Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

TEMPEST hazard of the day: ordinary ethernet cables. https://www.theregister.com/2021/10/14/lantenna_ethernet_cable_rf_emissions/

And now, the showstopper y'all saw coming: My customer has to make a Google account in order to do anything more than just turn it on.

How do I turn it off?

The death of computer manuals strikes again. This leaflet, an actual literal leaflet, is the only other thing inside the box. What's the most important thing it DOESN'T tell you how to do?

It's time once again for another out of body^W box experience as I set up a customer's new PC for them. Today's is, surprisingly, a Chromebook, and they're migrating to it from an old Windows laptop.

Computer Fairies folks, it looks like I messed up.

I ran the sync twice, and I didn't ensure that the second time wouldn't delete anything. It looks like any of you who posted pictures or updated your av on Saturday night or Sunday morning lost them.

I'm sorry.

No one thought the Earth was flat. The literate knew it's round & how big around (except for some conspiracy theorists relying on obvious unit conversion errors), and the uneducated never traveled far enough to know or care.

The dumbass mariner you celebrate wasn't even right about the size of the Earth. Columbus was wrong by the science and mathematics of the age, not just by modern science. That's a hell of an albatross around your holiday's neck.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyages_of_Christopher_Columbus#Diameter_of_Earth_and_travel_distance_estimates

Happy Indigenous Peoples' Day.

This is your annual reminder that the only thing Columbus discovered was new peoples for him, his crew, and his sponsors to extort, exploit, and enslave. It is a legacy very much worth remembering but not at all worth celebrating.

Aside from '70s Super Star Trek clones, the only actual C64 Star Trek game I can find is an Infocom-style Star Trek III RPG.

This rendition makes me want to load up a ST:Voyager-themed space trading/combat game on the C64. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjEvNTniq3w

All the "piracy is bad" takes remind me of that time the RIAA claimed Limewire owed them $75 trillion for piracy.

More than the entire world's annual GDP.

More than the whole industry made since the phonograph's invention in 1877.

Arista v. Limewire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arista_Records_LLC_v._Lime_Group_LLC#Limitations_on_damages

This week I learned: how to manage S3-compatible storage with s3cmd, duck, and rclone. I also learned that of those 3 only rclone does effectively remote-to-remote copies.