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Vx. Princess "size_t queen" Grace :qvp:

HANK: If you make your fursona a pokemon, where are you gonna be in a few years when the next big fad comes around?
BOBBY: Then I'll just get a new one.
HANK: Bobby, a fursona isn't just something you throw away when something new comes along. It's a piece of yourself. Why, I've had Lyndon here for thirty years.
BOBBY: Here comes the ref sheet.
HANK: (takes a folded up piece of paper out of his wallet. his fursona is a jacked as hell bloodhound)

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I don't want to put the preinstalled Windows 7 back on this netbook because it's too underpowered. It came with Windows 7 Starter, I bought and activated a Windows 7 Home Basic license using its Windows Anytime Upgrade, and that turned out to bloat the already sluggish experience.

Since the way back is a poor vintage computing experience, the way forward might be Haiku. I just wonder if it supports the weird graphics resolution 1024x600.

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I just found out the hard way that FreeBSD effectively abandoned my Atom netbook starting with 14.3.

The upgrade from the now-EOL 14.2 succeeded, except the drm, i915kms, and other kernel module friends were removed from the i386 pkg repos, & graphics/drm-61-kmod, the only drm-kmod port, refuses to try building on i386.

Looks like this is the end of the Unix-likes road for still fully working x86 PCs.

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Kroc Camen

It's so damn awful: blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/ne

I don't want rounded tabs. I didn't ask for rounded tabs. My tabs are square, I wish to remain on square tabs, but instead they're going to just change the default theme so I don't even get a voice on how shit this redesign is -- they'll herald it a complete success regardless

I am so sick of these redesigns based on nothing but immature, ignorant and baseless vibes.

#firefox #ux #ui

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ɹ uɐp :antifascism:

well it's #FailFriday

do not pass go
do not push to prod

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Mizuki :3 :no_ai:

BACK IN MY DAY, AI STOOD FOR ADOBE ILLUSTRSTOR, AND WE HATED THAT TOO

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SetSideB

Using COBOL As A Shader Language
Yep, what's in the title apparently can be done.

COBOL stands for Common Business-Oriented Language, and is an extremely verbose language designed purposely to be understandable to managers. Everything in COBOL reads like it does, which makes it hard to work with. A fair portion of the financial world still runs on COBOL, in some ca
setsideb.com/using-cobol-as-a-
#niche #cobol #niche #ShaderLanguage #StupidComputerTricks #Vulkan

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I stand corrected. The 32-bit Windows versions had Edit.com, but the 64-bit versions didn't. However, starting with 25H2, Windows 11 *does* have a remade and open source text editor named Edit.com, and it works in both Cmd.exe and Powershell.

Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-DOS_E

GitHub: github.com/microsoft/edit

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Star Trek Minus Context

It's the weekend, baby

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dj chicken trouble

dj editor cake

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Windows Script Host is still in Windows 11, & it chooses the VBScript interpreter if a text file is saved with a ".vbs" extension instead of a ".txt" one.

But Windows 11 doesn't even have Notepad anymore, let alone Edit, Edlin, or any other text editor.

Oddly enough, KDE's Kate text editor is in the Microsoft Store. I used it to make sure what I just said was true, & writing a simple "helloworld.vbs" file sparked a moment of joy I haven't felt in any current Windows version in 15 years.

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It was a mistake to quit shipping computers and operating systems without even one hobbyist-oriented programming environment preinstalled & featured.

Even a dialect of BASIC, picking up where 8-bit ROM BASICs, GW-BASIC, and QBASIC left off, & much more discoverable & tinker-able than the WSH/VBScript buried deep in every version of Windows since 98, would've been an improvement.

At least then, explorers & would-be hobbyists would have options instantly more viable than the slop machine plague.

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Al Sweigart

Hobby software projects by amateurs is and has always been fine. The problem of AI-generated software is that it superficially looks like and is treated as professional software. And the slop can be produced at scale.

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Al Sweigart

Non-software engineers will use AI to create software the way Elon Musk created the Cybertruck.

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Inspirational Skeletor💀
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media archaeology lab

hello and welcome to today's episode of "will this catch fire if we plug it in?"

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Soatok Dreamseeker

The consequence for clicking "No" to "Are you over 18?" prompts should being redirected to a list of books that are banned in their local public schools.

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The Prime Minister of Lesbania :lesbian_flag: :verified:

this conductor moved through a magnetic field, what happened next will shock you

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Gabriele Svelto

OK #Firefox users, this is a special request. I'm looking for someone with a high-end Raptor Lake machine that is experiencing instability in Firefox (or anything else for the matter). The best candidate is a CPU from the 13900* SKUs. K or not doesn't matter as long as it's one with the 8P+16E cores.

We have a potential workaround for one of the most common bugs of this CPU, but we need a broken machine to test it.

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