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hperrin

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  • This person got her tabby cat Ziggy's markings as a tattoo

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  • She’s really gonna regret that if that cat turns out to be a dog in a cat suit.

  • House Speaker welcomes Trump call to ‘take over’ elections, claims Dem wins appear ‘fraudulent’

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  • Unless you’re an ICE agent, then you don’t follow any rules, including laws.

  • Mix and match login managers and desktop environments

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  • It is absolutely possible. Last time I did it, I just had to install the one I wanted and uninstall the one I didn’t.

  • Judge appears likely to side with Mark Kelly in case challenging Pentagon’s efforts to punish him over ‘illegal orders’ video

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  • Is it illegal to tell people to not break the law?

  • Utah Congress members sue to try to block new House districts that boost Democrats' chances

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  • You know, it’s just too darn close to the election to be changing maps. I guess they’ll just have to take a loss on this one, unless they want to expose themselves for lying about the reason other states couldn’t change their maps in the year of an election.

  • Work smarter, not harder

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  • I was a manager at a RadioShack. And it was a franchise, so it’s even less verifiable (I think). Not a regional manager though. Oh, I mean, I was a district manager.

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  • I don’t think that’s accurate. There’s orders of magnitude more amateur stuff online now than back in the Wild West days of the web. The sprawling metropolis didn’t shrink any of the expansive wilderness, they both grew, at different rates. It is harder to find the amateur stuff, but that’s not cause there’s any less of it.

  • Ailing Mitch McConnell, 83, Hospitalized

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  • And when he dies, that particular species of turtle will be extinct. The scientists thought about trying to save the species, but… just look at him. That species is worthless.

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  • There’s still plenty of amateur web stuff around. It’s just not nearly as big a percentage. Lemmy is kind of amateur web stuff. (Not calling Lemmy devs amateur, it’s just not a big corporate bullshit platform.)

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  • I mean, since we’re talking about it, I am so happy that Flash is dead. It was an absolute nightmare for support, accessibility, security, and open source code. It wasn’t quite as bad as ActiveX, but it was pretty close. Let’s all collectively agree to never implement any technology like Flash into the browser again.

    Let me explain the open source code part. Before GCC, C compilers were closed source and expensive. This meant that if you wanted to work on an open source project that was written in C, you had to buy a compiler. That’s the same as Flash. There were open source Flash players, but as far as I know, there were no open source Flash compilers. Just Macromedia/Adobe. So anything open source written in Flash/ActionScript was only accessible to people who could afford the software license. That sucks.

    Speaking of accessible, Flash was not. If you were browsing the web with a screen reader, the vast majority of Flash content was completely walled off from you. The accessibility implementation in Flash had to be specifically coded for, unlike HTML, which is relatively accessible by default.

    For a while, Flash was the way people embedded video into web pages. This was neat, but again, a nightmare to work on. Flash players required very specific video encodings, so you’d likely have to transcode the video to embed it or at least remux it, and for a while, that wasn’t free. It also meant that a different piece of software was requesting the video as that which requested the page. This could cause some very difficult to track bugs.

    Not all systems supported Flash, because why the fuck would Adobe give a shit about Unix? At least there was Linux support for the player, but if you wanted to make Flash content, your choices were Windows or Mac.

    Last, but not least, Flash refused to die for a long time, which ultimately held back the industry. For almost a decade, it was very common to have to mux two copies of the exact same streams, just for people who were still clinging to Internet Explorer and Flash. People were really pissed off when websites stopped working when browsers abandoned Flash, but that was the fault of naive web devs who built their sites in a faulty, insecure technology. They didn’t get the blame. The browsers got the blame. And a lot of them kept Flash around well after its development had been discontinued, just for that reason.

    Good riddance, Flash.

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  • Correct. And I haven’t talked about it in years.

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  • Because it tastes good.

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  • Do we? I’m a web dev and I haven’t talked about Flash in years.

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  • Sometimes at the drive through they’ll give me sweet tea instead of unsweetened, and the sip of that hits me like a freight train. I don’t know how people stomach it.

  • The US government is trying to make coal seem cute. It isn't. | Trump complained that coal needed better PR. Then “Coalie” showed up.

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  • How about Coalie’s older brother, Black Lungie?

  • GOG giveaway: Alone in the Dark trilogy

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  • Though it’s not technically unique to Port87, I haven’t seen any other email service that lets you do it with simple toggles. Sieve is more powerful, but also harder.

  • GOG giveaway: Alone in the Dark trilogy

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  • I could not possibly care less about GoG’s marketing emails. They all go into a Port87 label that is set to mark them as read and not notify me.

  • Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft

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  • Microsoft is killing itself with shit vibe code.

  • TIL: The Median Age for FOX, CNN & MSNBC Viewers is Around 70 Years Old

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  • You can definitely tell from their commercials.