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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.

I tried downloading a car, but it crashed. Now I got a notification my modem device driver insurance rate went up.

actually if it's a real Sony Laserdiscman, it'd probably be a CRVDisc, their own laserdisc variant format, which comes with a CARTRIDGE!

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uspol, geopol, food 

I'd suggest turning the rich, especially warhawks, into humanitarian ration pouches, but they're neither kosher nor halal.

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uspol, geopol, food 

I'm eating a pouch of "U.S. GOVERNMENT PROPERTY COMMERCIAL RESALE IS UNLAWFUL" I purchased commercially from a bodega, and I'm wondering:

If the rich are going to send off our young people to die in yet another forever war in yet another foreign land because the people's skin isn't white and the liquid in the reservoirs under their feet is black, the surely there's a way we can feed our troops by cooking, canning, freeze-drying, and preserving the rich industrially into MREs.

does anyone on here know how windows mobile typically boots? and if its possible to run other operating systems on it?

Lame Unix/Linux joke, minor Babylon 5 spoiler 

:trash:​✨​ The command

rm -vir Mr_Morden/

means remove Mr_Morden and his associates, and show proof suitable for Vir Cotto.

BUGS: None known, but Shadows may exist.

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I needed to dither two images, and the Ditherinator was the most convenient tool for the job. Thank you for making it and f… — Ditherinator was absolutely born of a desire/necessity to control every little aspect of how an image can be dithered in rea… alterspring.org/@maple/a/11669

CDE was commercial software born in the Unix Wars, so it was expected to have an integrated online user-oriented manual. One that's complete, comprehensive, and written for the end user, accessible from a very lightweight hypertext browser utility, is a high standard programmers and technical writers should strive for even today.

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I am presently torturing myself with CDE. It's in FreeBSD's pkg repo and ports tree, and it provides a functional desktop, but it's too broken to be usable. The right-click menu is often incomplete, some tools crash and dump core, and Information Manager errors out with a configuration-related error message the 'Net has never written about.

That last one is sad because its command, dtinfo, runs just fine from the terminal emulator and reveals a complete and comprehensive help system library.

TIL Apple iOS will sometimes randomly alter a Mail account's IMAP settings, changing the SMTP authentication method from "Password" to "NTLM" for no reason.

So apparently Fred Rogers Productions just started a new YouTube channel where they'll be uploading every episode of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood

youtube.com/@misterrogersneigh

#Television #Children #Parenting #MisterRogers

me: i would like to see more dogs when i’m out and about. it really brightens up my day

the universe: say no more chief

posix protogens blushing: >////<
windows protogens blushing: >\\\\<

A random stranger said I reminded her of a girlfriend she had in her younger years. I don't know how I should be feeling, but I feel gender and happy.

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Computer Fairies is a Mastodon instance that aims to be as queer, friendly and furry as possible. We welcome all kinds of computer fairies!