Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

I missed it, and I forgot to hit Toot. The next interesting number, one triple triple seven, is at Sun May 3 03:09:37 UTC 2026.

If Qbasic came from QuickBasic, then that means Qbert implies the existence of QuickBert.

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There is such a thing as QuickBERT: a test tool. Can Qbert run on it?

At Tue Oct 25 02:57:46 UTC 2022 (about three hours from this post), the elapsed time will be 1,666,666,666 seconds since the #Unix Epoch.

/bin/sh & #bash one-liner:

printf "\033[2J"; while true; do sleep 0.5; printf "\033[2H%s " "Current time:"; date; printf "\n%s " "Seconds since the Unix Epoch:"; sec=$(date +%s); printf "%s\n" "$sec" | sed "s/^\(.\)\(...\)\(...\)\(...\)/\1,\2,\3,\4/"; if [ "$sec" -ge 1666666666 ]; then printf "\n%s\n" 'Happy one triple triple six seconds!'; fi; done

`xmore` needs a text file to show, while `xless` can read stdin in pipelines.

However, xmore has only one button ("Quit") while xless has lots of wide buttons in a short, potentially wasteful column.

TimeAndDate, "Gregorian Calendar Reform: Why Are Some Dates Missing?": https://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/julian-gregorian-switch.html

Output of `tmpfile=$(mktemp); if touch $tmpfile; then cal -y 1752 > $tmpfile; xmore $tmpfile; rm $tmpfile; fi`

Something looks a bit, shall we say, unique?

Catgirls & doggirls using mainframes & minicomputers. This right here is perfectly my dream aesthetic. https://68.media.tumblr.com/5d7183af03a076

The Friendly Edlin Page is gone, but the Wayback Machine captured it: https://web.archive.org/web/20120711213635/https://iskra.tripod.com/edlin/index.htm

Let's learn traffic lights! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbTj2-0tIXo

"Ariel, what made you think TV commercials were lies?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m15geAyLtVI

lftkryo via YouTube, "The Commodordion": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBCYvoC4muc [11:26]

linusakesson dot net, "The Commodordion": https://linusakesson.net/commodordion/index.php

An accordion made from 2 #Commodore64 breadbins, a stack of bad floppies, tape, & extra bits hidden behind one of the still-working 64s.

It's nice to see Microsoft finally giving File Explorer features other GUI file managers have had for 15 years. It's also nice to see Microsoft restoring Windows features they should never have removed in the first place.

The Verge, "Windows 11's new tabbed File Explorer and taskbar improvements are available today": https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/18/23411108/microsoft-windows-11-file-explorer-tabs-taskbar-changes-suggested-actions

I should be even more worried about the number of breakages that need registry dives to fix.

Windows needs the registry to do most things. Registry changes are committed instantly. There's no undo in the registry. If you change or delete any of the wrong keys or values, you could make your PC unbootable. Registry dives are *NOT* to be done lightly.

I am endlessly amazed at the sheer variety of ways that Microsoft #Windows is able to spontaneously break itself to the frustration of its home users.

A customer's #Windows10 PC logged them in to a generic desktop, with all icons gone except for all-users icons, & unable to open the Start Menu or the notifications fly-out.

I talked them through Quick Assist, which needed an update, but the Microsoft Store button said they needed to install an app to open such links.

They opened CMD, & their home directory was "C:\Users\TEMP". Fun.

The fix:
TenForums, "Fix You've been signed in with a temporary profile in Windows 10": https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/48012-fix-youve-been-signed-temporary-profile-windows-10-a.html

Reminder that while cute skirts and thigh-high socks are highly recommended, they are completely optional and not a hard requirement for good gaming or good coding.

Yes, 1992. I was in college & connected to IRC on its Unix network. It was my second online social experience, after isolated local BBS networks.

I've been away from IRC for too long, but I'm getting back in.

I'm arielmt on Furnet and Libera Chat.

I used to be on Freenode, but my reg expired long before its hostile takeover & subsequent implosion, & I'm not going back.