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.

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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Behold, the origin of Alt-Tab

It's really grown a lot in 40 years

Did you know Alt+F4 had friends?

#windows2

Windows 2.x: How to Close a Window

There will be a test.

Mac users should be able to figure this one out.

#windows2

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∫√

@atpfm

@chetwisniewski yeah I'd like to know if & how the criticisms apply to LibreWolf, Zen and so on, or is it just in context of the folks who choose Firefox because of course they do

@glyph We're getting close to building a table of tasks that 2020s AI is good for, and tasks it's not

#gartnerhypecycle

@chetwisniewski What would it take to build a viable fork of Firefox? (I don't assume it would be trivial)

@tomjennings @europlus Made famous by a podcast (that's so old it wasn't a podcast when it started): BBC's "More or Less"

I love how AI really taps into that … cliché mindset?

@stroughtonsmith Aside aside: Why do games insist on humans looking like cartoons in 2025? I thought we could real-time render photorealistic faces 10 years ago. The foliage … was never the challenge.

@tomjennings @europlus Best question in statistics in media: “Is that a large number?”

@younata 360 video is a pretty good use case for 8K.

Just a tip for anyone with 6K cameras: Don’t upload it (as a 360 video) as a 6K video to YouTube. You need to rescale it (e.g. with Handbrake) to 8K so that YouTube can see the detail. By default, YouTube will just convert it to 4K and then […]

@stroughtonsmith Maybe you’re choosing to do so for professional purposes, but why spend months on a setting you clearly don’t prefer? e.g. Isn’t it better to turn off “Natural Scrolling” than go online for group therapy?

I don’t use Unified at all so I have no opinion on it. Perhaps you’re […]