2026-06-27T22:46:32Z https://nostr.ae ARGVMI~1.PIF https://nostr.ae/npub1k6ykawdchynr4qhzka4wk3qpj09g0p2kgcprd4y20mgrnlxxmucq5mm3fx https://mastodon.sdf.org/system/accounts/avatars/113/059/004/569/382/369/original/1b5ae86850d2461a.png https://mastodon.sdf.org/system/accounts/avatars/113/059/004/569/382/369/original/1b5ae86850d2461a.png https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsw0dcj9qjdsk4ku9r98e2vfyw2xj6t3uxrj5d8kw4azna87mt47kqzyzmgjm4ehzujvw5zu2mk466yqxfu4pu92erqydk53fldqw0ucm0nqwf2gm3 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsycu98fsnw3fltceqsjc9dmu2syjzg86he60ahwpavlk3lzdzflvccqh3fe'>nevent1q…h3fe</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Go on? 2026-06-20T21:09:20Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs9kwf3zayufaj4tjk5t3u7887p0g6g2fp5sgtffnfa6rxs6lsvd9gzyzmgjm4ehzujvw5zu2mk466yqxfu4pu92erqydk53fldqw0ucm0nqzmjpc2 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsxa89zhx0hsqvmxp0c5597tx0z6vm2938p894p29arvku5xv3ghggw4wmny'>nevent1q…wmny</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>34 paragraphs on one page? What is this, a font size for ants? 2026-04-21T03:02:54Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsd5jf0nur20tcqqzjrgy0z85te3hamuwcd3dnsr9vgqqdqal32nfqzyzmgjm4ehzujvw5zu2mk466yqxfu4pu92erqydk53fldqw0ucm0nqu5vdcp #IBM: “Our big sophisticated computers are sometimes making mistakes! We can&#39;t figure out why! How will we ever fix this?”<br/>This One Guy: “With capacitors. One on every chip, across power and ground.”<br/>IBM: “…Capacitors?”<br/>TOG: “Capacitors.”<br/>[one capacitor-soldering spree later, the computer works fine]<br/>IBM: “Well, that was anticlimatic.”<br/><br/><a href="https://youtu.be/4X3wLqP11kQ">https://youtu.be/4X3wLqP11kQ</a> 2026-04-18T03:04:41Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs2ar37fw06ju8vkztdaeeu4myjvqq45ctcnvh0u4rxrltkuv6gfaszyzmgjm4ehzujvw5zu2mk466yqxfu4pu92erqydk53fldqw0ucm0nqc6ndpr In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8xtzhgefj37chzcpsdl7surjgv9zh6qy7sn33sp0pg44cu49dk6qtadrg9'>nevent1q…drg9</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Actor behavior can be scaled to whatever the game-logic tic rate is, by way of delta time. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_time">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_time</a> This is how some games are able to have an adjustable tic rate.<br/><br/>So everything still works if the tic rate equals the frame rate, which for example it does in Descent if I&#39;m not mistaken.<br/><br/>But yes, a high tic rate is hard on CPU and bandwidth, and game characters&#39; behavior doesn&#39;t need to react that fast anyway, hence tic rates usually being lower than 60Hz. 2026-04-17T00:41:21Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsdec87l2vm87mp8mmqr3zs5h6regv8nqyy6hqws48u3vmuactejpqzyzmgjm4ehzujvw5zu2mk466yqxfu4pu92erqydk53fldqw0ucm0nq6ghvh4 All computer games are turn-based. Some of them just take turns 60 times per second.<br/><br/>Seriously, read the source code of a “real-time” #videoGame some time. You&#39;ll pretty quickly observe that the game engine works by giving each actor a turn to decide what it&#39;s going to do next (move, shoot, cast spell, etc) and then do it.<br/><br/>Obviously most actions take more than one frame, and therefore in most cases the turn action will be “continue what I was doing last turn”, but still.<br/><br/>#gaming #gamedev 2026-04-16T22:47:05Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsvg3k2gqe4lwmcfpprv95xkjxlpq85vnyjmnyuf3jvzg70l8vexwqzyzmgjm4ehzujvw5zu2mk466yqxfu4pu92erqydk53fldqw0ucm0nqdaf0d9 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsy8eyzn8a94nl32kzajkhrlk67j2lch0shpgx7mdcet5uv8pz35agk3c0ac'>nevent1q…c0ac</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Why the hell does a financial analytics and monitoring program need to store authentication tokens to a storage system for company documents?!<br/><br/>#Cybersecurity people are talking about hyper-paranoid zero-trust remote-attestation stuff, meanwhile companies are doing ridiculous crap like this.<br/><br/>Dear #infosec community: you know how the A-10 engineers were focused on armoring the parts of the plane that were actually getting hit and actually killing the plane? Maybe do the equivalent of that here. 2026-04-11T20:27:24Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqspwl03lgles2fcs0xhpzdkmuauejp3w09nn86pdz2paegf6vym30szyzmgjm4ehzujvw5zu2mk466yqxfu4pu92erqydk53fldqw0ucm0nqrpkw0v My cat is a cat who cats because she is a cat. 2026-04-10T18:37:32Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsfv2pu4764ym8l9hs3277gzaqu5du38y56qvzydumpk2jyedm4g4qzyzmgjm4ehzujvw5zu2mk466yqxfu4pu92erqydk53fldqw0ucm0nq5k62sr In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswca94try398snycaxy3y4ah3n7dnma6z6ftnutfksmg7sn3geqacmx66uj'>nevent1q…66uj</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I mean, there isn&#39;t really any natural law that says there can&#39;t be a #Wayland compositor that runs on #EGA hardware.<br/><br/>It would have the same chunky-to-planar-conversion overhead that complicated attempts to port #Doom to the #Amiga, but it&#39;s not impossible.<br/><br/>#retrocomputing 2026-04-06T03:19:12Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs9sjs9l6wvtme4jj6mzn9aa5ktxm2tanme87cg2k452maaasn2nlczyzmgjm4ehzujvw5zu2mk466yqxfu4pu92erqydk53fldqw0ucm0nqarfe4f In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfkt2n2s4yy35a979jswxp0fwsvqn94xytz8ghv5lcxlmhkznefnqn9zm7e'>nevent1q…zm7e</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I already did. I know what&#39;s wrong with that eye. Treatment options are not great.<br/><br/>The condition is, at least, not expected to get any worse than it already is. So, as long as nothing else happens to my good eye, I can live with it.<br/><br/>Here&#39;s hoping nothing else happens to my good eye… 2026-04-03T23:43:56Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsvnpz2k67f5p3ftg3qq24x4wxaxdz94ccg0ld57uzslcggce8rqdqzyzmgjm4ehzujvw5zu2mk466yqxfu4pu92erqydk53fldqw0ucm0nquaehfu Just noticed something about my #eyesight.<br/><br/>One of my #eyes is messed up. It sees a blurry image, no matter the distance.<br/><br/>So I mostly use the other #eye to actually see things. That one still sees a good image.<br/><br/>But, if I close the bad eye, it becomes hard to properly focus on certain objects, like a digital clock across the room.<br/><br/>Apparently, even though the bad eye can&#39;t see very well, I still need it because it still gives usable depth information, which help me focus properly.<br/><br/>Fascinating. 2026-04-03T23:23:11Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsv7w37wtw4qtdwag3h7dqpwpva9ga0xsrxj52ge68s6sej0j37pxgzyzmgjm4ehzujvw5zu2mk466yqxfu4pu92erqydk53fldqw0ucm0nqdr80rt Can #browsers please stop sending such ridiculous user-agent strings?<br/><br/>Chrome is not a 25-year-old version of Netscape, for goodness&#39; sake.<br/><br/>Are there seriously still sites that break if you don&#39;t pretend to be Netscape? And even if there are, can&#39;t we just put together a database of them and only spoof the user-agent for them?<br/><br/>And now I see that Chrome pretends to be Safari. Even when it&#39;s running on Linux. You gotta be kidding me.<br/><br/>#webdev 2026-04-03T22:34:35Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsd0es326nrxmt6w9t4q366wdgwyehz65vh9v2qhct8mdcsxzzjhqgzyzmgjm4ehzujvw5zu2mk466yqxfu4pu92erqydk53fldqw0ucm0nqlk2l7v Source: <a href="https://nisus.com/blogs/copybara-pasteybara/">https://nisus.com/blogs/copybara-pasteybara/</a><br/><br/>#capybara #shitpost<br/> <img src="https://mastodon.sdf.org/system/media_attachments/files/116/330/105/672/611/826/original/1fb03298d9f2213f.png"> <br/> 2026-04-01T15:16:26Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs2p6uv5lx3rc0kjuuqh5meghqumrqsvs36hes8stvzknfs029k36czyzmgjm4ehzujvw5zu2mk466yqxfu4pu92erqydk53fldqw0ucm0nqhy2cmg In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsp94cnj3yjlrw4ktfmak53vvdjvqk93j9w3mr6fev74jvf7agqxlc95wpy9'>nevent1q…wpy9</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>The existence of addresses implies the existence of subtractresses. 