This absolutely made my morning.

Edit: Never mind, already knew about the Wayback machine. I thought it was the rest of the archive.

Still good news.

Not old enough to understand the difference between the internet and a dialup BBS, apparently.

I met a ton of friends via local BBSes in the 90s. A couple of girlfriends too.

And then there was how I got tons of warez and games… I had access to my dad’s university internet account, so I could get on Usenet and download porn pics. Then I would upload them to local BBSes and get super high ratios.

And then I had the porn and the software.

Downloading books you have to borrow from the IA is not easy these days.

I really hope the rest of the archive comes back soon. I was in the middle of a book and it was a book I hadn’t read since I was a kid.

Yeah, I could pay for it or wait for it to come via interlibrary loan (it’s not exactly a well-known book), but I really didn’t need a physical copy. And it isn’t even all that long.

Sigh.

I’m talking about things like movies and TV shows, not games. In fact, if you aren’t careful (or just have a game that doesn’t allow you to choose where it saves its data), you could have the write cycle issue with games.

I’m the person in the thread before the person who asked, but I’m in the same boat. In my case: videos, radio shows and comics.

A 4-season TV series in 1080p can easily take up 50-100 gb.

Yep, I can’t afford any more storage. I’ve had to start curating and weeding, which is a shame because I know there are things I’d probably eventually revisit. Oh well. So long, Duckman.

I don’t disagree with you, but on the other hand, this will be a huge boon for people who do things like sail the high seas and wish to keep what they acquire long term. You’re not constantly rewriting in those cases. You’re just slowly (or perhaps not so slowly) filling up the drive. Eventually, it’s essentially read only.

Considering how much I spent on 6 TB of regular hard drive storage for this reason a few years ago, I’d be all for affordable 8 TB SSDs.

Does Woz count? He’s CEO of the Silicon Valley Comic Con (or he used to be anyway).

So an optional update rather than one you have to do because of a recall, the thing we’re talking about? Because otherwise this seems like a “technically” sort of gotcha.

I have a 2016 Prius. I’ve never needed to download a software update. Somehow Toyota could handle making a hybrid without it being necessary.

Thanks. I’m glad someone did it. I was going to.

I’ve never owned a car that needed regular software updates. Have you?

This is what we get because Atari fucked up with E.T.

^{(Atari would be owned by Disney by now, and thus also evil.)}

Quality programmers

Bold of you to think that’s what they want.

The article is about how pen and paper are saving companies that haven’t had to use them in a long time during things like the CrowdStrike outage and ransomware attacks.

Our long international nightmare is finally over!

Musk and Vance?

Nah, Vance needs more cushion for the pushin’.

You’ve just given someone an idea. Next step: a Babbage difference engine.

Wait, your Canon printer needs a specific type of photo paper, not just generic photo paper that’s been around for inkjet printers for a very long time now? Have printers really become that enshittified?

Well that’s a different issue.

Really? For me it only shows friends and groups I’m actually in.

Go to the sidebar on the left. Click on ‘See More.’ Click ‘feeds’ here:

There will be much less random junk.

Stupid, I know, but it does work.

I am not against this.

They really need to name-and-shame beyond “Facebook Partner” considering we’re talking about fucking Cox Media Group.

Non-twitter is fine in any form.

Gotta disagree with you there when it comes to Threads. We have seen how Meta is also trying to influence global politics. Threads should not be encouraged either. On top of that, their privacy policy is a nightmare.

https://qz.com/threads-meta-delayed-launch-eu-privacy-policy-concerns-1850609340

I had a doggie named Max. He had bat ears. We called him BatMax. He died over two years ago. Now I miss Max.

Not your fault, obviously.

A lot of them are immigrants who will be deported if they lose the job. I know I’d rather live in either California or Texas than a lot of places in India. (Especially these days, if the immigrant is a Muslim.)

Aww. Poor Scout. We have to keep our big dog out of the kitchen with a gate so our little dog can eat his food before the big one eats it (he has a hole he can go through), but occasionally we forget we let her into the kitchen. 20 minutes later, we’ll see her silently standing by the gate, patiently waiting to be let out.

Did you read this?

I can’t wait to hear the “how dare he help someone in medical distress while he’s supposed to be campaigning!” screams from the right.

https://www.rawstory.com/bigdadenergy-internet-claps-as-walz-pauses-event-to-help-rally-goer-and-pass-out-water/

Oh damn it. I hate myself for that typo.

So many kids with assigned school Chromebooks are going to get fucked over by this. You can apparently install Firefox on a Chromebook via the Google Play Store, but that was disabled on my daughter’s Chromebook. I don’t want her exposed to constant advertising while she’s doing her schoolwork. It’s bad enough that she’s exposed to it the rest of the time just being in America.

Guys, all of you are being really mean. Do you know how many cars he would have to give up buying if he didn’t lay all those employees off?

At least one. Probably.

Mine was an Apple ][+.

(And yes, that’s how you write it properly. I’m a pedant.)

Doggdorzbaydzoh.

No, 47. Believe it or not, the first PCs came out when I was a young whippersnapper.

Many of us who are old enough saw it as an advanced version of ELIZA and used it with the same level of amusement until that amusement faded (pretty quick) because it got old.

If anything, they are less impressive because tricking people into thinking a computer is actually having a conversation with them has been around for a long time.

But apparently you’re not using AI to filter the resumes. A huge number of companies are. 42% as of this year.

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20240214-ai-recruiting-hiring-software-bias-discrimination

Although I will use it to write resumes and cover letters when applying to jobs from now on. They use AI to weed out resumes. I figure the only way to beat that system is to use it against itself.