Digital Mark

Even original Nolan Bushnell’s Atari, was bought by Warner Brothers, then (mostly) bought by Jack Tramiel after leaving Commodore. So it’s not an unbroken line. Infogrames Fr’s new management has quit with the NFT nonsense, and is making Atari-related stuff that isn’t awful.

“She”. The gag of SwiftOnSecurity is it’s Taylor Swift, posting infosec. Tho these days she mostly trolls like this.

In the good old days, you had to learn assembly/machine language, C, and OS-level programming to get anything done. Even if you mostly worked on applications, you’d drop down and do something useful. At the time, this was writing machine language routines to call from BASIC. This is still a practical skill, for instance I mostly work in Scheme, but use C FFI to hook into native functionality, and debug in lldb.

Computer Science is supposed to be more math than practical, though when I took it we also did low-level graphics (BIOS calls & framebuffers), OS implementation, and other useful skills. These days almost all CS courses are job training, no theory and no implementation.

Younger programmers typically have no experience below the application language (Java, C#, Python, PHP) they work in, and only those with extensive CS degrees will ever see a C compiler. Even a shell, filesystems, and simple toolchains like Make are lost arts.

The MIT Missing Semester covers some of the mid-high levels of that, but there’s no real training in the digital logic to OS levels.

Aggressive dialogs begging for my email = close tab. I don’t care what your excuse is.

Also, 404 (Not Found) is the dumbest name for any site ever, so I’m just as glad to see it go away.

Golden Palominos, Prison of the Rhythm Exuberance Is Beauty Mix

Way back on my radio show, that was my “I’m in the can or searching stacks for music” song.

They also bike to work.

Apple Reminders, which I now keep in a widget on my phone & iPad home screens. This is mainly for repeating items, like shopping, since I can turn on “show completed” and then uncheck them to put back on the list.

Or paper notebook, which I normally have in my pocket. This is for more serious things where I need to write some procedure or notes.

Used to use Things, which is great, but it’s overkill for my current needs.

No, you can just download Xcode free from the Mac App Store, or off developer.apple.com. Only the App Store needs the fee.

You clearly didn’t spend any effort trying it, learning how it works, or reading the license. It is literally a browser, just not named Safari and using your saved preferences, which is a good thing when you’re developing. Not that you can.

I award you zero points.

Safari is a very thin set of changes to WebKit, you can just run & build WebKit nightlies, which I do for web dev, so I don’t screw up my main browser. You have zero idea what you’re talking about, you just read a wiki page.

Macs let you run anything you want, obviously. iOS does, too, as long as you’re a developer sideloading. People who can’t hit compile shouldn’t be allowed to run random shit on their phones which are 2FA etc. keys.

Safari is open source. Also: opensource.apple.com

I have zero interest in a chrom* fork.

1. Videos should be landscape, 4:3 preferably, not portrait.
2. When I turn on a computer, it should be ready (and pref say READY) in a few seconds, not minutes and need Internet access.
3. Email should be fully punctuated, have correct grammar and a premise, argument, and conclusions.
4. I’m tolerant on short SMS or pager texts, but if it’s used as immediate mail, all texts, IM, and social media messages should also be like #3.

Seems reasonable to me. I’m in the upper end of that range, center GenX (yes I know you don’t remember us). I vary between wanting it to be 1970-2000. 1990 was nice, good industrial music, many of the old blues musicians were still alive & playing, computers were still fun, BBS’s, the early non-shitty Internet, pagers and car phones if you wanted to be reachable that much, but you could just NOT be. Go out for cigarettes and never come back.

Anyone who thinks this panopticon hellscape we live in is better, is nuts.

The UI’s a little janky, search doesn’t always produce clickable links (mostly federated subs).

Finding subs relies on lemmyverse, when it should be integrated into the sites.

Similar subs should federate together, not be siloed. More USENET, less phpbb.

Kbin has a strange division of threads and “magazines”, which means clicking thru multiple places to read anything, Lemmy & Beehaw seem simpler.