2026-04-01T07:03:59Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsdmzr09zwsxzcmd0vtqqutst2ywncmgmdxp36gzr6huaz9yklzpdgzyzmgjm4ehzujvw5zu2mk466yqxfu4pu92erqydk53fldqw0ucm0nqzghmhv I miss #rageComics so much.<br/><br/>Source: <a href="https://imgur.com/genie-rage-be-careful-what-you-wish-naBiU">https://imgur.com/genie-rage-be-careful-what-you-wish-naBiU</a><br/><br/>#rageComic<br/> <img src="https://mastodon.sdf.org/system/media_attachments/files/116/305/086/869/940/233/original/b8697c8c33292fc2.png"> <br/> 2026-03-28T05:14:42Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqswq76g6zjp5wdnu7um26cwekhv2rl3v8gws4at2s9pr6e2m3yjjmgzyzmgjm4ehzujvw5zu2mk466yqxfu4pu92erqydk53fldqw0ucm0nq7qsavy In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs99zssqdq5haujtsqaqnuugy7jk0r4wpa8mf8ec63h2e9y9v4zclc8eda6d'>nevent1q…da6d</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Wait no, the Borg are already cooked.<br/><br/>I forgot about this, but a few years after the humans&#39; first encounter with the Borg, they developed an infovirus that would wipe the Borg out…and decided not to use it because they *took pity on the Borg.*<br/><br/>Then a rogue human admiral decided “screw that” and wiped them out anyway.<br/><br/>Then, a few decades later, the Borg&#39;s last, barely-functional cube got cored by a human starship…from a museum.<br/><br/>Did I mention #StarTrek humans are scary? Because yeah. 2026-03-26T05:57:31Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs99zssqdq5haujtsqaqnuugy7jk0r4wpa8mf8ec63h2e9y9v4zclczyzmgjm4ehzujvw5zu2mk466yqxfu4pu92erqydk53fldqw0ucm0nqz638p0 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsrtfleuarmhj7gkz2smtq3evyppt7x8hfwc5zan7f68rfhvjafvwgel48gh'>nevent1q…48gh</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Oh, and the one time some humans decided to violate the treaty and make a cloak anyway, they made the phasing cloak, which makes a ship not merely invisible but able to *hide inside planets*.<br/><br/>They could leave behind a Genesis device on every homeworld, buried under kilometers of rock, and detonate it whenever they please.<br/><br/>#StarTrek humans are f**king scary, man. Good thing they&#39;re such goody-two-shoes all the time, or everybody else (except Q and the Borg) would be COOKED. 2026-03-26T05:38:56Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsrtfleuarmhj7gkz2smtq3evyppt7x8hfwc5zan7f68rfhvjafvwgzyzmgjm4ehzujvw5zu2mk466yqxfu4pu92erqydk53fldqw0ucm0nqc0w2dy In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswl73z8uqyg4ehdl5w8xfrsuwnh27tv3dtn4azjgnumr4fuf685pctl628q'>nevent1q…628q</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Bear in mind, by the way, that Starfleet has at least one weapon that destroys planets in one shot: the Genesis device.<br/><br/>The Federation treaty that prohibits it from developing cloaking devices exists for a reason: a ship with a Genesis torpedo and a cloak could destroy any other power&#39;s homeworld at will with no warning.<br/><br/>That is terrifying.<br/><br/>If not for the treaty, every power in the galaxy would start a desperate all-out war against the Federation to stop it from doing that.<br/><br/>#StarTrek 2026-03-26T05:35:47Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqswl73z8uqyg4ehdl5w8xfrsuwnh27tv3dtn4azjgnumr4fuf685pczyzmgjm4ehzujvw5zu2mk466yqxfu4pu92erqydk53fldqw0ucm0nqarhpzw In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdcfcqej4cuy59s92jmpr8c9rgh04luwuhtcherd7ja554cwc35sgp9k094'>nevent1q…k094</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>#StarTrek humans are basically The Incredible Hulk: you won&#39;t like them when they&#39;re angry. 2026-03-26T05:24:06Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsdcfcqej4cuy59s92jmpr8c9rgh04luwuhtcherd7ja554cwc35sgzyzmgjm4ehzujvw5zu2mk466yqxfu4pu92erqydk53fldqw0ucm0nqrhyfsy They say humans&#39; love of replicators and root beer makes them weak and soft.<br/><br/>Nah. As Quark once observed, replicators and root beer is what keeps humans docile and agreeable. Take away their creature comforts and back them into a corner, and they get mad and start blowing up planets, and nobody wants that.<br/><br/>So whatever you do, don&#39;t break the replicators!<br/><br/>#StarTrek #StarTrekDS9 2026-03-26T05:18:23Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsxv47mlheuqmv4v4hkt3atyr506v52qmkywmpfw2cc2gy0u5p6gyqzyzmgjm4ehzujvw5zu2mk466yqxfu4pu92erqydk53fldqw0ucm0nq48gy2c In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8ue88ysmg8de4mu4nc0ujt2cgeglu8cx7rs2ewq3gmsmkevl9gcsdh0d9m'>nevent1q…0d9m</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>That&#39;s not a major browser? I would be negligent in my webdev duties if I ignored a browser with over 2% market share.<br/><br/>Anyway, I don&#39;t recall encountering any websites that break in Firefox but work in both Chrome and Safari. I&#39;m not sure how one could even achieve that, given that Firefox&#39;s browser score on caniuse is ahead of Safari&#39;s.<br/><br/>That said, I do wish Mozilla management were flushed and replaced with someone who understands their own product. This decline must stop. 2026-03-04T20:41:59Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs9akvfcfzt5leljn9ez9vrs2whcx844q5r5hyd2vd083pqvkv4x3gzyzmgjm4ehzujvw5zu2mk466yqxfu4pu92erqydk53fldqw0ucm0nqqsgfv8 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsr6ug23dzzhpt5gkh2ra8y74wuwdrl692uul4grnxvydpmxzj4s7s20q39g'>nevent1q…q39g</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I educated myself on Vivaldi&#39;s support for WebExtensions manifest versions before I made my previous post. I&#39;m not stupid.<br/><br/><a href="https://vivaldi.com/blog/manifest-v3-update-vivaldi-is-future-proofed-with-its-built-in-functionality/">https://vivaldi.com/blog/manifest-v3-update-vivaldi-is-future-proofed-with-its-built-in-functionality/</a><br/><br/>Unless Google reverses course, the days of you running those extensions on Vivaldi are numbered. I&#39;m surprised they aren&#39;t already over, but they are nonetheless numbered.<br/><br/>As for “works everywhere”, I fail to see why I should entertain websites whose developers weren&#39;t competent enough to test against all three major browsers. 2026-03-04T20:20:55Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsv8zq6qgdhhjwtgjuq9ml4392mfj6d3gkzyqdyssmhwdpelx2rskczyzmgjm4ehzujvw5zu2mk466yqxfu4pu92erqydk53fldqw0ucm0nqctwdud In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs22xr6p8rtks9daze3gqrxujk5gwexsre62wt0u0c8jz252ea3h7gzt4yrq'>nevent1q…4yrq</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Also consider LibreWolf, a privacy-focused Firefox variant that strips out the ad and AI features.<br/><br/>Unlike Vivaldi, it can still run uBlock Origin, uMatrix, and other Manifest V2 extensions.<br/><br/>Also unlike Vivaldi, it&#39;s free and open source software. 2026-03-04T20:09:16Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsq2rv6wfqd6wj57yr8vwtwqygxnluypjz85er549hgglk9xlutwcczyzmgjm4ehzujvw5zu2mk466yqxfu4pu92erqydk53fldqw0ucm0nq42063x In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs0lkcxddqmwdz4560svvyh6pm62vcu08zk3e95efxkgcd6rl7jhdsvvy58c'>nevent1q…y58c</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Any compiler or interpreter could do this. After every store, do a clflush, load, compare, and panic if there&#39;s a mismatch.<br/><br/>Problem is this would explode executable size (that&#39;s a lot of extra instructions) and ruin performance (that&#39;s a lot of extra instructions, and also you&#39;re effectively disabling the entire CPU cache).<br/><br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1vh5wrsqqcwcmyujgpfdjh6qymt5wghvrge4tnjlaytwqw38mlpysj2r3th" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Gabriele Svelto</span> (<span class="italic">npub1vh5…r3th</span>)</a></span> 2026-03-04T19:47:35Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsfjs38enk0v6lx0rnxywjzskpz99fa4xqs54me2y0fw99m96qa9hczyzmgjm4ehzujvw5zu2mk466yqxfu4pu92erqydk53fldqw0ucm0nqphuzz9 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvn4m5kcqyagpgk2q77e9apuhxlwqld2m7lzwyuvfndz5rs97p5pqm7jpmq'>nevent1q…jpmq</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Wouldn&#39;t a bot be able to generate those sentences?