Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

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.

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.