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I... thanks?

I C-A-F2'd over to a console a few weeks ago and a young person looking at my screen was visibly, physically startled. They were looking at me like I'd just walked in through the wall.

ai companies scraping: haha fuck yeah!!! yes!!!!

ai companies being scraped: well this sucks. what the fuck.

2025. you go to a website. you see all the elements on the page pop-in, loading one by one. it's like the 90s again. your internet connection might be hundreds of megabits per second. the web designer is using a 4k video file as a looping background, and that somehow loads quickly compared to all the actual useful elements on the page. three seconds, five seconds, ten seconds. each checkbox and table has to initialize its own software stack of UI abstraction libraries and surveillance middleware

Your GitHub account now includes one free hour in the ball pit

Mozilla's Original Sin.

Some will tell you that Mozilla's worst decision was to accept funding from Google, and that may have been the first domino, but I hold that implementing DRM is what doomed them, as it led to their culture of capitulation. It demonstrated that their decisions were the decisions of a *company shipping products*, not those of a non-profit devoted to preserving the open web.

Those are different things and are very much in conflict. [...]
https://jwz.org/b/ykVr

It has a little ads window on the side, and has Pay To Win or Watch Ad to continue. It also takes 235 MB of disk, full CPU core and 500 MB of RAM. Darn, Minesweeper for Windows 3.0 running on 8088 IBM PC didn't take all CPU resources.

You what, Microsoft

State of the art anti-cheat technique: Roblox detects if you have the string "x86dbg" in a window title (or window?), so kids are changing their display names and discord server names to x86dbg to get people kicked from Roblox.

My thoughts and prayers go out to #voyager1, which after journeying for half a century to reach interstellar space is still expected to answer fucking work emails

Thousands of pixels in both dimensions, four (4) tick marks per axis. Please, ggplot, I assure you my screen can handle a couple more. I promise I won't tell Tufte.

me every single time I use ggplot2

@gonsalu I’m pretty sure it’s Rotation https://www.fonts.com/font/linotype/rotation/roman

"No way to prevent this" says users of only programming language where this regularly happens

bluetooth audio is great because instead of the horrible inconvenience of plugging in an audio cable into the audio hole, I get to just put the earbuds into my ears, open the bluetooth device list on my desktop, not see them there, pull out my phone, check if it's connected, find out that it's not, realize that it probably automatically paired to my laptop that's laying in the other corner of the room, then google "WF-1000XM4 pairing mode", find a page that tells me what I need to press for how long to switch it into pairing mode, and only then I can start using them

It is done. 1 LPS is finally mine.