#ERROR

There is an online service provider in #Canada that I have been using for a long time. Like, since 2000. I'm pretty sure it's a small, independently-run organization -- maybe even a one-person #shop. I've never tried to find out.

It was around for years before I first used their services. I still use them today, though I don't actually have to do so very often -- think #renewals, #annual or less often. They'll probably still be here when I'm dead, run by the children of the founder or something.

The #website and its user interface - what today might be called a #dashboard, but we weren't that fancy back then - hasn't changed in those 26 years. Someone who is used to slick "one page app" websites with animations and #CSS transition effects and all that stuff would undoubtedly describe it as "clunky" at best, and run screaming from it at worst.

But you know what else is true about the #site?

It still works just fine.

It has never been #down or #offline when I needed it.

It has never given me an #error page.

It has never frustrated my attempts to do my regular #transactions - just simple, regular clicks on clearly-labelled #buttons, and it goes through.

It is incredibly #fast. Milliseconds for a few kilobytes of HTML to transfer, and the page is there, done.

It has never had a security #breach of my info.

They have never #spammed me.

Anyone who first got online after about 2005 completely missed this era. The one where #websites WORKED and did what you needed.

Justice for Willie Simmonsjfws@kolektiva.social
2026-03-13

Facial Recognition Error Jails Innocent Grandmother For Months

> Lipps lost her home, her car and her dog, she said. She also told WDAY News no one from the Fargo police department had apologized.

m.slashdot.org/story/453276

#Facial #Recognition #Error #Jails #Innocent

2026-03-13

A quotation from Horace

Good Homer sometimes nods, which gives me a jerk —
But sleep may well worm its way into any long work!
 
                                                            [Et idem
indignor, quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus;
verum operi longo fas est obrepere somnum.]

Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 2, ep. 3 “Art of Poetry [Ars Poetica; To the Pisos],” l. 358ff (2.3.358-360) (19 BC) [tr. Palmer Bovie (1959)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/14656/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #homer #homernods #humannature #error #flaw #frailty #genius #greatness #humancondition #imperfection #shortcoming

N-gated Hacker Newsngate
2026-03-13

🌟 Oh, what a tech disasterpiece! The art of discussing and AI activism gets lost in the void of a JavaScript-less purgatory. 🚫🔧 Who needs coherent web content when you can have endless messages? 🙃
twitter.com/id_aa_carmack/stat

2026-03-11

A quotation from James Howell

The more haste, the worse speed.

James Howell (c. 1594–1666) Welsh historian and writer
Paroimiographia [Παροιμιογραφία]: Proverbs, or, Old Sayed Sawes & Adages, “English Proverbs” (1659)
[compiler]

More about this quote: wist.info/howell-james/12543/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #jameshowell #proverb #error #haste #hurry #savingtime #slowing #speed #takeyourtime #wastingtime

2026-03-10

Fix Discord Messages Failed to Load

Discord chats not loading? Learn how to fix the “Messages Failed to Load” error with simple troubleshooting steps for PC, mobile, and browser. Get your Discord chats working again fast.

izoate.com/blog/how-to-fix-dis

Wisdom in Spacewisdom@c.im
2026-03-09

Any error can be the unrecognized bearer of truth.
-- Umberto Eco

#Wisdom #Quotes #UmbertoEco #Error

#Photography #Panorama #Sunset #Kayaks #Everglades #Florida

photo by richard rathe
WordofTheHourwordofthehour
2026-03-09

: a wandering or deviation from the right course or standard

- French: erreur

- German: der Fehler

- Italian: errore

- Portuguese: erro

- Spanish: error

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2026-03-05

A quotation from Doctor Who

THE DOCTOR: Logic, my dear Zoë, merely enables one to be wrong with authority.

