Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es
- Pronouns
- she
- Species
- feline/phoenix (shifts at will between them)
- Fairy wand currently on
- GEOS programming guide
- Website
- https://thornton2.com/ArielMT
Admin
✨ 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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Joined May 2017
If a software company, startup or otherwise, asks you to basically build half their product for them before they'll even give you a phone interview, then demands that your first 3 months will be an unpaid internship for this wild & crazy reason, run away.
Ariel Millennium Thornton
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"How do you fuck up programming a tap, anyway?"
"There was an overflow error."
Ariel Millennium Thornton
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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!
@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.
Is there a character limit to uploaded image alt-text in a toot?
Reminder about technology, magic, and end-user support calls: https://computerfairi.es/media/xW65B6fAPoufmAT1s8U
src: http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff300/fv00255.htm
Stephen Hawking's '66 thesis made available for download; demand promptly overwhelms the server: https://news.slashdot.org/story/17/10/23/2142246/
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
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Ariel Millennium Thornton
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Need to get me that sweet Philip K. Dick
Ariel Millennium Thornton
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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
Three posts per kilobyte, or 2,797 posts per megabyte.
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Ariel Millennium Thornton
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Wikipedia image captions are truly an art form https://mastodon.social/media/U0TZ9jgZmQKE8MXi-ck
FTP over Mastodon, 375 base64-encoded bytes at a time, in passive-aggressive mode.
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
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
But first, sleep.
✨ 🌙 Good night 🌌 ✨
- Pronouns
- she
- Species
- feline/phoenix (shifts at will between them)
- Fairy wand currently on
- GEOS programming guide
- Website
- https://thornton2.com/ArielMT
Admin
✨ 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. ✨
✨ ✨
Joined May 2017
