Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

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

I just realized it's been over a decade since I last answered a tech support phone call about dial-up Internet problems.

Every time it rained, whole communities would be either unable to get above 14.4 Kbps or dial in at all until the telco lines and boxes dried. Many of those support calls came over phone lines that hummed and crackled as loud as the callers' voices. More than once the interference was so bad I had to fall back to radio procedure in order to give support.

The Cereal Project at MrBreakfast.com is genuinely peak Web design.

https://www.mrbreakfast.com/cereal_home.asp

Mueslix sounds like it should be the name of a Linux distro made of a lightly processed and loosely mixed collection of software components.

Before the advent of TCP (Transfem Communication Protocol), infodump data was often relayed by GGCP (Girl to Girl Copy) via PPP (Puppy to Puppy Protocol) links.

The FCC decided the orbital flashlight company can go ahead and pollute the night sky of the entire planet with it's misnamed Earendil-1 satellite. I have too many questions.

Its mass is 16 kg.
Its surface area is 18x18 m (324 m^2).
Its orbital altitude is 600-650 km.

How much power does a ground laser need to emit to push it into an escape orbit?

How much power does it need to emit to damage its reflective surface material?

BBC, 2026-07-29, "Farage's by-election in Clacton officially confirmed": https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwylzxw7p52o

Notable quote:

Green Party MP Hannah Spencer said: "We get to spend the summer watching Clacton, a farce of a by-election where one of the candidates is a joke character filled with rubbish and the other is Count Binface."