Understood, it was intense but rewarding.

Twilight Zone movie.

Watched alone on dark night.

The part when the lady visits the house, where the family is terrified of putting a foot out of line.

That has the most distasteful feeling of dread. Really well done, not for kids!

I love this artwork.

That is a fun fact about it, thanks!

After living and working in that red-zone… totally nailed the caption. Beautiful and hot.

‘Debian in unexpected places’

Finding some conclusive supporting material about the (as yet unsolved) Voynich Manuscript.

Either, enough information to decode a possible cypher, or proof that it is an elaborate troll/hoax/joke.

Could be the ‘Rosetta Stone moment’ of the modern era.

I like that era too.

Aztec(1976) came up recently, and I was very much considering getting it, due to the in-depth detail in these Technology Connections videos. Not sure if the gameplay is any good though.

Medieval is fun, launching cows and all.

The original ST:TNG was great also.

One of the tables at this tournament was Walking Dead too!, unforgiving table angle.

I own no pins at home, except toy size Batman battery operated(Funrise with the ramps)

My top table is Banzai Run (2 games in 1 ;-), can 7x replay

I like Attack from Mars(and just a little less Revenge from Mars).

The original Indy:Pinball Adventure is an all time favourite and one of the first I played(as long as the flippers have enough kick to score jackpots and reach the Path of Adventure).

If I got a table, it would be Judge Dredd.

Grew up only playing 80s/90s video arcade machines. Appreciated pinball later, especially the analog aspect and finding out about basic moves like lane-transfers.

My nonpro-tip: Read the info-card for the word multiball! (c:

Alternatively, a program that is a wrapper for your entire browser/device, that observes video and audio, to automatically carry out the blanking/muting.

Ads load as normally, but are never seen or heard by the user.

Theoretically, an air-gapped system that is worn on the head, rather than installed to the device would be undetectable.

An AR vision headset that detected known-ad-signatures and could blank or replace ads in realtime, with targetted noise-cancelling to ‘mute’ specific ad audio, could surgically remove ads from any media(billboard, magazine, video, radio, webpage).

Kind of like reverse-Snowcrash augmentation.

About 10 years ago I qualified to enter a state pinball tournament.

Of 16 qualifying entrants(or who could be bothered to enter), I placed 6th.

So I see it as, I was the 6th best pinball player in a state of 3million people, for a year. :-)

Do the Right Thing - Spike Lee

Prep for the 90s.

Sparked the worldwide anime boom, so yeah, pretty iconic.

Leisure Suit Larry

Exciting hour(aka Mat Mania) was awesome for the time.

Fast paced and difficult, until you work out their attacks.

I’m counting Discs of Tron as a sport.

Very fun disc battles.

More unknown and underappreciated in the current era, than underappreciated at release.

Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe on Amiga, was an outstanding future brawl-ball simulator.

The arcade version of Cyberball has very clean gameplay with a wry sense of humour.

Side-by-side play is excellent on a Cyberball 2072 cabinet.

The spiritual predecessor, 10 Yard Fight, is pretty fun too(shake joystick to break tackles)

No phone number required for DeltaChat.

It packetises and encrypts chats, using email(SMTP) as the transport medium. Can send downsampled pics, videos or Push-to-talk audio. Can send full quality pics, videos, or attachments too.

It’s on F-Droid, and you can use a seperate free email address(100MB limit) for the SMTP backend (from https://nine.testrun.org/ ), or use your own existing email address.

Elegant and robust.

My best memory of the tour through Wieliczka Salt Mine follows.

During early salt mining times, there was the job of natural-gas-pocket-exploder.

Natural gas seepage and buildup could kill workers due to lack of oxygen.

When reentering tunnels after a period of time, the gas-exploder would be the first person to go in.

They carried a long stick ahead of them, which had a smouldering basket at the front.

Upon encountering a pocket of gas, they would explode it and render the area safe for miners to work in again.

This position sounds like it would be the last to be filled, but it was the most coveted, due to the high danger-money added to wages.

• This is a recollection from visiting beautiful Kraków, around 2019, and I can’t find any links about this job online. Any further details, to fix possible mistakes, are welcome.