Ghost In The Shell (2017) with the Ki Theory soundtrack.

https://youtu.be/G4VmJcZR0Yg

I love slow remixes of 80s music.

Why don’t they let the people who make the trailers make the movies!

Oh, I should add that the plug in the 2nd pic is what keyboard connectors were back then (PS/2 connector).

This is dated 2017, so must have been through a few phone-to-phone days transfers to be on my current one.

But in my main store of files that’s synced across machines, I have this from 1999

Memes were still finding their feet back then.

I wish that they’d had a startup screen that said “it’s now dangerous to turn off your computer”.

I found a setting to switch the key functions, but it still doesn’t help with the other differences. I just have to learn to mentally change gears when using a Mac.

Moving the cursor by words, for example, is ctrl-cursor on PC, but option-cursor on Mac. So switching Ctrl/Fn doesn’t help with that.

Not to mention tapping on the screen to select something does not go well on the Mac…

The immediate regret will be when they discover that Ctrl isn’t where they expect it to be, followed by the discovery that it doesn’t get used for copy and paste anyway.

A few years ago we were discussing how some companies were trying 4-day weeks and someone said that they’d like to try four 10-hour days instead of five 8-hour.

They could not imagine that it meant working fewer hours.

I’ve used bookshop.org which sells ebooks and has a reader, but you can nominate a local bookstore to get part of the profit.

That sounds worth investigating, thanks! Amcrest needs an account for notifications afaik, but the Pro cameras can work just on a local network.

The app for them is awful. Then they made a new version that is awful in slightly different ways, so I’m interested in new options.

It mentions push notifications and emails, so I guess they must require an account, or can you configure them to use SMTP directly, as with the Amcrest Pro cameras?

Not really hacking, but in the 90s you could usually just connect to a mail server and it would believe what you told it.

If you were careful you could just type an email directly: MAIL FROM, RCPT TO, etc.

I would write scripts at work to send spoof emails sometimes, you could put anything as the FROM address, like “info @ catfacts” or whatever.

Another “not really hacking” example is that when some companies first got an Internet connection, they would just allocate public IP addresses to everyone, no gateway or firewall. So you could browse any non-passworded smb shares just knowing the IP.

It’s probably that a designer would have to ask a programmer to create scripting features to make a train work.

Or the could get the job done by using what they had instead of having to wait for someone else to write new code.

Reminds me of this.

https://www.pcgamer.com/fallout-3-metro-trains-were-powered-by-running-npcs-apparently/

“Minus 400 lines of code created today.”

“I did a programming… at the program factory.”

AKA heisenbug.

Observing it changes the outcome.

I heard of it from this video

https://youtu.be/9Ch4a6ffPZY

It’s just one of several tells. Although you can’t really rely on anything. Just like “badly-drawn hands” is less likely to show up now.

Once I heard this, I had to learn how to type them, btw!

I tested some more and can’t get it to work any more. I found a post saying it worked in 1.5.2 so maybe something broke in newer versions.

You need to enable Bluetooth as a method of connection in the app settings (and can turn off wifi and data there).

The phones can be in airplane mode but with Bluetooth turned back on (as you would to use earbuds).

I don’t recall pairing the phones, but there is a “connect via Bluetooth” option on each chat that might be doing that automatically.

You link accounts to each other by scanning qr codes.

It does have a group chat but I haven’t used it, so I don’t know if that works with Bluetooth alone.

I just tried testing this with an old phone of mine, but can’t get it to work right now (maybe because it has Graphene os?), but I have actually used it on flights in the past.

I’ve used it to message someone while on a flight.