cerement

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[–] cerement@slrpnk.net 20 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)
  • Oregon Trail didn’t ask you for your cookie preferences
  • VisiCalc didn’t require an always on internet connection
  • WordStar didn’t auto-update and restart in the middle of an essay
  • Applesoft BASIC didn’t require a fully provisioned S3 instance
  • Impulse Tracker didn’t try to feed your composition to an LLM
[–] cerement@slrpnk.net 6 points 2 days ago

I think the only real advantage for the Pixel (and Nexus) series was they came with stock Android – no worrying about manufacturer overlays and carrier overlays adding their own levels of bloatware and delaying updates

[–] cerement@slrpnk.net 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

(also if you’re using Quad9 DNS – Quad9 and Catbox have an long running beef with each other)

[–] cerement@slrpnk.net 7 points 4 days ago

when our politics are shaped by who we’re voting against because our parties refuse to give us anyone to vote for

[–] cerement@slrpnk.net 6 points 6 days ago

Microsoft Windows X̵̡̼̹̱̻͖͗͋͂̑͌̓̌͂̀́̚͝P̶̢̮̻̲̰̜̺͖͖̺̪͕̖͍̝̬̾͋̏̋̎̍́͗͂̊̇̈́̽̕

[–] cerement@slrpnk.net 9 points 6 days ago

conservatives just need to stop saying something dumb …

[–] cerement@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 week ago

Master Control Program!

[–] cerement@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 week ago

but there’s no “T” …

[–] cerement@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 weeks ago

coffee crop protected by black flies

 

(this is just as a matter of curiosity)

we now have a couple distros using musl instead of (or along side of) glibc, so I got to wondering (got sidetracked by) if anyone had done a similar project with tcc replacing gcc?

 

ed was based on using the teletype – the “persistent display” was the paper itself

What I really love is that when the teletype has finished printing off his little diary, Rex can simply tear it off and walk away, keeping it in his pocket, put on his wall. It’s produced a little physical artifact for him to carry around.

 

source: i.think.2 on IG

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by cerement@slrpnk.net to c/politicalmemes@lemmy.world
 

“If blasting CO2 into the air and ruining all of our freshwater and traumatizing cheap laborers and making every sysadmin you know miserable and ripping off code and books and art at scale and ruining our fucking democracy isn’t enough for you to leave this shit alone, what is?”

 

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