Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

Stephen Hawking's '66 thesis made available for download; demand promptly overwhelms the server: https://news.slashdot.org/story/17/10/23/2142246/

I like bots that source their content. All bots should source their content, and those that don't should be shut down and sold for scrap.

@noelle Do... androids dream of electric sheep,
The answer took a-long while
To figure out from neural nets
And a self-written "readme" file.

Three posts per kilobyte, or 2,797 posts per megabyte.

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@squirrel I was just making off-the-cuff suggestions. I'll keep a look-out, too.

@squirrel 5 1/4 inch floppy disk. 8 inch floppy disk. iOmega Zip Disk. Dollar store star-shaped fairy wand with ribbon bow and streamers.

FTP over Mastodon, 375 base64-encoded bytes at a time, in passive-aggressive mode.

*homph*
https://computerfairi.es/media/SjSiIBoCsy5Ew5AME8k
src: https://twitter.com/blade4649/status/783851881818750976

According to htop, I'm using only 223 MB of RAM out of 3.88 GB, and the most memory-intensive program is the xterm I'm running htop in, weighing in at 71 MB virtual and 11 MB resident. Not bad for being on an amd64.

If I turned on hibernation, it could fit on a Zip Disk. :V

Well, it turns out all I had to do to save the hard work put into my ~/.desklaunchrc file was neuter a single function.

Have a pair of patch files for desklaunch 1.1.8, one with debugging output on, the other with debugging output off: http://files.thornton2.com/packages/unix/desklaunch-patches-1.1.8.tar.gz

But first, sleep.

✨ 🌙 Good night 🌌 ✨

I'm getting desklaunch and deskmenu mixed up. Note to self: See about patching desklaunch to never open ~/.desklaunchrc for writing. Why does it even need to, when its comments & readme explicitly tell users to throw a text editor at the rc?

I remember the age when doing this, adding between a few hundred and a few thousand kilobytes (KB), was considered reckless desktop bloat.

How far we've come, when it's not considered bloat unless it's measured in gigabytes, six orders of magnitude larger.

Well, I suppose I could keep deskmenu for when I'm too lazy to hold down the scroll wheel, and I could also use dmenu for when I'm too lazy even to take a hand off the keyboard.