. Dream of a better present.

I started watching Twin Peaks and wow this show is absolutely obsessed with the color red.

It feels very strange when dreams feature cameos from internet friends who I've never actually met in person. I wake up with the feeling I was in the same room as them even when I've never actually experienced that feeling in real life with them.

Does anyone have any digital media they've made that they want to make available for free but need a place to host it? Examples include music, ebooks, web comics, games, etc.

I have some plans to set up an online publishing site, sort of reminiscent of a publishing company or record label but without any money involved (although I can include links to Kofi, Patreon, etc for artists if they want them).

I'm going to be manually adding all the media to the site, so custom stuff for your work is on the table (RSS feeds, interactive stuff, etc) as long as it's not too complicated for me to set up.

The only correct way to listen to 2 Clowns in a Closet is straight from the broadcast.

@neauoire The past wasn't written very well, but it has a great editor.