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Tech interviews are a hazing ritual and not actually tests of whether you can do the job.

re: My HP Laserjet 1100 

Also, on a positive tangent, the long since lost manual for my printer has a section on cleaning the lone faulty part: the pick-up roller. Thank the Internet Archive for preserving the needful things their makers don't.

archive.org/details/printerman

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re: My HP Laserjet 1100 

What really blows my mind is that Unix & Linux can print to it just fine on brand new hardware because HP themselves wrote & released cups drivers for it.

openprinting.org/printer/HP/HP

HP once made tanks for soho printers. Now they just make disposable hardware with quickly abandoned support.

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My HP Laserjet 1100 

has printed an average of 5 pages a day for 25 years & counting.

My latest Unix workstation can print to it just fine.

My latest Linux workstation can print to it just fine.

My latest Windows workstation can't print to it at all because a compatible driver doesn't exist. No compatible driver exists because HP removed downloads for Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, & 10, & Microsoft removed it from Windows Update for 10 & 11.

But if I downgrade to S2K3, XP, 2K, or NT4, I can print to it.

we're seeing rock n roll levels at about 99%

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I don't know how I should feel about Google Maps having an incredible historical landmark marker at ICBM coordinates 36.372731, 139.058436: the site of a little-known (at the time) used PC & parts store that shuttered way back in '02.

Excellent quote about Nazis 

"Nice people made the best Nazis. My mom grew up next to them. They got along, refused to make waves, looked the other way when things got ugly, and focused on happier things than 'politics'. They were lovely people who turned their heads as their neighbors were dragged away. You know who weren't nice people? Resisters." — Naomi Shulman

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Chooms... we did it.

I printed my first ever zine yesterday! All about Mastodon! And how it's the best! And how everyone should join!

sinegrave.com/DeleteYourFacebo

@dona did a wonderful job with the art :blobfoxheart:@iffybooks is the coolest place ever and helped so much with printing. I legit can't wait to go back—

everyone who ever argued with me that "the GPL is an anti-capitalist license" owes me an apology

Some code is so bad it deserves to be buried thousands of feet underground with a sign above reading: "nothing valued is here, what is here was dangerous and repulsive to us"

Using system("echo") to create a text file ... using user-generated input. No words.

"Unauthenticated RCE on a RIGOL oscilloscope"

tortel.li/post/insecure-scope/

servals look exactly like if a creature from a medieval bestiary came to life

I’m no financial expert, but it looks to me like they’re organizing a hedge fund.

This is inescapable on French insta so I'm posting it here for all to enjoy

if you want a pronouns website without a "backend" or "logging in" you should check out pronoun.gdn

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