Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

There's a coffee crisis coming, mostly but not entirely thanks to climate change: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IN4ZcZAUbA (Vox via YouTube, 11:33)

@mavica Consistent with Hollywood mythos, it wasn't supposed to look like a game box. That's how it stood out on the shelves. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_(video_game)

@mavica Oh, wow, I remember that game! :3

I just realized how old I am: The only CPU Intel made before I was born is the 4004 microprocessor.

@monorail this is the problem with today's youth:

You're watching the British Emergency Broadcasting System. Please, remain indoors. https://youtu.be/tJ6nDTkUTEQ

"The Cybersecurity 202: Zoom sued by consumer group for misrepresenting its encryption protections": https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/08/11/cybersecurity-202-zoom-sued-by-consumer-group-misrepresenting-its-encryption-protections/

Zoom has bothered me for months, going from obscure shiny to mission-critical app in half a year with nothing but bad news when anything even touching on its security gets reported. Sometimes that news is regular bad, & sometimes it's zany bad.

With Biden's pick of Kamala Harris as his VP, the leadership of the Democratic Party has made its position clear:

The Republicans will burn the country to the ground, and the Democrats will bring the campfire forks and marshmallows.

@mavica so *that's* where mavica stashed all the photos!
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Please stop using JavaScript to reinvent CSS.

At the very least, if you've used enough CSS to change the style and color of a block of text, please go the extra baby step and give that block a decently contrasting background color in CSS as well.

I made a static website generator I've been using for my website for a year and change, and finally it actually works for making new static websites now! https://thornton2.com/amtswg/

@natalie It takes practice. I had to practice with short take-out sticks a lot before I could be even halfway decent with longer washable sticks.

Am I the only one who eats potato chips and corn/cheese snacks from the bag with chopsticks? I like keeping my fingertips reasonably clean while snacking.

@mavica I try not to, but it seems to happen every Wednesday morning.

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fire:
@echo "Place the nearest Windows 7 PC in the fire pit."
@echo -n "Press [Enter] when ready to upgrade it to Windows 10. "
@read yn