Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

Yes, 1992. I was in college & connected to IRC on its Unix network. It was my second online social experience, after isolated local BBS networks.

I've been away from IRC for too long, but I'm getting back in.

I'm arielmt on Furnet and Libera Chat.

I used to be on Freenode, but my reg expired long before its hostile takeover & subsequent implosion, & I'm not going back.

IRC is just as relevant in 2022 as it was in 2012, 2002, and 1992. Social media may have made IRC networks thinner, but IRC is still as lively as any walled garden social media network.

BTW, my search terms included neither "eye" nor "massager," so I have no idea how this dudebro turned Joker victim ended up in my results.

Folks, I have found the best shades ever. Just look at this guy. (Source: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09QXK48V9/ )

Spooky time reminder: "The cloud" always means "someone else's computer."

Need a quick ruler to line up text columns or ASCII art in ed(1)?

!printf "....#....\%s" 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

(GNU ed didn't properly strip the '\' from the '\%' escape until version 1.18. In GNU ed 1.17 & earlier, use only 3 dots after the # sign.)

YouTube recommended a video on that time when the Dutch ate their Prime Minister, & it ran two pre-watch ads. Both ads were for food. Good job, Internet Boob Tube.

#FreeBSD If #LazarusIDE stops with this debugger error, check that your system isn't *too* hardened: `sysctl security.bsd.unprivileged_proc_debug=1` should let gdb/lldb attach & debug-run your program.

LB: Incomplete progress is still progress.

A lot of Microsoft Knowledge Base articles linked to Hotfix programs downloadable from the Microsoft Download Center. The MSKB was culled, & the MSDC is gone. MSKB article archives exist, but they have only dead links, no files.

Does anyone have an archive of MSDC files?

And on SourceForge, which is newer?? FreeDOS edlin: https://sourceforge.net/projects/freedos-edlin/

I also forgot FreeDOS wrote their own EDLIN port: https://github.com/FDOS/edlin