Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

part of my long-held "it's us or them" stance re: the online ad industry is that ultimately all speech will become, in the name of corporate comfort, as anodyne and contentless and unchallenging to power as advertising itself, if they continue to control the web.
https://www.404media.co/advertisers-dont-want-sites-like-jezebel-to-exist/

Welp, if you were wondering when it was time to get the fuck out of GitHub, here's your sign ig 🤷‍♀️

silly meme

silicon valley VCs' best ideas of the 2020s:
-put a drone on something
-wrongness generator 3000 (uses more energy than a small nation)
-fraud
-space pollution
-self-crashing cars
-an app that is actually criminally underpaid workers in another country
-an app that is actually criminally underpaid workers in this country
-fascism
-vrchat but it cost 20x to make and it fucking sucks
-layoffs

new #webgbcam release 4.2

1bpp atkinson dithering mode

have fun

https://maple.pet/webgbcam

You're telling me that we make LIGHTNING go through STONES so we can put DAEMONS in them so they'll perform tasks for us? Computers are actually magic

#DnD #rpg #dungeonsAndDragons

ENTER NEW PASSWORD: chicken

PASSWORD MUST CONTAIN A CAPITAL: chickenkiev

The word "excellent" is derived from the Christian practice of giving up the use of Microsoft Excel for 40 days to commemorate Christ's sacrifice.

It is a period of great productivity.

The date of lent is calculated by using an obscure Excel macro on a field that didn't originally have anything to do with dates, but Excel converted it to one anyway.

Source: https://flic.kr/p/a5dakW
Credit: yoppy

just woke up and i've already seen a "releasing games on linux is too hard" take, a "why bother making my website work in firefox" take, and a story about someone filing a CVE that was hallucinated by an LLM.

i'm not really enjoying computers lately

here's a list of the git terms people have mentioned being confused by so far, would love to know which confusing terms I’ve missed! https://gist.github.com/jvns/dfe5a8a7133b3c13b633eab57b70ebb1

Happy 40th anniversary to the announcement of IBM's famous flop, the IBM PCjr! 🎉🎂🎈🍾🥂

hello mastofucks

coming at you from the last good version of windows