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I thought the Windows "here, let me do something for you that you explicitly didn't want me to do, and oh BTW xbox controllers are on sale" thing was an exaggeration, but no!

The Windows 10 PC I keep exclusively for customer support just actually and literally advertised Xbox controllers on sale to me, unprompted, on startup, from the built-in unlisted app "Suggested."

"A big percentage of so-called experts today only know how to configure some kind of hype-tool, but they understand nothing about how things work at the deeper level. This is a real challenge and a problem for the future."

🔗unixsheikh.com/articles/we-hav

"To participate first you must join our Discord."

Ah so you don't want me to participate. Gotcha.

I am not calling Facebook "Meta" and I'm not going to call Twitter "X".

These companies cannot be forgiven for prioritizing profit over people. I will not indulge their attempts at public image cleansing.

Never forget the torment nexus they unleashed.

The company formerly known as Twitter is in deeper trouble than previously thought.

futurism.com/twitter-deeper-tr

The “industry standard” modules used in digital braille displays are custom piezoelectric devices, costing around $100 per “letter,” making such displays impractically expensive for most applications.

I just learned about this hackaday prize winner, who has designed digital, refreshable #braille modules that cost less than $1 each, using teeny-tiny magnets and 3D printed parts.

youtu.be/BXi1tG78AW4
#OpenSource #accessibility technologies FTW!

One of these days, I'm going to search for a song by artist and title, and I'm going to find two radically different relevant results: each whose title is the other's artist name and whose artist is the other's title.

"It's a great day for golf, and there's no place like Pebble Beach!"

CGA portrait commission of Craig "The Walrus" Stadler for @wildweasel !

Microsoft Windows: an incompatible clone of Digital Equipment VAX/VMS that thinks it's an incompatible clone of Digital Research CP/M underneath an incompatible clone of Xerox Pilot and an incompatible clone of the Dynabook concept.

@erincandescent i did some digging for a higher quality version and found that this is the July/August '94 issue of Project X, you can see it archived here: projectxarchive.com/issue29_me

YouTube lament 

* Search YouTube for a video older than my parents.
* Find perfect match in a sea of irrelevant results.
* Watch & listen: It fits my playlist perfectly!
* Click "+Save" button.
* Toaster pop-up: "This action is turned off for content made for kids"

Quality design decision from the minds who think every video should have two ads every three minutes.

I just saw someone refer to the X formerly known as Twitter as "Xitter," and I've been exposed to enough Portuguese for decades that my first instinct was to pronounce the name as "shitter."

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