Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es
- Pronouns
- she
- Species
- feline/phoenix (shifts at will between them)
- Fairy wand currently on
- GEOS programming guide
- Website
- https://thornton2.com/ArielMT
Admin
✨ 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. ✨
✨ Age: Mere days younger than ✨
✨ the Intel 4004 & Unix 1st Edition. ✨
✨ Follow requests welcome. ✨
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Joined May 2017
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I'm pleased to share with you the greatest advancement in bottom-sheet technology since the invention of elastic.
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judging online information quality based on site where it appeared: a comprehensive guide
- "How To (...)" in the title, cookie banners, lots of side-information written in a way that wastes your time: SEO slop, don't bother. You might as well make a wild guess, same likelyhood it'll be correct
- official docs for $x, autogenerated by a rube-goldberg machine and automagically pushed into whatever-pages by a fully-skidoodled, post-quantum CI pipeline: describes everything, except the exact fact you're looking for.
- no HTTPS, tilde in the name, DNS with 4+ dots, likely hosted on some dusty uni server, white background with absolutely no CSS: one of the best resources on the subject. you question how it's even still online
- site titled "Garry's blog", default wordpress favicon, last update either previous month or 12 years ago: golden. crystal-clear exposition, good examples and screenshots framed so well you don't even need arrows pointing places. likely used as a cheat-sheet daily by everyone in the community
- "How To (...)" in the title, cookie banners, lots of side-information written in a way that wastes your time: SEO slop, don't bother. You might as well make a wild guess, same likelyhood it'll be correct
- official docs for $x, autogenerated by a rube-goldberg machine and automagically pushed into whatever-pages by a fully-skidoodled, post-quantum CI pipeline: describes everything, except the exact fact you're looking for.
- no HTTPS, tilde in the name, DNS with 4+ dots, likely hosted on some dusty uni server, white background with absolutely no CSS: one of the best resources on the subject. you question how it's even still online
- site titled "Garry's blog", default wordpress favicon, last update either previous month or 12 years ago: golden. crystal-clear exposition, good examples and screenshots framed so well you don't even need arrows pointing places. likely used as a cheat-sheet daily by everyone in the community
Ariel Millennium Thornton
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Bunnies - Janet Parris
https://macthemes.garden/themes/836ce1f26ce5-Bunnies
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Ariel Millennium Thornton
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(🇨🇦 again 20 March)
put alt text on your memes, otherwise people will steal it, put alt text on it, and get way more interaction than you
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New Secret Area post: On random memes, old game shows and "Glunch."
A meme among me and a few friends goes from a silly image on Tumblr to me discovering the show the image is from. One of my nerdy pop culture journeys.
Shares and comments appreciated!
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"Sini. Sini, you've been posting so much today, isn't it enough?"
No! No, you simply must look at my fucking cat, being a little kitty backpack! When I'm looking reasonably human for once and don't mind being on camera, too!
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LLMs "work" for the same reason psychic hotlines, tarot decks, cold-readers, and con-men work
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I recorded a tumblr post. It is perfectly safe to play the recording. It won't shatter and reform your mind at all https://youtu.be/e02cKBAFWSI
My generation began conflating the words, and today's generations never had a real chance to learn we were making that mistake. So now it's no longer a mistake, just evidence of the language evolving.
Seriously. These commercials ran in virtually every TV show with the chance of an adult watching for decades.
Some of these commercials were captured and made it to YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=brim+commercial (search query link).
The English language, the US dialect in particular, has been mixing & confusing "rim" & "brim" for decades, & I have a theory for how that came to be.
Every Boomer & Gen-X'er remembers Brim Coffee, even if only subconsciously, while Millennials & Gen-Z'ers have never heard of it.
General Foods advertised the hell out of it in the '70s & '80s with the slogan, "Fill it to the rim with Brim," before suddenly ending it in the '90s. The ad campaign was so successful, it blurred the words together.
Do androids dream of electric sheep?
They would if there wasn't a ram shortage.
I tried to enjoy my nice, piping hot plate of still-frozen lasagna cooked according to the box's clear and specific instructions.
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Always appreciate a tree with its own webpage: https://www.bgpa.wa.gov.au/gija-jumulu
- Pronouns
- she
- Species
- feline/phoenix (shifts at will between them)
- Fairy wand currently on
- GEOS programming guide
- Website
- https://thornton2.com/ArielMT
Admin
✨ 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. ✨
✨ Age: Mere days younger than ✨
✨ the Intel 4004 & Unix 1st Edition. ✨
✨ Follow requests welcome. ✨
✨ ✨
Joined May 2017
