Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

Fifty years ago just a few days from now, we landed people on the surface of the Moon. Now, one of the guidance computers that helped make it happen is mining bitcoin. How many hashes per second, you ask? 10.3 *seconds* per *hash.* http://www.righto.com/2019/07/bitcoin-mining-on-apollo-guidance.html

My office keeps getting checks mailed from a guy named William Payment. He keeps using a shorter form of his name.

@monorail Mastodon keeps eating the open-bracket between "if" and "-d".

@monorail One-liner for your ~/.bashrc:

nano() { if [ -d ${!#} ]; then cd ${!#}; else /usr/bin/nano $@; fi }

It checks the last argument, whether it's the only one or not.

@maple

Spotted in a Makefile, kicking myself for not putting it in mine:

# a must!
love:
@Echo "Not war, eh?"

@roxy@snouts.online I have to choose between turning JS on or turning CSS off when I load certain news sites, & that's definitely the norm when CSS is off.

GEOS was already pushing the limits of what a Mac-like general purpose GUI could do on an 8-bit, but BSW's copy protection schemes very nearly ensured GEOS wouldn't outlive their exit from the Commodore market.

Make is (probably) fine: https://blog.yossarian.net/2019/04/23/Make-is-probably-fine (filed in programming)

Firefox browsers around the world are disabling addons because an intermediary certificate Mozilla uses for signing addons just expired a few hours ago. Somebody at Mozilla either dropped the ball or forgot that ball was there.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/firefox-addons-being-disabled-due-to-an-expired-certificate/

Here's how TurboTax just tricked you into paying to file your taxes: https://www.propublica.org/article/turbotax-just-tricked-you-into-paying-to-file-your-taxes

It's consuming me because at long last I'm *able* to. There's docs, disassemblies, & reimplementations in easy reach now.