<br/><br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1as09hymy8nlnr5eys70vlsuedat3nnpy8jfe45mntz93vxf796zqngmnuu" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Elliot Shank</span> (<span class="italic">npub1as0…mnuu</span>)</a></span> <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1ud4wxdz95a57n53mft0mjev76qtmutu33j7tvqu53wns6pcwn9gsd3r8df" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>13reak :fedora:</span> (<span class="italic">npub1ud4…r8df</span>)</a></span> 2026-03-04T04:16:29Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsd8apwulr2jd83hyfrypjfuhmemq7ysxud7lxwhwkapnygsfvhrsczyzmgjm4ehzujvw5zu2mk466yqxfu4pu92erqydk53fldqw0ucm0nqe97dg4 If #webDesign people could please stop overriding the #hyperlink style to remove the underline, that&#39;d be great. Great for #accessibility, to be precise.<br/><br/>Removing the underline makes hyperlinks hard to see, even if you have fully acute vision! I just saw a site where links are a deep reddish color, barely distinguishable from the black text. No underline. No other markings. Utter madness.<br/><br/>#a11y #webdev 2026-02-28T19:50:25Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsp3tp66sms7xy966emydaf5fttesg2k3lx0pk36pc6vrzrwelqdcqzyzmgjm4ehzujvw5zu2mk466yqxfu4pu92erqydk53fldqw0ucm0nqq054q5 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfv35fhprmh6hp7w4932akv5gguavxhea37rksvknuem5j36v2mkqt7mnyp'>nevent1q…mnyp</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Ok, I&#39;ll give it a try. Should I use the Mac App Store version or the Homebrew version? 2026-02-24T17:19:47Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsvzsrpknaf8xwghe7xuxwrhfw6alw5e0y45e2mu7zfrzrx5w086fczyzmgjm4ehzujvw5zu2mk466yqxfu4pu92erqydk53fldqw0ucm0nqv49g0k In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvj80jzt8dtupnchjph2d7gn983mrzq4lshf64pv78xx4kq7zv2dq53zj67'>nevent1q…zj67</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Why are you regenerating keys after device migration? 2026-02-24T16:53:46Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqszxs8q0lnefa8wm7hawmx29tggyxp8atx0laryam3qta5awttlrcczyzmgjm4ehzujvw5zu2mk466yqxfu4pu92erqydk53fldqw0ucm0nqmhs74c In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs84s23tnpnu3mr7wkxqnhe96w0ejqlyr7s7djcs9lydrqdylh67psl9h9hd'>nevent1q…h9hd</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Monal constantly forgets and regenerates the OMEMO key. I assume this is some kind of bug, but at any rate, this makes Monal unusable. 2026-02-24T16:43:52Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsx9ltk269y35xnpeq3pax4ywzm2xtqgx8zl22t7a88eza692zywqqzyzmgjm4ehzujvw5zu2mk466yqxfu4pu92erqydk53fldqw0ucm0nqy3xe5l In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2h4pvrwwjelf3lctgr9q93vg2kz08md7vqg786mf2mqujmxtdh4cw8wh28'>nevent1q…wh28</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I am not the person who&#39;s using Beagle, so I can&#39;t replace it right away, but like I said, ASAP.<br/><br/>I&#39;ve heard that Gajim is now available for macOS, so I will attempt to install that. It works great on Linux but I have no idea how well it works on macOS. I certainly hope it works well, though, because I&#39;m running out of XMPP clients for my Mac-using friend to choose from! 2026-02-24T00:23:37Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs2h4pvrwwjelf3lctgr9q93vg2kz08md7vqg786mf2mqujmxtdh4czyzmgjm4ehzujvw5zu2mk466yqxfu4pu92erqydk53fldqw0ucm0nq2qt29j Just found out that #BeagleIM automatically fetches web links in messages and plays the page&#39;s video if there is one.<br/><br/>This is not acceptable behavior!!!<br/><br/>* It&#39;s annoying. There isn&#39;t any obvious way to stop the video.<br/><br/>* It&#39;s insecure. The linked page might attack vulnerabilities in Beagle&#39;s video player.<br/><br/>* It exposes the user&#39;s IP address to anyone who sends them a message, potentially physically endangering them.<br/><br/>Will uninstall and replace ASAP.<br/><br/>#XMPP #security #cybersecurity #infosec #UX 2026-02-24T00:22:06Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsr0c58dwmwaavw4j0y6yehdy99tjpe3q82es49sy0f6edvneugz0qzyzmgjm4ehzujvw5zu2mk466yqxfu4pu92erqydk53fldqw0ucm0nq06h6st In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsde98uv3spzgx8hlaz30fsveln5ylhwmfyl4uqrvm6qtw7wahs7xckftddk'>nevent1q…tddk</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>If you&#39;re looking for an alternative to KeePassXC, GNOME Secrets is pretty much a drop-in replacement. 2026-02-22T01:00:52Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqswlurlm7gty5cn28uus80mceag2r7hehyvt794zl695u2cdsk20eszyzmgjm4ehzujvw5zu2mk466yqxfu4pu92erqydk53fldqw0ucm0nqp77p9f I wonder how many emojis involve fluids leaving the body.<br/><br/>I found these ones: 🤤😪🤮🤧🥵😰😥😢😭😓😅🤣😂😹😿<br/><br/>These ones too, if we include gases: 😮‍💨😤<br/><br/>This one involves the entire body becoming fluid, if that counts: 🫠 2026-02-21T08:25:51Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqszhad3s4f5aud0w8c60jsl9nptlarf4dw3r7z37mwmga2zyxezq5qzyzmgjm4ehzujvw5zu2mk466yqxfu4pu92erqydk53fldqw0ucm0nq2tzf4f Saw yet another account of an encounter with what appear to be #alien aircraft.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/comments/1r55r0e/comment/o5gp9h7/">https://www.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/comments/1r55r0e/comment/o5gp9h7/</a><br/><br/>You know why this excites me? If #aliens are here, then their presence implies that #warp drive is possible and humanity is not confined to this solar system.<br/><br/>Also, they clearly aren&#39;t here to enslave or destroy us, or else we&#39;d be enslaved or destroyed already, so that means there are friendlies out there.<br/><br/>That gives me #hope for a #StarTrek future. 🙏🖖 2026-02-15T18:26:26Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsdu5q3qucf7kxpkd5493xh2q9y5cxmg4wr6ktlmwtljnuhwtedh8szyzmgjm4ehzujvw5zu2mk466yqxfu4pu92erqydk53fldqw0ucm0nqhrv4sh Me: built a cool #gaming #PC that can run anything<br/><br/>Also me: playing a game from literally 1994<br/><br/>#retrogaming 2026-02-05T18:55:58Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqswa32sgpxl39ptgjcsmy0lg5pz9946wxysa58yll7wzksr2gzz36szyzmgjm4ehzujvw5zu2mk466yqxfu4pu92erqydk53fldqw0ucm0nql6a2rx In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsphkfq2784m78qf0wsaq83ukm09mz9x06wg4cpm3kd6gkg6mxnscsqq649r'>nevent1q…649r</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>They would blinkenlight at a steady 60Hz though. 🫤<br/><br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub15cwtx74f44j6snvq7yw74ncttpkzueufm47xd3e5nmtxd5hwazdqck3agq" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>pixx</span> (<span class="italic">npub15cw…3agq</span>)</a></span> <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1e8tgx6ywtextr0apsd6pctu6wxvut79gal2fc77ukzhpgkkdf7fsswn3ds" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>niconiconi</span> (<span class="italic">npub1e8t…n3ds</span>)</a></span> 2026-02-03T02:26:27Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsfzcp3d56kmqvc878qhqvjjvlsfex3vsy3wtcvej6v0hgav2knfgczyzmgjm4ehzujvw5zu2mk466yqxfu4pu92erqydk53fldqw0ucm0nq8ykhv7 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8w4n64gg9pems527x752069se7kauxcqhw9xrznkjm7t7qznp8zct8hgkq'>nevent1q…hgkq</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I have a string of LED Christmas lights that flicker pretty hard. I assume they&#39;re just wired in series directly to mains, with no rectifier. So, it could use that!