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- Comment on Steve Jobs unveiled the NeXT Computer on this day in 1988 — 'The Cube' would be used to develop the WWW, Doom, and Quake 2 days ago:
Yes. I developed a weakness for ancient workstations in the early 2000s and had all sort of shit. A few SUNs, SGIs (Octane, e320, Indigo2), an IBM multiprocessor machine (with distinct Xeon CPUs) and HPs but I could never get my hands on a next.
- Comment on i enjoy high fructose corn syrup too 4 days ago:
If you can’t kill it or fuck it then eat it. It’s that easy.
- Comment on The Web is Going to Die 1 week ago:
Well, have a look what content is getting the most views. I had no idea someone could be that stupid.
- Comment on The Web is Going to Die 1 week ago:
Gopher was not the original protocol of the web but an alternative to HTTP/hypertext. It didn’t get the same traction, however, and has practically been dead for decades.
- Comment on The Web is Going to Die 1 week ago:
That’s why almost no ISP is offering it anymore. No one made money from it, so dump it, maybe try to squeeze some cash out of those hwo really want it but better just drop it.
- Comment on Framework supporting far-right racists? 1 week ago:
Ze right way to replace “th” is as always ze German one. Zat’s an order! And if zee AI zen sounds like ze Führer it’s just for ze better. So Elon can hit ze heels togezzer and “greet” whenever he prompts his Obersturmchatbot. Jawohl, Scheisskopf! Hollahiaho, Potzblitz und Schweinefricken zugenäht!
- Comment on The Web is Going to Die 1 week ago:
…and YouTube is one of the major reasons. The web’s not a fucking TV and if you’re using it as a TV you’ll get stupid even faster than from watching actual TV.
- Comment on Personal data storage is an idea whose time has come 1 week ago:
I can’t say I’d understand what mysterious kind of data it might be that’s stored in social media networks but is owned and used by myself. Really - I don’t have any data I’d want to make use of stored in any social network, except banal stuff like my last few listens at Music Brainz. Usually you’re uploading the sort of data you want to be published to social media. They’re not created there, so why would I need a URL other than
file://with a local path attached to access it. I also seriously doubt that klicking “Save as…” really is some secret and complex ritual known only to immortals and the priest caste, nowadays. (I might be wrong here. I just do not have anything to do with mortals or godfood in my daily life.) - Comment on Personal data storage is an idea whose time has come 1 week ago:
But… but, there is no such thing as local storage. There are just other people’s clouds!
- Comment on Dutch chips star exec slams EU for overregulating AI 1 week ago:
Big tech droid decries “over-regulation”. More news at 11.
- Comment on Apple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.” 1 week ago:
Yes, yes. Reinvent language and everything will be fine. Just as the woirld is now so much better before “political correctness”. Idiot.
- Comment on Apple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.” 1 week ago:
It’s not that it’s not profitable for them.
- Comment on Apple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.” 1 week ago:
“Install” includes installing from an app store no matter how closed down and exlusive. The correct term would be “install from other sources than an app store” which is just clunky. Calling it “sideloading” won’t change that nor will calling it “your mom”. Considering how many corporate-speak terms are in use and how many braindead abbreviations and terms shortened to a word’s last syllable -completely distorting the original meaning- generally are in use, the term “sideloading” is pretty irrelevant. Either lose your mind listening to the bullshit people permanently are emitting or just live with it…
- Comment on Apple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.” 1 week ago:
Did you mean “web site”? Because, according to Cory Doktorov an app is just a website wrapped into enough IP to make it a felony blocking ads in it.
- Comment on Has this ever happened to you? 1 week ago:
I’d be sexist if I said it was women’s nature and blah whatever. I’m sure it’s more or less a social matter, nevermind that as far as I know it applies to pretty much any known culture, ancient or actual. The reason might be that humans are not so different actually, no matter what your fucking leaders might tell you. And you, Mr “pickup artist” might notice that I did not refer to the sort of occasion you’re talking about. The situation the OP describes is obviously not an invitation to a menage a trois.
