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Go to ckent@urbanists.social for anything non-tech or political, including infrastructure, solar & selling power, roads, transit, cycling … even maps, even really geeky […]

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Alt+Spacebar was a bit evil, hey?

#windows2
Alt+Spacebar then R key, was equivalent to Alt+F10
December 21, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Windows 2.x still thought it "knew better" than Mac when it came to keyboard shortcuts …

Undo: Alt+Backspace
Cut: Shift+Delete
Copy: Ctrl+Insert
Paste: Shift+Insert

1990 would change that. Of course, the option-key shortcuts that Mac started in 1984 … ? Still […]

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Screenshot of 1988-era word processor Amí for Windows 2.x, showing the Edit menu opened over a sample document demonstrating stylesheets.
December 21, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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@atpfm "BELIEVE" different?

https://youtu.be/A0onppIyHEg
December 19, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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But what double-buffering achieved was:
1. instant support on many UI elements
2. an easy way to transition graphics/icons/etc that didn't have early support — just 2x them
3. an easy way to build iPhones with panels had high-dpi but not exactly the RIGHT high-dpi, so you didn't have to […]
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December 18, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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How to Fix Your Windows … broken things

v3 tweak

#windows #thiojoe #sfc #dism #windows11
A flowchart that describes ThioJoe's YouTube primer on how to fix 95% of all Windows problems using `SFC` and `DISM`
December 16, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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oh come on, ffs (literally)
A "Year in Review" page for Pornhub. Clearly faked.
December 14, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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All the things.

#cosmology #logarithms #logscale #planck #graphs
December 7, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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My return flight is delayed. And it got delayed after I arrived at SFO.

Which I’m fine with, because I got a really nice view down 28L/R, an ok view of 01 L/R, and liveatc in my ears.

#avgeek #aviation
View from next to gate E11 at SFO. There’s a nice view of 28L/R and also an ok view of 01 L/R. 2 narrow body airliners have landed on 28L and R, and are slowing down to exit the runways.
November 23, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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If you haven't been able to ship your iOS/macOS 26 update yet and have been feeling bad about it, just remember:

Apple still hasn't shipped iWork with Liquid Glass, and Apple also opted all its pro apps out of Liquid Glass.

Final Cut Pro on iPad still doesn't support the background video […]
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November 18, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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New, from me: The Cloudflare Outage May Be a Security Roadmap

An intermittent outage at Cloudflare on Tuesday briefly knocked many of the Internet’s top destinations offline. Some affected Cloudflare customers were able to pivot away from the platform […]

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A screenshot of the Cloudflare.com error page yesterday showing an Internal Server Error.
November 19, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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quillmatiq.com
I don't want AI generated art, I want AI emptied dishwasher
November 17, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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AI can’t do fingers

#gutenberg #gooseflesh #ai
A photo of one of three portraits of Gutenberg at his museum. He is holding the letters A, B and C using three hands.
October 31, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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The most 2004 interview quote ever.

#smartphone #web
We haven't seen any real innovation after the web - and that was 13 years ago. Do you agree? I do agree. The problem is that it is so hard to anticipate a revolution. Tim Berners-Lee was solving his own little problem but did so by developing a tool needed by the whole world. Well, you don't get to do that very often. So while it is easy to complain about a lack of subsequent innovation, what we're talking about is something comparable to the telephone and we don't spend very much time sitting around lamenting that we haven't replaced that device after 128 years, do we?
October 21, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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[Eldritch abominations of non-standard measuring units]

Best nerdy video you’ll see in 2025. You’ll laugh or cringe so hard your wisdom teeth will pop out.