<br/><br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1e8tgx6ywtextr0apsd6pctu6wxvut79gal2fc77ukzhpgkkdf7fsswn3ds" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>niconiconi</span> (<span class="italic">npub1e8t…n3ds</span>)</a></span> 2026-02-02T23:38:42Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqszayzx852f0y2790jqu70yjgf5te94k9ltpc3kkyl5396xnfgj4ugzyzmgjm4ehzujvw5zu2mk466yqxfu4pu92erqydk53fldqw0ucm0nqyne5vv In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsxu2vtg56n5zvqy2htl6j2u8c6qhyqvzmswxnalec2k05hmjtjv3q57xdde'>nevent1q…xdde</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>That won&#39;t work with LED lighting though.<br/><br/>But I guess nobody thought people would be crazy enough to stuff a rectifier into every lightbulb. 2026-02-02T23:25:42Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqstwt69f48pnv3jp94kwj62q73e4ttamtmm372awr5ru0m9e2gx7dqzyzmgjm4ehzujvw5zu2mk466yqxfu4pu92erqydk53fldqw0ucm0nq07tdee Going through some old code that was kept in CVS back in 2002.<br/><br/>Big oof. Including revision and log info inside source files must&#39;ve seemed like a good idea at the time, but it&#39;s a total disaster if you&#39;re doing folder diffs. Every single file is different!<br/><br/>And I am indeed doing folder diffs, because I don&#39;t have a copy of the CVS repository this code was checked out of. Just two folders: one with the original project and one with some changes I need to extract.<br/><br/>Wish me luck!<br/><br/>#programming 2026-01-31T21:35:11Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqswedn4c60k6xw2xdqtxjjuqa95jvsyhhzexulj36cw80e2peau9lszyzmgjm4ehzujvw5zu2mk466yqxfu4pu92erqydk53fldqw0ucm0nq445h8j Client-side decorations are SO ANNOYING. 🤬<br/><br/>Title bars exist for a reason: that&#39;s how you move windows around. Stop removing them!<br/><br/>#GUI 2026-01-31T20:20:10Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqszy3rcxkr39u9pd6r9vxr9f54tcjrqn9txcfeth6wnl7sj8mm6pvszyzmgjm4ehzujvw5zu2mk466yqxfu4pu92erqydk53fldqw0ucm0nqkxzm4m A few years ago, #Rust people were all asking “are we #GUI yet?” <a href="https://areweguiyet.com/">https://areweguiyet.com/</a><br/><br/>In a peculiar twist of fate, Rust people have gone hog-wild on #TUI instead!<br/><br/>They&#39;ve got full-blown TUI window systems now! Last time I saw that was the old TUI #Borland #IDE s in the early 1990s, and with the rise of graphical window systems, I thought I&#39;d never see such a thing again.<br/><br/>👏 2026-01-08T03:00:52Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs2ye8ug4n4dph26c2dq8esu3d6vsu6hxl0nvxrr3wx8m89ue9dxjczyzmgjm4ehzujvw5zu2mk466yqxfu4pu92erqydk53fldqw0ucm0nq4w6jdw Just watched <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1dmlzf6x428vxd8vht2skcelgd6a8p8zy8ug8hxe6gg5hcrv0fn8sycx796" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>now it's veronicaexplains.net</span> (<span class="italic">npub1dml…x796</span>)</a></span> explain how to install #Linux on an #AppleSilicon #Mac.<br/><br/>Apparently it boots into a stripped-down #macOS and then boots Linux from there.<br/><br/>Seeing as the stripped-down macOS isn&#39;t getting security updates (especially once the early ARM Macs go EOL), that sounds like a huge security/privacy risk. 😬<br/><br/>Will it be possible in the future to run Linux on a machine like this with macOS completely gone? Or is this gonna be like the bad old days of Linux on an m68k Mac? 2026-01-05T17:51:35Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqszthlfl3hjpjsp6vaptvd6zt5s35nungc80lsg9jlvn2za0evv0xszyzmgjm4ehzujvw5zu2mk466yqxfu4pu92erqydk53fldqw0ucm0nqef466p We all know about #CED, an attempt to record an analog #video signal on a #vinyl #record.<br/><br/>I wonder. What about compressed digital video? How much of that could be reasonably encoded on a vinyl record without all of CED&#39;s reliability and usability issues? 2026-01-05T03:39:22Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsf2tt6cpmd6ntjnv3jh7dvk050qry0rv7pa4mvecsw7xsja9ahsvczyzmgjm4ehzujvw5zu2mk466yqxfu4pu92erqydk53fldqw0ucm0nqw3gprp The fine is kinda moot though.<br/><br/>#shitpost #sign<br/> <img src="https://mastodon.sdf.org/system/media_attachments/files/115/829/392/596/497/225/original/e98950a1d30b2053.jpeg"> <br/> 2026-01-03T04:59:19Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsy38pm902kyvkk3lfm0rupuswe8flkgu9rw3pxexe4htellxs9puszyzmgjm4ehzujvw5zu2mk466yqxfu4pu92erqydk53fldqw0ucm0nqq82u6t Buttholes are like opinions: everybody&#39;s got one and most of them stink.<br/><br/>#shitpost 2025-12-23T08:46:26Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsfsfxx66jan6fqs3dpx90qp8xcssdrgf55t37h0wdcerf9ux84yuczyzmgjm4ehzujvw5zu2mk466yqxfu4pu92erqydk53fldqw0ucm0nqusmwa2 The existence of #WholeFoods Market implies the existence of Fractional Foods Market.<br/><br/>#math #shitpost 2025-12-21T06:29:59Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsy7jdzh0wk2sky09540ujcgzmzc0vwr53nhmdrftrnhy7levz9l8qzyzmgjm4ehzujvw5zu2mk466yqxfu4pu92erqydk53fldqw0ucm0nqzt9yk4 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs95l36wkemetvs99z22fmsmhfer47mmxm34n5pjhxnmd8ey5gqx7sl0xfjw'>nevent1q…xfjw</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Sorry, I should have said *new* printers. Old printers still require drivers, as always. 2025-12-17T07:12:54Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsz8k3rtjshcerh3rqsnla03fyjljky3nxlffpe969z6wmnu4ep48gzyzmgjm4ehzujvw5zu2mk466yqxfu4pu92erqydk53fldqw0ucm0nqw2qc7y In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqw24xc4k4wyx4hnaup3smz2znq9ew4528kmut9c602s640nxp3eq0y4zs3'>nevent1q…4zs3</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>You can thank Apple for that. They&#39;re the ones who strong-armed all the printer manufacturers into implementing IPP and PWG Raster on the printer side. Now printers don&#39;t need drivers; just plug it in and it should work. 2025-12-17T02:47:21Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsxza8ldz0m7w0mpcmxw54sdkrur0phxf5zd0za93teujgtafk4tvszyzmgjm4ehzujvw5zu2mk466yqxfu4pu92erqydk53fldqw0ucm0nqagwek4 Quality products from Acme. Accept no substitutes.<br/><br/>#LooneyTunes #joke #TrolleyProblem<br/> <img src="https://mastodon.sdf.org/system/media_attachments/files/115/725/913/028/076/652/original/89cdb3bf5c213a10.jpeg"> <br/> 2025-12-15T22:24:34Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsv0cgh5qf5mkcs4ueu85r6gd5ldrztkmsf9ckxezg4kuljrj2upvqzyzmgjm4ehzujvw5zu2mk466yqxfu4pu92erqydk53fldqw0ucm0nqcpral8 Well, you can&#39;t say you weren&#39;t warned.<br/><br/>#cat<br/> <img src="https://mastodon.sdf.org/system/media_attachments/files/115/725/826/183/313/788/original/80d1ceeae03ed1d2.jpg"> <br/> 2025-12-15T22:00:14Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsg0ls23cqhrvtv7zz5dlz4wq9dzaemhzqmcx9nhqh53tdp74rxqmqzyzmgjm4ehzujvw5zu2mk466yqxfu4pu92erqydk53fldqw0ucm0nq25ty89 Good to have the clarification.<br/><br/>#joke #shitpost<br/> <img src="https://mastodon.sdf.org/system/media_attachments/files/115/725/816/506/064/239/original/256ce2f12c173075.webp"> <br/> 2025-12-15T21:57:48Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsg6p899czfwex45wekrcsvsrt4kvxdtfj7pp8cxcucvpaptmd73sczyzmgjm4ehzujvw5zu2mk466yqxfu4pu92erqydk53fldqw0ucm0nqzmgwrh If the TRS-80 was so great, why didn&#39;t they make a TRS-81?<br/><br/>#retrocomputing #shitpost 2025-12-09T06:52:07Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsq8axafv7aac66rtyr855g4gelfeer7ysr3grtytzy0hzmzxtdxsgzyzmgjm4ehzujvw5zu2mk466yqxfu4pu92erqydk53fldqw0ucm0nqg6cgnx In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs29vd5xt7hu49zyyns2mhgzxrg2swe524mjyfpqgnm8llwd9qwg2qlp0ytj'>nevent1q…0ytj</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Technically it was possible to copy across disks with only a single floppy drive by reading the original disk&#39;s contents into RAM, having the human swap disks, and then writing.<br/><br/>But this would involve a lot of disk swapping unless you have a ton of RAM, so it generally wasn&#39;t a thing. I think the original Macintosh could pull this off, though. Slowly. 