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dog goes "bark".
cow goes "moo".
fox goes "okay so what you're gonna want to do is open up a terminal,"

Space Karen, fundamentally broken walled-garden search 

What the you, HellTube? When I search YouTube for "billionaire dies on Mars," I kind of think the results should *not* consist exclusively of not-billionaire conspiracy theories, Elon Musk not on Mars, and Elon Musk not dying.

“AI” enthusiast: i have made a chatbot that answers your questions

Software developers: you fucked up a perfectly good search engine is what you did. look at it. it's got hallucinations

Today's tech support patient took a whole hour to boot up, and the history suggests that wasn't new. (Removing the long-expired McAfee LiveSafe trialware helped by orders of magnitude.)

"Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand."
~ Martin Fowler, "Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code" (1999)

Programmers who write regex:
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hi i need money would you like to buy some hand crafted pixels maple.pet/commissions bring your face, bring a picture, bring a pet, that's right, we'll draw your pet

Me: MS Teams channels cannot contain MS-DOS device names?? Good lord

Friend: No this makes sense, it's a chain of dependencies. Every teams channel is a SharePoint folder

I think god is dead for sure

Sometimes you just want to look at some colorful "no known copyright" endpapers. Feel free to reuse!

These are all from books published between 1890 and 1930. Scanned by the Bergen Public Library in Norway.

Image credit: Bergen Public Library on Flickr Commons flickr.com/photos/bergen_publi

@noiob @typhlosion The AT deviated quite a bit from the 5150 and 5160. To fit either one, you'd have to modify the mobo screw holes to hold the mobo, and you'd have to remove and design in a whole new expansion backplane because the expansion slots are slightly wider as well. It can be done, but it can't be done with a modern stock case, gaming or otherwise.

i really need stable income but since jobs aren't real anymore i'm taking any help i can get. i have a ko-fi you can send money to and there's even some pins left to buy there. i have a patreon where i don't have any rewards because i couldn't think of any and nobody has suggested any yet. you can also get a pixel portrait for a very reasonable price. or you can tell your employer about me

Weather.gov is back to the way it's been for a while. Local forecasts are accessible in JS-disable and JS-free browsers again.

I hope they got complaints of the sort I could only send into the void and realized what they undid was a bad decision.

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@arielmt seems like it's fixed now? Perhaps a very dumb way for them to temporarily disable that page.

@lori What's really bad is that this is precisely the format of URL that the "Text Only Forecast" link pointed to until this week. (Also, the "Printable Forecast" link points to the exact same URL, except the "TextType" query string parameter is "2" instead of "1".)

The irony of complaining about websites turned applications is not lost on me, one who runs and pays the bills for a website turned application that I'm using to voice that complaint.

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I am so fucking tired of everyone and their mother deciding that reinventing pure and simple HTML in fucking supercomputer-needing slow as script JavaShit is somehow the better future of the World Wide Web.

YOUR WEBSITE IS NOT THE ONLY APPLICATION I NEED TO RUN AT A SINGLE TIME! YOUR WEBSITE SHOULDN'T EVEN **BE** A FUCKING APPLICATION JUST TO SHOW SIMPLE TEXT, YOU TECHBRO-ADMIRING DUMBASSES!

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The National Weather Service, one of the few parts of the United States Government that does genuine good and nothing else, now has a website that is functionally inaccessible without a JavaScript-contaminated "Web" browser.

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