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RFC-15 is an important one: it's the initial proposal for Telnet! The first version of this program was written in late 1969 and it's a tool that I still occasionally use today, which is really amazing when you think about it.

write.as/365-rfcs/rfc-15

You can follow along with my series commenting on the first 365 RFCs here @365-rfcs

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Caught the first episode of S3 . Thus far it is tracking the style and structure of season one very closely. A good and bad thing, but i'm definitely enjoying it so far.

Pocket's recommendations used to be pretty good; now its just degenerated into blog-standard hot takes on nause topics.

A tour by Carl Willis of Chernobyl NPP's decommisioned reactor no. 2. A nearly identical configuration to its infamous sibling at the other end of the building:
youtu.be/Oe_zzTQFV3o

I completely fell on my ass in the snow yesterday, and twisted my knee. Probably the worst fall I think I've experienced. My knee is very painful and I couldn't sleep. 45 thus far has not been great.

I understand Flickr have bills to pay but their approache to Pro migration has been extremely shitty. Why not just grandfather in accounts with > 1000 photos and lock uploads?

Deleting images is seriously shitty.

There's about an inch of snow outside and it's muted all the noise. Much as I hate the inconvience it brings there's something magical about the dead quiet it always gives when it first settles.

Dąbrowa Górnicza, 🇵🇱 , August 2009.

Canon EOS 20D, EOS 50mm 1.8.
Processed in Darktable.

Spinnaker Tower and Portsmouth Harbour, March 2009.

EOS 20D. 18-55 efs (kit lens) & polariser. Processed in Darktable.

There is a strange defensiveness around criticism of I really struggle to understand.

Things that aren't there anymore. A SAA 747-400 and the LHR perimeter road that passed through the maintenance hangars.

These birds would arrive in the morning, then be towed to eastern end of the field to wait for their evening flight back to South Africa.

EOS 300D, 18-55 kit lens. May 2004.

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AERC Recycling Solutions are selling ThinkPad T440s machines for around $175 shipped. They don't come with a power adapter or SSD/HDD though.

ebay.com/usr/aerc-rva

Finally finished Series 6 of Engrenages and am feeling a bit bereft. Hopefully the Series 7 will be with us soon.

imdb.com/title/tt0477507/?ref_

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