2025-12-08T07:27:03Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs29vd5xt7hu49zyyns2mhgzxrg2swe524mjyfpqgnm8llwd9qwg2qzyzmgjm4ehzujvw5zu2mk466yqxfu4pu92erqydk53fldqw0ucm0nqem7u44 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsd2e8gq7tlavjh4dmd0qcawun0cs23ndy95pfqwr8xuud9rgx4xxgle4f4h'>nevent1q…4f4h</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Eventually, the 5¼ floppy disk fell out of fashion and computers started to come with only a 3½ floppy drive…and then no floppy drive at all. 💾 2025-12-08T07:21:10Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsd2e8gq7tlavjh4dmd0qcawun0cs23ndy95pfqwr8xuud9rgx4xxgzyzmgjm4ehzujvw5zu2mk466yqxfu4pu92erqydk53fldqw0ucm0nqsudccq It was fairly common in the 1980s to have two #floppy drives because, if you had no hard drive (they were expensive), then the only way to copy from one floppy disk to another was by having two floppy drives.<br/><br/>Having two floppy drives remained common-ish in the early 1990s, for a different reason: there were two different sizes of floppy disk (5¼ and 3½), and in order to read disks of either size, you needed two drives.<br/><br/>#retrocomputing 2025-12-08T07:21:00Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsfejzu2spudl0gmz96rcvrrvyu3wpr4750kqcqdm0j27tcht3uuggzyzmgjm4ehzujvw5zu2mk466yqxfu4pu92erqydk53fldqw0ucm0nqk5z2dg In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqspntrued8wwfmth7p5kct3svnf5ex402acndk6etsjqxzhq0pshtqx3yhhv'>nevent1q…yhhv</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>📱🪫🪦 2025-12-05T05:11:21Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs2ghj53mdruvpc9qy279a332ugn363mvjgrwvc0tcu9u6cauzs98szyzmgjm4ehzujvw5zu2mk466yqxfu4pu92erqydk53fldqw0ucm0nquxe5u2 Discovered a combination of abilities in #StarTrekOnline that allows me to drop almost a dozen tractor mines.<br/><br/>Oof. That many tractor beams all at once is enough to crush a Borg Sphere like a tin can. 2025-12-04T20:23:06Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs2kal5d973f7gme4smd59gqt7yu0afjh0m5h45sart22tm6k7m7xqzyzmgjm4ehzujvw5zu2mk466yqxfu4pu92erqydk53fldqw0ucm0nq47vzpc In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswh5fa5qp78xpsp0q0gnyy8w0tw2e2dgp0z8lm54hsxlhu56lqf7qg5cga5'>nevent1q…cga5</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>The webp-pixbuf-loader package also drops a file in `/usr/share/thumbnailers`. It tells file managers like Nautilus to use the `gdk-pixbuf-thumbnailer` program to generate thumbnails for WebP images.<br/><br/>Which of course works because there is now a gdk-pixbuf image loader for WebP. 2025-11-14T23:03:41Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqswh5fa5qp78xpsp0q0gnyy8w0tw2e2dgp0z8lm54hsxlhu56lqf7qzyzmgjm4ehzujvw5zu2mk466yqxfu4pu92erqydk53fldqw0ucm0nq78uex8 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsgzyy0v0kvkyk0894096gqmepckemdnuu3fr7junfrqg4kl2yep4qhgaxxc'>nevent1q…axxc</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>The gdk-pixbuf library comes with a number of image loaders. These are kept in the folder `/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders`.<br/><br/>Gdk-pixbuf will apparently load anything it finds there, because the webp-pixbuf-loader package doesn&#39;t do any sort of registration. It just drops a .so in that folder and expects gdk-pixbuf to find it.<br/><br/>There are loaders for quite a few formats there, like GIF and ICO. There are no loaders for PNG and JPEG, though; I assume those are built in. 2025-11-14T22:57:16Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsgzyy0v0kvkyk0894096gqmepckemdnuu3fr7junfrqg4kl2yep4qzyzmgjm4ehzujvw5zu2mk466yqxfu4pu92erqydk53fldqw0ucm0nqes567h Got #WebP to load in #Inkscape!<br/><br/>I thought for a long time that Inkscape simply doesn&#39;t support WebP, but that isn&#39;t true. The problem, rather, was that the gdk-pixbuf loader for WebP was not installed on my system.<br/><br/>People using #Debian or another distro based on it need to install the package named “webp-pixbuf-loader”. That&#39;s all you need to do; merely installing the package will enable WebP support in Inkscape.<br/><br/>This should also enable WebP thumbnails in #Nautilus, if you use #Gnome.<br/><br/>#Linux 2025-11-14T22:51:33Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsf3t28gp9pc89h8puydeyu8qmhdcjx4syvqxq0j8rca6jzhg7c70qzyzmgjm4ehzujvw5zu2mk466yqxfu4pu92erqydk53fldqw0ucm0nqgrwma4 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsx20qfqen7kfapxg5x26xga53mkxl58mktejjczcldt63aetnlasguhcxwp'>nevent1q…cxwp</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I meant sqlx with no ORM. Never tried using sea_orm so I can&#39;t comment on that. 2025-10-15T20:04:39Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsdv5292gpx8ltyq66sfaznux8jt3m76q2kpajzjve9w0wxvhg34mczyzmgjm4ehzujvw5zu2mk466yqxfu4pu92erqydk53fldqw0ucm0nqx3tv4j In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsweeuxtxyc8yssw6a6374pxa0urngyh3rgr7wz0ryjjf6hf7wknpsgrhrf2'>nevent1q…hrf2</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I like sqlx better, personally. I can use all the database&#39;s flashy features and still get compile-time checking. 👍 2025-10-15T19:59:44Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsgyra3qc4ex5dnyxhup62rrjg76gs5rnh2r07x3s2nq78g5w39dfszyzmgjm4ehzujvw5zu2mk466yqxfu4pu92erqydk53fldqw0ucm0nqqeuw84 If a toot is written in all caps is it called a honk?<br/><br/>#shitpost 2025-10-10T04:12:57Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqszchhke92p34ehlquufaawv2fk79e46ddt8cky5znlcclyjh430lczyzmgjm4ehzujvw5zu2mk466yqxfu4pu92erqydk53fldqw0ucm0nqtqv2u7 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsf8w0kqm5tgswrk55e988f04mz5n7fcfrfc9638emfmftewkvamwck07p4r'>nevent1q…7p4r</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Other than the mere passage of time, is there any other indicator that paste is old and needs replacing? Idle temperature, perhaps? 2025-10-09T20:52:01Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsfest20nrhtm3arwy2w28y7j8um2f23aq7wpzprwavdg2956mxsegzyzmgjm4ehzujvw5zu2mk466yqxfu4pu92erqydk53fldqw0ucm0nqs7wc3s There&#39;s gotta be someone somewhere that Rick Astley has let down.<br/><br/>#shitpost 2025-10-07T05:30:24Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsr03fy7vkw49any6e40c0phlj6q2whevm99xppqzdymmhnlwf0mgszyzmgjm4ehzujvw5zu2mk466yqxfu4pu92erqydk53fldqw0ucm0nq3x8naz In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqspr7ej3kdzcuf6ygqlnx6we5c0ej373qnjslze2yu4uzxnc2cnz6cy47ykx'>nevent1q…7ykx</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Windows NT and 2000&#39;s installers were like that. Same as Linux: they used the same NT kernel, but did not use a GUI and left the display in character mode.<br/><br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1g8xss90hlwac30xt8f53wnczr3mnr6mud4js95qwtyfy6nd95r0q9r7wul" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️</span> (<span class="italic">npub1g8x…7wul</span>)</a></span> 2025-10-05T00:29:42Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsredzfl08d5e0z649tj5vp2720qgqd5gm87fvx2p20faq7en80lpgzyzmgjm4ehzujvw5zu2mk466yqxfu4pu92erqydk53fldqw0ucm0nq23d988 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs20dsjp52uy2v8e3t3v5k83qsydklczqsyuy6jzmkvlqzhvevlp3gfzgdhm'>nevent1q…gdhm</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Windows XP Setup, by contrast, ran on the same Windows NT kernel and graphics system as Windows XP itself did. 🎉 But by this point, the operating system&#39;s core was already quite mature, and the distribution medium (CD-ROM) had plenty of space for a second copy of it.<br/><br/>Similar story with Linux installers: they started to go graphical after moving away from floppy to CD/DVD/USB. 2025-10-04T23:21:14Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs20dsjp52uy2v8e3t3v5k83qsydklczqsyuy6jzmkvlqzhvevlp3gzyzmgjm4ehzujvw5zu2mk466yqxfu4pu92erqydk53fldqw0ucm0nqyac9t6 #Microsoft &#39;s #RaymondChen posted an interesting explanation of why most of the #Windows 95 installer ran on Windows 3.1 and not on a stripped-down Windows 95 like you&#39;d expect.<br/><br/><a href="https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20250926-00/?p=111629">https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20250926-00/?p=111629</a><br/><br/>Tl;dr: floppies are too small for a second copy of 95.