The only thing I could sink about.

Is there actually a plan for a reunion season? Or just that everything inevitably gets one?

Danger Zone 😏

Man, I look fat in this meme.

I think the “optimism” cited is that this would ever end.

He was having the best dream!

Shorter, at least

Now that’s a deep cut.

There’s a book series, the first of which is called Dark Eden, which is set on a planet substantially like that 🙂

Yep 🙂

Right now I’m reading The Little Dummer Girl by LeCarré, and it’s plenty depressing already. But I’ll put this on the queue.

I’ve been thinking about muckers ever since I read the book back in the early 2000s. Wish more people knew about it.

“Properly” and “should” are doing a lot of work here.

Hail my gimlet brother! I’ve gotten back into these in a major way over the last couple of years for the exact same reasons.

“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” has been my model 😉 And Wired aside, it does work phenomenally well. But I will take a look at your suggestion.

I use Block This! on my Android device, which essentially a pseudo-VPN that blackholes ad requests (as well as some trackers and miscellany). Wired bounces me immediately if I have it enabled.

They also paywall some ad-blockers.

Anyone have a non-paywall link?

My understanding is that if you run a rogue discoverable DHCP server in a local network with a particular set of options set and hyper-specific routing rules, you can clobber the routing rules set by the VPN software on any non-Android device, and route all traffic from those devices through arbitrary midpoints that you control.

But IANANE (I am not a network engineer) so please correct my misinterpretations.

I learned TI BASIC on a Texas Instruments 99/4a back in the very early 80s. Wrote some programs from magazines, saved them on tapes, and went on to automate D&D character creation in an attempt to rules-lawyer an all-PC dwarf army.

Fun fact, though: TI BASIC lived on until at least the late 90s, on the TI graphing calculators that everyone taking Algebra/Trig had to buy – or borrow from the school. I wrote a surreal choose-your-own-adventure game on my calculator, large enough that because of memory limitations, you couldn’t open the file to edit it without deleting another, ancillary file.

And since you could transfer programs via a proprietary cable, I put that game on every school calculator and as many of my friends’ as wanted it. It was still there years later when I visited.