⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@qoto.org

Mastodon: the only social network with more Windows 3.1 users than Windows 11 users

Bad idea: build a captcha library that embeds DOSBox so it can make you beat levels/puzzles from DOS games to continue.

Prove you're a human! Beat Lifewater Oasis from Commander Keen 4! Defeat the Yeti in Kings Quest 5! Make sure 15 lemmings survive! Get the sword in Prince of Persia!

Greater Manchester police issue a dispersal order then throw people onto random trains to other parts of the country.

Only problem was some of the people were only 13 years old, didn't know where they were going and apparently were selected as being part of the traveller community.

There are issues about child endangerment and discrimination against certain ethnic groups. I'm very uncomfortable about this story.

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/traveller-girl-13-ended-up-30440291

#racism #children #police #Manchester

A female fuck buddy took me and her friend out drinking and convinced her to have sex with me. We had a threesome, which was great, apart from the bit where they stopped for a vibe check mid sex, and talked in their native language that I don't know one word of

One year ago, I wrote the thrilling story of how I caught a game pirating leak back in 1993. And then I forgot to upload it. Here it is: https://www.intelligent-artifice.com/2023/fingerprinting-in-ambermoon/

@simon_brooke I think you might appreciate this:

https://gizmodo.com//i-fooled-millions-into-thinking-chocolate-helps-weight-1707251800

So I am not writing this novel, but I have to share the opening with the entire world, because … well, it starts:

"The escape room was full of skeletons."

Dear Google,

You killed Google Reader on July the first, 2013. It is now November 23, 2024, a date unrelated to the shutdown of Reader, or any other date pertinent to it in any way that I know.

In case you were wondering, I am still furious at you about this. More so than when it happened, even. Good chance I just won't ever stop being mad at you for the scale of the damage you wrought and how thoroughly you misjudged that action. The fury deepens as you stray further from good sense.

🖕😐🖕

#Mozilla Warns #DOJ's #Google Breakup Plan May Hurt Small Browser Makers

https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/11/22/1112255/mozilla-warns-dojs-google-breakup-plan-may-hurt-small-browser-makers

#privacy #FOSS #politics

@cwebber

" Then along came Google Reader and... friends, if you are reading this and are of a certain age range, there is a strong chance you have feelings just seeing the phrase "Google Reader" mentioned."

You got me. Great read, thank you.

#GoogleReader #blogs

Finally even with my brother, who had a couple of games on CU Amiga coverdisks in the 90s 😎🙃

I’m seeking a young, clever woman, cute enough
to prompt a smile, armed with enough pity for
the dregs of the universe…

—Tracey S. Rosenberg, “The Time Lord’s Job Advertisement”
published in THE FLIGHT OF THE TURTLE: New Writing Scotland 29 (2011)

2/2

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #ScienceFiction #SFpoetry #DoctorWhoDay #DoctorWho

@cstross our bookshop penguin, Clive, is feeling quite at home today

@macronencer @amiserabilist When he told it on Letterman he said, “I’d got the time of the train wrong, or maybe British Rail had got the time of the train wrong, one or the other”.

@wotsac @GrayGooGirl just fyi, there are plenty of women (of all types) here on the #fediverse — we tend to block and mute readily, preferring to curate an environment unsullied by random dickishness.

can a UI designer (preferably one who works at microsoft) tell me why there's a link in windows settings labelled "changing taskbar colour", which opens a bing search in edge for "change windows 11 taskbar colour site:microsoft.com", with colours spelt the UK way, which shows zero results but has a suggestion box containing a button labelled "open colors setting", with colours spelt the US way, which opens a new tab which asks if you'd like edge to open settings, which opens the windows settings app to the colour personalisation page, only to have the "set taskbar colour" switch be greyed out

Picture collection: Update of the Amiga Graphics Archive
Four images from Island Graphics from 1985 have now been added to the collection of early Amiga graphics:
https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2024-11-00075-EN.html

Let's Encrypt is 10 years old today!
Let's Encrypt is a free, automated, and open certificate authority brought to you by the nonprofit Internet Security Research Group (ISRG). Huge thanks to everyone involved in making HTTPS available to everyone for free

https://letsencrypt.org/

#tech #technology #security #privacy #encryption #https #letsencrypt #ISRG

Report: DOJ wants to force Google Chrome sale, Android de-bundling
Cutting off Google's control of the world's most popular browser may be necessary.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/11/report-doj-wants-to-force-google-chrome-sale-android-de-bundling/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social