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We are re-federating with snouts.online. There has been a misunderstanding and @noiob is sorry that defederating so quickly and with that notice has caused so much harm. Snouts.online and @Ace do not support harassment campaigns.

here's to reconnecting with friends :janiawoo:

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Does anyone else get voice mails from phone numbers without corresponding phone calls? I do, and they're always spam.

hrt 

oops! I took these weird blue pills and turned into some kind of goop

A bulging CR-2032 button battery. That's a first for me.

Yes, it was supposed to be a BR-2325 button battery instead, but the previous owner either didn't know or didn't care. I found out while removing a MicroBiotics M501-s RAM & Clock Expansion out of my Amiga 500.

grs joke 

i'm proposing a new algorithm for sorting binary strings lexicographically called Generalized Radix Sort

i highly recommend GRS if you're looking to get your bits sorted

People are making new games for computers 30-40 years old, and that makes me so incredibly happy. youtu.be/FLgYkRLsWqY

BTW, that line after the syntax error message isn't one I typed in again. It printed the line & put the cursor at the beginning so I could edit it.

Also, I miss messy full-screen program editors like that. Press Enter, the line your cursor's on is executed. If the line starts with a number, it's inserted in your program, automatically sorted numerically, replacing the same-numbered line if it already exists.

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It's amazing what plugging in a compatible keyboard can accomplish. Now I can clean the floppy drive, get boot disks, & weigh HDD options.

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Welcome to IBM PC-XT (5160) Cassette Basic in ROM, required for the earliest PC-DOS BasicA even though the cassette port & header pad both ceased to exist after the 5150.

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mastodon is a fascinating social experiment showing that when our online communication is unfettered by algorithms enforcing corporate incentives and when given the tools to better organize and moderate our communities, we inevitably gravitate towards horny on main

Set an alarm so you remember to eat regular meals if you have a tendency to get caught up in work and forget.

What happened in the 1980s that made computers uniquely male-dominated? Lots, but a biggie is that home computers were marketed as toys for boys, not for girls.

@thatcosmonaut For folks asking when 'literally all women used to be programmers' ... when I first started in 1980, over 2/3 of data center developers (working w/COBOL, OLTP, mainframes and such) were women, as were most all production control ops and supervisors. At one point in the mid-80's my boss was a woman, as was her boss, as was her boss, as was her boss. Very different representation now.

tfw you remember that literally all programmers used to be women until men realized that it was actual intellectual work and ran them out of the field so that 17 year old shitheads could make posts on reddit about how man brains are genetically wired for programming

Reminder: The women who programmed the ENIAC literally programmed on bare metal. That should've made them awesome. Women deserve lots more than just footnotes in the history of computer sciences.

this is Betty Holberton. she invented the concept of breakpoints for debugging. ever heard of her? you probably haven't, because our field sucks ass and constantly erases its own history.

Correction: Now it's making progress, but it needs lots of elbow grease.

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I'm not sure how to get the last layer of adhesive film off. I know it's there & not just case tackiness because a corner is actually clean & smooth. But a Magic Eraser doesn't seem to be doing anything.

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