Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

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.

I really miss the Web 1.0 days, when websites assumed you meant exactly what you said or only *offered* corrections for ambiguous potential mistakes.

No, YouTube. I copied my search terms straight from the Billboard chart. I thought you would've learned by now what your autoco-wreck exceptions should be, but here we are.

Today in "stop reinventing HTML poorly & stupidly in JavaScript":

Using the Avast Uninstall Tool | Official Avast Support

https://support.avast.com/en-us/article/Uninstall-Antivirus-Utility/

Today's tech support patient took a whole hour to boot up, and the history suggests that wasn't new. (Removing the long-expired McAfee LiveSafe trialware helped by orders of magnitude.)

I am so fucking tired of everyone and their mother deciding that reinventing pure and simple HTML in fucking supercomputer-needing slow as script JavaShit is somehow the better future of the World Wide Web.

YOUR WEBSITE IS NOT THE ONLY APPLICATION I NEED TO RUN AT A SINGLE TIME! YOUR WEBSITE SHOULDN'T EVEN **BE** A FUCKING APPLICATION JUST TO SHOW SIMPLE TEXT, YOU TECHBRO-ADMIRING DUMBASSES!

The National Weather Service, one of the few parts of the United States Government that does genuine good and nothing else, now has a website that is functionally inaccessible without a JavaScript-contaminated "Web" browser.

Shit.

Holy crap, the accidentally #trans pride pretzels are real!

Dear search engines:

If you run out of relevant results to show me, then just tell me I've reached the end so I can either choose better search terms or make a decision with what there is.

Stop trying to stretch your list with an endless stream of absurdly irrelevant results. All it does is waste my time, waste your resources, & make me conclude *you're* irrelevant.

Pictured: a search on Google Shopping for a brand & model of cash register.

Today's Google Chrome monopoly makes the Microsoft Internet Explorer monopoly of not all that long ago look like peanuts.

Anyway, memorize Get Firefox dotcom.

I don't know how I should feel about Google Maps having an incredible historical landmark marker at ICBM coordinates 36.372731, 139.058436: the site of a little-known (at the time) used PC & parts store that shuttered way back in '02.

Search term: emacs

Google: Welcome to the front lines of the Editor War, recruit!

DuckDuckGo: Here's a bunch of usefully relevant results, including in non-editor contexts. May you find the pages you meant to find.

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