I have found myself writing utterly incomprehensible spaghetti code in a completely goto-less programming language. Take that, Dijkstra!
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@nixCraft@mastodon.social Wanna laugh even harder?
He's a cryptobro turned AI bro, he's being serious here, and he thinks this is an improvement.
There is no Notepad++ for any Mac, but a vibe-coded port and its sloperator "author" want you to believe otherwise.
Ars Technica, "'Notepad++ for Mac' release is disavowed by the creator of the original": https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/05/unofficial-vibe-coded-notepad-for-mac-draws-objections-from-original-author/
I just realized that, if your main coding PC has a document scanner and OCR software, like a cheap flatbed and Tesseract for example, then you could, at least in theory, use a manual #typewriter in your favorite hideaway as the ultimate distraction-free code authoring tool.
If your typewriter doesn't have a delete key, then take along a typewriter eraser and a writing correction tape.
In 1967, IBM commissioned Jim Henson to make a 5-minute commercial for the IBM MT/ST, a Selectric typewriter-based word processor system integrated into its own desk. What he delivered instead was an experimental '60s techno-dystopian work of art.
"Paperwork Explosion" (embeds the film uploaded to YouTube): https://west86th.bgc.bard.edu/articles/paperwork-explosion/
The Jim Henson Company via YouTube, "Paperwork Explosion" [4:58]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IZw2CoYztk
Headline someone other than the Onion just ran:
"Trump picks qualified, normal health leader to head CDC"
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You quit Microsoft Internet Explorer.
You can quit Google Chrome.
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BTW, I'm not at all upset at how long it takes to install anything from source. I'm used to it, & it's a conscious personal choice. My first Linux box was an '01 PC running Sorcerer, a now-dead source-based distro.
I'm just amazed at the extreme time disparity between building Firefox and anything Chrome-based.
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@catsalad@infosec.exchange The obvious accessory is a one-year one-page alphabetical calendar to hang underneath it.
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Why use something so ancient Vista was the preinstalled OS? Because it works, because it was a gift from one of my customers, and because although an Intel Core 2 Duo E7200 is no speed demon, it's fast enough for everything I need a workstation to do.
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Related: The only thing Microsoft Edge seems to be useful for is letting random websites use Windows notifications to spam the user with dire warning messages about viruses and errors that desperately need to be cleaned up if you'll just click here, only to land on full-screen tech support scams urging you to call Windows at 1-800-FLEECE-ME right away.
It was a mistake to quit shipping computers and operating systems without even one hobbyist-oriented programming environment preinstalled & featured.
Even a dialect of BASIC, picking up where 8-bit ROM BASICs, GW-BASIC, and QBASIC left off, & much more discoverable & tinker-able than the WSH/VBScript buried deep in every version of Windows since 98, would've been an improvement.
At least then, explorers & would-be hobbyists would have options instantly more viable than the slop machine plague.
"Got a dusty old laptop you wish you could use again? Don't want to throw it out? Just run Linux on it!"
This is total BS, now that every major Linux distro has abandoned its i386/i686/x86 32-bit editions. I can't even find one to put on my Atom Netbook anymore, let alone my early XP era Dell Inspiron tank.
Especially don't promise such BS with a stock photo of an obvious Commodore PET 4032 with the nameplate taped over to make it look like a generic old PC.
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(It's okay, take your time.)
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I just found out the hard way that FreeBSD effectively abandoned my Atom netbook starting with 14.3.
The upgrade from the now-EOL 14.2 succeeded, except the drm, i915kms, and other kernel module friends were removed from the i386 pkg repos, & graphics/drm-61-kmod, the only drm-kmod port, refuses to try building on i386.
Looks like this is the end of the Unix-likes road for still fully working x86 PCs.
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@davidrevoy@framapiaf.org Avian Intelligence not even doing list numbering right is too real.
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@mavica_again repair yayness :computerfairies: :heart_cyber: 🎶
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@nixCraft Calling it now. A coming bug report will be "I ran journalctl -f -u baltimore and systemd deleted my home directory again."
RE: @SteveRudolfi@mastodon.social
If none of the many other reasons were good enough, here's yet another reason you need to quit Google.
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Also, how many 18 year old PCs can run a modern OS without becoming a Ship of Theseus?
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@nixCraft@mastodon.social He routinely posts things like these as bait to peddle his worthless and pricey slop, so even though he plays these off as jokes when called out, the fact he uses each and every one to sell doing exactly this betrays the fact he truly believes this obvious dissonance.
The Trojan Room Coffee Pot, which the X11 application xcoffee showed a live picture of, to save your long trip for a refill of joe from being a fruitless one:
The space toilet broke.
Space.com, 2026-04-02, "There was a bit of toilet trouble on NASA's Artemis 2 mission to the moon": https://www.space.com/space-exploration/artemis/theres-a-bit-of-toilet-trouble-on-nasas-artemis-2-mission-to-the-moon
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@mavica_again eggs benedict cumberbatch
In case none of the other dozens upon dozens of reasons to quit Chrome and quit Google before were enough.
Boosted by @GroupNebula563@mastodon.social
Before the advent of TCP (Transfem Communication Protocol), infodump data was often relayed by GGCP (Girl to Girl Copy) via PPP (Puppy to Puppy Protocol) links.
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.
Give me a drink, bartender.
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@mavica_again@computerfairi.es Oof, yeah. URL bar auto-complete trips up me and a surprisingly large percentage of my customers as well.