**Ariel Millennium Thornton** · Sep 26, 2018, 15:01

Ariel Millennium Thornton

Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

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Pronouns: she

Species: feline/phoenix (shifts at will between them)

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. ✨
    ✨ 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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**Command Line Magic** @climagic@mastodon.social · Sep 26, 2018, 15:01

Sep 26, 2018, 15:01

Command Line Magic @climagic@mastodon.social

function box() { t="$1xxxx";c=${2:-=}; echo ${t//?/$c}; echo "$c $1 $c"; echo ${t//?/$c}; } # Make box around text. By @bartonski See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bZ85aMuf6c for an explanation of how it works.

**Ariel Millennium Thornton** @arielmt@computerfairi.es · Dec 05, 2018, 00:45

**Ariel Millennium Thornton** @arielmt@computerfairi.es · Dec 05, 2018, 00:45

Dec 05, 2018, 00:45

Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

tumblr, austin powers, bad joke

Banned from Tumblr: "female-presenting nipple guns."

(I jest, but they've so messed up it could be true.)

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**Ariel Millennium Thornton** · Dec 04, 2018, 16:41

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**Coda** @poss_bot@scalie.club · Dec 04, 2018, 16:41

Dec 04, 2018, 16:41

Coda @poss_bot@scalie.club

Here’s my new refsheet from jungabeast@twitter!

Their original post on twitter: https://twitter.com/jungabeast/status/1069710486474760192?s=21

(Cropped off the text bc mastodon didn’t like the dimensions) https://scalie.club/media/S24G81bfPPal-6irU2w

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**Ariel Millennium Thornton** · Sep 09, 2018, 13:05

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**Kate** @kit_ty_kate@lesbiab.space · Sep 09, 2018, 13:05

Sep 09, 2018, 13:05

Kate @kit_ty_kate@lesbiab.space

be gay, do snuggles

**Ariel Millennium Thornton** @arielmt@computerfairi.es · Dec 04, 2018, 16:10

**Ariel Millennium Thornton** @arielmt@computerfairi.es · Dec 04, 2018, 16:10

Dec 04, 2018, 16:10

Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

re: email billing vent

There are legit privacy & security concerns regarding bills & email.

But these same companies have no problem with sending actual payment confirmations by email, though. They tell me what I paid & when in email, but not what I owe & when.

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**Ariel Millennium Thornton** · Dec 04, 2018, 15:00

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**animal ear girls bot** @kemonomimi_bot@mastodon.social · Dec 04, 2018, 15:00

Dec 04, 2018, 15:00

animal ear girls bot @kemonomimi_bot@mastodon.social

http://danbooru.donmai.us/posts/2946068
source: https://twitter.com/kouson_Q/status/932726828137029632

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**HRT Timeline** @hrt_timeline@botsin.space · Dec 04, 2018, 15:00

Dec 04, 2018, 15:00

HRT Timeline @hrt_timeline@botsin.space

hrt

oops! I took these weird blue pills and turned into a super trans bird

**Ariel Millennium Thornton** @arielmt@computerfairi.es · Dec 04, 2018, 15:29

**Ariel Millennium Thornton** @arielmt@computerfairi.es · Dec 04, 2018, 15:29

Dec 04, 2018, 15:29

Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

email billing vent

Dear companies: If you say you send bills by email, & those email messages are just "log in to our website to view your bill," then you DON'T send bills by email, & you're LYING when you say you do.

**Ariel Millennium Thornton** @arielmt@computerfairi.es · Dec 01, 2018, 03:26

**Ariel Millennium Thornton** @arielmt@computerfairi.es · Dec 01, 2018, 03:26

Dec 01, 2018, 03:26

Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

For children who aren't ready to read "To Serve Man" yet:

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**Ariel Millennium Thornton** @arielmt@computerfairi.es · Nov 29, 2018, 14:23

**Ariel Millennium Thornton** @arielmt@computerfairi.es · Nov 29, 2018, 14:23

Nov 29, 2018, 14:23

Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

A Beatles pun over on birdsite for your #Taursday, folks: https://twitter.com/ExecFox/status/1035648659130466304

**Ariel Millennium Thornton** · Nov 28, 2018, 04:00

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**HRT Timeline** @hrt_timeline@botsin.space · Nov 28, 2018, 04:00

Nov 28, 2018, 04:00

HRT Timeline @hrt_timeline@botsin.space

hrt

I'll be honest, doctor, I really just want these pills to turn me into a smooshy naga

**Ariel Millennium Thornton** · Nov 28, 2018, 02:30

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**Blizzaga Walk With Me** @Kidsgobroke@knzk.me · Nov 28, 2018, 02:30

Nov 28, 2018, 02:30

Blizzaga Walk With Me @Kidsgobroke@knzk.me

“Would you have sex with your clone if you could?”

broke: isn’t that masturbation?
woke: of course I would!
bespoke: only if they consented

**Ariel Millennium Thornton** @arielmt@computerfairi.es · Nov 28, 2018, 03:57

**Ariel Millennium Thornton** @arielmt@computerfairi.es · Nov 28, 2018, 03:57

Nov 28, 2018, 03:57

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Pain not in the ISP help desk job description

I went up on a house roof today, and I apparently walked on the steep-angled parts wrong. Both my ankles have mild but noticeable swelling, & one started hurting about 2 hours after I came back down. I've been walking with a limp the whole afternoon and evening.

**Ariel Millennium Thornton** · Nov 27, 2018, 23:48

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**Sargoth** @sargoth@mastodon.social · Nov 27, 2018, 23:48

Nov 27, 2018, 23:48

Sargoth @sargoth@mastodon.social

The statement "download our app and get nice discounts" dramatically alters meaning if you read it as "let us execute code on your device"

The discounts are incidental

**Ariel Millennium Thornton** @arielmt@computerfairi.es · Nov 27, 2018, 23:49

**Ariel Millennium Thornton** @arielmt@computerfairi.es · Nov 27, 2018, 23:49

Nov 27, 2018, 23:49

Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

<-- (probs)

**Ariel Millennium Thornton** @arielmt@computerfairi.es · Nov 27, 2018, 17:11

**Ariel Millennium Thornton** @arielmt@computerfairi.es · Nov 27, 2018, 17:11

Nov 27, 2018, 17:11

Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

Everyone's being gay on my timeline, and it's so wonderful and wholesome.

**Ariel Millennium Thornton** @arielmt@computerfairi.es · Nov 27, 2018, 16:04

**Ariel Millennium Thornton** @arielmt@computerfairi.es · Nov 27, 2018, 16:04

Nov 27, 2018, 16:04

Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

til the unicode full-width latin characters pair with the unicode ideographic space character in a different range

**Ariel Millennium Thornton** @arielmt@computerfairi.es · Nov 27, 2018, 15:48

**Ariel Millennium Thornton** @arielmt@computerfairi.es · Nov 27, 2018, 15:48

Nov 27, 2018, 15:48

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**Ariel Millennium Thornton** @arielmt@computerfairi.es · Nov 27, 2018, 14:05

**Ariel Millennium Thornton** @arielmt@computerfairi.es · Nov 27, 2018, 14:05

Nov 27, 2018, 14:05

Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

One of the shortcomings of HTML websites that the LAMP stack promised to solve (& did at a price) is the absence of theming/templating. But the W3C actually solved that long ago in a powerful way: XML + XSLT. An XSLT file can turn XML data into HTML pages very easily & quickly, but LAMP's pains were so much easier to live with that XSLT never got far enough beyond browser support to have CLI tools.

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