DRY, but also pre-optimization and dependency hell are bad.

Yup 5-6 floppies and if one failed you could try to go back and copy one, but usually had to start over.

I got the Mac copy of Photoshop 4 from my high school this way with .sit files. It was like second to last floppy that failed (probably an ok AOL disk) and I had to go back the next day and copy it again. But it worked!

Not long after that a friend of mine got a ZIP drive, but it wasn’t SCSI, so it didn’t work with my computer. I didn’t get one until college (essential for a graphic designer in the late 90s).

If you can find a playlist of videos you can download whole lists with ytdlp.

I think KEKA.app supports split archives. Haven’t used it in a while though.

Or breaks a year later and your have to figure out what the fuck you made. The worst thing in the world is when you leave it for the next guy, and you end up being the next guy.

Depends on if they digitized the YouTube vids from the original Betacam broadcast tapes.

I’m guessing a bit here, but it was a really dominant format at the time, and in the later years of the series, would have been a digital format at 720x486 resolution.

Nebula/curiosity stream maybe? Patreon is interesting for this too, and is helping a lot of podcasters and video creators (more) directly.

Wow, so there are color, location and timing options that can be coded into these.

Sounds like something the VLC maintainers should add support for.

Mac users are here, bu I get all my stuff from MSJ, is a lot faster and has been going for decades, so I find it more trustworthy.

I was on brokenstones for a long time too, but stopped a bit before it imploded worth a bad admin or moderator recently.

Thanks for that nightmare fuel.

Netflix DVD service is missed.

Yeah the DMCA really fucked things up for creative work. It’s way too easy to take down things you don’t like fraudulently.

If it was slightly flexible, it’d be a good driving sim screen wrapped half way around the rig.

I started in 2006 web design & development, worked till 2019 when my company dissolved, 5 months before the pandemic.

I moved out of the city and I’m fixing rusty old cars for peanuts. It’s nice, but can still be stressful. Just in a totally different way.

If your kids Aren’t too big, Hey Duggee is a good one too!

My kid still say squirrel like the b narrator from that show and it’s annoyingly cute.

The alt text isn’t aging as well. USB-C might be it. But in actuality I suspect USB-A will never die.

It was windows 98 but worse. It ground my GF’s Compaq cheapo college computer to a halt at the time.

Windows ME it is!

Getting ptsd from making gouache pallets in 100 level color theory class.

It’s a common problem with underfunded development. Though the lead devs make a big difference too.

Just like his hero!

We actually paid for a library card at the neighboring city because the have a much better collection, better online access (hoopla and Libby and Kanooy with less restrictions, our local town library is fully used up by morning most nights).

They also have a much better reciprocal museum pass selection, so we get big discounts on increasingly expensive museum tickets nearby.

If the EU can fine Apple (formerly the most valuable company in the world), they better fine Nvidia (recently the most valuable company in world) let’s see if they are really valuable, or just propped up by AI hype after the crypto crash.

Some sure, but they’re in the 15-25% there, not the 40-45% like in the US.

Yeah, that’s the best recommendation yet, I don’t know why I always forget that option.

Thanks!

Used DVD box sets could be the cheapest, and certainly the fastest way to get them.

Oinks -> What.CD -> Waffles -> streaming services.

Now I’ve been out too long to have credentials with good private trackers unless there are open signups.

We also lost Brokenstones to bad actors. I’m getting too old to bother at this point.

Thanks! That’s how I read it as a joke, but why not?

For yay ho would be too much though.

I’ve been recently bingeing Look Mum No Computer’s rescue/re-build/midi-fication of an organ that had been shoehorned into an organist’s home, after the church had been converted. I’m more of an engineer than musician, but it’s amazing how much goes into the layering of sounds from so many different pipes.

My 6 yo loves learning with such a cool soundtrack too.

That’s amazing sounding! Worth the watts, even if I did get church ptsd listening to it.

Or the professor who’s profiting off requiring the latest edition of their own book each year.

For those who, like me, wasn’t aware of rentry, it’s a pastebin the supports markdown.

I didn’t know pastebins were still a thing after stack overflow, JS fiddle and codepen replaced all that with more useful info. But I must have a different use case.

Maybe that’s based on streaming prices from 10 years ago, when there was only Hulu and Netflix.

They’re basically telemarketing workers with hacking tools provided by an employer. They follow scripts and click the buttons they’ve been trained to use.

I’m surprised they got in with telnet and not their usual RDP. However I’m not sure they would have gotten anywhere on a Linux box with commands that are so different, unless they were a little familiar with at least MacOS (bash or zsh based now a days).

What kind of connector are you using to the car?

The cheap OBD dongles are all elm 327 only support a basic error reading and clearing, and some basic engine metrics.

I’ve said both subversion was better, and worse before for sure. PTSD is making it hard to remember what I’ve said when trying to remove a PSD of mpeg you accidentally committed in the first commit and just noticed as you cloned the repo home and it was 2gb for a 3 page website.

Programming should be more like other trades, apprentice for a year or two before getting journeymen status, then work up to master status. Pay and job changing becomes more fair, and we get some reasonable fucking hours and rules to keep us from making overworked mistakes.

Companies know what they’re getting asked on the programmer’s level (specific experience will still matter, but baseline will be much more standard).

And workers get experience and learn from the gray beards instead of chatgpting their way into a job they don’t understand.

Missed at least two of the more important ones:

Still a pretty cool bit idea though. Keep at it!

I used Dejavu sans mono (but modded to have a slashed 0. It’s based on Gnome’s Vera font, but at the time it had a very large open type feature set that appealed to me.

https://dejavu-fonts.github.io/

Edit: bumped send before finishing thought…

Fira was my replacement, but I never really could get used to the operators ligatures, so left them disabled. I’m about to switch and try Neon or Argon (though I may end up mixing them a bit if it’s not too much work). Jetbrains has a neat design, but the r and f feel really out of place and I’d have to mod them to not be annoyed all the time.

I just checked, and Chatroulette is only a few months younger than Omeagle. I’d heard and tried Chatroulette years before I found out about Omeagle, and always thought Omeagle was the clone.

CR is supposedly still up, but I haven’t checked because I’m not ready to see those wangs.