Top comment pasted in here.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=sdWEGzWFcCc

#units #measurement #metric
A YouTube comment reads: I didn’t know “decimal feet tape measures” existed. They shouldn’t exist. I miss the good old days when I didn’t know they existed. 👍 873
October 7, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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Fair play to the Lyric Theatre in Sydney — they published my critical review. #bttf #backtothefuture The Musical is rightfully getting mixed reviews on Reddit, but most theatre reviews are uniformly from people who are identifiably fans of ALL musicals, and only […]

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I can't fit the text in here, but it is a screenshot of multiple reviews, including mine, at https://www.ticketmaster.com.au/back-to-the-future-the-musical-tickets/artist/3435829?int_cmp_name=Back-to-the-Future-AU-2025&int_cmp_id=AU-Home-701&int_cmp_creative=Home-main-2.0&tm_link=tm_ccp_Home_main_Back-to-the-Future-AU-2025#reviews
September 30, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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stty

https://wizardzines.com/comics/stty/

(from The Secret Rules of the Terminal, out now! https://wizardzines.com/zines/terminal/)
your TTY driver has configuration you can see how it’s configured by running: stty -a for example it print out the current window size! Ctrl+S by default, pressing Ctrl+S wi(( freeze your terminal (and Ctrl+Q wi(( unfreeze) I have never wanted this in my life, you can turn it off with stty -ixon (fish turns it off by default) ###fun fact: changing Ctrl+C technically you can use stty to set a different keyboard shortcut for Ctrl+C, (ike “u” stty intr u this is extremely chaotic and I can’t imagine a reason that I would ever do this though programs have to configure the TTY driver to get friendly features developer: I want arrow keys to work in my program! other person: better tell the TTY driver to turn off canonical mode! (more on the next page) the TTY driver’s settings are called “termios settings” for the gnarly details: man termios but if you’re writing a terminal program libraries like readline or ncurses will handle setting up the TTY driver panel 6 smiling stick figure with short curly hair: I’ve only needed to use stty once in the last 20 years and I mostly don’t understand its output but I think it’s a fun view into terminal internals!
September 24, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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It’s only since Covid and lockdowns ended that the first “reverse hacked” #scammer call centre was published on YouTube by a security expert. It was in parallel with that time Mark Rober made a glitter bomb with streaming cameras that porch pirates stole, but led to a bigger network of gift card […]
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September 14, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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Dave’s Garage did a pretty good primer + roundup + call to action on home network privacy in 2025 https://youtube.com/watch?v=lxFd5xAN4cg
September 10, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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@spocko @ai6yr and who can forget the Seiko IRC Pro?

(credit: @NanoRaptor )
A skillfully drawn imaginary wristwatch featuring a full QWERTY keyboard, presumably for chatting in IRC. But who uses either IRC or wristwatches any more?
September 10, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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Siracusa@mastodon.social It looks like the BBC is using AI to generate its own headlines now … Looks https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2025/articles/bbc-to-launch-new-generative-ai-pilots-to-support-news-production/

But there’s more to it, and they’re trying to make it work with more purpose
BBC to launch new Generative AI pilots to support news production
www.bbc.co.uk
September 7, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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@atpfm Just a random shout-out that the t-shirts designed / selected by @siracusa — in particular the latest batch, e.g. M3 Ultra — are the best, nicest comfortable t-shirts I've ever owned

The tri-blend is incredibly good. Black Tri-Blend.

Is this newer than Vintage Black Tri-Blend? I've […]
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August 20, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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Back in 2018-19, the movie #burning was a critical hit — for some reason. It was a #korean psychological thriller #movie that reached breakthrough status in the west, and that implies it was better than most Korean movies, most non-Hollywood movies, or most […]

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Google review screenshot: 0 out of 5 stars ☆☆☆☆☆ What a lot of shite this movie was. Terrible pacing, vacuous themes. The lead character cums three times and gets his kicks from erect towers, stalking and calling women whores. And knifing. He’s an unemployed loser with the world’s worst writer’s block who turns out to be a jealous person as well. The book he’s writing is a “mystery” because nobody knows, not even the author, what’s going in it. The promised threesome never eventuates. Reviewed: "Burning" Details event 11 May 2019 at 21:54 apps Search
August 20, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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AN ACTUALLY A PIECE OF THE MOON

🌚🌘🌖🌒🌝 #moon #moonrock
July 26, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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Current status: 0 out of 2 socks 🧦
July 25, 2025 at 3:08 AM