Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

Welcome to Computer Fairies, where the ✨​sparkles✨​ are lively fairy dust, not lifeless AI slop.

New robocaller trick, as captured by (probably too quickly deleted) voicemail:

20 seconds of hold music, then a voice states your purchase of a supremely expensive phone is nearly complete and that, "if you did not authorize this purchase, press '1' to connect to a customer support representative."

It's supposed to feel like you called them, instead of them calling you.

The voicemail message ended after that calm voice spoke.

I have found myself writing utterly incomprehensible spaghetti code in a completely goto-less programming language. Take that, Dijkstra!

Give me a drink, bartender.

I have high hopes for
The operating system
Based on Be, Haiku.

In a rapidly AI slopifying world, there is hope after all.

The Document Foundation, makers of LibreOffice, the most frequently recommended free alternative to Microsoft Office, listed its *lack* of AI integration as a product feature in the newest version: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/08/26/libreoffice-26-8/

It broke their previous download record for the first week post-release: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/09/02/one-week-of-libreoffice-26-8-the-stats/

How I found out: https://manualdousuario.net/en/libreoffice-download-record-no-ai/

Implementing in POSIX M4 the GNU & BSD M4 macros not in POSIX, such that the Heirloom Project M4 can run them without smashing its limited buffer and recursion stack space.

60 years ago tonight, NBC aired its first red-shirt dying on an alien planet, while on a routine mission in some kind of Star Trek, thinking he would get stereotypical sailor lucky with a salt monster and falling into The Man Trap.

The red-shirt's uniform was a blue shirt.