- Comment on Has this ever happened to you? 1 week ago:
As a guy, lyou’d be a total idiot to agree. Single guy on a date with two girls is definitely going to make a fool out of himself and have a terrible evening. Call me sexist, blame social whatnotever for it but it’s as sure as the night is dark. These two have known each other and longer than you so you’re the outsider and there’s that unspoken, inevirtable rivality between you and her best friend. No fucking change. BTW, I’d wonder what people might say if gender roles were reversed here. Lol… “I gotta bring my buddy. For safety.”
- Comment on This is what RFK Jr actually believes... 2 weeks ago:
Needs Frankenstein switches, huge insulators and ball capacitors for more realism. I’m coninced that electricity causes autism, too.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Because you didn’t have to look up in the printed documentation to find some useless explanation of everything except your actual problem.
- Comment on YSK the basic techniques for "deprogramming" people who you think are in a cult 3 weeks ago:
I recommend Nietzsche, sword and fire. It’s all for their eternal souls after all.
- Comment on YSK that cholesterol is only found in significant quantities in animal products. 1 month ago:
Go, score us some speed, but try not to get burned this time, Fat Freddy…
- Comment on YSK that cholesterol is only found in significant quantities in animal products. 1 month ago:
Food is highly overrated anyway. It’s highly unhealthy, expensive, carbon-wasting and is the main reason for obesity.
- Comment on need help on old CRT tv 1 month ago:
Unlikely. The interference from the electric motor just worked because analog TVs used to recieve a (weak) analog signal via antenna. That doesn’t apply to the HDMI/RF connector. I suspect the CRT might not be able to deal with the HDMI converter’s line frequency. Also., I don’t know if the CRT has a separate composite input - if you go in via the antenna input be sure to set the converter to RF, not to composite output if possible. Composite and RF signal are not the same.
- Comment on scholarly evidences for the resurrection 1 month ago:
Bigfoot died for our sins!
- Comment on YSK: Almost every single new logo you see is ai slop 1 month ago:
Human created, yes. Sadly often enough not by the same humans who took the money.
- Comment on YSK: Almost every single new logo you see is ai slop 1 month ago:
Could be worse. Imagine the same slop in a more baroque style…
- Comment on YSK: Almost every single new logo you see is ai slop 1 month ago:
TBF, if they had an idea about design, specifically about typo and logos they’d not be clients. Idiots… that’s a different topic, but let’s agree that some types with a strictly technical or -worse- strictly economical background have quite bizarre ideas in the visual field. It really get annoying if they’re perfectly sure they know better than you.
- Comment on Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed 2 months ago:
Social media will be fixed by - wait for it…
Now.
Done. Fixed it, you may thank me later.
Yours,
B-TR3E - the man who fixed social media
- Comment on Chanterelles!! 2 months ago:
Becquerelles! At least where I live. ☹️
- Comment on No JS, No CSS, No HTML: online "clubs" celebrate plainer websites 3 months ago:
Yes. I think we’re missing each other pinpointing details while meaning the same. Every browser has it’s defaut or “standard” style, nowadays even adapting to the system theme and trying to guess if to use day or night settings etc. Nevertheless it won’t break lines in a reasonable way, won’t deal with footnotes in an acceptable way and either break the layout of pure text pages or the layout of illustrated pages. HTML5 makes these specific things somewhat better as it allows realtively advanced document structure but nevertheless, a few lines of CSS to reflect at least the prinipial character of the document are unlikely to hurt anyone in a worse way than a one-style-fits-all layout for everything will hurt tha vast majority.
- Comment on No JS, No CSS, No HTML: online "clubs" celebrate plainer websites 3 months ago:
That’s not even convincing pedantery. Nobody would assune that a browser’s standard style might be an RFC, IETF- or in any way official standard,