re: people complaining that firefox needed the DRM support because netflix: consider that watching movies should not have been the thing that web browsers do in the first place
🧵 In 2020, I nearly died from mysterious industrial chemical exposure at my apartment. Later, in 2023, I discovered my employer was dumping toxic waste into the apartment windows from their Skunkworks semiconductor fab next-door. I tipped off the US EPA, who sent their env cops to raid Apple's plant in Aug of 2023. The US EPA finally released the report of their enforcement inspections & sent me a copy on Friday. 💀 ⬇️
https://netizen.club/~wildweasel/updates.html - The Golfshrine Birthday Update! I've been receiving all kinds of golf stuff this month and finally got the last package of it today, so here's a big ol update with images and video, because Multimedia™!
i finally recapped my amiga 600 that already had loads of electrolyte damage since first getting it in 2007 and it was grueling and the board is a horror show of ripped pads and bodges but now the screen doesn't dim slightly every time the floppy drive seeks and it still seems to work enough to boot a fairly bloated (for the 600) workbench with 68020 accelerator so i call that a win
Oh, and here's Intel's white paper on the USB 3.0/2.4GHz interference thing: https://www.usb.org/sites/default/files/327216.pdf
It's from April 2012. The industry's known about this for 12 years, and it's been so well-communicated that you absolutely knew about it before reading my post on it today. More shit.
I think I'm becoming utterly disillusioned on tech stuff lately. I'm hugely aware of the "you like stuff you grew up with" and "you have less patience for stuff as you age" biases, but even so...
Streaming is shit.
Searching is shit.
Researching is shit.
Shopping is shit.
Troubleshooting is shit.
My phone is shit. Autocorrect, touchscreen keyboards, Bluetooth, AI, Android Auto, Spotify, all shit.
It's not even capitalism or consumerism, I'm just tired of arguing and fighting with things I own.
After 14yrs, the RickRoll is no more. It's finally been taken down.
Another internet meme bites the dust.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ just shows an error msg now. 😞
this is making me wonder what if you made a build of doom that didn't precompute the geometry tables at all and randomized the value of pi every frame https://youtu.be/_ZSFRWJCUY4
queer robot squirrelbunny girl, un-retired computer fairies founder (2017-2021, 2024-), drone #6502, official amiga mascot, making a return to upset those who told us to leave.
https://pronoun.gdn/byte?or=it, robot, lowercase, check system link above, meat shell is 31yo, i block minors indiscriminately
flirting good but get at least acquainted first?
HRT: 15/11/2015
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