The "Top 100", when I first read it, long long ago, had me laughing so hard I was afraid I'd wake up other people in the house. https://web.archive.org/web/20230709210553/http://bash.org/?...
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Where was it?
Anticlimactic, partly unpacked moving box. I was mostly surprised it was able to re-join the mesh while being in a completely different spot, something that a lot zigbee chips struggle with.
I’m reminded of the time I dropped a Juul behind/beside a makeshift workshop table and it magnetically attached itself a foot or so below to the freestanding metal shelving unit directly next to it.
I don’t advise using Juul products for this and other reasons.
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#223One of my all time favorite sites on the interenet, I am glad there is an archive version. IRC and being ASCII only had their benefits. These days, Discord displacing IRC, for most people who even have PCs, there is a much different vibe of re-posting meme pics and gifs, or even youtube videos. Yet, I don't know if this is because of the higher production requirements, or not, but there isn't a database of spontaneou…
IRC doesn't actually specify an encoding for messages, only limiting each message to 512 bytes IIRC. This could and did cause encoding issues when dealing with non-english language text.
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> Often times I wonder why basically _everything_ must be on the Web Because for the great majority of users, i.e. those who thought that "the internet" lived inside the blue "e" icon for IE on Win XP, or those who "break their cup holders" [1] they have great difficulty handling the fact that they need to launch different apps on their computer for different purposes and so everything has coalesced around "web based…
Do you have any data to support your assertion that a "great majority"(whatever that means) of users in the present "have great difficulty handling the fact that they need to launch different apps on their computer for different purposes"? Because it seems wildly hyperbolic. We're not in the year 1995 anymore.
> Because it seems wildly hyperbolic. We're not in the year 1995 anymore.
That's exactly what I was thinking. We're not in the 90s when people thought AOL and the internet were synonyms.
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Oh please, if you’ve interacted at all with a video game community in the last decade you know this kind of humor is alive and well…
It is, but it will get you banned. Has no one else noticed the rise of censorship evading slang among zoomers? Eg saying "unalive" instead of "kill". I remember there was a big file with a bunch of these for chinese youth I found fascinating some 15 years ago. And now we have to do it too.
Oh yeah because burdening children with the challenges of… using slightly different words… is a real shame.
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#226Most recently, I was using bash.org as my go-to non-HTTPS site for captive portal purposes (back when HTTPS Everywhere was a useful extensions). But the built-into-Firefox HTTPS only treatment handles captive portals gracefully already, so I didn't actually visit in a while. Goodbye!
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#227Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is, but it will get you banned. Has no one else noticed the rise of censorship evading slang among zoomers? Eg saying "unalive" instead of "kill". I remember there was a big file with a bunch of these for chinese youth I found fascinating some 15 years ago. And now we have to do it too.
Oh yeah because burdening children with the challenges of… using slightly different words… is a real shame.
Are you saying censorship is fine because people can just use other words?
There really is no point engaging with you then.
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#229What a shame. IRC is one of the few protocols left of the early Internet that hasn't been aggressively commercialized and colonized by corporate interests, and this is just another nail in the coffin. Often times I wonder why basically _everything_ must be on the Web, and if all that historical baggage and complexity is really necessary, or even worth it at all.
>I wonder why basically _everything_ must be on the Web
NAT. You can thank NAT for making the internet far worse.
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What does age have to do with it? "Turn that frown upside down" isn't a phrase that would make much sense to people who didn't hear it before. More so if English isn't their first language or they are neurodivergent. I don't believe I have ever heard this phrase used IRL. It's not a very nice thing to say in most contexts (saying this to another adult is outright bad - which is what makes the IRC joke funny in the fi…
I have heard it a few times. This really depends on what local lexicons you are exposed to.