<br/><br/>#Floppy based #Linux installers, unlike Windows, did use the same Linux kernel for the installer…but unlike Windows they didn&#39;t have a GUI with a pretty background picture. If they did, they&#39;d have had the same problem!<br/><br/>#retrocomputing 2025-10-04T23:17:39Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs9g7apxj84ztqu0vr5w72qkclwvhj2x4uuesmxeud8pmuc5sves8czyzmgjm4ehzujvw5zu2mk466yqxfu4pu92erqydk53fldqw0ucm0nqnrmjg0 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvhve9xda8udaeevtjddq2lxrqxvy7daljl7lu2hw7u3end2aaw0ssk73g7'>nevent1q…73g7</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I seem to recall reading that Robert Beltran demanded to do some steamy love scenes with Jeri Ryan because he desperately wanted her husband to fire him.<br/><br/>Which didn&#39;t work.<br/><br/>Although I guess it was a win-win for him. Either he gets fired or he gets to kiss Jeri Ryan. 😂 2025-10-03T15:33:49Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsxcca7amss02rxl2ktaz7u6lutglxym9r0tx5gfyegudex4ut2yzszyzmgjm4ehzujvw5zu2mk466yqxfu4pu92erqydk53fldqw0ucm0nqvpqlfd In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdqxcdasv9rllsau8lajqj7qm7fuz2g3cmhxd8c6895dwkkcpd6hsghcntt'>nevent1q…cntt</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Agreed, the main problem with tablets is the operating system, not the hardware. The existence of convertible laptops running full-featured desktop operating systems proves it.<br/><br/>Some early Microsoft tablets <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Tablet_PC">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Tablet_PC</a> came with a stylus, too, with which you could accurately tap even small UI elements.<br/><br/>4/end<br/><br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub134j8agl5pagfxd0xa2pcfr73ryhldcwhdgydr33v9pxnpwx79x4qszjry0" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>TabbsTheBat</span> (<span class="italic">npub134j…jry0</span>)</a></span> 2025-09-27T03:31:44Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsdqxcdasv9rllsau8lajqj7qm7fuz2g3cmhxd8c6895dwkkcpd6hszyzmgjm4ehzujvw5zu2mk466yqxfu4pu92erqydk53fldqw0ucm0nqpq9kra In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsz2gqsyjel4tcgargxh669qmccxxhkznawth4kr2x0k739024zmkgynf2aj'>nevent1q…f2aj</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>The Steam Deck screen is phone-sized if I&#39;m not mistaken, so yeah, you don&#39;t want to be using menu bars on that.<br/><br/>Possible solution: when running on a small screen, show a menu button instead, which when clicked shows the menu bar items in a full-screen window. File, Edit, and whatnot. Tapping those drills down with the swivel thing you mentioned earlier.<br/><br/>3/<br/><br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub134j8agl5pagfxd0xa2pcfr73ryhldcwhdgydr33v9pxnpwx79x4qszjry0" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>TabbsTheBat</span> (<span class="italic">npub134j…jry0</span>)</a></span> 2025-09-27T03:31:33Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsz2gqsyjel4tcgargxh669qmccxxhkznawth4kr2x0k739024zmkgzyzmgjm4ehzujvw5zu2mk466yqxfu4pu92erqydk53fldqw0ucm0nqd0makg In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvmexmkppwlq5yed4fe9mndlr8h8sl22040ec55zuekrg6ygc7j2s7j4y6n'>nevent1q…4y6n</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Anyway, most of the apps that come with Windows 3.1 are pretty simple, and they still have menu bars. The only apps that don&#39;t are Character Map and SmartMon. And IMHO the only truly unnecessary menu bar in Windows 3.1 is the one in Control Panel.<br/><br/>For reference, here&#39;s a Windows 3.1 in-browser VM: <a href="https://www.pcjs.org/software/pcx86/sys/windows/3.10/">https://www.pcjs.org/software/pcx86/sys/windows/3.10/</a><br/><br/>2/<br/><br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub134j8agl5pagfxd0xa2pcfr73ryhldcwhdgydr33v9pxnpwx79x4qszjry0" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>TabbsTheBat</span> (<span class="italic">npub134j…jry0</span>)</a></span> 2025-09-27T03:31:25Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsvmexmkppwlq5yed4fe9mndlr8h8sl22040ec55zuekrg6ygc7j2szyzmgjm4ehzujvw5zu2mk466yqxfu4pu92erqydk53fldqw0ucm0nq632y7f In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfgsuy58ae0hk0zw2znduty64tvutkc6rwmrrcehc0wv5qaa6gcxg48gazv'>nevent1q…gazv</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Yeah, sorry, my instance is running Mastodon 4.1. 😅 I dunno if newer versions can render quotes, but this one doesn&#39;t.<br/><br/>Reusing the existing popup window would be fine too, but note that it may have to change size when going up/down a nesting level.<br/><br/>Can confirm, I am a KDE user and GNOME apps cause me dismay. 😋<br/><br/>I&#39;m not a fan of “do one thing well.” Are we also going to remove the &amp; command from less because you can do more-or-less the same thing with grep? Course not.<br/><br/>1/<br/><br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub134j8agl5pagfxd0xa2pcfr73ryhldcwhdgydr33v9pxnpwx79x4qszjry0" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>TabbsTheBat</span> (<span class="italic">npub134j…jry0</span>)</a></span> 2025-09-27T03:31:10Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsdwq8ac8h3nkpfv8zcv960rsj0r584xe4av7ha57tmtjsxe52qfaczyzmgjm4ehzujvw5zu2mk466yqxfu4pu92erqydk53fldqw0ucm0nquqfnp0 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsv0dq2u7ls7hze0zrcx4hm0mwwku8a369ru02m5tqfyzwga35xurqs5svlz'>nevent1q…svlz</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Sadly that laptop was not convertible, so the only way to actually use that touchscreen was by holding up my arm to the laptop touchscreen sitting on the desk. My arm would get tired after a while.<br/><br/>I haven&#39;t used traditional UI on a tablet or convertible laptop. Definitely would give it a try if I had the opportunity.<br/><br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub134j8agl5pagfxd0xa2pcfr73ryhldcwhdgydr33v9pxnpwx79x4qszjry0" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>TabbsTheBat</span> (<span class="italic">npub134j…jry0</span>)</a></span> 2025-09-27T02:46:35Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsv0dq2u7ls7hze0zrcx4hm0mwwku8a369ru02m5tqfyzwga35xurqzyzmgjm4ehzujvw5zu2mk466yqxfu4pu92erqydk53fldqw0ucm0nq3datsa In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdkvuz8jq0vsrmldq0xs0hnvnzmnrlzgh02zhsgfexv0vln45vpcs4l886d'>nevent1q…886d</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>By the way, I have used a touchscreen laptop before, and yeah, menu bars work fine with touch.<br/><br/>So do scroll bars! You can hold your thumb on the edge of the screen and move it up/down to rapidly and precisely scroll through the whole document. It&#39;s actually pretty neat and useful.<br/><br/>From what I&#39;ve seen, most complaints to the effect of “it doesn&#39;t work with touch” actually mean “it doesn&#39;t work with phones.” On big touchscreens, traditional UI works mostly fine.<br/><br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub134j8agl5pagfxd0xa2pcfr73ryhldcwhdgydr33v9pxnpwx79x4qszjry0" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>TabbsTheBat</span> (<span class="italic">npub134j…jry0</span>)</a></span> 2025-09-27T02:37:43Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsxg3l4pz3jser7mdc3jr8auz5pdzq9z0y6vzdt8mfehm7nenxreaczyzmgjm4ehzujvw5zu2mk466yqxfu4pu92erqydk53fldqw0ucm0nqw7hrn2 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsrlksp9ksghtc33xsrfdlrrt0j3zdkc4f4ghzgrwgf7lmgq8y0a0ss6lsd2'>nevent1q…lsd2</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>If Mastodon is dead, who the heck have I been talking to all this time? 