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Ariel Millennium Thornton

Firefox browsers around the world are disabling addons because an intermediary certificate Mozilla uses for signing addons just expired a few hours ago. Somebody at Mozilla either dropped the ball or forgot that ball was there.

bleepingcomputer.com/news/soft

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pagetable

Reading the Raw Bits of a C64/1541 Disk without a Parallel Cable
pagetable.com/?p=1115

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Ellie

"At a Twitter all-hands meeting on March 22, an employee asked a blunt question: Twitter has largely eradicated Islamic State propaganda off its platform. Why can’t it do the same for white supremacist content?

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[Another] employee argued that, on a technical level, content from Republican politicians could get swept up by algorithms aggressively removing white supremacist material."

motherboard.vice.com/en_us/art

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Lynnesbian :bune_ylw:

if you want to understand true hell, become a windows application compatibility programmer

cc @OCRbot

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uspol, taxes 

Here's how TurboTax just tricked you into paying to file your taxes: propublica.org/article/turbota

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It's consuming me because at long last I'm *able* to. There's docs, disassemblies, & reimplementations in easy reach now.

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Vegetable Gremlin ⍼​👻

Cis reckon

When my daughter was hitting adolescence i was hit with this profound melancholy and mourned knowing I’d never again see that little kid i loved so much, and she was becoming someone else whomst i also live but was changingg into someone new, as we do when we grow

So when she told me she was a girl i was like u got it babe

when i hear about parents of trans kids mourning or whatever im like, you mean you havent dealt with the ephemeral nature of being until now??? Basic ass scrubs

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Ariel Millennium Thornton

In 1989, I got a well-used copy of the Official GEOS Programmer's Reference Guide (which I call OGPRG) & geoProgrammer. Due to critical errors in OGPRG & sample source code files, I've been wanting a single reference as complete & correct as the C64PRG ever since, knowing the only way I'll get one is if I write it myself. I've wanted to for 30 whole years. Now it's consuming me, & when I'm done I'll probably know the OS inside out. :dip8:

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Bil Herd, the 128's designer, gave a talk in '16 about what it was like inside Commodore during the second of its "tragedy in three acts." :computerfairies: youtube.com/watch?v=-Zpv6u5vCJ

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🎼 Are you keeping up with the Commodore? Because the Commodore is keeping up with you! 🎶

No, really, run faster! There are 64 commodores after you! Maybe 264 or 364! Oh no, that's Commodore Juan Twennyate! ⛵ ⛵ ⛵

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... Only two were. :crt_w_test_pattern:

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CommitStrip

It’s better with Javascript
commitstrip.com/en/2019/04/19/

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Una, serial sysadmin

reminder: Konqi (the KDE mascot, redesigned for KDE5) is a good boye

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There are also times when I really like the CLI and the power of shellscripts. Last night, I spent about 5 hours hand-drawing just a few technical pictures in gimp 6x each because I didn't like how they turned out. Today, in about 5 hours, I wrote and debugged scripts using ImageMagick and a short text file to draw 34 pictures for me, and to write a whole HTML table of data (including ASCII art) to go with the pictures besides.

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Specifically, "while" loops on the receiving end of a pipe. Variables are local because the loop is executed in a subshell. Oops.

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There are times when I really question my choice to do things in shellscript. Did you know that in BSD /bin/sh and in Bash, variables inside "for" loops are global like normal, but variables inside "while" loops are automatically local to the loop? I didn't, and I wasted about an hour fruitlessly debugging everything because of it.

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The picture I commissioned of Maffi is done!!! It looks amazing and I'm really glad to have better art of her now.

furaffinity.net/view/31216538/

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Am I the only one who pronounces the 8-bit OS "GEOS" as "gee-ohs"? I've heard like four other pronunciations now.

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This ✨ sparkly shellscript princess ✨ spent her weekend writing a shellscript to convert numbers from one base to an intermediate representation to another base. The result is the most uselessly useful shellscript I've written in a *very* long time, a script to convert a conventional date into a Rickdate string: thornton2.com/rickdate.html :computerfairies:

Pictured: my sense of accomplishment.

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While adventuring in the lands digital, refrain from stabbing thy trustworthy companion, ye olde Amiga 500.

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