Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

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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.

Image source: https://www.deviantart.com/laurag53/art/Snow-White-Mac-Apple-119324715

https://insider.windows.com/en-us/articles/optimize-windows-10-pc-reset-using-the-cloud

Actual hardware support in Windows is a joke, and it's only often-crap OEM drivers working most of the time that keeps you from realizing this.

LB: I don't trust a cell phone's airplane mode to be enough to keep itself quiet when a gov's highest level alerts come in. I do, however, trust this mode to be enough:

Mere days after the winter solstice, it's unseasonably warm outside. However, it didn't feel quite *this* warm.