Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

Tonight, an era ends.

After 32 years, you can no longer try AOL dial-up for any hours free.

AOL Help, captured by the Internet Archive, 2025-09-30, "Dial-up Internet to be discontinued": https://web.archive.org/web/20250930230532/https://help.aol.com/articles/dial-up-internet-to-be-discontinued

The Verge, "Microsoft launches 'vibe working' in Excel and Word": https://www.theverge.com/news/787076/microsoft-office-agent-mode-office-agent-anthropic-models

I am disappointed that 'vibe working' doesn't mean battery-powered stealth gooning while pretending to work.

I am even more disappointed that the LLMs pretending to be AI haven't been poisoned with this interpretation.

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I thought I would never have to deal with CSS hacks for IE5 again, but installing Windows 98SE in a VM for vintage computing does things to a girl.

@JulieSqveakaroo Beware those who do like bad news.

A fascist state does not declare its fascism by announcing that it has become a fascist state.

A fascist state declares its fascism by announcing that antifascists are the enemies of the state.

CBS News, "Trump signs executive order calling antifa a 'domestic terrorist organization'": https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/trump-antifa-executive-order-domestic-terrorist-organization/

That budget Win7 PC is so budget that it has a single Allen socket cap screw (CR-V 2.5) holding on the side panel, a 2GB RAM stick, and a 1GB RAM stick.

As you could imagine, Win10 performed well enough to actually install updates when the super-cheap 3GB RAM was replaced with very affordable 8GB RAM.

@mavica_again I absolutely love it when device drivers take "Safely remove hardware" (the mounted SD card) to actually mean "Safely remove hardware" (the entire suite of media card readers on that internal cable).