Ariel Millennium Thornton

I can't wait for the day when the first things "rms" and "esr" universally conjure up in computer software are "Remote Management Software" and "Extended Support Release."

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maple "mavica" syrup [6502]

i think if as something as big as the Major League Baseball team Cleveland Guardians can change their name an image, there is no reason why The Second-rate Alternative To Adobe Photoshop can't

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maple "mavica" syrup [6502]

linux will do so much better when they excommunicate stallman and their followers from their ranks

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maple "mavica" syrup [6502]

linux: y no women in our spaces ????? :( :( :(

also linux: our preferred softwares are bitchx, gimp and something with an abortion joke in the official documentation

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Ariel Millennium Thornton

Finally, a brutally honest source code comment that applies to nearly every techbro-embraced piece of software this decade.

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maple "mavica" syrup [6502]

a sandbox video game with massively increased contrast and saturation. garish mod

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Rosey Posey🌹:v_trans:
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Alexis

Do not try to mock the cringe. That's impossible.

Instead, only try to realize the truth: There is no cringe.

Then you will see it is noy the cringe that you mock, it is only yourself.

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Brian Boucheron

did some light digging in discmaster as @textfiles recently suggested and found these spiffy #PenPlotter icons from a 1996 SiliconGraphics IRIX install disc:

🔗 discmaster.textfiles.com/brows

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Miah Johnson

Always amazes me when people who are in the queer community, or consider themselves an ally run Brave browser.

Brave is run by Brendan Eich, former CEO of Mozilla.

Never forget, he opposed gay marriage, and donated Prop 8 to limit marriage to heterosexuals in California. He held this belief firmly and after much outrage he resigned and then went on to form Brave.

Surely, the browser is named "Brave" because he believes he was "brave" for standing up for bigotry.

slate.com/technology/2014/04/b

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flere-imsaho

every day we allow the abusive shitstains like richard matthew stallman or eric fucking raymond stay around or, goddess forbid, direct our communities, we're losing talented people who are driven away by the acceptance of their behaviour.

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Ariel Millennium Thornton

@mavica_again thankfully, sounds like.

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@mavica_again It wasn't the DOS version running in DosBox or something?

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Connection - 

Not much worse than getting home to find out my home ISP's out. The only thing I can think of that is, greeted me Friday night.

I wish the ISP I work for could serve my home. Instead, my only options are a 4G on the edge of a shadow, a 5G that wants me to pay a $60/mo surcharge for a phone I don't need, fiber that wants me to pay a $60/mo surcharge for a phone I don't need, a satellite ISP so draconian you can't update Windows, & a techbro satellite angering the world's astronomers.

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Foone🏳️‍⚧️

Just imagine this but it is full of floppies

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Silicon Underground (Dave F)

Darl McBride was the most hated man in tech thanks to his plan to sue Linux users to generate revenue. 15 years ago today, his company, SCO, fired him. And a little over a month ago, he died in relative obscurity at age 64. dfarq.homeip.net/when-sco-fire

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Ariel Millennium Thornton

* Searches "Seagate ST1000DM003 MTBF"

* Every seagate dotcom datasheet says or implies don't use it more than 2,400 hours per year. That's 6 hours/day, or 8-9/day if you skip weekends.

Yeah, this drive came free with cereal^W this PC, & I should've replaced it with a WD as soon as I got it. Oops.

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Ariel Millennium Thornton

Please make backup copies of your PC, folks, if you aren't already. Don't forget to test your backups. Don't forget to write down your PC recovery & backup restoring procedure. And don't forget to save that procedure somewhere you can get to if all your data gets wiped out.

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Hourly Kitten

Source: flic.kr/p/XmagVj
Credit: skybo_x

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Losses:
* An HDD apparently failing at 0.5 MTBF.
* This weekend.
* All data between final backup & failure: more or less 2 hours, the most consequential of which was mail.

Gains:
* Bigger HDD.
* XP in installing anything in FreeBSD's USB images.
* XP in restoring ZFS snapshots.
* Learning my backup procedure needs slight tweaking, but fundamentally everything was right.

Net:

I have now experienced ZFS disaster preparation, disaster, & disaster recovery!

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