It's 2025 and Microsoft is still rebooting my computer to apply updates. Without my permission. Does Linux do that? Android? iOS? 🤬

Gawd, that was painful. I finished it but sometimes wish I hadn't. 🤷🏻‍♂️

World's first chatbot, ELIZA, resurrected from 60-year-old computer code A small team of researchers from the U.S. and the U.K. has resurrected the code for a 60-year-old chatbot named ELIZA, believed to be the first electronic chatbot. In their paper posted to the arXiv p...

I had a lot of fun with ELIZA in college. 😀

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Cover of UNIX Network Programming by W. Richard Stevens.

I've got three of those on my shelf to this day. 😀

One more I couldn't have gotten this far without. Seems I opened it every time I needed to write a client or server.

Pretty sure I have 3 on my shelf right now!

For a long time I expressed my Mac aversion by saying I wouldn't trust a computer that didn't trust me with more than one mouse button!

Alien 😀

A Modern Battery For A Classic Laptop Aside from their ability to operate fairly well in extreme temperatures, lead-acid batteries don’t have many benefits compared to more modern battery technology. They’re heavy, not part…

I had one of these as my daily driver a long time ago. Still have fond memories of it. The built-in Time Manager app had features so good I cloned it for another system.

Today on Jeopardy, I learned that the title _Joshua, Son of None_ is a biblical allusion. 🤔

My first semester in college, I was swamped and didn't think I had time for pleasure reading. Then I picked up a novel and my grades went up.

My daughter used her student/alumni email account until her college shutdown. 😯

Yeah. I don't think a Linux user would mistake their phone for a Linux system. 😆

As a toddler, my granddaughter could mash in my keyboard and turn the display upside down. Did it several times. 😯 Using the mouse on an inverted display to navigate to the setting to put it back was a challenge

Android is based on Linux. Are you saying it is so different that mobile is displacing Linux? Seems more like it is adopting/adapting Linux.

Can we please, please, please quit redesigning everything? Incessant redesign is like having a roommate who randomly rearranges the furniture and constantly switches the contents of all the cabinets.

So much this!

There's a classic hologram of the inside of a pocket watch. It's "life sized"(1:1). It's an early POC and the color and resolution aren't great. But I have always loved it. I just spent 15 minutes searching the web for it and can't find it. Any suggestions?

Markdown - Wikipedia

At least @bsky.app doesn't have the pointless, garish backgrounds and font sizing you can't control but Markdown would be a nice distinguishing feature!

An early Fortran compiler from IBM didn't protect constants so, INTEGER 1 = 2 compiled with interesting results. 😯

Not sure where I first heard, "If the code and the comments disagree, they are both wrong." 😉

I love the saying that a junior developer fixes a bug by adding code, a senior developer fixes a bug by removing code. 😀

I have definitely had solutions to complex problems come out of my pillow! I often review a hard problem at the end of the day in the hope that a solution will emerge from my sleeping unconscious.

Very just question .... 🤔

Yeah kinda funny

This Chicago Family Built Their Dream Home Around a Two-Story Library Pivoting bookcase secret doors and a state-of-the-art ventilation system for cigar smoking included.

Library seems a reasonable focal point for a house.

It seems "pamphleteer" is an occupation that needs a comeback. 😀

When redirection first came to DOS, there were no real pipes so the OS created intermediate files and that should have worked just fine. 😀

How could I not follow an Oxford comma enthusiast?! 😀

Proof that if do enough random shit you may be right now and then.

What do you mean by "first computer?" First I owned? A Motorola TV Bug. First I programmed (in school)? Probably an IBM 3033 mainframe. At my first job? An IBM PC/XT. 10 MB of disk!

You would never see, "Leaves of Grass: a Poetry Collection" or "Dangerous Visions: an Anthology" so why do publishers insist on "A Very Long Story the Author Made Up: A Novel?!" SMH

Motif was the last good desktop environment. 😀