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Ariel Millennium Thornton

Nobody's tried reaching me about my car's extended warranty in quite some time.

Now they're trying to reach me about my home's extended warranty instead.

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David Revoy

Mermaid's Message

#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater

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Regendans

TIL why Sun Microsystems (Bill Joy and all) bought an office suite company in 1999. 🤨

"In August 1999, Star Division was acquired by Sun Microsystems[81][82] for US$59.5 million (equivalent to US$112 million in 2024), reportedly because the acquisition was less expensive than licensing Microsoft Office for Sun's 42,000 employees.[83][84]"

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibreOff

And that's how eventually LibreOffice became available for many. 😇

#SunMicrosystems #staroffice #openoffice #libreoffice

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Ariel Millennium Thornton

IIRC, the bloat is because Microsoft stuffs an entire copy of C:\Users in its C:\Windows.old archive, isn't it?

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Ariel Millennium Thornton

I don't know why I'm so constantly impressed with Microsoft's ability to bloat software.

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Ariel Millennium Thornton

My tech support patient is a PC with Windows 10 1809. The first thing it did when I turned it on was try and fail to install Windows 10 22H2.

However, it then installed Windows 10 1903 successfully, then refused to even offer 22H2 anymore.

The fix, it turns out, was running Disk Cleanup on system files, and using it to delete previous versions.

Fifty-nine gigabytes (59 GB) of previous versions!

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David Revoy

Mozilla right now.

#firefox #mozilla

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Dgar

Shoutout to anyone who is doing anything today.

Stay strong. Doing things is hard.

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june ✿ :estradiol: :ketamine: :mdma:
i genuinely have real strong opinions about how docker has created a generation of young linux sysadmins who have zero actual practical sysadmin skills, zero troubleshooting skills, and zero problem solving skills

and yet those same people ride the title of calling themselves "linux sysadmins"

ur not a sysadmin ur a docker compose file user
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Stylus

dc is a semi-standard linux/unix RPN calculator. Many years ago, inspired by a code golf challenge, I performed an exhaustive search of digitless dc programs using the character set ~^-/*+|ABCDdEFIinOorvz to find all integers up to 1,000,000. emergent.unpythonic.net/015251

So as we roll towards 2026 I checked my list to find the shortest digitless dc program that produces the output 2026: CiDCAn

This program sets the input radix to "C" (12) then inputs the non-canonical base-13 number DCA (= 13 * 12**2 + 12 * 12 + 10), and finally prints it.

Non-canonical base 12 numbers are used in several upcoming years:

2026 CiDCAn
2027 CiDCBn
2028 CiDCCn
2029 CiDCDn
2030 CiDCEn
2031 CiDCFn
2038 CiDDAn

The current year (2025) can't be written in the same manner, because it would use the digit 9. It is still a 6-character program though: CF F*n. This multiplies the non-canonical base-10 number CF (135) by the non-canonica base10- number F (15).

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Soatok Dreamseeker

The Revolution Will Not Make the Hacker News Front Page

(with apologies to Gil Scott-Heron) If you get all of your important technology news from "content aggregators" like Hacker News, Lobste.rs, and most subreddits, you might be totally unaware of the important but boring infrastructure work happening largely on the Fediverse, indie web, and other less-centralized communities. This is no accident. The rough consensus of these spaces has been strongly in favor of the…

soatok.blog/2025/12/17/the-rev

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David Gerard

bsky.app/profile/did:plc:lb5dn

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mx alex tax1a - 2020 (5)

premier internet brainrot here by way of our Word 98 install, the save-to-postscript feature of the printer driver, and ps2pdf out on the real machine

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Ariel Millennium Thornton

"Mozilla’s tried to stem the bleeding with deeply unpopular efforts [...] but so far, nothing has worked"

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Mozilla’s new CEO: Firefox will become an “AI browser”

In recent years, things have not been going well for Mozilla. Firefox's market share is a rounding error, and financially, the company is effectively entirely dependent on free money from Google for making it the default search engine in Firefox. Mozilla's tried to stem the bleeding with deeply unpopular efforts like foc

osnews.com/story/144027/mozill

#MozillaGecko

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donni saphire

Tomorrow is another day to keep doing your best while cartoonish villains destroy society in every direction

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It's because Anubis is gatekeeping an old website, and I followed a link from HTTPS that domain to HTTP (no S) that same domain.

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Ariel Millennium Thornton

Cookies *are* enabled, you daffy box of scrap metal! What I have blocked are *cross-site* cookies!

Why do you need me to save and send cookies to every random corner of the Web *except* the one I'm trying to read, just to prove my humanity to a bot? Why, especially, when the site you're blocking *doesn't* need cross-site cookies.

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Adrianna Tan

I knew a few people who worked at Mozilla in ‘good times’ and Twitter ‘after’ and they all said Mozilla on a regular day was a much more confusing and toxic org. I think Mozilla will go down in history as the one that squandered every opportunity and chased the wrong thing

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Em :official_verified:

I've never seen anyone hating Mozilla as much as Mozilla.

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