Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

Does anyone happen to know enough to explain this message?

VICE emulating a C64 and two 1581 drives, running GEOS 2.0 on Drive A (8) and geoWrite 2.1 on Drive B (9). I ran Configure on A & copied it to B.

I double-clicked on a geoWrite document on B and got this:

I live in a nation of idiots. :<

Hi, folks! I'm celebrating the unnamed American country holiday by partaking in a uniquely North American dish: a Navajo taco made by local Navajo folks.

and yayness!

thank you for the package locking feature, #freebsd. i mean that sincerely. with firefox locked against removal, i can at least keep working until this is sorted.

did someone at #freebsd mess up? why is this the only package search result for firefox now?

uh, #freebsd, what are you doing? why do you want to delete my favorite web browser during a package upgrade?

Masturbation boosts your immune system, helping you fight off infection and illness: https://bigthink.com/sex-relationships/health-benefits-of-masturbation?utm_source=notices_your_bulge&utm_medium=anal_tracking_implant&utm_content=owo_whats_this&utm_campaign=orgasmic_sharing

a good operating system is one i forget is even there. this is what greeted me when i logged into my windows toy today: an invasive reminder that the os is there & that my own pc isn't mine.

*migrates files including firefox profile from old pc to new pc*

*installs firefox*

firefox: "the old profile is for a different firefox"
me: "crap, that's right, they use esr"

*uninstalls firefox*

*installs firefox esr*

firefox esr: "this profile is too new"
me:

sometimes when searching for niche tech, you come across what can only be described as technological shitposts:

#inktober #inktober2019 day 3: bait. When you're fishing for starfish (starfishing?), what better bait can reach the stars where starfish live than a star balloon?

I think I can sustain two quick ballpoint drawings a day. #inktober #inktober2019 day 2: mindless. If you follow the news at all, read it at your pace, don't watch it at the TV's pace.

It's been so long since I drew anything on paper, & I'm way late. #inktober day 1: ring. My av in feline form has bells on the end of her tail, & I never showed any detail of how the band (ring) holds them on.

This is my home desktop, where I just finished making a much simpler signpost-like desktop icon theme, and I'm going to start my write-up with this.

Have I mentioned I like L-shaped furries recently? Anyway, this is my work desktop, and I'm finally, *finally*, going to start writing up how I made the fancy group of desktop icons and framing, and how I maintain it, this week.

I think I was just spear-phished by an idiot. A typical "DHL consignment couldn't be delivered" spam sent to my ISP's abuse desk, but the attachment was named "DHL_RECEIPT.PDF.gz". Who gzip's anything on Windows? (Does Windows even *have* gzip support?) Anyway, save & check out:

Remember the lobster from the GEOS demo? It apparently has a hidden history, only a part of which was ever revealed: "[...] been multiplying so fast we've had to build new corrals and feeding troughs just to keep up with our stock. We can't even ship them off to makret fast enough before they've gone and created more of [...]"

This ✨ sparkly shellscript princess ✨ spent her weekend writing a shellscript to convert numbers from one base to an intermediate representation to another base. The result is the most uselessly useful shellscript I've written in a *very* long time, a script to convert a conventional date into a Rickdate string: https://thornton2.com/rickdate.html

Pictured: my sense of accomplishment.