**Ariel Millennium Thornton** @arielmt@computerfairi.es · Oct 24, 2017, 21:07

**Ariel Millennium Thornton** @arielmt@computerfairi.es · Oct 24, 2017, 21:07

Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

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Fairy wand currently on: GEOS programming guide

Website: https://thornton2.com/ArielMT

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  ✨ Kind 'Net Help Desk fairy by day. ✨
  ✨ Weird & furry Unix fairy by night. ✨
✨ Sometimes a retrocomputer fairy. ✨
  ✨ Pays the ComputerFairi.es bills. ✨
✨ Sparkly✨shellscript✨princess. ✨
    ✨ Age: Mere days younger than ✨
✨ the Intel 4004 & Unix 1st Edition. ✨
       ✨ Follow requests welcome. ✨
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Oct 24, 2017, 21:07

Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

Grocery shopping, lewd

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**Ariel Millennium Thornton** · Oct 24, 2017, 16:45

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**[moved] zigg** @zigg@mastodon.social · Oct 24, 2017, 16:45

Oct 24, 2017, 16:45

[moved] zigg @zigg@mastodon.social

Mastodon users, new and old:

You can add a caption, or alt-text, to images you toot!

These captions make your toots more accessible, by giving people who can't see the image a description of what's in the image.

Just hover over the image over you attach it and type a description in the spot that says "Describe for the visually impaired" before you hit the TOOT! button.

Please also encourage Mastodon app authors to add caption functionality. And please boost. Thanks!

https://mastodon.social/media/vZz0AQ-zh9RmrgKAUpM

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**Ariel Millennium Thornton** @arielmt@computerfairi.es · Oct 24, 2017, 17:19

**Ariel Millennium Thornton** @arielmt@computerfairi.es · Oct 24, 2017, 17:19

Oct 24, 2017, 17:19

Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

@soft_chomps@glitch.social Hey, I just want to take a moment to thank you for headpats_bot and kemonomimi_bot. Thank you especially for taking the trouble to make them source their posts.

**Ariel Millennium Thornton** @arielmt@computerfairi.es · Oct 24, 2017, 17:11

**Ariel Millennium Thornton** @arielmt@computerfairi.es · Oct 24, 2017, 17:11

Oct 24, 2017, 17:11

Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

Is there a character limit to uploaded image alt-text in a toot?

**Ariel Millennium Thornton** @arielmt@computerfairi.es · Oct 24, 2017, 17:02

**Ariel Millennium Thornton** @arielmt@computerfairi.es · Oct 24, 2017, 17:02

Oct 24, 2017, 17:02

Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

Reminder about technology, magic, and end-user support calls: https://computerfairi.es/media/xW65B6fAPoufmAT1s8U
src: http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff300/fv00255.htm

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**Ariel Millennium Thornton** @arielmt@computerfairi.es · Oct 24, 2017, 13:48

**Ariel Millennium Thornton** @arielmt@computerfairi.es · Oct 24, 2017, 13:48

Oct 24, 2017, 13:48

Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

Stephen Hawking's '66 thesis made available for download; demand promptly overwhelms the server: https://news.slashdot.org/story/17/10/23/2142246/

**Ariel Millennium Thornton** @arielmt@computerfairi.es · Oct 24, 2017, 03:17

**Ariel Millennium Thornton** @arielmt@computerfairi.es · Oct 24, 2017, 03:17

Oct 24, 2017, 03:17

Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

I like bots that source their content. All bots should source their content, and those that don't should be shut down and sold for scrap.

