**Ariel Millennium Thornton** @arielmt@computerfairi.es · Dec 26, 2025, 20:40

**Ariel Millennium Thornton** @arielmt@computerfairi.es · Dec 26, 2025, 20:40

Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

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Fairy wand currently on: GEOS programming guide

Website: https://thornton2.com/ArielMT

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  ✨ Kind 'Net Help Desk fairy by day. ✨
  ✨ Weird & furry Unix fairy by night. ✨
✨ Sometimes a retrocomputer fairy. ✨
  ✨ Pays the ComputerFairi.es bills. ✨
✨ Sparkly✨shellscript✨princess. ✨
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✨ the Intel 4004 & Unix 1st Edition. ✨
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Dec 26, 2025, 20:40

Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

Boxing Day
AKA
Christmas for Cats

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**Baa** @Baa@mk.absturztau.be · Dec 26, 2025, 18:14

Dec 26, 2025, 18:14

Baa @Baa@mk.absturztau.be

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Em @Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange · Sep 27, 2025, 20:40

Sep 27, 2025, 20:40

Em @Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange

Tiny reminder FediFriends to not forget to add alt-texts to your beautiful pictures and funny memes.

This is important for accessibility 💚
More people will boost your posts! 🚀

Let's keep the Fediverse inclusive and accessible for all!

#AltText #Fediverse #Accessibility

**Ariel Millennium Thornton** @arielmt@computerfairi.es · Dec 26, 2025, 20:13

**Ariel Millennium Thornton** @arielmt@computerfairi.es · Dec 26, 2025, 20:13

Dec 26, 2025, 20:13

Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

=== Ship your

Supercharged
High
Intensity
Technology

=== With the power of

Artificially
Induced

Supreme
Lethargy
Optimized
Programming

=== Today!

**Ariel Millennium Thornton** · Dec 26, 2025, 17:24

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**Oasus Plainsview** @itsOasus@pawb.fun · Dec 26, 2025, 17:24

Dec 26, 2025, 17:24

Oasus Plainsview @itsOasus@pawb.fun

When people talk about social pariahs in the tech industry, THIS is who we should be talking about.

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**Ariel Millennium Thornton** · Dec 25, 2025, 09:26

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**Chordian 🇩🇰🎵** @chordian@mastodon.social · Dec 25, 2025, 09:26

Dec 25, 2025, 09:26

Chordian 🇩🇰🎵 @chordian@mastodon.social

HVSC has now been updated to version #84 at DeepSID. As always, CSDb pages will be missing until they have updated too. Click this link to see what's new in it.

https://deepsid.chordian.net/?search=84&type=new

#DeepSID

**Ariel Millennium Thornton** · Dec 23, 2025, 16:12

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**Paul Fairie** @paulisci@mstdn.ca · Dec 23, 2025, 16:12

Dec 23, 2025, 16:12

Paul Fairie @paulisci@mstdn.ca

2025 Headline of the Year nominee (June)

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**Ariel Millennium Thornton** @arielmt@computerfairi.es · Dec 23, 2025, 18:04

**Ariel Millennium Thornton** @arielmt@computerfairi.es · Dec 23, 2025, 18:04

Dec 23, 2025, 18:04

Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

That's a first. A video-related listicle, but instead of it being a list of embedded videos, the article is embedded videos of a list instead.

**Ariel Millennium Thornton** · Dec 23, 2025, 16:10

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**Paul Fairie** @paulisci@mstdn.ca · Dec 23, 2025, 16:10

Dec 23, 2025, 16:10

Paul Fairie @paulisci@mstdn.ca

2025 Headline of the Year nominee (November)

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**Ariel Millennium Thornton** @arielmt@computerfairi.es · Dec 20, 2025, 03:51

**Ariel Millennium Thornton** @arielmt@computerfairi.es · Dec 20, 2025, 03:51

Dec 20, 2025, 03:51

Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

@mavica_again Now with ACTIVE electrons!

**Ariel Millennium Thornton** · Dec 19, 2025, 13:04

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**Rey 💜 🏳️‍⚧️** @rey@toot.cat · Dec 19, 2025, 13:04

Dec 19, 2025, 13:04

Rey 💜 🏳️‍⚧️ @rey@toot.cat

RE: https://mastodon.social/@ianRobinson/115745241141974402

i guess the lesson is don't buy your friends an Apple gift card this holiday season

**Ariel Millennium Thornton** · Dec 19, 2025, 08:16

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**Ian Robinson** @ianRobinson@mastodon.social · Dec 19, 2025, 08:16

Dec 19, 2025, 08:16

Ian Robinson @ianRobinson@mastodon.social

Paris Buttfield-Addison’s Apple account access has been restored. https://hey.paris/posts/appleid/

**Ariel Millennium Thornton** · Dec 19, 2025, 22:29

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**Rob Ricci** @ricci@discuss.systems · Dec 19, 2025, 22:29

Dec 19, 2025, 22:29

Rob Ricci @ricci@discuss.systems

Here's the document release you were waiting for today!

The UNIX V4 tape!

https://archive.org/details/utah_unix_v4_raw

#retrocomputing

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**Ariel Millennium Thornton** @arielmt@computerfairi.es · Dec 20, 2025, 00:47

**Ariel Millennium Thornton** @arielmt@computerfairi.es · Dec 20, 2025, 00:47

Dec 20, 2025, 00:47

Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

I'll file a bug report if I can make it happen again.

But why ports? Mainly because audio/pulseaudio is still the most obtuse sound mixer, and it's an optional yet default dependency for several packages I need.

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**Ariel Millennium Thornton** @arielmt@computerfairi.es · Dec 20, 2025, 00:31

**Ariel Millennium Thornton** @arielmt@computerfairi.es · Dec 20, 2025, 00:31

Dec 20, 2025, 00:31

Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

Of all the ports to fail during an upgrade, why misc/freebsd-doc-en? That's a real first.

**Ariel Millennium Thornton** @arielmt@computerfairi.es · Dec 19, 2025, 19:31

**Ariel Millennium Thornton** @arielmt@computerfairi.es · Dec 19, 2025, 19:31

Dec 19, 2025, 19:31

Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

Find of the unspecified time period:

Markdown to HTML in pure AWK: https://git.sr.ht/~knazarov/markdown.awk

It works in BSD AWK & should work in any POSIX AWK, not just gawk.

**Ariel Millennium Thornton** · Dec 18, 2025, 00:55

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**Mjack** @Mjack@petrous.vislae.town · Dec 18, 2025, 00:55

Dec 18, 2025, 00:55

Mjack @Mjack@petrous.vislae.town

Used Theremin

Like new. Never been touched

**Ariel Millennium Thornton** · Dec 18, 2025, 23:20

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**GIFS GALORE** @gifs_bot@mas.to · Dec 18, 2025, 23:20

Dec 18, 2025, 23:20

GIFS GALORE @gifs_bot@mas.to

CATS/KITTY3.GIF

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**Ariel Millennium Thornton** · Dec 18, 2025, 21:39

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**mhoye** @mhoye@mastodon.social · Dec 18, 2025, 21:39

Dec 18, 2025, 21:39

mhoye @mhoye@mastodon.social

If I understand this correctly the reason RAM has quadrupled in price is that a huge quantity of RAM that hasn't been produced yet has been bought to populate GPUs that also haven't been produced yet to go in datacenters that haven't been built yet that will be powered by infrastructure that might never exist to meet a demand that doesn't exist at all to make profit margins that mathematically can't exist and economists talk about this thing they call the "rational markets hypothesis".