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what have we lost??? i reckon it's psychedelics. that was behind a lot of it, probably. as the boomers die out, within a couple of decades, we'll be back down to "1950s IBM employee" levels of drug use in the nerd community

if you go back 30 years, computer enthusiasts would be excitedly showing you all the graphics their computer can produce. they'd be proud of all the colours, all the icons, the pictures, the 3D screensavers. nowadays, computer enthusiasts are excitedly showing you a screen packed full of terminal windows. they're proud of how they've found a way of using a computer that ensures they only ever have to interact with a sea of dull, monospaced text

Jon the Programmer's Squinky Tennis! An Easter egg game found hidden in several different Game Gear games published in the 90s by CodeMasters. I've been curious about this game since I was about 13 as you can't play it unless you have two GGs and a link cable. And there were no videos online anywhere of it. I finally gave up waiting and made my own video

https://youtu.be/yh5I3b2p4UQ

maybe youre too drunk for karaoke when it takes you 5 times to spell "lyrics" on a google search

Latest distraction from meaningful work: figuring out what makes BeOS icons look like BeOS icons and how to draw pixel art in that style

i don’t get why, if you like the work of a known predator, do you need to keep calling the victims of that predator a liar and attacking them?
like can’t you just consume that media without acting like you have to protect the moral purity of it, or protect the creepy person that made it?

I really do wish Mozilla would wake up one day and decide that Google and Microsoft are examples of what **not** to do to the only remaining alternative browser capable of accessing the modern excuse for the World Wide Web.

End of Japanese community at Mozilla due to the introduction of AI-based translation.

The community members have expressed disappointment and frustration that their long term volunteer efforts and local knowledge were being replaced by machine translation, which they felt did not match the quality of human provided support.

This is why Mozilla sucks so much, they are going crazy like rest of the industry.

Source
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/forums/contributors/717446

Added screenshot in case Mozilla decided to remove it