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It does appear to work. I received a message from Discord saying "We determined you're in the adult group. " narrator> And that's when he discovers his account has now been hacked.…

Ah, brings back memories of being a Silicon Graphics Customer Support Engineer based in London and the Home Counties, back in the late 90's and early 2000's. Indy, Indigo, then lat…

Bush Porn. Here in Scotland, way back when I was, oh, 7, 8, 9 years old, always stumbled across discarded porn magazines in the woods I used to play in. Moved area when I was 11, o…

Hmmm, no mention of Teknicad? sadface I seem to be the only person (along with 3 others who were my cow-orkers) who ever used or heard of Teknicad , running on Tektronix Unix works…

That could be a very good thing, depending on which part of the planet you live. For example, I'm in Scotland, and apart from one or two days, we've basically had a "year without a…

Projects I haven't touched for a long, long time... XRDPConfigurator : https://github.com/scarygliders/XRDPConfigurator - This is a GUI application I wrote 10 years ago. It even ha…

Congratulations. I already told you I test my programs. The discussion is about expending brain power and time writing hundreds of lines of code to test the intended user-facing co…

> Don’t get me wrong, the field is riddled with people who think testing is beside them and wash their hand with the quality of what they ship and what they put their users through…

> But I would like to thank all the people here who think testing is useless for their attitude. You make my job easier while hiring. That's fine. I've never written a test in my l…

Easily distracted by giant balls of knitting wool ;) Their one Achilles Heel.

My first home computer was Z80 based; a Sinclair ZX81 I think I still even have a book on Z80 assembly somewhere. Had a bright orange cover.

Er, vaping is 100% NOT smoking. There is no fire/combustion involved when vaping. Vaping is when a liquid is heated up enough to turn it into a vapour. The same process as heating …

This is entirely incorrect. The small village I live in, in Scotland? The really crappy and unreliable public transport? Yep. I need a car if I want to get to the Reasonably Priced…

I don't hate the idea of living in car-free cities. It's cities I hate the idea of living in. Which is why I choose not to live in cities. And is why I need a car. Fuck cities, I h…

Yeesh! It needs a toggle for a dark theme. Was not expecting so much blinding white.

Look at the BBC article... Headline: "Trump supporters target black voters with faked AI images" @Trump_History45 does appear to be a Trump supporter. However, he is also a parody …

Unfortunately you've been misled by the BBC. Please read this: https://order-order.com/2024/03/05/bbc-panoramas-disinformat... Those AI generated photos are from a Twitter/X parody…

Whilst I realise that it would eat into the weight budget of such landers, I reckon adding a fuel cell with enough fuel to last through the lunar night, which keeps the lander and …

Hang on. You said you were living in a minivan - a vehicle which took a few technological leaps to be able to develop and build, so you could live in it. You also appear to have an…

>> X is the tech we have used since the dawn of time. It was released in 1984 and so the architecture is not suited for the way modern desktops operate. X is a mature architecture …

That is nothing compared to the cringe I experience whenever I see people type "lead" when it really called for "led"; "He lead them into battle" instead of "He led them into battl…

I agree with both your reactions.

Self-service tills are good for when you've only got a very few items to purchase and rather than stand in a long line of a staffed checkout, you can just use that instead. Otherwi…

I see. "Look, I see racism. Everywhere! Reeeeeeeeee!"