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Yogthos

it's all about perspective

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re: Unix/GNU shitpost 

(In reality, `info ascii` just steals the `man ascii` output and gives it to you in GNU Info's too-special hypertext browser instead of a normal pager like `more`, `less`, or `most`.)

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Unix/GNU shitpost 

The difference in documentation quality:

`man ascii` gives you a single text file from section 7 of all the ASCII 7-bit codes, organized in easy tables by octal, hex, decimal, & binary values. Printing it is 3 pages.

`info ascii` gives you a book helpfully divided into 20 chapters of 12 sections each in an unique hypertext interface that, if marshaled into a printable form, yields a college textbook tome that still doesn't tell you what you need because it's buried.
:V

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🐙🐇🐝Pointed Sarah🐞🐡🐧

programmers are always posting like "worked on tracking down an issue with a Flurble deployment for twelve hours. the problem wasn't in Flurble at all - it was in the Gumbies install. It turns out if you install Gumbies 3.0 over Gumbies 2.7 and don't do a cache flush on all the client spiders they'll get stuck in the crystal maze." then you look up Gumbies and the site is one of those scroll scroll scroll types with one sentence per page, like

"GUMBIES is a lean, expressive sharding sandcube for testing and deploying large scale Woodchips playgrounds.

GUMBIES automates and streamlines away watersliding phases, meaning your team can get right to the chipping.

See why Microsoft, OpenAI and Bloingo have embraced GUMBIES in their Woodchips workflows."

and you get to the bottom and you're like I want this I guess but I still don't know what it is

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RiniDisc

Got around to making an actual reference sheet for our favorite linux fox (at least, for how I draw her~)
#xenia #art #furry #furryart

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@mavica_again A fun-filled graphical system for most flavors of Unix, including Classic, Vanilla, Cherry, Cream Soda, Root Beer, and Code Tux.

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If I can't repair it, I'm putting it in a glass case with the last dated page it ever printed, for display in a museum. What a tank of a soho consumer electronics device!

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HP once made printers that didn't just last years, but lasted for huge chunks of an entire century.

My office's HP LaserJet 1100 printed its first page in 1998, printed at least two pages every day, and finally printed its last page this morning before breaking. It printed for 26 years straight.

Twenty six years.

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samir, lost in the woods

It’s a trap. More code is not your friend, it’s your enemy.

Don’t add the dependency. Don’t generate 8000 lines of JavaScript. Write more CSS. Don’t accept the digital grey goo spewed out of tools such as Copilot.

Code is a liability. Anything that helps you make more, quickly, with no effort, is leading you down a very dark path.

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As the United States of America is neither a union of all the states in the Americas nor the only union of states in the Americas, and as such the demonym "American" robs the identities of two whole continents of nations and most of a third continent, I propose that the federal union currently bearing the name should instead recognize the heritage of its first emperor, adopting the name "Nortonian Empire," and recognizing its people with the demonym "Nortonian," effective 1859-09-17.

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Ever since the ACME Detective Agency fell on hard times, Carmen Sandiego has had a hard time getting anyone to notice her.

Her latest stunt appears to be the theft of the entire 60 meter tall transmitter tower for WJLX, an AM radio station in Jasper, Alabama.

nbcnews.com/news/us-news/alaba

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Hourly Kitten

Source: flic.kr/p/bS3BsP
Credit: Lindsey Mead

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@Phorm That is delightfully hokey.

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maple "mavica" syrup [6502]

does anyone in the uk need their retro computer serviced/fixed/restored. i need money and i don't have a work visa

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Bananaed from YouTube again because I steadfastly refuse to disable my Internet security software.

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levels checker

we're seeing hydration levels at about 30%

(30%) ■■■□□□□□□□

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@homomorphic Thank you.

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leah & glitches & bits, oh my!

on retro gatekeeping 

i did all that shit - fucking around with tapes and floppies and microdrives (god help me), screens of varying clarity and quality and ability to display the full width of the PAL display field, completely incompatible peripheral sets and BASIC implementations, processors so slow that you could measure the number of 16 bit multiplies they could do a second in (low) 4 digits - back when i didn't have a choice.

you fucking bet i'm going to reach for an emulator and disk images these days! i would even if the prices of the actual hardware hadn't been vastly overinflated by the rich arseholes who insist that it only counts if it hurts, and the damn fools who listen to them

retro is a spirit, it's not a qualification

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So far, my symptoms feel like a milder version of the "just a flu" I had in '19 that stole my sick leave, stole my voice, stole my sleep, stole my hair (a patch of it permanently), and very nearly stole my life. Very achy, but milder than that so far. Also, everything still smells exactly like it should and as strongly as it should.

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@mcc The problem is that a US laboratory has more labor and less oratory.

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