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Ariel Millennium Thornton

Welcome to Computer Fairies, where the ✨​sparkles✨​ are lively fairy dust, not lifeless AI slop.

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Don't blindly believe everything you read online, tempting as that is. Do your homework first. This video series will help you do it well: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8d

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Remember to pop your filter bubble every so often. If you think you're not in one, you're trapped in one and in for a rude awakening.

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Today's tech support call that'll stay with me for a while was helping a customer regain access to their email. They're elderly, and their child was the one talking to me.

They use Microsoft Office, but one of the last versions to come in a box, and after looking all over, we found it's an edition without Outlook. But they use Outlook.

But Outlook for Windows wasn't set up, either. We eventually found out it's Outlook for Edge. Outlook the website. To access a non-MS IMAP box. Happy 2026.

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maple "mavica" syrup [6502]

the state of both app and web development at the minute is that more than once now i have had an app tell me that i should be using the app instead

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maple "mavica" syrup [6502]

i want less programs on my computer to be webpages

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Pavel A. Samsonov

Love how every website now has a popup that tells you "our website is hot dogshit, download the app instead"

And then the app is just an Electron wrapper around the same JS they could have put on the website if they didn't hate you personally

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keirFox

Yeah, fursuit heads are cool and all but what about when you want to be a purple sparkle kitty and want back/neck problems ?

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disregard Joe Groff

making sure my codebase is properly agentic

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Artificial intelligence as in fake diplomas

or

Speed-running security vulnerabilities at scale

Ars Technica, 2026-05-26, "Millions of AI agents imperiled by critical vulnerability in open source package": arstechnica.com/information-te

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Admiral Wonderboat

how do you get this thing down?

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mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6)

@decay so long, fsckers! i rev up the spindle motors on my 15k rpm SCSI dsik array and create a huge cloud of smoke. when the cloud dissipates im laying there totally kernel panicked on the pavement

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Vx. Princess "size_t queen" Grace :qvp:

HANK: If you make your fursona a pokemon, where are you gonna be in a few years when the next big fad comes around?
BOBBY: Then I'll just get a new one.
HANK: Bobby, a fursona isn't just something you throw away when something new comes along. It's a piece of yourself. Why, I've had Lyndon here for thirty years.
BOBBY: Here comes the ref sheet.
HANK: (takes a folded up piece of paper out of his wallet. his fursona is a jacked as hell bloodhound)

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I don't want to put the preinstalled Windows 7 back on this netbook because it's too underpowered. It came with Windows 7 Starter, I bought and activated a Windows 7 Home Basic license using its Windows Anytime Upgrade, and that turned out to bloat the already sluggish experience.

Since the way back is a poor vintage computing experience, the way forward might be Haiku. I just wonder if it supports the weird graphics resolution 1024x600.

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I just found out the hard way that FreeBSD effectively abandoned my Atom netbook starting with 14.3.

The upgrade from the now-EOL 14.2 succeeded, except the drm, i915kms, and other kernel module friends were removed from the i386 pkg repos, & graphics/drm-61-kmod, the only drm-kmod port, refuses to try building on i386.

Looks like this is the end of the Unix-likes road for still fully working x86 PCs.

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Kroc Camen

It's so damn awful: blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/ne

I don't want rounded tabs. I didn't ask for rounded tabs. My tabs are square, I wish to remain on square tabs, but instead they're going to just change the default theme so I don't even get a voice on how shit this redesign is -- they'll herald it a complete success regardless

I am so sick of these redesigns based on nothing but immature, ignorant and baseless vibes.

#firefox #ux #ui

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ɹ uɐp :antifascism:

well it's #FailFriday

do not pass go
do not push to prod

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Mizuki :3 :no_ai:

BACK IN MY DAY, AI STOOD FOR ADOBE ILLUSTRSTOR, AND WE HATED THAT TOO

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SetSideB

Using COBOL As A Shader Language
Yep, what's in the title apparently can be done.

COBOL stands for Common Business-Oriented Language, and is an extremely verbose language designed purposely to be understandable to managers. Everything in COBOL reads like it does, which makes it hard to work with. A fair portion of the financial world still runs on COBOL, in some ca
setsideb.com/using-cobol-as-a-
#niche #cobol #niche #ShaderLanguage #StupidComputerTricks #Vulkan

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I stand corrected. The 32-bit Windows versions had Edit.com, but the 64-bit versions didn't. However, starting with 25H2, Windows 11 *does* have a remade and open source text editor named Edit.com, and it works in both Cmd.exe and Powershell.

Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-DOS_E

GitHub: github.com/microsoft/edit

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It's the weekend, baby

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dj editor cake

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Windows Script Host is still in Windows 11, & it chooses the VBScript interpreter if a text file is saved with a ".vbs" extension instead of a ".txt" one.

But Windows 11 doesn't even have Notepad anymore, let alone Edit, Edlin, or any other text editor.

Oddly enough, KDE's Kate text editor is in the Microsoft Store. I used it to make sure what I just said was true, & writing a simple "helloworld.vbs" file sparked a moment of joy I haven't felt in any current Windows version in 15 years.

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