Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

LB is a thread.

Happy Friday the Thirteenth, folks.

Things are getting accomplished and work disasters are getting resolved successfully, but the curse is apparently exhaustion. (And my workstation is lagging on things it shouldn't be.)

Periodic reminder: malvertising on otherwise-trustworthy websites has been such a large problem for years, and shows no sign of getting better, that an ad blocker is Internet security software.

If a site you visit asks you to disable your ad blocker, take it the same way you would a demand to disable your antivirus just to view their site.

What's the cute animal that makes clacky-clacky sounds when you stroke it? :3
https://twapa.deviantart.com/art/A-typewriter-146084888 https://computerfairi.es/media/zk6aX7j8BNaBnGKaaqE

Move over, Remy, I just found the COOL typewriter! :V https://computerfairi.es/media/CAUNrsVL_O8EITN_llY

How to lose my interest in your program before I click on anything on your home page:

"Web browser with built-in ad blocking"
- Go on...

"On slow/expensive connections, block scripts & images"
- Now you're talking!

"Fast and efficient"
- So it's a small GUI Web browser? I can use one.

"Written entirely with CSS & JavaScript using Electron"
- Wait, hold up!

"Try our browser now! [_Download_]"
- Okay, this I gotta see.

*"Download" changes to "Requires MacOS" on hover*
- WAT

I got excited and found what looked like a candidate manual typewriter for easy conversion to any layout imaginable, the Sears Easy Touch from the mid-'60s. The slugs just slide right on and off. Then I saw its price and a typing sample showing off its build quality. Shame.
http://type-writer.org/?p=3417
https://computerfairi.es/media/ATuJ_mdkjBMYYDZ1Ogw

I spent 15 years trying to touch-type Sholes (qwerty), and I almost can, but I never got above 20 wpm. It's been 15 years since I switched to touch-typing Dvorak, and my speed is well over 40 wpm on an absolutely terrible, error-prone day now.

I want a typewriter with the Dvorak layout, but they're as rare as hens' teeth.

There's a place that converts typewriters, but only Selectrics. They're excellent typewriters, but my goal is a manual over an electric. Besides, nearly $1,000 for purchase, conversion, and shipping is quite an investment.

A Blickensderfer with the non-qwerty Blick keyboard would also be nice if it's in good enough condition to be a weekly workhorse.

https://computerfairi.es/media/EyG0umdj4K5M7ARVOFY

LB: I would love to see Gordon Ramsey's meltdown on seeing pizza on pineapple.

A short list of things dudebro tech startups "invented" that already existed in better or more accessible forms: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2017/09/14/a-guide-to-the-things-silicon-valley-invented-that-already-existed/

#Linux #systemd strikes again. Today's episode, "systemd-cryptsetup: Booting with encrypted root partition fails instantly":

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/6381

No boot and no emergency shell. The only way to do any fixing is to boot a live CD, live DVD, or live USB edition of your distro.

Thanks, Poettering, for reminding me again why I left Linux for Unix.

It's well known that Windows doesn't play well with others, but Windows doesn't even play well with Windows: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/07/06/windows_insiders_with_sd_cards_turn_into_onedrive_outsiders/

Very suddenly, and without warning, Microsoft OneDrive supports only one of the few filesystems Windows supports: If it isn't NTFS, you get no MS cloud.

Tusky posted that twice with only a single tap on the Toot button.

Dead People Are Posting Anti-Net Neutrality Comments to the FCC Website: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/dead-people-are-posting-anti-net-neutrality-comments-to-the-fcc-website

Oh, bloody hell. Not all the palantirs are accounted for, you idiots. https://computerfairi.es/media/QWr17CPVdDpqLgXokb4

IPv4 served its purpose, & IPv6 is much better, but with an IPv8 I should scream down the Information Superhighway.