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The youtube video linked has the toasters going north west to south east - they canonically travel from north east to south west. Did they flip the video to avoid a copyright claim…

Bill Stewart was by no means the author of after dark or the flying toasters[1] He did do the windows port of the screen saver engine and some modules, but that was years after the…

I used to have a registered port (in the 3000s) - didn’t get a lot of spam, but once I got a very angry phone call (!!!) from someone that tracked me down because their firewall bl…

Years ago I got a job through a recruiter, left company A for B. She called me after a few months and asked me for the Compsny A internal directory - which I declined to provide an…

This reminds me of the trump lawyer who’s defense was “no reasonable person could’ve believed what I was saying”. Was it only an insurrection if they succeeded?

Just because they were incompetent doesn’t mean they weren’t criminal.

One possible result of this that sounds dystopian cool - script kiddy kids < 16 spinning up mastodon server instances and creating their own very leaky insecure rolling social netw…

There was a rather silly 1976 thriller “Raise the Titanic!” predating it’s actual discovery by about 10 years. They made a movie from it too in 1980. Based on a premise that there …

In various Discworld books, Pratchett sort of unified Golumns with Asimov’s three laws robots.

I want to say it was at Sun in the mid 80s, most code lacked comments but there was one idiosyncratic data structure with field names having specific prefixes - with the comment “S…

I’d been going since the mid 80s when it was “the foothill flea market” colloquially. I can’t say I’ve ever found any “wow, this is unique” things - honestly, most of the time it’s…

Watching alt.religion.scientology in 1993 was very much like ogling a road accident. It was so weird how the adherents would attack the people that were leaking their church secret…

This is the best. Offices with doors, as a semaphore for availability, and a close by common area for collaboration. If collaboration occurs spontaneously and your door isn’t close…

I will often slap a dumb 3 line http server into my long running tools / applications for debugging - provide ReSTful channel to toggle debug flags. I “learned” html in the 90s and…

They don’t specify which god - perhaps one of the Eldritch horror type gods is being invoked and awoken!

I had the same thought - sweep it under the rug? Hide this until it starts to smell?

So many, many rants could come from this and my blood is boiling in fervent agreement. But two thoughts: as hard as it is to use the contrast-less, contextless obscure icons and "i…

There’s a character in “the truth” by Terry pratchett that ostensibly swears a lot in the book - “I don’t have any -ing friends”, etc. but it turns out he’s literally saying -ing (…

I got a little “looks like a key but is a foldable pocket knife” as a gift a few years ago - and was amazed at how often I ended up using it.

Another series along these lines I’ve been meaning to finish watching: “Moonbase 3”[1] from the bbc. James Burke (Connections, The Day the Universe Changed) was science advisor, al…

Watching my 10 year old manipulate the mindcraft ui is mindblowing - she was anticipating the UI before it appeared. On the other hand, watching my officemate try to edit command l…

And “Toms” - The Little Garden on El Camino in Mountain View with the wall of Sun Microsystems business cards. Some folks (no doubt still around on HN) started an ISP in the Bay Ar…

And now that I’m hungry and fantasizing, Flints BBQ on Shattuck in Oakland. Ribs in peace.