😂 Nah, this place is doing great and I love it to bits. ❤️ 2025-09-27T02:31:37Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsdkvuz8jq0vsrmldq0xs0hnvnzmnrlzgh02zhsgfexv0vln45vpcszyzmgjm4ehzujvw5zu2mk466yqxfu4pu92erqydk53fldqw0ucm0nq8xadyg In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswt8s2u6ddhl8j0xgn6lap2z7u5ak2y3whuqx2n2gv79k0668wxscsaqn9r'>nevent1q…qn9r</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>The Office Ribbon is basically just a menu bar whose items produce a toolbar instead of a linear menu. Microsoft took the old Office 2003 menus and toolbars, and smooshed them together. The result isn&#39;t bad, but it also isn&#39;t really all that different from what it replaced.<br/><br/>4/end<br/><br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub134j8agl5pagfxd0xa2pcfr73ryhldcwhdgydr33v9pxnpwx79x4qszjry0" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>TabbsTheBat</span> (<span class="italic">npub134j…jry0</span>)</a></span> 2025-09-27T02:29:10Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqswt8s2u6ddhl8j0xgn6lap2z7u5ak2y3whuqx2n2gv79k0668wxsczyzmgjm4ehzujvw5zu2mk466yqxfu4pu92erqydk53fldqw0ucm0nq0dpm0w In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9vef4pjwm5hjqyue4ytna6xaw9200ppjfw9gs073uxddkqxh50dcrs95wx'>nevent1q…95wx</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Menu bars are perfectly usable on touchscreens large enough to fit them with fingertip-sized fonts. It&#39;s a screen-size problem, not a layout or input-method problem. Obviously this necessitates some other layout on small touchscreens (i.e. phones), but that doesn&#39;t mean we need to remove menu bars from screens that *are* big enough to accommodate them.<br/><br/>3/<br/><br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub134j8agl5pagfxd0xa2pcfr73ryhldcwhdgydr33v9pxnpwx79x4qszjry0" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>TabbsTheBat</span> (<span class="italic">npub134j…jry0</span>)</a></span> 2025-09-27T02:29:03Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs9vef4pjwm5hjqyue4ytna6xaw9200ppjfw9gs073uxddkqxh50dczyzmgjm4ehzujvw5zu2mk466yqxfu4pu92erqydk53fldqw0ucm0nqye3s2x In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswnqkz3lcuc5vnycx2fjkwgkv0lg5rvprfc4fgz0lgpclyfrgkt2cerx0fu'>nevent1q…x0fu</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Settings belongs in either a dedicated Settings menu (KDE) or the application menu (macOS). Easy peasy. Besides, apps without menu bars are worse: Settings is usually hidden behind an icon that has no textual label at all.<br/><br/>2/<br/><br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub134j8agl5pagfxd0xa2pcfr73ryhldcwhdgydr33v9pxnpwx79x4qszjry0" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>TabbsTheBat</span> (<span class="italic">npub134j…jry0</span>)</a></span> 2025-09-27T02:28:55Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqswnqkz3lcuc5vnycx2fjkwgkv0lg5rvprfc4fgz0lgpclyfrgkt2czyzmgjm4ehzujvw5zu2mk466yqxfu4pu92erqydk53fldqw0ucm0nqteegs7 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsd6t3e94l69g7gvtsj3yzgtzurp0rjdrvmf9gw9kaznyc7fsg4lccyy3pgl'>nevent1q…3pgl</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>There&#39;s an easy solution to the multiple-expandable-menu-items problem: expand and dismiss menus only on click/tap, not on hover.<br/><br/>“If your app only does a few things, which most modern apps do” is frankly a silly statement to make in 2025. Apps these days have far more functionality than what you&#39;d find in a typical 1990s Mac or Windows app.<br/><br/>1/<br/><br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub134j8agl5pagfxd0xa2pcfr73ryhldcwhdgydr33v9pxnpwx79x4qszjry0" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>TabbsTheBat</span> (<span class="italic">npub134j…jry0</span>)</a></span> 2025-09-27T02:28:41Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsrgyv2w5a79xz26gjrj0nveklv0wccmexwauzqgytze8dtwaev7vqzyzmgjm4ehzujvw5zu2mk466yqxfu4pu92erqydk53fldqw0ucm0nqfg3vnh In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsffmk6gfgys6ylddc7z4hj5g8y34v8acn84cqm3akg6a8q8ja8nuqnthhd9'>nevent1q…hhd9</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>All of which are significantly more difficult to learn and use.<br/><br/>In conventional menus, everything has a text label (not just an icon) and the keyboard shortcut (if any) is shown right next to it.<br/><br/>Apple and Microsoft got it right the first time.<br/><br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub134j8agl5pagfxd0xa2pcfr73ryhldcwhdgydr33v9pxnpwx79x4qszjry0" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>TabbsTheBat</span> (<span class="italic">npub134j…jry0</span>)</a></span> 2025-09-27T01:33:00Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsy802rqg5nv6lkev8wr8ez5cq2dnegmhsnr5zl4fvce2kduh6wk8czyzmgjm4ehzujvw5zu2mk466yqxfu4pu92erqydk53fldqw0ucm0nqsx4dl2 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsw68mrvuqrkm3suvt3j5uvcvtmse7730hpsdszgsk7ugc9edr56wsj7h6jr'>nevent1q…h6jr</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I have #Debian #Linux running on my 15-year-old laptop, with the full #KDE Plasma 6 bells-and-whistles setup.<br/><br/>With the exception of web browsers and programming tools, this system&#39;s performance is about the same as #KDEPlasma 4 on similar hardware 15 years ago. All the fancy new features since then have had a performance cost of basically zero.<br/><br/>This platform is amazing. It is successfully defying the laws of software engineering. <a href="https://itlaw.fandom.com/wiki/Laws_of_Software">https://itlaw.fandom.com/wiki/Laws_of_Software</a> 2025-08-30T06:18:09Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsg37tjk0ca2ru5fqdy39ap444yh2dn3y7dvs3jwgynsy0jv9andggzyzmgjm4ehzujvw5zu2mk466yqxfu4pu92erqydk53fldqw0ucm0nq0x03fx Doctor Pulaski was right.<br/><br/>#StarTrek #StarTrekTNG #StarTrekDS9 #shitpost #meme<br/> <img src="https://mastodon.sdf.org/system/media_attachments/files/115/091/601/226/404/821/original/2a0153257c1d1f43.jpg"> <br/> 2025-08-25T21:48:39Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs2dm4ry8ujvd7kzjhxcwhrw42zssc0rnh83ur9n9a4vkjdadvmxdgzyzmgjm4ehzujvw5zu2mk466yqxfu4pu92erqydk53fldqw0ucm0nquhwc7u #USB keyboards can&#39;t interrupt the CPU themselves, but the USB controller continuously polls them and will interrupt it on their behalf. Loudly.<br/><br/>#keyboard #shitpost<br/> <img src="https://mastodon.sdf.org/system/media_attachments/files/115/091/467/373/848/760/original/fb5f08efeb9bdcad.png"> <br/> 2025-08-25T21:18:16Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsttm8qlqmw99w075ygzxaex0uar8jmgw0u9j7fz9kwdtmdkaft8qqzyzmgjm4ehzujvw5zu2mk466yqxfu4pu92erqydk53fldqw0ucm0nqnp63cc In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8tu322xgw5femgz67w6uacc4msglyl2ahvd9mglwh0z8zg2cxazsm4fj60'>nevent1q…fj60</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Induction lamps do exist. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induction_lamp">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induction_lamp</a> 2025-08-18T06:26:00Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs28zwercecg8n7l33k0m6ph5pgygmjjsfudzmhuaczqqyg8rz85nqzyzmgjm4ehzujvw5zu2mk466yqxfu4pu92erqydk53fldqw0ucm0nqeneagx Everybody knows what a light-emitting diode is.<br/><br/>It&#39;s fairly common knowledge that incandescent lightbulbs are light-emitting resistors.<br/><br/>I briefly wondered if there&#39;s such a thing as a light-emitting capacitor. Then I remembered that yes, yes there is: a cathode ray tube.<br/><br/>#CRT 2025-08-17T21:30:34Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsfd8skrmthzpzegqvq5mswgwhvams0e9w22rcwex2gurprh4nkzcqzyzmgjm4ehzujvw5zu2mk466yqxfu4pu92erqydk53fldqw0ucm0nqkh4ljd I wonder if there are any places with a non-rectangular flag. 2025-08-16T02:23:31Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqspzg9h2p2t4upjszy5k20n0gv33w4p8vvflylcc7zl3n36dyccyxqzyzmgjm4ehzujvw5zu2mk466yqxfu4pu92erqydk53fldqw0ucm0nqt75rx5 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdtwx433hsdt42xf3ysa799qn2ha92cchx4uup6geu9se8afjh3tcetc63f'>nevent1q…c63f</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Sounds like the name of a comedy show about the dating lives of middle-aged rural women.