Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

You're watching the British Emergency Broadcasting System. Please, remain indoors. https://youtu.be/tJ6nDTkUTEQ

"The Cybersecurity 202: Zoom sued by consumer group for misrepresenting its encryption protections": https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/08/11/cybersecurity-202-zoom-sued-by-consumer-group-misrepresenting-its-encryption-protections/

Zoom has bothered me for months, going from obscure shiny to mission-critical app in half a year with nothing but bad news when anything even touching on its security gets reported. Sometimes that news is regular bad, & sometimes it's zany bad.

With Biden's pick of Kamala Harris as his VP, the leadership of the Democratic Party has made its position clear:

The Republicans will burn the country to the ground, and the Democrats will bring the campfire forks and marshmallows.

Please stop using JavaScript to reinvent CSS.

At the very least, if you've used enough CSS to change the style and color of a block of text, please go the extra baby step and give that block a decently contrasting background color in CSS as well.

I made a static website generator I've been using for my website for a year and change, and finally it actually works for making new static websites now! https://thornton2.com/amtswg/

Am I the only one who eats potato chips and corn/cheese snacks from the bag with chopsticks? I like keeping my fingertips reasonably clean while snacking.

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fire:
@echo "Place the nearest Windows 7 PC in the fire pit."
@echo -n "Press [Enter] when ready to upgrade it to Windows 10. "
@read yn

I had to go to the Family Dollar for a few things. Two folks were chatting about how their relatives caught the coronavirus, & how so many of them died from it. I look, & NEITHER OF THEM ARE WEARING A MASK!

I'm here like NO SHER, SHITLOCK, I WONDER HOW THEY CAUGHT IT & DIED!

This hour-long video of random '80s CGI animations is a mesmerizing representation of my fever dreams. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xwLFRdewgE

I don't want to hear anyone say Internet help desk at a small ISP is a cushy job. Pictured: the effort this lnternet Fairy put in to giving the gift of Internet this morning.

Does anyone happen to know enough to explain this message?

VICE emulating a C64 and two 1581 drives, running GEOS 2.0 on Drive A (8) and geoWrite 2.1 on Drive B (9). I ran Configure on A & copied it to B.

I double-clicked on a geoWrite document on B and got this:

It's so incredibly awesome that so much of the Web depends on this cloud and flare that, when it breaks, my customers think it's their Internet connection or PC breaking and so call my help desk for a fix.