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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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I declare that today, Nov. 19, 2025 is the 50th anniversary of BitBLT, a routine so fundamental to computer graphics that we don't even think about it having an origin. A working (later optimized) implementation was devised on the Xerox Alto by members of the Smalltalk team. It made it easy to arbitrarily copy and move arbitrary rectangles of bits in a graphical bitmap. It was this routine that made Smalltalk's graphical interface possible. Below is part of a PARC-internal memo detailing it:
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In 1982, a physics joke gone wrong sparked the invention of the emoticon
A simple proposal on a 1982 electronic bulletin board helped sarcasm flourish online.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/11/in-1982-a-physics-joke-gone-wrong-sparked-the-invention-of-the-emoticon/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
i remember an article a very long time ago on "how to ask questions" in the context of tech spaces i.e. "can i do Y" vs "how can i use X to do Y in Z" but i can't find anything of the sort now, does anyone know anything like that?
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if you're a cis person and you feel sad today because of trans day of rememberance but don't know what do to, here's a simple suggestion: give $20 to every trans person you're friends with
god fuck do i hate all of this and i hate that it's the only sort of work i can do that will bring me even a scrap to stay alive
webpack is a blight
social media is bad no matter who is running it, even this server i host
i will laugh at anyone who is genuinely shocked that mastodon has gone corporate and i cannot wait to see people be shocked when dansup follows suit next
i miss being able to throw incompatible shit on everyone else's timelines like spinning emoji
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and beyond just the triumph of capital over any alternative, it really breaks my heart that computers are just objectively worse today than they were in the time of Chuck Moore. I try and not be an old man yelling at the cloud about this but we've given up on stability, soundness, maintainability. these are non-goals of modern computing, sacrificed at the altar of shareholder value.
it is wild that an official update of the operating system could break otherwise working code in a way that is impossible to determine even what is happening, let alone what to do to fix it. but this is what we've come to expect. computers break all the time, software breaks all the time, stuff crashes, you restart, whatever. and this isn't even factoring in the incoming wave of vibe-coded systems which make no attempt at correctness.
this isn't what computing was, there were attempts -- serious attempts! -- at developing theory and practice to build systems that were stable and correct in the face of usage and updates. we put half a century into that. and now we live in a kind of collective surrender. it's really depressing. as someone who has dedicated a life to computing, it's really fucking depressing.
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Get Firefox dot com.
It isn't the best browser; it's oh so far from being the best. However, it's the _least_ bad of the major browsers capable of accessing supercomputer-needing websites, and it's the last major browser standing that hasn't surrendered its page rendering engine to Apple or Google.
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hacker group known only as "CloudFlare" has once again defaced several major internet sites
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Rebecca "Burger Becky" Heineman passed away yesterday. If you don't know her, she was the first video game champion in 1980, then immediately went to work programming video games because she got so good at them by literally disassembling to find out how they worked.
She was a major inspiration for me not only for being a trans woman in the industry but because of the amazing technical feats squeezing performance out of every bit of hardware she could touch.
My heart will ache for a good while.
- website
- https://maple.pet
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- https://netizen.club
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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
⚠️ do not like or favourite my negative posts: https://computerfairi.es/@mavica_again/110573733959251340 ⚠️
Joined Jan 2021
