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Millie

Fun fact, 100% of Canadian MLB teams made the playoffs this year. As opposed to only 3 of 29 ignoring the wildcard round for US teams. Bad showing by US teams really, maybe they should just pack it in and concede that Canadians are better at baseball.

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Betsy Langowski

I’m looking through my Macintosh user guide (the booklet that accompanied my 1984 Macintosh) for the first time in a while, and I’m a little obsessed with this graphic explaining scrolling.

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Stop using Brave Browser: spacebar.news/stop-using-brave

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Zorin OS has a software management GUI, & Firefox is in there, but it got black flagged on the last lap of installation & didn't say *why* it failed. Instead, it said the three most useless words that only the laziest, most user-hostile programmers think a program should say: "Something went wrong."

Less than 30 minutes with this Linux distro, & it somehow made Linux look worse than Windows 8 RTM.

Outstanding!

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Yesterday, I knew nothing about Zorin OS. Today, I learned its default Web browser is Brave, the Google-based browser by the queerphobic cryptobro who barely lasted 11 days as Mozilla's CEO way back before the crypto bubble.

That alone told me all I needed to know about this Linux distro.

The customer who found this out the hard way wanted me to replace Brave because it kept crashing. The only time your OS's default Web browser should crash frequently & reliably is if your name is Bill Gates.

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Genrenomicon

sad queer narrative shoot-em-all

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public universal mutual

Lol

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Cheerfully answering the phone: "Thank you for calling Do Not Call; how can I ignore your call..."

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Paco Hope wishes ill for JK Rowling

Thanks to my hardware store. New insult unlocked.

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Today, I found out that 987-6543210 is a perfectly valid Windows 95 product key.

Gigazine, "The product key of Windows 95 was implemented with an ultra-simple algorithm that can break through '111-1111111' and '000-0000000'", 2023-03-04: gigazine.net/gsc_news/en/20230

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JP

Using "supply chain" to describe open source software you picked up off the side of the road for free and jammed into your commercial product is like a restaurant calling roadkill "locally sourced ingredients".

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Did you know Windows 95 didn't just come on CDs? It also came in a pouch of floppy disks!

Raymond Chen, "The Old New Thing," "How many floppy disks did Windows 95 come on?", Microsoft Dev Blogs, 2005-08-19: devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewt

My win95 lappy didn't have a CD-ROM drive, so agreeing to the license by opening the misshapen pouch it was printed on was the only way I could install it.

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mx alex tax1a - 2020 (5)

thinking about how maybe shoveling our entire world through one chokepoint that also MITMs our TLS was a bad idea

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Aaron

"But that's not precise! They'll flag people doing nothing wrong! Skilled operators won't get noticed either!"

That doesn't matter.

Are you afraid - perhaps of being wrongly targeted?

If you're afraid it's working perfectly.

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Aaron

Here's how #surveillance works:

Watch what is normal to learn what is not normal.

"But my life is boring! I've nothing to hide!"

If someone sees enough of your boring days, they can easily tell when your day isn't boring to you. Perhaps because you're up to something?

If someone can learn what a boring day looks like for the typical person, they can easily spot the person not having a boring day. Perhaps that person is up to something?

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What program would need such extreme witchcraft!? 

Internet Explorer 4, according to WinWorld, and I'm inclined to agree.

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You know you're getting high quality software when the installation instructions say, "First, draw a pentagram on the floor..."

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If you lock an iPhone, then blast it with as many attempts as possible to unlock it unsuccessfully because you're sure it's the right code, then Apple will basically brick that iPhone, leaving you with no choice but to either get a desktop PC or go to an Apple store, nuke and pave the iPhone, and pray you didn't keep anything off of the someone-else's-computer called iCloud.

Ask me how I know.

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Juice that toots other Juice

Thermoplastic Juice

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Michael U

Spot on post about #autism imo

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