Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

How PC/GEOS found a 5th life as an open source DOS shell: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-pcgeos-found-a-5th-life-as-an-open-source-dos-shell/

This is from March last year, & progress since has been slow, but it's retro GeoWorks news I missed.

How the World’s Largest Garbage Dump Evolved Into a Green Oasis: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/14/nyregion/freshkills-garbage-dump-nyc.html

The radical fix for a noxious landfill in Staten Island: Bury the trash, plant some grass and do nothing for 20 years.

(Freshkills didn't start as an ecological "undo human harm" project, but that doesn't mean it couldn't be turned into one.)

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.