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foone, 1 month ago to random

I wonder if anyone has proposed a PNG/EXIF extension to let you embed an image description in an image file. It'd live with the image so as you upload it to different sites, the description stays with it

foone, 1 month ago to random

A car stopped in front of a green light and blocked me from continuing, as it was trying to pick up some riders and had completely failed to get out of the lane.

I would have blown my horn at the driver to get them to get the fuck out of the road, but there wasn't one. The car was driverless.

The future is stupid.

foone, 1 month ago to random

You know,

foone, 1 month ago to random

Accidentally got so high I'm single-stepping through my brain in the debugger. I'm having to hold down F10 to just get anything done

foone, 1 month ago to random

I'm not saying I am too much of a geek but i just dreamed about using git.

foone, 1 month ago to random

Wasn't there some browser that let you have bottom-tabs instead of the top-tabs?

foone, 1 month ago to random

There's a surprising number of programs that come up when you search for open source spirals and very few of them generate any fucking spirals

foone, 1 month ago to random

I just have to say: Mastodon is better than twitter or X or bluesky or whatever.

foone, 1 month ago to random

damn it, irfanview 4.4 is too big to put on a floppy disk

foone, 1 month ago to random

Anyone know an easy way to show a full screen image in windows 95?
I thought I could use mspaint but it turns out it adds a 1px border in full-screen mode.

I could write a simple win32 app but that seems like a lot of work for something this simple

foone, 1 month ago to random

I was driving around SF today and I saw a Tesla with an emoji license plate.
Now, the CA DMV isn't gonna let you do that, so how did they have an emoji license plate?
Simple! They put the codepoint!
The license plate was U-1F916.
Or 🤖

foone, 1 month ago to random

This is a good and normal website

foone, 1 month ago to random

Here's an interesting "keyboard" for sale on aliexpress: It's a deconstructed keyboard matrix!
You can just plug in arcade buttons or whatever to each pair of pins.

foone, 1 month ago to random

There's an alternate universe where Netscape Navigator embedded Lua instead of inventing js, and I'm not sure if that's a better world or not.

foone, 1 month ago to random

I just got a cold call from another country because someone wanted to buy my minecraft account

the future is weird

foone, 1 month ago to random

arch linux is the best propaganda for using windows that I've ever seen

foone, 1 month ago to random

The Roman empire fell because their Roman numerals weren't a form of positional notation, so they couldn't figure out binary. Their computers were terrible.

foone, 1 month ago to random

I put some stickers in my work laptop

foone, 1 month ago to random

why am I installing arch again?

I'm not being paid for this

foone, 1 month ago to random

A fun side effect of being anosmic is that sometimes I think I smell something, but it's just the nasal equivalent of phantom limb.
The best part about this is that because the smells I'm supposedly smelling aren't real, my brain doesn't seem to think they should be limited to things that would make sense to smell; you know, physical objects with distinct odors.

I just smelled slackware.

foone, 1 month ago to random

when I finally build my Workbench Keyboard, one of the weirder options I'm going to add is a way to paste pre-loaded text files from the onboard storage.

like you could have texts\serials\windows\win10.txt and you navigate to the that file and hit paste and it just types out the FCKGW- nonsense for you

foone, 1 month ago to random

the real reason we moved away from them is that IBM never managed to invent an RW variant of the punchcard. They were only Punchcard-Rs

foone, 1 month ago to random

Fun fact about microfiche:
One of the first uses of it was due to pigeons.

During the Franco-Prussian war of 1870-1871, Paris was under siege and they got dispaches out by using microphotography to make them small enough that they could be attached to pigeons and flown out of the city.

foone, 1 month ago to random

I like how the ASRock site tells me to update my system by downloading a zip file, extracting it, and putting it on a USB drive or floppy disk

it's 16mb, dude. Which floppy do you want me to put it on? a zip drive? DOES YOUR BIOS SUPPORT ZIP DRIVES?

foone, 1 month ago to random

Bad idea: an external floppy drive that can appear as a mass storage device of arbitrary size. The way it works is it has a little screen, and you use that to configure how big you want it to be, then it formats the proper number of 3.5" floppy disks.
Then when the PC tries to read a sector that's not on the current disk, the display will just prompt you to insert disk #47 or whatever.