Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

I DON'T LIKE 'EM PUTTING CHEMICALS IN THE 2ND AMENDMENT THAT TURN THE FRIGGIN' GUNS GAY!

Source: Reddit, r/lgbtmemes, 2021-03-14, "The G stands for Glock": https://www.reddit.com/r/lgbtmemes/comments/m56oic/the_g_stands_for_glock/

I let that "panic now, pay later" offer expire, and nothing happened. On reloading the page, it reset to three days but left all the other information, including the supposedly limited-time price, the same.

Also, amusingly not helping their image, each split-flap digit animation in the countdown timer is flipping up, not down like real split-flap displays.

If their DVD didn't come free with ~~cereal~~ my new cheap DVD drive, I would swear CyberLink was either a scam or hocking some really slick spyware.

The OEM disc says it's "CyberLink Media Suite," the installer says it's version 16, the few programs it wants to install are at least 2 versions behind what the website says 16 has, & the website gives radically different upgrade prices for the same product depending on which search engine result is followed.

You have OneDrive.

I have SeventeenDrive.

#Windows 10 22H2 with a wifi network set to metered.

#FreeBSD 13.4-RELEASE-p2 amd64 with EFI (pretty sure UEFI), GPT, & encrypted ZFS root, after performing the steps recommended in:
- https://www.freebsd.org/releases/13.0R/relnotes/#boot
- https://www.freebsd.org/releases/13.1R/relnotes/#boot
- https://www.freebsd.org/releases/13.2R/relnotes/#boot

Photographed with a Sony Mavica MVC-FD51, and read in using a SmartDisk FDUSB-TM2.

Oh, Magic 8-Ball, why is my customer not receiving that important email from Too Big To Fail Dot Com outsourcing mail delivery to Microsoft?

Finally, a brutally honest source code comment that applies to nearly every techbro-embraced piece of software this decade.

Featureful Web browsers do have their uses. I'm getting lost now in https://infinitemac.org/ (specifically, their NeXT toys).

I wish Sunak's constituency had voted to resign him as MP, sparing him the need to resign as PM and party leader.

During his resignation speech, which was sorry in more ways than he said, his wife stood behind him with an umbrella yet his suit still looked like it was thoroughly rained on.

I guess that's what trying to import a lack of food, water, and health care while trying to blame immigrants and deport them to a place already lacking them gets you.

I forgot to show the lapel pin in question.

I'm wearing a pride flag lapel pin on my work uniform: an LGBT+ pride flag left, crossed over a trans pride flag right. One of my customers thought it was an Afghanistan flag pin. Huh? ... Afghanistrans?

Once again and all too soon, pride month is over. Once again, it's time for the next month in the LGBT year.

Also, since it's spam itself, the spam outfit behind it is overcharging, and the actual going rate per message for blasting spam is much, much lower.

That's why literally 10 million people could know spam when they see it, except just one who falls for its scam, and the spammer still comes out ahead.

One of the apps on my #Windows 10 workstation was last updated 738,953 days ago. Should I be worried?

While not perfect, growing your own tiny server farm can be rewarding.

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Did someone say "AIOps"?

With all the talk recently about making various forms of code safety national priorities, why in the world does any major compiler promoting built-in code safety features still think the official way to install it should be the anything but safe code delivery method curl-pipe-shell?

PSA: Despite what you may have heard, switching from Chrome to Firefox does *NOT* mean you must think in Russian.

(anyway, get Firefox dotcom.)

I want to hijack YouTube the way Captain Midnight hijacked HBO.