Posts by arielmt@computerfairi.es
(DIR) Post #ADEfcZs5mvu1wpZJuC by arielmt@computerfairi.es
2021-09-28T13:27:57Z
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Feature request standard in Web 1.0 but impossible to implement in Web 2.0 thanks to infinite scrolling & friends: Make the "Back" button show me the thing you just showed me a moment ago. https://xkcd.com/1309/
(DIR) Post #AEN9fiONMaa0X4oRGa by arielmt@computerfairi.es
2021-12-13T19:42:09Z
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I'm back in the flow of learning the #Commodore 64 & #GEOS inside out, & reading code in geoWrite is such a pain. Text rendering is necessarily slow, but assembly is tall columns, the default margins/tabs cause frequent re-renderings, & the default font (BSW 9) is tall.My first GEOS program is likely going to be a text editor. If I can't get geoWrite's format right, I can do pure ASCII & import it via Text Grabber with Generic II Form.
(DIR) Post #AEN9fis9ZsOo1QkDgG by arielmt@computerfairi.es
2021-12-13T19:45:16Z
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Cross-compiling would probably be better, but I don't want to. The quirks of that old great machine just make using it a joy, & emulators don't diminish it enough to matter.
(DIR) Post #AEN9g4d0grMFUppR8C by arielmt@computerfairi.es
2021-12-13T20:22:46Z
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There's geoText, but there's no manual, & I can't figure out how to type vital ASCII characters like the vertical bar (U+007C), geoAssembler's bitwise-or operator.geoText:- https://ftp.pokefinder.org/index.php?s=geoText&m=0&h=100- http://www.zimmers.net/anonftp/pub/cbm/geos/productivity/index.html
(DIR) Post #AF6G4OOF5KgYmJONBA by arielmt@computerfairi.es
2022-01-04T14:46:37Z
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Reminder to fellow programmers:Make computers conform to people.Stop trying to make people conform to computers.Make computers help people.Stop following the trend of making computers harm people.
(DIR) Post #AHsnJ6ogvCznh3aC9o by arielmt@computerfairi.es
2022-03-28T20:15:08Z
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The computer arrived with this drive's door shut. How did they even get that far in there?
(DIR) Post #AHsnJ7M0vJePMPAo64 by arielmt@computerfairi.es
2022-03-28T20:35:03Z
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BOOT ERROR PBMeaning: Remove peanut butter & jelly sandwich or other foreign object from disk drive.
(DIR) Post #AOhe1slPdyPo3Wkyiu by arielmt@computerfairi.es
2022-10-18T20:32:59Z
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A customer's #Windows10 PC logged them in to a generic desktop, with all icons gone except for all-users icons, & unable to open the Start Menu or the notifications fly-out.I talked them through Quick Assist, which needed an update, but the Microsoft Store button said they needed to install an app to open such links.They opened CMD, & their home directory was "C:\Users\TEMP". Fun.The fix:TenForums, "Fix You've been signed in with a temporary profile in Windows 10": https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/48012-fix-youve-been-signed-temporary-profile-windows-10-a.html
(DIR) Post #AOiEtIzYSJ0l6B936O by arielmt@computerfairi.es
2022-10-19T03:24:48Z
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It's nice to see Microsoft finally giving File Explorer features other GUI file managers have had for 15 years. It's also nice to see Microsoft restoring Windows features they should never have removed in the first place.The Verge, "Windows 11's new tabbed File Explorer and taskbar improvements are available today": https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/18/23411108/microsoft-windows-11-file-explorer-tabs-taskbar-changes-suggested-actions
(DIR) Post #ARkbbA4eHqsnJjWiJ6 by arielmt@computerfairi.es
2023-01-18T00:25:52Z
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I love needing to grep thousands of files in 50 dot-directories recursively, and my first clue the 50yo ".*" gotcha bit me is a read-permission error for a file in an ancestor directory after a long wait.
(DIR) Post #ARkdmtVXuBRZJzpW1g by arielmt@computerfairi.es
2023-01-18T00:35:38Z
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Related, I once accidentally pwned an entire college lab of NeXTstations without touching a keyboard.My home directory's ownership got messed up, the sysadmin was struggling to catch all my files in the fix commands, and I pointed out that my home dir's dotfiles needed the fix as well. The sysadmin got bit by the same ".*" bug on that 1992 day I got bit by today, but on the chown command.
(DIR) Post #ARkdmwXQddjSihjYsS by arielmt@computerfairi.es
2023-01-18T00:43:30Z
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tl;dr: til '--exclude-dir=..'
(DIR) Post #AYb4WtOSBnjcIngnJY by arielmt@computerfairi.es
2023-08-10T18:35:38Z
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The National Weather Service, one of the few parts of the United States Government that does genuine good and nothing else, now has a website that is functionally inaccessible without a JavaScript-contaminated "Web" browser.
(DIR) Post #AYb4X9iXUtJAvjD3qK by arielmt@computerfairi.es
2023-08-10T18:50:56Z
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I am so fucking tired of everyone and their mother deciding that reinventing pure and simple HTML in fucking supercomputer-needing slow as script JavaShit is somehow the better future of the World Wide Web.YOUR WEBSITE IS NOT THE ONLY APPLICATION I NEED TO RUN AT A SINGLE TIME! YOUR WEBSITE SHOULDN'T EVEN **BE** A FUCKING APPLICATION JUST TO SHOW SIMPLE TEXT, YOU TECHBRO-ADMIRING DUMBASSES!
(DIR) Post #AYb4XMyyB7Aw4Rzrl2 by arielmt@computerfairi.es
2023-08-10T18:52:43Z
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The irony of complaining about websites turned applications is not lost on me, one who runs and pays the bills for a website turned application that I'm using to voice that complaint.
(DIR) Post #AbD0inlYBSsumoXVQW by arielmt@computerfairi.es
2023-10-27T02:51:18Z
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Effectively temp-banned from YouTube until uBlock Origin works around the latest shenanigans.
(DIR) Post #AbD0ipTBqhO24Rxs5Q by arielmt@computerfairi.es
2023-10-27T02:52:46Z
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"You must disable your ad blocker" is the new "you must disable your antivirus program."
(DIR) Post #AvGfQyfAXMOcCfkxSi by arielmt@computerfairi.es
2025-06-18T21:48:01Z
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Today in "ad blockers are Internet security software":Ars Technica, "Address bar shows hp.com. Browser displays scammers’ malicious text anyway.": https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/06/tech-support-scammers-inject-malicious-phone-numbers-into-big-name-websites/Malwarebytes, "Scammers hijack websites of Bank of America, Netflix, Microsoft, and more to insert fake phone number": https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/06/scammers-hijack-websites-of-bank-of-america-netflix-microsoft-and-more-to-insert-fake-phone-numberTL;DR: Scammers buy search engine ads linking to legit websites' help pages with a pre-filled help query, but the query bar text is a message to call the fake-support phone number.
(DIR) Post #AvGfQzbJ3Ctt6yxO52 by arielmt@computerfairi.es
2025-06-18T21:48:46Z
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Block ads, even in your go-to search engine.Block ads, *especially* in your go-to search engine.
(DIR) Post #B17NIQffTbdSH3ZILg by arielmt@computerfairi.es
2025-12-10T21:20:34Z
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@davidrevoy Avian Intelligence not even doing list numbering right is too real.