Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

A slightly unhinged calculator fact: in the golden era of electronic calculators, some Japanese shopkeepers were reluctant to trust the newfangled tool, so Sharp made a line of combination calculator / abacus devices.

Here's a photo, next to some other stuff I own.

(Context: The Juicero was a very expensive machine that came with a DRM lock and could almost perform a simple task some of the time. It's a useful key to understanding Silicon Valley madness.)

Adopt the Juicero or be left behind. A vital shift is underway in juicing. The Juicero is no longer optional. It's tomorrow's future, today. 40% of jobs are impacted by the Juicero. The Juicero isn't the future, it's a present necessity. Nobody hand-juices anymore. To hand-juice is like an impairment. Everyone must now focus on the delegation and the verification of a juice. We become less juice producers and more juice enablers. Adopt the Juicero or be left behind. We are burning every forest and poisoning every river to produce more Juiceros. You will become obsolete if you don't get on the Juicero bandwagon. Students must not be taught how to hand-juice. 80% of jobs will be lost to the Juicero. Students must be taught to exclusively focus on how to collaborate with the Juicero. Education must focus on orchestrating agentic Juicero systems. The Juicero is inevitable. Adopt the Juicero or be left behind. Adapt or risk becoming obsolete. As the Juicero rapidly advances toward automating up to 90% of juicing, the skills that will matter most include juice design, Juicero fluency, juice delegation, and juice quality assurance. 110% of jobs have been replaced by the Juicero.

new ssh client for classic mac os, complete with period accurate box art https://github.com/cy384/ssheven

Just calibrated the printer, it’s looking good

#CrossStitch

be the edge case that tech companies fear

A very long overdue network for me to leave. It's been owned by Microsoft for a long time. It's corporate culture filled to the brim with AI slop is repellent.

But their bending of the knee to allow hate speech against transgender folks finally did it for me.

I've given the one month warning to folks who know me on LinkedIn.

If you're still on #LinkedIn perhaps consider leaving as well?

https://www.onepict.com/20250730-linkedin.html

BitTorrent never asks for age verification.

happy MOUSIE MONDAY 🎉✨ (new holiday i just invented to replace friday)

Have some rubber mouse maddies i dreamed up, and some quadrupedal interpretations of
@crashlapine 's mouse, sesh 🐭

if you run an online group (a discord etc), take five minutes to check that the permissions currently are what you thought they were. over time, stuff accidentally gets clicked when you're in a hurry, and platforms love to take the excuse of introducing changes to reset permissions to what they "think" you'd want.

I'm happy to report that the glitches that could happen in #curl when you did more than 2.2 billion transfers in a single invoke are now history.

https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/18096

2005: it takes 3 hours to build out a Windows PC and configure it to be secure, uninstall third party shovelware, and install software and set it up for a user.

2015: it takes one hour to build out a Windows PC and install software to make it ready for a user.

2025: it takes 3 hours to build a Windows PC, configure it to be private and usable, uninstall or block Microsoft spyware, and install software for a user.