Notes

Total Control servers are rad

I was using one with an 8-port ATA for my BBS (that never got more than one concurrent phone call)

guys you could just download it for free

Post from The Verge:

Perplexity offers to buy Google Chrome for $34.5 billion

"Whoa, Git is 20 years old!"
"CVS is 34 🙃"

I feel seen

https://jcs.org/notes/2021/05/21/529220759337529835

Lenovo made a portrait laptop

https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/laptops/thinkbook/thinkbook-plus/thinkbook-plus-gen-6-rollable-14-16-inch-intel/len101b0056

ticketmaster knows the nine inch nails audience

I grew up on these streets

happy national cheesecake day to those that celebrate

This filament-matching website and a Nix Mini 3 are a great combo for finding PLA that closely matches random things around you (my Mac Plus is \#bdb392)

https://filamentcolors.xyz/colormatch/

My favorite "classic" cars of the show

"Since there was no immediate change to the production network there was no end-user impact, and because there was no impact, no alerts were fired."

They really have no external monitoring on public services like 1.1.1.1?

Post from Cloudflare:

On July 14th, 2025, Cloudflare made a change to our service topologies that caused an outage for 1.1.1.1 on the edge, resulting in downtime for 62 minutes for customers using the 1.1.1.1 public DNS Resolver as well as intermittent degradation of service for Gateway DNS.

So it's neither Artificial nor Intelligent?

Post from Simon Willison:

If you ask the new Grok (via grok.com without any custom instructions) for opinions on controversial topics it runs a search on X to see what Elon thinksI know this sounds like a joke but it's not. This genuinely happens: x.com/jeremyphowar...

@deskto.ps is now on Bluesky

Post from deskto.ps:

Window Maker on Slackware by jcs (1999)https://deskto.ps/u/jcs/d/eiuitx

So happy for Nico!

The auction of my "Test Drive a Macintosh" stuff ends today
https://www.ebay.com/itm/236172019468

how come none of the ninja turtles ever graduated to a higher belt color

When writing a battery controller driver and it's not reporting the correct data, first make sure your child didn't disconnect the battery days ago

The older I get...

I wish reptyr worked on OpenBSD

https://github.com/nelhage/reptyr