Videos circulating on social media showed a plane crashing and two crew members inside ejecting while opening their parachutes.

This is one of the most genius works of art I think I have ever seen. I've watched it several times and have noticed something different every time.

Ren has a ton of really great works that will blow your mind. I suggest this one first then The Hunger after The hunger you could listen to Money Game pt1 and pt2 or go down the rabbit hole of his Busking videos. Only thing is to make sure to listen to Jenny, Screech, and Violet In that order as they build on each other.

I was about 12 years old maybe 13 at the time and I forget a lot of the people that visited but I had a great time running it and learning how to set things up. I ran a few different brands of software but the last I remember is teleguard. I made some good friends via the bbs and was an early user of Fidonet.

Two of my friends and I spent many hours in my parents basement setting things up and calling other BBS's around the world. I was lucky that my parents let me get a dedicated phoneline just for the BBS and to use to call into other BBS's but that quickly became an issue when I had a $300 phone bill! We weren't well off and it was a big hit to my parents and me since I was paying for the phoneline with money I made from odd jobs around the neighborhood. It got my computer privileges revoked for several months and a good old ass whooping if I remember correctly.

The area I was in had a loose network of BBS's that would forward mail and sync. The sysops of those BBS's were all older than I was but treated me well and included my ideas and my friends ideas in planning and setting things up.

A few years went by and I was getting interested in some government BBS's like NASA who had an interface for data from the voyager prob and some ARPANET sites that I stumbled upon while poking around a local college campus computer lab. I ended up getting caught on (I can't remember if it was a BBS or on ARPANET) The navel nuclear safety laboratory computer system. I didn't get in trouble with the navy for that but they wanted to know how I got in and had me walk them through everything I did but I did get IN BIG trouble from my parents who took away the computer and made me take down the BBS.

I think I was about 16 or 17 when they took away the computer and the older guys that ran the other local BBS's were just starting to build what would be the first local ISP. They had asked me to help with it in return for being a part of the company. I had to turn them down and in the end after being very successful those guys sold the ISP to a national company for millions of dollars. Funny how life works out sometimes. I can't complain I ended up joining the local fire department and went to make a career out of that.

I had a 1024 day reading streak going and somehow missed a day just this past Monday. What a bummer. We had some plumbing issues at the house and it threw my whole day off.

The proposed east-west transit line across the city has moved in fits and starts over two decades. The new governor is promising to get the project back on track.

A US judge late on Tuesday granted the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) request to temporarily block Microsoft Corp’s acquisition of video game maker Activision Blizzard and set a hearing next week.

DeSantis and Newsom have long been political adversaries.

It took me a while to figure this out today and hopefully will help someone along the way.

I saw a post about Lemmy Explorer, a website that lets you find new to you magazines across the federated servers. Great! I thought just what I need to find topics that interest me. So I found some magazines I wanted to subscribe to on kbin and first clicked magazines to search for them but none showed up. "Huh" Next I tried the convenient copy function on Lemmy Explorer and pasted the copied text both under magazines in the search bar and into the search on the front page of kbin. Neither worked for me.

The fix is pretty simple. When you copy from Lemmy Explorer the text copies like this example "![email protected]" all you need to do is remove the "!" at the start making it "[email protected]" or "[email protected]". Paste the text with the "!" removed into the search bar on the front page of kbin and you will see the magazine pop up. From there you can subscribe to that magazine.

This is without a doubt well known to legacy users of kbin but as a new user I was struggling to figure it out.

Lemmy Explorer

Can't wait to see this magazine grow along with kbin.social. For the people in the city and surrounding area a place like this is essential to keep informed and to learn new things from.