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GameBoy Workboy

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dgellowtoday at 7:03 PM

Access seems pretty strict

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403 Forbidden

You are unable to access this site.

Sorry, you are not allowed to access tcrf.net right now.

If you are using a VPN, try disabling it first. We block many VPNs because of abuse.

If that does not work, the block may be due to one of the following reasons:

You are connecting using a network we have blocked. Your connection is still using a VPN or proxy (incl. Apple Private Wi-Fi, CloudFlare relays, etc.) You are a badly-behaving or unwelcome bot (ChatGPT, bingbot, yandex, etc.) You are using a badly-behaving extension (eg. Imagus, etc) that is trying to load every single version of a file in the background If you were able to view pages before, and this error message has suddenly appeared in place of what you were expecting, make sure you are not running any extensions or tools that are attempting to download everything at once. It is possible you were manually blocked, and it might be removed soon. If not, well, sorry.

If this page always apppeared, there is likely not a lot you can do. If you are using a VPN, turn off your VPN and try again.

Sorry for the trouble. We have been under a long-running DDoS attack.

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daniel_iversentoday at 10:58 PM

Here’s a nice YouTube video about GameBoy WorkBoy; a hardware addon and software productivity apps for the game boy,’unreleased and recently recovered https://youtu.be/1Y98jj3Kn84?si=dMII3mTmeDI0XrCn

Sorry if it’s in the article, I can’t access it either

remywangtoday at 10:14 PM

I had some good fun writing non-gaming apps for the playdate console including a browser [1] and Kagi news mirror [2] and feel the device has great potential as an alternative to android/iOS duopoly

[1]: https://github.com/remysucre/ORBIT

[2]: https://github.com/remysucre/cranky-news

marcosscriventoday at 9:08 PM

Blocking Apple iCloud privacy is pretty extreme.

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willXaretoday at 8:54 PM

The original "work from anywhere" setup, as long as anywhere had two AA batteries.

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dbalaterotoday at 7:44 PM

When I try to share this page on iMessage it unfurls the link as "LLM / AI Standard Test Page" so I guess I won't share it!

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ant6ntoday at 7:00 PM

The linked video seems to provide a much deeper story: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SZcrPM-jDqY&ra=m

calmwormtoday at 6:34 PM

Site blocks VPN users.

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Asfand2099today at 8:51 PM

The "you might be a bot" bullet point now explicitly listing ChatGPT is a pretty good snapshot of where the web is in 2026. For years sites optimized for search engine crawlers; now they're increasingly optimizing against AI crawlers. It's a fundamental shift in who site operators see as their largest source of unwanted traffic.

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