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Oh, that's why everything feels out of place. Most of the USA changed time zones last night.

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Trans* 

Today, I wore a T-shirt that says "End Trans genocide"

Story one:

I wore it into a bike shop that, frankly, reeks of testosterone. It's very masculine, the kind of place that stopped wearing masks before the law allowed, that only employs manly men.

The owner, a burly, bald man about sixty years old turned to me. "You support trans rights?" The workers in the shop nudged each other, grinning, waiting for my answer.

"I do."

"Here, I got something to show you," said the owner. I was very nervous. I just wanted my bike repaired. Not to be.preached at.

The owner of the shop typed some things into his computer, and brought up a web page. It was him, wearing a wig, against a blue and pink background. ( andyandrogyne.com/music ) "I deejay at the West Hollywood Halloween celebration every year." He then talked with me about his femmesona, his trans* girlfriend, and how he wished that he were younger so that he could transition.

So, if you need your bike repaired in West LA along Venice Boulevard, I recommend The Bike Shop California.

Story two:

Not everyone is pro-trans. I got cussed at on the train. I got away.

For many good people, transgender isn't something they take off like a t-shirt.

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Xe :verified:

Be aware there are a lot of rumors going around about #OpenSSL. Distrust everything until it's verified from a primary source such as openssl.org or the researcher that reported the vulnerability.

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Xe :verified:

Happy OpenSSL day!

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maple "mavica" syrup [6502]

i've been asked how to extract the eyemodule databases from handspring visor PDAs to load in eyemodtool, so i wrote up a guide for it: maple.pet/blog/extracting-eyem

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Hackaday, "Kathleen Booth: Assembling Early Computers While Inventing Assembly": hackaday.com/2018/08/21/kathle

An article about her impact on early programming, computing, & coding from four years ago.

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The Register, "RIP: Kathleen Booth, the inventor of assembly language": theregister.com/2022/10/29/kat

Not just any branch or dialect of assembly. Assembly language itself.

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maple "mavica" syrup [6502]

i also made the rss button from links.netizen.club by hand in aseprite (yes, even the text!) because i got tired looking for a good one (it used to be so much easier to find tiny web images like that) and i didn't have any other editing software on hand at the moment

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maple "mavica" syrup [6502]

i also made this one as a parody of the netscape buttons

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maple "mavica" syrup [6502]

the button in question

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maple "mavica" syrup [6502]

something inside my gut says "you should check if mavica made that one 'made with my own two paws' 88x31 button" 'cuz it se… — i did indeed make that one! i recall parodying it off a "made with macromedia" button but i can't find the exact original on… retrospring.net/@maple_syrup/a

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I missed it, and I forgot to hit Toot. The next interesting number, one triple triple seven, is at Sun May 3 03:09:37 UTC 2026.

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If Qbasic came from QuickBasic, then that means Qbert implies the existence of QuickBert.

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There is such a thing as QuickBERT: a test tool. Can Qbert run on it?

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At Tue Oct 25 02:57:46 UTC 2022 (about three hours from this post), the elapsed time will be 1,666,666,666 seconds since the Epoch.

/bin/sh & one-liner:

printf "\033[2J"; while true; do sleep 0.5; printf "\033[2H%s " "Current time:"; date; printf "\n%s " "Seconds since the Unix Epoch:"; sec=$(date +%s); printf "%s\n" "$sec" | sed "s/^\(.\)\(...\)\(...\)\(...\)/\1,\2,\3,\4/"; if [ "$sec" -ge 1666666666 ]; then printf "\n%s\n" 'Happy one triple triple six seconds!'; fi; done

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Anatoly Shashkin💾

Bill Gates killing off MS-DOS during Windows XP launch event

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`xmore` needs a text file to show, while `xless` can read stdin in pipelines.

However, xmore has only one button ("Quit") while xless has lots of wide buttons in a short, potentially wasteful column.

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TimeAndDate, "Gregorian Calendar Reform: Why Are Some Dates Missing?": timeanddate.com/calendar/julia

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Output of `tmpfile=$(mktemp); if touch $tmpfile; then cal -y 1752 > $tmpfile; xmore $tmpfile; rm $tmpfile; fi`

Something looks a bit, shall we say, unique?

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Catgirls & doggirls using mainframes & minicomputers. This right here is perfectly my dream aesthetic. 68.media.tumblr.com/5d7183af03

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The Friendly Edlin Page is gone, but the Wayback Machine captured it: web.archive.org/web/2012071121

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