The Fediverse is more than just ActivityPub. If open, federated social media ever becomes mainstream it’s more likely to use AtProtocol.

People talk about the legacy of the floppy disk (mid-eighties to mid-aughts) being used as a save icon, but drive letters are even more extreme - and absurd - than that.

CP/M came out in 1974 and introduced drive letters A: and B: for floppy drives, and Microsoft copied that for DOS and the early DOS-based versions of Windows. Microsoft finally killed off the DOS lineage with Windows Me in 2000, so that was 26 years of drive letters actually being part of the OS’ architecture.

Windows NT came out in 1993 - 19 years after CP/M - and didn’t use drive letters but for the sake of backwards compatibility and familiarity it would emulate them. All versions of Windows since 2000 are based on NT. So we had 26 years of drive letters being needed, and 33 years of faking it for consistency.

Yeah, like how it’s dumb for kids to not know about dialling rotary phones, manually tuning in a TV with a knob, being afraid of burning themselves of the incandescent bulb in their bedside lamp or rewinding a VHS tape before ejecting it from the VCR.

It’s an interesting project to set up your own mail server but it’s not simple, especially if you’ve never hosted a public-facing service like that before. It’s a good way of learning the ins-and-outs of hosting, DNS, certificates, networking, etc but you really need to want to do it and it’s not worth doing for its own sake, imho. Initial setup is a pain in the ass, but ongoing maintenance and troubleshooting is awful.

Your name is an anagram of “go, dragomen”.

I was worried for a second that he was talking about the musician and I was like, “ah, fuck, I liked The Joker”. Anyway, yes, agreed.

…so she’s a bull in bed, presumably?

Track point navigation is a myth.

Sweet!

A friend of mine lives in Vermont. He told me about a house that used to give our little black-and-white comics full of Republican-flavour Christian propaganda that were so bad he actually thought they were parody. But, yeah, fuck all that shit. If it doesn’t make your spit hurt, what’s the point?

Someone else posted this but then deleted their comment despite it being shocking relevant.

Everything is a drum.

If you can’t build your own kernel, store-bought is fine.

Exactly what I thought of, one of our boys’ best works. Also, be careful of those tracking numbers in your YouTube links.

Good, good, good. Good news.

Now they just need to fix up Camden Town tube station…

_hmmmm…

Mist.

No, you’ll fuck your back up.

But, seriously, it is amazing. When I was a kid the school had an already very old computer that could run the BBC Domesday Project, a mid-1980s snapshot of life in the UK using the latest (for the time) multimedia technology, which included a bespoke LaserDisc player. By the time I used it, it was already failing and by the early naughts it was essentially lost media, with virtually no working hardware left and the Laserdiscs themselves starting to perish with age. Meanwhile, the original Domesday manuscript - written in the 1086 IIRC - still exists: coddled, protected and safe, but still there.

I have nothing to contribute except this heartwarming story.

Goannae get me cuuuube, Mort-ee.

FELLOW INVDERS OF THE GLORIOUS PERPETUAL LEIGION OF CALAMITY OF THE NINTH ETERNAL GLACTIC EMPIRE MAY REJOICE FOR THE HEADLINE CONFIRMS THAT OUR MIGHTY THOUGHTCUBES AND CALCULAMATORS ARE UNAFFECTED AS THEY ARE PRODUCTS OF THE PLANET ZILZOG

any humans reading this you’re crazy why are you so crazy

That’s a pretty hot-headed and irrational take. Are you as bad as reading the road as you are at reading the message? Are you this quick to anger when you’re behind the wheel?

Just for when pHr34kY@lemmy.world either decides to take a couple of deep breaths, calm down and delete their comment in shame (or the mods step in), here is what they put:

Get fucked dickhead

Which they then changed to:

Of all the dumb cunts I have encountered, you are the dumbest of cunts

Edit: oh, they changed it again! What fun!