Dusty @ChlorideCull@fuzzy.systems

multi-billion company naming servers:

cloud-eu-west-prod (runs critical infrastructure for the entire internet)
staging-prem-server-52513

queer people naming servers:

Hades, king of the underworld (literally just runs nginx)
Hythlodaeus (runs a small Minecraft server for friends)
Velociraptor (an old thinkpad that's now a server)

hi! cant have too much detail bc character limit but i need like £90 to top up my electricity meter and get food things; both things are getting low, the former being most concerning. i dont get paid until the end of the month so please help if you can thank you and sorry to have to make another one of these so soon after my last one 💜

UPDATE 19th Feb; sorted electricity meter but I misjudged how much I'd need for food and I really need to order it in today. I've changed the total goal counter accordingly. 🙏💜 thank you

£59.83/56 already aaa

tysmsmsmsmssmsmsm 💜💜💜💜💜💜

Meanwhile in Canada

The Pokémon of the day is: Latias!
Discuss! #PokemonOfTheDay

computers are a completely normal field where there are still existing databases built on descendants of something called PICK OS, an early database made in the 60s to organize parts for a helicopter that never existed, for a system called Generalized Information Retrieval Language System (GIRLS), as created by a guy named Dick Pick.

BREAKING: One homestuck reader admits to having installed the popular Linux distribution Arch "just to feel something".

When I was a smartass computer nerd in the 80s and 90s, an eternal theme was friends and family sheepishly asking me for tech support help, and me slowly, patiently explaining to them that computers aren't scary, they're actually predictable, they won't explode or erase your data (unless you really make an effort), and they operate by simple (if somewhat arcane) rules. Edit > Cut, then click, then Edit > Paste. Save As. Use tabs, not spaces. Stuff like that. Maybe not easy, but simple, or at least consistent and learnable.

But that's not true anymore.

User interfaces lag. Text lies. Buttons don't click. Buttons don't even look like buttons! Panels pop up and obscure your workspace and you can't move or remove them -- a tiny floating x and a few horizontal lines is all you get. Mobile and web apps lose your draft text, refresh at whim, silently swallow errors, mysteriously move shit around when you're not looking, hide menus, bury options, don't respect or don't remember your chosen settings. Doing the same thing gives different results. The carefully researched PARC principles of human-computer interaction -- feedback, discoverabilty, affordances, consistency, personalization -- all that fundamental Don Norman shit -- have been completely discarded.

My tech support calls now are about me sadly explaining there's nothing I can do. Computers suck now. They run on superstition, not science. It's a real tragedy for humanity and I have no idea how to fix it.

#HCI #UX #UI #okdoomer

@flimpie@sampleuser.nl

Someone created a fully funcional 16-Bit 3Hz CPU in Excel!!! with 128KB of RAM 16 color display, and a custom assembly language to run some programs in it. It’s open source too

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rg7xvTJ8SU

Code: https://github.com/InkboxSoftware/excelCPU

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