Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

How do y'all do Internet site survey speed tests without upping automatic fuckdates spontaneously running in the background and corrupting every single test result?

If I could use a minimalist Unix or Linux tablet in the field, this wouldn't happen. But Windows, Mac, Android, or Eyephone, it's a stupidly inescapable case of our field computer playing russian roulette alone.

Dear webdevs:

Please stop banning Lynx and Links from your websites as bots.

They are Web browsers, not bots.

Sincerely,

A webdev, programmer, & shellscript writer who needs to look stuff up online on the #DayWithoutX

P.S.

I shouldn't have to extend my laptop's boot time with a GUI & extend my wait time getting answers with a bloated Web browser. Trust me, not even SSD & NVMe drives make either of those tasks as fast as not having them installed at all.

i'm serious
former desky: fluffyscream
current desky: swiftpaw
current lappy: braveplumes
computer hostnames still available: lifetimes' worth

Inexhaustible computer naming scheme: generated fursona names.
https://www.fantasynamegenerators.com/fursona-names.php

*hacker voice*: "I'm out."

My home Internet connection is so bad, it took 584 and a half billion years just to update Debian's repo. :V

$ uptime
6:50AM up 50y 0:20, 1 user, load averages: aches, lines, sleepiness.
$ _

https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=142185&name=PUA:Win32/Perion&threatid=226948

The description reminded me that the customer I had who swore by it the most constantly brought their PC to me for spyware clean-up. It jogged my memory because I haven't seen or heard from them in 13 years.

But the completely unrelated tech support patient in my care still had copies of the installer in their Downloads directory.

#Windows Defender in #Windows11 now detects IncrediMail's installer packages as a potentially unwanted application (PUA). Microsoft calls it PUA:Win32/Perion.

This is short-term mixed but ultimately very good news, because IncrediMail, a program from the #WinXP days, traps user mail in a proprietary format defying exportability even today, and it uses cutesy features as the bait for that trap.

Oh, how I forgot how easily people are tricked into installing driver updater & cleaner snake oils on their PCs.

The 50th anniversary of my own release into an unsuspecting world is only six days away.

#OTD 50 years ago, Intel released the first commercially available microprocessor, the 4004. For the first time, a computer's entire CPU could be in a single IC package. It had all the computing power of a handheld calculator, but that too was revolutionary at the time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_4004

DRM has yet again punished paying customers instead of pirates.
"Denuvo-Protected Games Rendered Unplayable After Domain Expires": https://torrentfreak.com/denuvo-protected-games-rendered-unplayable-after-domain-expires-211108/

Today in "civil asset forfeiture is a hell of a drug" and "cops rob more than robbers":
Institute For Justice Survey Shows How Philadelphia's Forfeiture Program Preyed On Poor Minorities
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20211031/17423147856/institute-justice-survey-shows-how-philadelphias-forfeiture-program-preyed-poor-minorities.shtml

For 26 years, from August 1995 through October 2021, the #Windows taskbar could be on any screen edge you wanted. No more. With #Win11, the taskbar is on the bottom and that's that.

A YouTube video on the Russian Revolution: "Lenin went to Europe, where he hung out with other Marxists and talk about how great--" *commercial for some overpriced, fatty, greasy food*