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i miss web mashups. i have to manually open wiki tabs to find things out about music videos
i want a "pop up video" that randomly explains that the bassist in "got to be real" is also the singer in toto's africa
wink posted Sep 8, 2023
Finally managed to upgrade that one server (VPS) where I don't trust the recovery, where I can't replace with a new image, and where I don't want to move hosters. Everything is well until April 2025 now. I need an exit strategy.
ars technica: we don't know how they did it but google chrome now extracts a pint of blood every time you log on
chrome user, dizzy from blood loss: I swear to god I am like this close to switching to firefox
another chrome user, on the verge of fainting from severe blood loss: no need to resort to that, just switch to [insert today's trendy chrome fork here] and be smart like meeee
wink posted Sep 7, 2023
I think it's been years since I took a couple of days off and have felt the need to work on every side project I started. I think I did touch three of them already before day 1 is over.
I want an apology from all the mansplainers that mocked my belief that privatizing NASA and relying this heavily on SpaceX would undermine the national security policy of the United States.
wink posted Sep 7, 2023
@leah Not a string, but I had to think of the flexible regex delimiters in many languages now.
wink posted Sep 5, 2023
I've not heard from DropBox since I last used it in 2014, unless I forgot some sync job on some host (unlikely) - but I've been getting "your account is nearly full" mails for about two weeks now. Weird.
wink posted Sep 5, 2023
Every time I read about people being happy with emacs I kinda want to try it again, but then I remember all the times I gave up on day 2. Guess this will never work out unless I am somehow forced to use it on a daily basis, e.g. if my team wrote only Lisp.