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Posts by Dave O

But you'll miss all those Requests For Knowledge about Radio Free Kansas!

2 months ago 0 0 0 0

I forgot about all that debugging. It was traumatizing, LOL!

Yeah I miss those more innocent days of Apple. It felt more like a collective of hobbyists than a rampaging corporation. Someone should do a "Let's Play" style video series but with these old magazine games.

3 months ago 1 0 0 0

I had the same childhood! But with typing in programs from Nibble magazine on my Apple //c. Most were BASIC but some were pure machine language. If you messed up a single byte it could ruin the entire program. Then they introduced checksums, lol

3 months ago 1 0 1 0
Zodiac's 340 Cipher Solved: Five Years Later
Zodiac's 340 Cipher Solved: Five Years Later YouTube video by David Oranchak

December 5th marked five years since we cracked the Zodiac’s 340-character cipher. Time flies! I made a video to commemorate the occasion, including some never before seen details and behind the scenes info.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CJs...

3 months ago 2 1 0 0
Enshittification - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshitt... is as unavoidable as any law of physics IMO.

4 months ago 2 0 0 0
The Complete Secrets of Kryptos: Jim Sanborn's Private Archive | RR Jim Sanborn's original Kryptos archive that reveals the secrets of K4 and the much anticipated K5, plus an afternoon with Sanborn as he p

Kryptos auction ending in 10 hours. Already sitting at $325,000. Want to own a piece of crypto history?

www.rrauction.com/auctions/lot...

5 months ago 4 1 0 0

Sometimes I get a hankering that only schadenfreude can satisfy.

5 months ago 2 0 0 0
Zodiac: The Obsession
Zodiac: The Obsession YouTube video by David Oranchak

A French engineer got a lot of news coverage for solving the Zodiac Killer case. But what's the real story? Find out in my latest video.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=esXR...

5 months ago 2 1 0 0
"Do I Have the Right?" | Genesis of the Daleks | Doctor Who
"Do I Have the Right?" | Genesis of the Daleks | Doctor Who YouTube video by Doctor Who

Fitting to your observations about God themes in Doctor Who is the iconic scene where Tom Baker's Doctor grapples with whether he has the right to wield his destructive powers: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVo3...

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2025-10-06 | Encrypted Books - Mysteries that Fill Hundreds of Pages
2025-10-06 | Encrypted Books - Mysteries that Fill Hundreds of Pages YouTube video by The Book Club of California

Elonka and Klaus discuss some of the world's most fascinating encrypted books! www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5NO...

6 months ago 2 0 0 0
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Cracking the Queen's Code!
Coming soon to PBS. See George Lasry's talk about how his team achieved this breakthrough: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRrD...

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7 months ago 1 0 1 0

What do you mean? I thought it was pronounced "veh-JEH-mih-tee"! 😆

8 months ago 2 0 1 0

The opposition is really good at poisoning the well. After a while, we get shell-shocked and don't want to be around the well any more. But there wasn't anything wrong with the well. So we end up disagreeing with the opposition, but they still win.

8 months ago 0 0 0 0

That's awesome!

8 months ago 1 0 0 0
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WBAL-TV 11 Baltimore on X: "*DID YOU SEE IT!* People across Maryland looked to the skies last night to see a meteor shower but found an unusual sight of a oddly shaped object moving through the sky. It happened to be a rocket launch from Florida that was visible over the east coast. https://t.co/fBzCFKXSJr" / X *DID YOU SEE IT!* People across Maryland looked to the skies last night to see a meteor shower but found an unusual sight of a oddly shaped object moving through the sky. It happened to be a rocket launch from Florida that was visible over the east coast. https://t.co/fBzCFKXSJr

Saw other reports on twitter and an ID: x.com/wbaltv11/sta...
"People across Maryland looked to the skies last night to see a meteor shower but found unusual sight of oddly shaped object moving through the sky. It happened to be a rocket launch from Florida that was visible over the east coast."

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Mick West (@MickWest) / X Mick West (@MickWest) / X

Mick West is really good at identifying these kinds of things.

x.com/mickwest

8 months ago 1 0 0 0
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Twilight phenomenon - Wikipedia

Maybe rocket twilight?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twiligh...

8 months ago 0 0 1 0
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A young San Francisco cop is gunned down in his patrol car. Days later, the Zodiac claims responsibility—and sends a cipher that could point to a bomb. Can Dr. Garlick decode the bomb code? Or is it a dud?

youtu.be/nM1CM1QPI3E

8 months ago 1 0 0 0

They're very protective of trade secrets so they rely heavily on gag orders.

8 months ago 1 0 1 0
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Oh cool! I don't remember that but I'll take the credit. 😆

8 months ago 0 0 0 0

I'm delighted that you're working on that game! It's great!

8 months ago 0 0 1 0
Thank you 30K subscribers!
Thank you 30K subscribers! YouTube video by David Oranchak

Little update and preview of things to come on my little YouTube channel!

youtu.be/wnWs_P547Rg

9 months ago 4 1 0 0

Introduce him to Quack Sabbath!

10 months ago 1 0 0 0
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Anyone need a seasoned GIS developer with a TS clearance? Let me know! doranchak@gmail.com

10 months ago 2 0 0 0

Members include: Captain Real America, Non-Woke Panther, and Ant-ivax Man.

10 months ago 1 0 1 0

I think I saw that in the index. But it was triggering for me.

10 months ago 2 0 0 0

Let's table this argument and select it for our next union.

10 months ago 2 0 1 0

That's an affliction. But there's an injection for it.

10 months ago 2 0 1 0
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Learn how a mysterious 50 year old UFO magazine cipher got cracked!

www.buzzsprout.com/2010144/epis...

11 months ago 2 0 0 0
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