<br/><br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1nf4p4rh06z6n6lsvje4txk7eqs23y3hs8vd7nraq6tgwady5qvsqy3nqe4" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>John Carlos Baez</span> (<span class="italic">npub1nf4…nqe4</span>)</a></span> 2025-08-15T18:12:19Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs263qx6f77wamphxz4m76vjtusp2rzzcp649sdyjhempqme7ujztczyzmgjm4ehzujvw5zu2mk466yqxfu4pu92erqydk53fldqw0ucm0nqsewycp In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsgpt2un64688ehszedm8dwfwh3u3nnmj7qzv0vxyph0q9uahvautsnae0pw'>nevent1q…e0pw</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I remember #Borland back then having a cool #installer too. It looked like you were driving down a highway. Road signs would tell you about the exciting features of the thing you were installing.<br/><br/>#retrocomputing 2025-08-03T02:22:12Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsgpt2un64688ehszedm8dwfwh3u3nnmj7qzv0vxyph0q9uahvautszyzmgjm4ehzujvw5zu2mk466yqxfu4pu92erqydk53fldqw0ucm0nqt94s3h I miss the experience of installing things from floppy disks.<br/><br/>Back then, you could *hear* the installation process! 2025-08-03T02:20:07Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsf5esfwr6rk27m7kn3g4hqjzzdz5lfq5kal4e7m8zd64v0unycc3czyzmgjm4ehzujvw5zu2mk466yqxfu4pu92erqydk53fldqw0ucm0nqc0qn7g In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9zc0g0g6f9fe5669wep947zmmnkmpgksluj3r54krfn6jw0qcj4s60ulz5'>nevent1q…ulz5</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Let&#39;s Encrypt is discontinuing TLS *client* certificates. Were you submitting a TLS client certificate to Google&#39;s SMTP server? I was under the impression that DKIM was used to authenticate the sending server, not a TLS client certificate.<br/><br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1sv87h97jmwjy0jxz2luv3rxh2scvmr2fd9wx3g2pfnmxqx87w8dsdn7xja" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>JustBob 🪖🇺🇸♒️</span> (<span class="italic">npub1sv8…7xja</span>)</a></span> <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub14vu6kv6afage0lglr2kqlx39px9yacfz2720v7hkxn05hnhxck6q259wlz" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Jonah Aragon :MN:</span> (<span class="italic">npub14vu…9wlz</span>)</a></span> <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1wlc44acr9wy7uydzn3hhh32fydxjk679572df83kjw3pcy96nlzqw7qmf5" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>The Anomalous Seige</span> (<span class="italic">npub1wlc…qmf5</span>)</a></span> 2025-07-23T22:00:13Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsqjkeqannrvtdnggydsm66j5knawyyjtg2sdxw4cujhgrww0ekn7gzyzmgjm4ehzujvw5zu2mk466yqxfu4pu92erqydk53fldqw0ucm0nq52ekkc For all its faults, copy-and-paste is still a pretty neat feature.<br/><br/>I just copied a funny picture I saw in my Mastodon feed and pasted it into a Gajim chat, and it worked, just like that.<br/><br/>To someone who&#39;d been using a single-tasking computer like an IBM PC or Commodore 64 or something, moving an object from one app to another unrelated app like that must&#39;ve been mind-blowing when it first appeared.<br/><br/>Who had it first, by the way? #MacOS via MultiFinder? #Amiga? #Windows?<br/><br/>#retrocomputing 2025-07-15T20:00:17Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs9mukdzrpuvyd59ys4qxdv293w5s7d7y2uw7sns9wy3dq79vgepqczyzmgjm4ehzujvw5zu2mk466yqxfu4pu92erqydk53fldqw0ucm0nqtdznpc Well, this is odd. I&#39;m on a new character, just got his first complement of duty officers, and somehow also got about 20 emergency R&amp;D holograms! Must be a bug.<br/><br/>#StarTrekOnline 2025-07-09T16:16:45Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqszfskc8nww9297g2vwq4e7u6l64fq4vvqx6s5ntukwsm6sjypcqhczyzmgjm4ehzujvw5zu2mk466yqxfu4pu92erqydk53fldqw0ucm0nqmpfz7c In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs29yvhy2ay6eknuqv8xdxshh7ewn3jw6d3p0ec8u6lxx5hn2w4kcs3urtrr'>nevent1q…rtrr</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>That won&#39;t work. Brains age too.<br/><br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1dd0n6gzad6dmf8zjev3cue27xu5u5ruukxsam28a68cxprzzy3cqtp7z5l" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Riker Googling</span> (<span class="italic">npub1dd0…7z5l</span>)</a></span> 2025-07-06T19:03:44Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsg78jxuk37609a6f89ts5ykxsh3knajnjrpyrf95uxg0eqtw8l8yczyzmgjm4ehzujvw5zu2mk466yqxfu4pu92erqydk53fldqw0ucm0nqwjxdu4 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqstw025frxcefrx2knrvsy2g8wsdqv50cf9tp5glpjdj96w5jv9xucec870w'>nevent1q…870w</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I remember somebody running a blog and trying to get it to go viral on Fedi as a stress test. “Break me, you cowards!” were his exact words, as I recall. It was indeed boosted quite a lot. Probably every instance in the Fediverse hit his server to generate a preview, not to mention all the human visitors.<br/><br/>At no point in this experiment did his server ever get even remotely close to overload.<br/><br/>Modern computers are *incredibly* fast…as long as you program them with care.<br/><br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1huw9tr0cwmrnezvkg439zpqydp9sws2hphv0z6w6dlzus04ft59s6jc5x7" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Neil Brown</span> (<span class="italic">npub1huw…c5x7</span>)</a></span> 2025-06-29T19:48:28Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs9vdueyhaup9la4j55r89arpapx8mehgya9f6n6c9kwq4gvlnurwgzyzmgjm4ehzujvw5zu2mk466yqxfu4pu92erqydk53fldqw0ucm0nqe5rawz #PatrickStewart in 1987: “I&#39;ll just play a part on this lame starship show for a year, and then get back to Shakespeare. No problem. I got this.”<br/><br/>Patrick Stewart in 2025: world-famous as the captain on the starship show<br/><br/>#StarTrek #shitpost 2025-06-25T00:25:10Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsp9dmgqc2wspst8wuzuknyhp9pst0zgwkzuswurfqej9g7aqspuvszyzmgjm4ehzujvw5zu2mk466yqxfu4pu92erqydk53fldqw0ucm0nq3x23tv “Let&#39;s just store bits in a bunch of little capacitors. Capacitors are fast and cheap, right?“<br/><br/>“Yeah, but those bits would be stored for, what, a few milliseconds?”<br/><br/>“What if we recharge the capacitors?”<br/><br/>“Every few milliseconds?!”<br/><br/>“Yeah. Sure.”<br/><br/>“…It&#39;s just crazy enough to work.”<br/><br/>—the inventors of #DRAM, probably<br/><br/>#retrocomputing #shitpost 2025-06-24T19:35:18Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsty9tl633jssyj36mh92c2jx7zw33tzsr3477u87cmuhl3jfvekgqzyzmgjm4ehzujvw5zu2mk466yqxfu4pu92erqydk53fldqw0ucm0nqm8zkmw Was out cruising around in a big, ponderous Ha&#39;apax when I saw somebody darting all around me in a Defiant.<br/><br/>You&#39;d think a ship that fast would have the hull strength of wet tissue paper, but you&#39;d be wrong. It had no trouble blasting Undine right back into the portals they came out of.<br/><br/>Tough little ship.<br/><br/>#StarTrek #StarTrekOnline 2025-06-03T04:25:37Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsx0zjy7jc04s6e66d0hjn0ny3j8qdd9gf5ywertwg0mgxps6cjrlgzyzmgjm4ehzujvw5zu2mk466yqxfu4pu92erqydk53fldqw0ucm0nqwskks4 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqvs2zj9umd0d9pmj0mq6pwdx0tywxq890fel3awsscgj5yj8gqwcjlp2xv'>nevent1q…p2xv</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>In this thread: people who can read Elvish. 2025-05-31T22:54:04Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqstsa3ys8tzjewkzuj72f0s2ekfrh7wm3s52luyaw3qz7nf8dav3agzyzmgjm4ehzujvw5zu2mk466yqxfu4pu92erqydk53fldqw0ucm0nqp9l8kh In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvtng0uhg7972nzfu0paq8hkllpjx993n3eq3hs7nwyxzauqc63fg9eq66p'>nevent1q…q66p</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Two plasma, one tetryon. 2025-05-30T02:16:28Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs93cwyq84r4tctwg3r67pkyyp2zujj7qch0ud6dr7uzw28t65u7nqzyzmgjm4ehzujvw5zu2mk466yqxfu4pu92erqydk53fldqw0ucm0nqlzqyut Sela talked tough about her fancy dreadnought and its full might and all, but it didn&#39;t last long with 3 pairs of rapid-fire heavy dual cannons pointed at it. Toodles!<br/><br/>#StarTrek #StarTrekOnline 2025-05-29T16:50:43Z