Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

Consumers: "Cops are using computers to spy on us more and more, and that's really worrying."

#RaspberryPi: "HEY GUYS, MEET THE COP WE HIRED! HE SPENT HIS CAREER MAKING COMPUTERIZED SPY GEAR FOR THE SURVEILLANCE STATE! ISN'T THAT SWELL?" https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/meet-raspberry-pis-maker-in-residence-toby-roberts/

Consumers: "Um, no, and here's why that's a problem."

RaspberryPi: "Stop being mean to us! Blocked!"

#Palmdle 531 (online) (3/6)
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I missed Saturday (game 532), and that ended my streak. :<

#Palmdle 530 (Online) (5/6)

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The number of words with the same middle 3 letters is higher than I thought.

#Palmdle 524 (Online)

#FollowFriday A cute kitten photograph every hour from a bot that *ethically* sources and shares photos: @hourlykitten

Welcome to the future, where you don't meaningfully own anything you buy anymore.

Your car's accelerator is just the latest thing locked behind a paywall.

"RSS is dead!"
No.
Google Reader is dead.
RSS is alive and well.
Podcasts are literally RSS.
RSS is for every kind of content.
RSS readers exist for every OS.
RSS never died.
Only the walled gardens told you it died.
Spotted in a Mastodon profile:

Output of `tmpfile=$(mktemp); if touch $tmpfile; then cal -y 1752 > $tmpfile; xmore $tmpfile; rm $tmpfile; fi`

Something looks a bit, shall we say, unique?

Catgirls & doggirls using mainframes & minicomputers. This right here is perfectly my dream aesthetic. https://68.media.tumblr.com/5d7183af03a076

The Friendly Edlin Page is gone, but the Wayback Machine captured it: https://web.archive.org/web/20120711213635/https://iskra.tripod.com/edlin/index.htm

Folks, I have found the best shades ever. Just look at this guy. (Source: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09QXK48V9/ )

#FreeBSD If #LazarusIDE stops with this debugger error, check that your system isn't *too* hardened: `sysctl security.bsd.unprivileged_proc_debug=1` should let gdb/lldb attach & debug-run your program.

The cutest luggable PC I've seen in a very long time: the Osborne Vixen. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_Vixen

I don't just have *a* 286, I have *the* 286.

Anyone who knows rare add-ons for #vintagecomputers, can you point me to the manual for this? It's a Mountain Computer part number 05-04031-02 that came in a HDD-less IBM 5160 (PC-XT) I rescued. I can't tell if it's an MFM, RLL, or ESDI controller or what the jumpers do.