**Ariel Millennium Thornton** · Oct 24, 2017, 02:24

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**📼 your moo-ma🔞** @fillertrack@slime.global · Oct 24, 2017, 02:24

Oct 24, 2017, 02:24

📼 your moo-ma🔞 @fillertrack@slime.global

@thefishcrow @TrollDecker classic https://slime.global/media/jUCZ114SVJEDCwL63TQ

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**Ariel Millennium Thornton** · Oct 24, 2017, 02:24

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**📼 your moo-ma🔞** @fillertrack@slime.global · Oct 24, 2017, 02:24

Oct 24, 2017, 02:24

📼 your moo-ma🔞 @fillertrack@slime.global

Need to get me that sweet Philip K. Dick

**Ariel Millennium Thornton** · Oct 24, 2017, 02:58

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**Mercedes-Nutz** @even_more_damned_muteKi@mastodon.social · Oct 24, 2017, 02:58

Oct 24, 2017, 02:58

Mercedes-Nutz @even_more_damned_muteKi@mastodon.social

Michael Bay is producing a Dora the Explorer movie. Which sounds bizarre, but consider what a producer does. Now imagine that the pitch email had an unfortunate typo that called it "Dora the Exploder" and I expect he'd be excited to support it

**Ariel Millennium Thornton** @arielmt@computerfairi.es · Oct 23, 2017, 20:17

**Ariel Millennium Thornton** @arielmt@computerfairi.es · Oct 23, 2017, 20:17

Oct 23, 2017, 20:17

Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

Three posts per kilobyte, or 2,797 posts per megabyte.

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**Ariel Millennium Thornton** · Oct 23, 2017, 17:44

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**Raktajino** @raktajino@mastodon.social · Oct 23, 2017, 17:44

Oct 23, 2017, 17:44

Raktajino @raktajino@mastodon.social

Wikipedia image captions are truly an art form https://mastodon.social/media/U0TZ9jgZmQKE8MXi-ck

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**Ariel Millennium Thornton** @arielmt@computerfairi.es · Oct 23, 2017, 17:32

**Ariel Millennium Thornton** @arielmt@computerfairi.es · Oct 23, 2017, 17:32

Oct 23, 2017, 17:32

Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

FTP over Mastodon, 375 base64-encoded bytes at a time, in passive-aggressive mode.

**Ariel Millennium Thornton** @arielmt@computerfairi.es · Oct 23, 2017, 17:21

**Ariel Millennium Thornton** @arielmt@computerfairi.es · Oct 23, 2017, 17:21

Oct 23, 2017, 17:21

Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

*homph*
https://computerfairi.es/media/SjSiIBoCsy5Ew5AME8k
src: https://twitter.com/blade4649/status/783851881818750976

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**Ariel Millennium Thornton** @arielmt@computerfairi.es · Oct 23, 2017, 12:24

**Ariel Millennium Thornton** @arielmt@computerfairi.es · Oct 23, 2017, 12:24

Oct 23, 2017, 12:24

Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

According to htop, I'm using only 223 MB of RAM out of 3.88 GB, and the most memory-intensive program is the xterm I'm running htop in, weighing in at 71 MB virtual and 11 MB resident. Not bad for being on an amd64.

If I turned on hibernation, it could fit on a Zip Disk. :V

**Ariel Millennium Thornton** @arielmt@computerfairi.es · Oct 23, 2017, 12:02

**Ariel Millennium Thornton** @arielmt@computerfairi.es · Oct 23, 2017, 12:02

Oct 23, 2017, 12:02

Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

Well, it turns out all I had to do to save the hard work put into my ~/.desklaunchrc file was neuter a single function.

Have a pair of patch files for desklaunch 1.1.8, one with debugging output on, the other with debugging output off: http://files.thornton2.com/packages/unix/desklaunch-patches-1.1.8.tar.gz

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**Ariel Millennium Thornton** @arielmt@computerfairi.es · Oct 23, 2017, 03:46

**Ariel Millennium Thornton** @arielmt@computerfairi.es · Oct 23, 2017, 03:46

Oct 23, 2017, 03:46

Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

But first, sleep.

✨ 🌙 Good night 🌌 ✨

**Ariel Millennium Thornton** @arielmt@computerfairi.es · Oct 23, 2017, 03:41

**Ariel Millennium Thornton** @arielmt@computerfairi.es · Oct 23, 2017, 03:41

Oct 23, 2017, 03:41

Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

I'm getting desklaunch and deskmenu mixed up. Note to self: See about patching desklaunch to never open ~/.desklaunchrc for writing. Why does it even need to, when its comments & readme explicitly tell users to throw a text editor at the rc?

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