@Elwell @mhoye Omg, this just unlocked a lost memory. I don't know what happened to it, because I forgot it even existed, but in grade 7 or 8 I had a universal remote wrist watch (pretty sure I got it from thinkgeek.com (rip)), the primary function of which became confusing and annoying teachers 😅

Daughter just came home to tell me the teachers at school tried to confiscate her vape but they couldn't because it's actually a kazoo.

"I made a kazoo noise at them and I could see them dying on the inside so I made a sad kazoo noise instead. I don't think it helped."

The grin on her face.

@rl_dane @kkarhan @fuchsiii I love this. Honestly I always wanted to learn some COBOL... up until the moment I actually tried 😅

@rl_dane What wasn't usable about it for you? I just did a fresh install on my laptop the other day. After unchecking the two "delete everything every time" boxes, and checking the box to re-enable Firefox Sync (less comfortable with that every day, but in the short term I just need to be able to get to work), it just feels like Firefox but slightly less shit lol. Historically I also import the same BetterFox config I used to use on stock Firefox, but I kinda just stopped bothering with that at some point.

EDIT: Oh also I enable playing DRM protected content, same deal with regular ol' Firefox.

@rl_dane @kkarhan @fuchsiii I doubt a lot of new applications are being written for it, but I know legacy stuff is still out there. Costco is the most visible example because you can just go there and see it with your very own eyes every time you renew your membership or whatever.

@kkarhan @rl_dane @fuchsiii Not to mention the countless companies still running ancient AS400 software in VMs (Costco, for one). This will forever delight me.


...and the endless lines of COBOL still handling god only knows how much of North American banking/financial infrastructure. This will forever shock and horrify me lmao

@kkarhan @rl_dane @fuchsiii Oh not at all. Some of my first jobs were in offices before everyone switched from running their crusty JRE enterprise software on local intranets (and requiring a specific browser to run the janky web portal for NetSuite or w/e), to replacing all that crusty but robust old software with barely minimum-viable SaaS products (only to eventually find out during a massive AWS outage that their old local intranet had more redundancy (not to mention actual same day "we'll have someone there within the hour" service when something went horribly wrong) than the entire enterprise SaaS industry *panics in CEO*)

@kkarhan @rl_dane @fuchsiii I think it's safe to say we're well past the point that anyone should expect IE6 support. Unless you're just serving static markup over bare http I guess? In which case, sure. I suppose you could just serve up some good ol' "HTML 4.01 Transitional" (just typing that brings me immense joy; nostalgia's a funny thing lol) for old times sake.

@saramg What disappoints me most about this article is the author's view that the problem with AI is unmet promises, and we'll all change our mind when it become useful. It's like they're writing about the tech industry, yet they've never stopped to ask themselves why this ridiculous push of largely ineffective tech to a largely unreceptive audience has been going on for so long. I get the impression they'll continue trying these AI products, just waiting for the day they like one, and then everything will be okay (except that their power bill will be 10x as much as it is now and then they'll just slowly get dumber).

@saramg This is what we in The Biz™ call an extremely cold take.

@mcc The one and only time I tried a Virtual Boy was maybe 10 or so years ago at A&C Games (by College & Spadina; 0if you haven't been, I highly recommend the experience. Though if your s/o has a Virtual Boy collection, I imagine you're very well aware lol).

They just had a working Virtual Boy in fantastic visual and working condition running on the front counter. I was genuinely impressed by how good Mario Tennis is on it. Not super VR-ey really—just a solid tennis game in clock radio red, lol.

They even had a boxed Vectrex on the shelf 😭. God I wish I bought one before they got even more expensive.

Anyway, fuck Microsoft and their absolute lamest social media site ever they rode in on.

@kkarhan @rl_dane The IE6-8 days were some of my fondest. Not because I enjoyed IE6-8, but because every CSS inconsistency was a delightful puzzle. I kinda miss when making a tri-column layout took effort lol

@mcc @grissallia Oh I have used Solaar actually, but again, that's for a trackball. See if it does what you need. It says it does key customization and macros: https://github.com/pwr-Solaar/Solaar

@mcc @grissallia There is at least one open source project for configuring Logitech devices. Don't know specifics about device support or feature set because I'm a basic bitch who's pretty happy with my basic Ergo M575 (aside from the insane wireless interference with other devices) and just ignore rather than reconfigure the back/forward buttons.

@grissallia @mcc *Two more good products.

@mcc Too bad HP makes some of the worst chiclet keyboards on the entire planet (standalone I mean; they've made some decent laptop keyboards). Let's hope they went with something better now that they've shoved a computer into it.

@rl_dane @kkarhan Zen is the worst browser I've ever used (personal opinion). I'd rather use IE7.

@rl_dane LibreWolf is Firefox minus telemetry & bloat plus Ublock Origin. It's privacy centered to the point that it's default settings clear all cookies the moment you close it (though that's easily changed to something more convenient), and it's the most performant Firefox fork I've ever used.

I just found out that Waterfox is owned by basically a company that makes it's money from advertising (plus, they also introduced a dumb sidebar like all the other forks so it's dead to me anyway) so I'm not about to recommend that. Same company that owns Startpage it turns out? That's... weird.

@thatKomputerKat Don't we all 😞

I've been had. This is my second Club "with real bits" and I've yet to experience a single real bit. Wtf, #ireland?

Anyway, it kinda tastes like a halfway point between orange Fanta and orange Crush. Half decent. Not nearly as good as Rani Float, though, which features real bits in abundance.