R.I.P. Louis Zocchi, The Godfather of Dice Founder of Zocchi Distribution, Gamescience, and Creator of Zocchihedron

Sad day for RPGers everywhere: The Godfather of Dice, Louis Zocchi, has died, age 91. icv2.com/articles/new...

What Microsoft 365 Copilot flex routing means for EU businesses — an explainer | Proton Your business data is about to automatically travel outside the EU. Here's why you should opt out and how to do it.

To all my European followers saddled with Windows 11:
MS has just introduced Copilot Flex Routing with their Microsoft 365 products. If you do *NOT* want your data to travel outside the EU, you need to disable & opt out while you still can.
proton.me/business/blo...

All of the 'Planet of the Apes' as a single movie:

Hey Legendary, if you're thinking about doing a third Wonder Woman movie, I've a story idea I'd like to pitch:

If you're developing a system capable of vibe-coding, you don't use your own system to write the next version. Haven't you guys ever seen 'Jurassic Park'?

Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop — That Privacy Guy! Anthropic's Claude Desktop silently installs a Native Messaging bridge into seven Chromium browsers, including browsers Anthropic's own documentation says it does not support, and browsers the user ha...

Anthropic's "Claude Desktop" app installs its 'NativeMessagingHosts' tracking extension into multiple Chromium-based web browsers automatically, even if you don't have any of them installed. www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/anthrop...

When you reach a certain age, waking up every morning is like:

I wonder if @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social has this one in their collection.
"GIR! Bring me cow!"

Top half: Two spinning-rust hard drives, both 40 megabytes in capacity. Unsure of the model number for the "little" 5.25-inch one on the left, but that 8-inch brute on the right is a Quantum Q2040. Those screw mounts on the top are for securing the controller board, not shown here. Bottom half: The underside of the Q2040 showing the belt which couples the platter spindle on the right to the mains-powered motor on the left. Yes, mains, and it was frequency-dependent, which means it ran at different speeds depending on whether it was fed 50 Hz or 60 Hz.

Belt drive isn't just for Harleys & turntables, that 40 MB multi-platter drive on the right uses it too - the lower shot shows the belt with the transport bracket still in place..
"Damnit, why won't this machine boot!"
"You've got it in neutral."

A realistic retelling of "The Cat In The Hat".
#caturday

Miss the days when macOS was MacOS, when it was friendly to use & stayed out of your face? Then you'll like helloSystem, a free, FreeBSD-based OS with a UI that rekindles your love.
It's less, but better.
hellosystem.github.io/docs/

Oh look, someone's re-designed the flag for the Republican Party:

via Erez & Duvdev's IG page: www.instagram.com/p/DQFKe_FiHoM/

"The Messenger", oil & acrylic on hardboard, Jörg Kessler 1994

ICYMI, some sad news: Jörg Kessler (aka DJ Joerg) passed away on 21st October 2025.

The gnomes have learned to say "Hooray."

Another day, another Doug.

Got a meeting room with a white-board? Leave almost-plausible nonsense like this on it before you leave, just to confound whomever uses the meeting room next.

As long as you don't treat special guest stars like they did on "Police Squad!", I approve.

A Quinn-Martin production.

You think that's bad? I don't trust atoms, they make up everything.

Terry Bisson would be proud of you.

Yes please.

MacBook Neo for the colour-blind.

I've been through the desert on a

Whenever someone tells you "AI art is an oxymoron", show them this.

Want to spend a very enjoyable hour or three here on Bluesky? You know where to go.

You didn't bring the fish-heads like I tol' ya, see, me an' the boys don' take too kindly t' that, see, Moses here be pur-tic-u-lerly fond o' his mackerel, so we's gonna have to rough yez up, like.
#caturday

Preaching to the converted, me ol' china. No argument.

What's the best way to clear airspace of enemy drones? Why, with a rifle from the back seat of a Yak-52 propeller-driven plane, of course.

Ferrari have just dropped the interior reveal video for their first electric vehicle, the Luce. If the all-physical controls and styling looks familiar, that's because it was designed by ex-Apple design genius Sir Jony Ive.
Read more: www.topgear.com/car-news/ele...