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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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Your assumed knowledge — if you got left behind in the 1990s, here's what you missed.

I did like that question mark icon — it was kind of friendly and confident. Windows arrow, you're drunk.
Some very basic 1980s education on using mice and mouse icons on Windows 2.x
December 21, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Alt+Escape continues to be weird one — not Ctrl+Escape — that basically switches apps immediately to this day; but before the Start Bar and Dock, this was just a way to rearrange the egg-form of your running applications.

Today's Alt+Escape is a little bit like […]

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Alt+Esc was to rearrange icons on your desktop, except they were shibboleths of your running applications
December 21, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Behold, the origin of Alt-Tab

It's really grown a lot in 40 years
A description of how to reverse the minimise process on "icons" sitting in the desktop in Windows 2.x, which was how things looked for a while before 1995. It involved Alt-Tab if you didn't have a mouse. But nobody used it.
December 21, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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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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Did you know Alt+F4 had friends?

#windows2
Manual snippet shows: - Restore is Alt+F5 - Move is Alt+F7 - Size is Alt+F8 - Minimise is Alt+F9 - Maximise is Alt+F10 - and Close, you know
December 21, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Windows 2.x: How to Close a Window

There will be a test.

Mac users should be able to figure this one out.

#windows2
A manual page snippet, showing the keyboard shortcuts in 1988 were Alt+Spacebar then C, or Alt+F then X (File Menu > Exit), or Alt+F4 (no change there). If you wanted to use a mouse, you'd go to the top-left corner and double-click, slightly similar to Mac.
December 21, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Of course, we got Ctrl-S to copy Cmd-S "Save"

But we're still waiting for Ctrl-Q, I think?
You had to learn Alt-F4, for some reason.

And then there's these … omg ßæπ÷ç∫√
Appendix B of the 1988 word processing manual for Windows 2.x, where you had to memorise all the 3-digit codes for any special characters you wanted with accents or symbols
December 21, 2025 at 2:37 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
The Drake Hotline Bling meme, with saying no to "MPX", saying yes to "MLX"
December 19, 2025 at 7:00 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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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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@vicgrinberg @kritischelezer I think I really want to eat this.
An AI-generated image of chocolate cake material, fashioned into the shape of a black hole with gravitational lensing (as seen since the movie Interstellar)
September 1, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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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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@siracusa And finally, here is a survival guide for >99% of any issues that crop up for the foreseeable remainder of time — this should work until the last person uses Apple Boot Camp on a working Intel Mac:

(cribbed off ThioJoe, again)

- sfc /scannow
- DISM […]

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A troubleshooting flowchart for “almost all” Windows issues that a skilled amateur can solve without paying someone, leveraging mostly: - sfc /scannow - DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth This is a screenshot of a PDF, and includes a QR code to the ThioJoe video https://youtu.be/yidWdy-Xwdk where this information was sourced
July 13, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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Quiz time! What does this chart represent? It’s a timeline from 1977 to 2025. Two clues:

1. It continues to the present day
2. I just watched Wayne’s World 2

#quiz #charts #graphs #timeline #history

A part of the alt text:

“There are six colours striping […]

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A chart missing the labels, cropped on purpose, except for years along the bottom, ranging from 1977 to 2025 (continuing). There are six colours striping along horizontally, but they appear discontinuous, moving down and up without joining — every colour is represented only once at any given time. There is one exception: There is a gap in every colour at 1986-1987. All but one line remains continuous from 1987 through the 2010s, with the bottom one continuous from 1991. The bottom two are discontinuous at 2013 and the other four at 2017. There are various other discontinuities in the 1970s and 2020s, but the 1970s are marked with black lines for each year, signifying something happened. Each line generally goes down a notch to become a lower horizontal line when it “changes”, but the top line is the only one that has returned to its original position.
July 7, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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@siracusa I thought you might like to give a shout out to http://betterdisplay.pro

Not sure if you've ever mentioned it on @atpfm ? It's the most incredibly full-featured UI on a Mac app I've seen in years. (That's with or without "Show Details").

And that's […]

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A detailed configuration panel for computer screen settings, listing various advanced configurations to do with gamma, HDR and underscan.
June 23, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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What can I use to make this? Hopefully easily (as in, the lines all move in a group if I need to reposition), but honestly I don't care if not — I just want it to know about curves and gaps, positioning nicely by default.

#maps #diagram #road #roads #freeway […]

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A cropped screenshot of a diagrammatic road map, tall and narrow. It has a plain white background with three smaller horizontal roads across the top, middle and bottom, coloured gray except the top one in red. Down the middle are two "motorway" style roads using parallels pairs of lines, instead of single lines, and they join in a T-junction in the middle, as the bottom one turns off to the right in parallel with middle horizontal road. The bottom motorway is coloured green and the top one is coloured blue. The blue road has two neat "exits" linked to different sides of the red horizontal road, indicating a style of freeway off-ramp where on-ramps and off-ramps are on opposite sides of a bridge. The red road appears to be a bridge over the blue motorway because the map shows a gap in the blue motorway pair of lines. The off-ramps must also be on-ramps because they are also in pairs. They join the motorway in a way that indicates directionality, but not road lanes: Therefore this diagram's purpose is to show routing options, and not to suggest lane guidance. As a secondary purpose this diagram also shows road design. Where the green motorway meets the blue one, it attaches to a roundabout bridge elevated over the blue motorway. At the bottom, the horizontal grey roads attach to the green motorway in yet another way, indicating that the green motorway may only be entered towards or exited from the north. No southern access is available at that interchange.
June 20, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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@arroz @europlus Ah, good view in Barcelona? I was there recently. The pool looked nice but they didn’t have anyone using it, with covers on in October. Which seemed a shame.

Anyway after 10 minutes in the queue I decided to get the patatas bravas, and olives […]

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A plate of fried potato chunks covered in spicy mayonnaise and paprika, with wooden forks. Next to it, a small cardboard bowl of green olives with wooden forks.
April 5, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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@dangillmor @bespacific That CO2 chart ain’t bending down … what’s the goal? 1,000ppm? 2,000ppm? Academic test scores go down at 1,000ppm. If you want to lower the human race’s total IQ, keeping burning coal and oil and gas […]

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famous NOAA chart of atmospheric CO2 at the Hawaiian observatory, showing 320 parts per million in 1965 and heading too 420 parts per million in 2025. The curve is either straight or slightly trending up faster.
March 2, 2025 at 1:06 PM