noughtnaut

@noughtnaut@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Man, the SE, ImageWriter, and LaserWriter really were peak industrial design. Ain’t nobody gonna convince me otherwise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man-in-the-Middle PCB Unlocks HP Ink Cartridges⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I went directly from a dot matrix (ImageWriter II ftw!) to a laser. Except for photo prints, I find it immensely practical to be able to print stuff at home.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NIST proposes barring some of the most nonsensical password rules⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Emoji passwords made me think of the Lotus Notes password prompt with their little images that changed as I typed (which never really made sense to me).

  Yes, I’m old…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨French dig team gets 200-year-old note from archaeologist⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Michael Crichton’s “Timeline” (1999) says hello.

  Keep digging, you’ll find eyeglasses and Jeep tracks, I’m sure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How many squirrels do you think you could take in a fight to the death?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Are they evil attack squirrels of death? If so, one should be plenty.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What games popularized certain mechanics?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry about the surprise prussians. I was never any good at typing on glass, I much prefer an actual keyboard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is bringing annoying Windows 11 Start menu ads to Windows 10⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The way your comment reads, you’ve been using Windows 3.11 these past decades. 😂

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What games popularized certain mechanics?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Dune II - basically the grandfather of every RTS game or there. Teams, resource collection, tech tree, fog of war, et cetera. Or preussiske it was (not World of) War raft, it’s been too long and memory gets fuzzy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cars Are Now Rolling Computers Now. So What Happens When They Stop Getting Updates?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Cars should just come with a big open socket up front, where I can buy (or build) my own infotainment system to install there.

  …which is precisely what we used to have, before auto makers decided to insist that they should be enclosed in a swooping dash.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I get rid of my dead name in iPadOS settings?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m glad you ask about things you don’t know. You’re a smart person.

  A dead name is a person’s given name, in the context of a person having transitioned to a different gender and also changing their name to match the gender they identify as. It is bad form to then continue to call them by their birth name.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Blue screen of death’ at the ballpark: How the Mariners tapped a tech nerve in viral rally video⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of ATM cash machines run Windows 7. Yes, still.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We have to stop ignoring AI’s hallucination problem⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh that is hilarious! Just on my first listen but I don’t quite get the lyrics - am deeply disappointed that the video doesn’t have subs. 🤭

  Found it on Spotify. It’s so much worse with lyrics. Thank you for sharing a version without them! 🙏

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Slack under attack over sneaky AI training policy⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Difficult, how?

  Migrate to Mattermost, done.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨life pro tip!!⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “A lethal dose is a lifetime supply.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘They thought they were doing good but it made people worse’: why mental health apps are under scrutiny⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For a second, I thought this was going to be about Reavers…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Very. And he was going blind, too. I read a marvellous interview with him not too long ago, I’ll see if I can find it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨bash.org is gone⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s the Internet archive archive. It’s being funded by all the excess donations that archive.org themselves can’t find a way to spend.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NASA's interstellar Voyager probes get software updates beamed from 12 billion miles away⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Imagine driving for 18 light hours 😬

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So long, small phones⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Look into rooting it and putting a different Android rom on it, I’m sure there’s something for your phone to extend its life quite a bit.

  …unless you’re tired of that phone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Cloud Is a Prison. Can the Local-First Software Movement Set Us Free?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Good not.

  I am so happy to see some of the useful bots make a reappearance here. And you got yourself quite the nifty name, too.