Doctor Who (1963-1989) British science fiction television series (BBC)
05×07 “The Wheel In Space,” Part 3 (1968-05-11) [w. David Whitacker, Kit Pedlar]

More about this quote: wist.info/doctor-who-1963/4639…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #authority #error #logic #rationale #reason #doctorwho #seconddoctor

2026-03-05

A quotation from Churchill

Let us learn our lessons. Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realise that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events. Antiquated War Offices, weak, incompetent, or arrogant Commanders, untrustworthy allies, hostile neutrals, malignant Fortune, ugly surprises, awful miscalculations — all take their seats at the Council Board on the morrow of a declaration of war. Always remember, however sure you are that you could easily win, that there would not be a war if the other man did not think he also had a chance.

Winston Churchill (1874-1965) British statesman and author
My Early Life: A Roving Commission, ch. 18 “With Buller to the Cape” (1930)

More about this quote: wist.info/churchill-winston/11…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #churchill #winstonchurchill #control #declarationofwar #error #events #expectations #fortune #hubris #misfortune #overconfidence #perspective #presumption #surprises #uncontrolled #unexpected #victory #war

2026-03-03

A quotation from Nietzsche

Blessed are the forgetful: for they “get the better” even of their blunders.
 
[Selig sind die Vergesslichen: denn sie werden auch mit ihren Dummheiten “fertig”.]

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) German philosopher and poet
Jenseits von Gut und Böse [Beyond Good and Evil], Aphorism 217 (1886) [tr. Zimmern (1906)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/nietzsche-friedrich/…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #nietzsche #blessing #blunder #error #forgetful #forgetfulness #forgetting #fretting #getover #mistake #notworryabout #setaside #shame #stupidity #unremembered #worry

2026-03-05

Jail error prompted tainted-evidence worry about key witness in Moncton murder trial
A jail error involving key witnesses in a Moncton double-murder trial led to allegations of tainted evidence and a push to exclude testimony from the only person who said Janson Baker was at the murder scene.
cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswi

2026-02-27

A quotation from C. C. Colton

It is almost as difficult to make a man unlearn his errors as his knowledge. Mal-information is more hopeless than non-information; for error is always more busy than ignorance. Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase. Ignorance is contented to stand still with her back to the truth; but error is more presumptuous, and proceeds in the same direction. Ignorance has no light, but error follows a false one. The consequence is, that error, when she retraces her footsteps, has further to go, before she can arrive at the truth, than ignorance.

Charles Caleb "C. C." Colton (1780-1832) English cleric, writer, aphorist
Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Vol. 1, § 1 (1820)

More about this quote: wist.info/colton-charles-caleb…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #cccolton #changeofmind #correction #disinformation #error #ignorance #misinformation #truth #unlearning

2026-02-27

A quotation from Horace

Dear sire, and offspring worthy of your fire!
We bards are dupes to what ourselves admire.
Would I be brief — I grow confused and coarse;
Who aims at smoothness, fails in fire and force;
In him who soars aloft, bombast is found;
Who fears to face the tempest, crawls aground.
Who courts variety and fain would ring
A thousand changes on the self-same string,
Will paint, as ’twere in fancy’s wildest mood
Boars in the wave and dolphins in the wood.
Thus even error, shun’d without address,
Breeds error, diff’rent in its kind, not less.
 
[Maxima pars vatum, pater et iuvenes patre digni,
decipimur specie recti: brevis esse laboro,
obscurus fio; sectantem levia nervi
deficiunt animique; professus grandia turget;
serpit humi tutus nimium timidusque procellae:
qui variare cupit rem prodigialiter unam,
delphinum silvis adpingit, fluctibus aprum:
in vitium ducit culpae fuga, si caret arte.]

Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 2, ep. 3 “Art of Poetry [Ars Poetica; To the Pisos],” l. 24ff (2.3.24-31) (19 BC) [tr. Howes (1845)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/14582/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #arspoetica #poet #bombast #brevity #brief #caution #clarity #criticism #edit #error #explanation #extremes #faults #force #mistake #obscurity #overcompensation #overcorrection #poetry #smoothness #strangeness #style #succinctness #talent #timidity #tryingtoohard #unintelligibility #variety #vigor #writing

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