Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

Gender reveal party inventor begs for end to ‘toxic’ trend amid wildfires: https://nypost.com/2020/09/08/gender-reveal-party-inventor-begs-for-end-to-trend-amid-wildfires/

“For the love of God, stop burning things down to tell everyone about your kid’s penis. No one cares but you,” the parenting blogger wrote.

Burning down a whole community or 3 is a hell of a way to reveal whether there's a penis-like thing in your womb or not.

Dear parents:

1) You don't need to outdo Broadway when putting on a party of any kind.

2) You're holding gender reveal parties anywhere from 5 to 70 years too early! Let your child reveal it themselves!

Sincerely,
Everyone you miraculously haven't killed or made homeless yet.
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El Dorado Fire near Yucaipa sparked by pyrotechnic device at gender reveal party, officials say: https://abc7.com/el-dorado-fire-sparked-by-pyrotechnic-device-officials-say/6412483/

Remember: If you're writing a shellscript with a metric ton of line blocks almost similar enough to put in a function but not quite, then save your fingers & write a shellscript to write all those lines for you.

Writing one-off programs that write other one-off programs is just as much real programming as writing anything you share by hand. There's nothing to be ashamed of.

If you've ever seen "Prelude to Axanar," then you're probably at least a little bit familiar with how almost uniquely lawyered-to-death that Star Trek fan project has become. If you're not, then watch their latest, shorter satire video, "Stalled Trek: Prelude to Ax'd-We-Are": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FX5GPd7YU8

So, Avery's labels managed to completely gum up my office's printer, resulting in lots of copy paper pages jamming on nothing, as well as every single nightly print job queuing up for the last 2 days being spontaneously lost.

Number of Avery address labels with their trademark "Sure Feed Technology" run through a laser printer: 300 (5 sheets of 60 each).

Number of printed labels aligned enough to be salvageable despite half-inch margins in artwork: 189 (63%).

Labels wasted due to jams/misalignment: 111 (37%).

Number of address labels printed on copy paper and misaligned by over 1/16 inch in any direction: 0.

Fuck you, Avery. Shit bootleg labels print straighter & more reliably.

I saw a tweet lamenting the extremely high prices of some games for rare consoles, and I decided to look up the freebie game in box I picked up when I bought my used Genesis and Sega CD console: https://www.pricecharting.com/game/sega-cd/keio-flying-squadron

I nearly choked on my coffee.

One last thing on this thread: The Computer Chronicles episode about Windows 95 after boxes were available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBbvmORcgSo

Anyway, happy silver anniversary, Microsoft Windows 95!

Windows 95 was the first version of Windows that didn't need MS-DOS preinstalled separately.

Instead, it installed its own version of MS-DOS together with Windows. (The roles of MS-DOS as kernel and Windows as shell weren't swapped on home PCs until 2001's Windows XP.)

Microsoft did this to simplify installation by end users, of course, but also in no small part to kill off the MS-DOS compatible OS market, a niche filled most notably by Digital Research's DR-DOS.

The song is "Start Me Up" by the Rolling Stones. The song is better known for its refrain, "You make a grown man cry." And, oh, did we, when we found out after we got home with shrinkwrapped boxes that our then-current PCs couldn't run Windows 95.

The most significant change Microsoft made to Windows 95 was replacing Program Manager with a more Macintosh-like UI, but notably featuring a menu button with the word "Start" on it.

This is why the Windows logo menu button is still called the Start Button today.

Microsoft marketed the heck out of it in a TV ad campaign 25 years ago today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVd_NyQ7-Aw

It completely slipped my mind that today's the 25th anniversary of Microsoft Windows 95 in a box!

Most boxes of Windows 95 Upgrade came with a CD-ROM, but some came with 13 MF2HD floppy disks (these things: 💾 ).

More importantly, EVERY box came with an honest to goodness manual!

#TIL #Windows10, the version a quarter century newer than the first #Windows NT, will let you do absolutely everything with wi-fi networks from the command prompt. Everything, that is, except connect to a wi-fi network Windows has never connected to before.

Which means it's impossible to access network shares in the Advanced Startup Options Command Prompt when ethernet isn't an option.

Your face mask is not for your protection. Mine is.

Your face mask is for *my* protection. Please protect me by wearing it.