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I finally found the big band album I was looking for last month!

Off Cinderella Lane by 7th Street Big Band
music.youtube.com/playlist?lis

We took a probabilistic autocomplete engine, slapped a REST API on it, invented 14 incompatible ways to call tools, and built a memory layer held together by duct tape, prayers, and malformed JSON.

The result? A modern cathedral of human ingenuity.

Also, a $300B valuation. Please don't look too closely at the load-bearing JSON.

inserts an "Activate Linux" watermark at the bottom right of your screen

I was reading an essay about the way the centralized powers won the copyright wars of the 1990s and early 2000s. (essay was linked to from p2panda documentation)

newdesigncongress.org/en/pub/t

and ran across this quote:

“How the fuck do so many Zoomers not know how to torrent things?” @Ex_AnarchoAnon

So poll time

Before the advent of TCP (Transfem Communication Protocol), infodump data was often relayed by GGCP (Girl to Girl Copy) via PPP (Puppy to Puppy Protocol) links.

conspiracy theory: Windows 2000 introduced the new theme, “Windows Standard”, with the warmer grey because it defaults to 16-bit High Color and the grey in the old theme, now called “Windows Classic”, has an unfortunate magenta tinge because RGB565 can't do true greys

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🚨 🚨 In four hours, the European Parliament is voting on reinstating Chat Control 1.0. We need 361 MEPs to stand their ground as they did once already. Take action now via fightchatcontrol.eu/

Today in enshittification, it turns out you can't edit the data range for a chart in the google sheets android app, you have to open it on your computer. WHYYYY?

Here comes a special boy! It’s Miles! He sees that you’re doing your best and he wants you to hang in there and he’s proud of you!

He’s also a sticker from my recently-launched mini update if you want to invite him into your home!

ko-fi.com/samikelsh/shop

#startrek #ds9 #tng #art

I'm just saying, I've been doing this a long time, and I've seen both sides of the "programming is free!" and "programming is expensive :(" coin, so I can assure you, you REALLY want to stay on the "free" side.

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computers were invented in the *mumblties* and you had to pay to program them
then in the late 70s, you could finally program them! for free! you just had to own a microcomputer! yay
but then in the 80s and 90s you had to buy compilers, which were expensive
by with the 2000s, rapidly compilers and interpreters became free again. anyone could program, for free!

and then in the 2020s someone invented "programming but you have to pay", again.

DON'T FALL FOR THIS TRAP

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