Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

60 years ago tonight, NBC aired its first red-shirt dying on an alien planet, while on a routine mission in some kind of Star Trek, thinking he would get stereotypical sailor lucky with a salt monster and falling into The Man Trap.

The red-shirt's uniform was a blue shirt.

@maddy Then they went and made as their logo a rudder wheel with not-8 spokes and not-8 handles inside a polygon with not-8 sides.

@maddy It's not just you. The way I often say it is that them using 'a11y' for 'accessibility' everywhere makes them the furthest thing from an ally for accessibility.

It took me a month to figure out why a CSS background was perfectly aligned with rows of pre element text in one browser on one PC, but refused to line up in any browser on another PC, not even the same browser.

Some fonts have line height oddities, & my font-face stack named fonts not on both PCs. Oops.

@nixCraft This creepy abomination is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.

If you run Outlook for Windows during an Internet access outage, then instead of opening a window, it instantly pops up an error message then quits. The error:

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Connection Error

A connection to the internet could not be established. Please connect to the internet and restart the application.

[_OK_]

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Boy, destroying the Mail app built in to Windows & replacing it with a PWA worse than Electron was sure a good move and worth it.

@mavica_again It does seem to be the lowest price for decent health care coverage.

I still think of what would've happened to CP/M-86 and GEM if IBM had put in a modicum of effort to meet with Digital Research instead of Micro-Soft.

GEOS, GS/OS, and GEM should've all been more popular and longer lasting GUI systems than they actually were.

I miss when Microsoft tended not to give multiple different products the same name. Instead, we have:

Surface & Surface: a portable tablet & a freaking coffee table,

Outlook, Outlook, and Outlook: a built-in Windows component, a pay-for productivity application, & a website unrelated to the other two,

Fourteen (!) different Windows 10 versions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_10_version_history

And now 6 different Windows 11 versions: 21H2, 22H2, 23H2, 24H2, 25H2, & 26H1.