Someone posted that there’s a service ‘xcancel’ that lets one view a tweet w/o an account or logging in. Just add ‘cancel’ after the ‘x’, eg. https://xcancel.com/…

I actually had one of these, being a kid unable to afford even the CoCo at the time. Yeeks. A hobbled ‘starter micro’ for the time.

Tandy could’ve actually made it compatible with the CoCo for 1 or 2 dollars more per unit, but for some insane reason decided to use the 6803 instead of the 6809E, and make the BASIC use different token encodings from the CoCo (cause why be compatible at all?!) rendering it a silly dead-end machine. And all a mere 1 or 2 years before the 16-bit era began, putting all 8-bits on notice in general…

This is the sort of resistance we need, no more ‘decorum’ to a fascist leader. He won’t respect international norms so he deserves the benefit of none himself.

Don’t worry, once he’s dead and can’t stop it Hollywood will thoroughly sh*t over this IP as well with prequels, sequels and spinoffs. They’re very patient if there’s potential for a cash grab.

Then again, Spielberg isn’t so pure – he CGI’d the guns with walkie-talkies in the re-release didn’t he? Can’t depict our loving government agents as anything but benevolent, right?

Wasn’t it Terry Pr⍺tchett who specifically put in his will that all of his unfinished works (on hard drives) were to be crushed with a steamroller?

Ah yes

Show me where you pee from!

Pants on the ground and dresses in the air!

If I see one underwear I’m taking you all in!

• D. Trump, heard behind-stage at Miss Teen USA Pageants

Stochastic terrorism and signalling his followers should no longer ‘stand back and stand by’. How does he get away with this? Good lord.

Let them, wait for them to violate any law at all, and re-charge them with new crimes. Stick 'em right back where they belong, in prison.

Wow, that’s beautiful!

Gotta say I love those big Himalayan bkackberries, though… despite the lacerations harvesting them!

Guess the cheque cleared

Is this Vancouver island? If it is, add english broom, morning glory and kiwi vine :p

Oh, I don’t deny they have their place. I just hope that these don’t become the only or ‘default’ way Linux apps are packaged by major distros.

Good for Mint. Someone has to keep app and lib developers honest, not hiding behind packaging every app with its special-snowflake version of every dependency. (And I’m a developer, so I know it isn’t always easy to make an app robust against upstream version changes, but ignoring the reasons something might break can cause one to overlook possible errors or invalid assumptions in one’s own code.)

Tools to aid in mass-deployment are nice, but they shouldn’t be a crutch to hide overly-sensitive apps from their host OS’s valid version changes and updates. IMHO.

After the last few years in particular, I’m at peace with giving the corvids and raccoons their chance. We should probably go extinct, for the good of the planet. I just hope it isn’t too painful.

Me too, haven’t needed office for years. 99% of the time the end product needs to be a PDF anyway, which LibreOffice does an amazing job producing.

Call me crusty, old-fart, unwilling to embrace change… but docker has always felt like a cop-out to me as a dev. Figure out what breaks and fix it so your app is more robust, stop being lazy.

I pretty much refuse to install any app which only ships as a docker install.

No need to reply to this, you don’t have to agree and I know the battle has been already lost. I don’t care. Hmmph.

Are we at the point that we need to form a mutual-defense pact (or re-assert The Commonwealth, ie. petition UK, Australia et al)?

I inherited from my brother a really, really old edition of this Dune boardgame… the board looks familiar but the artwork appears updated. Wish mine was in better condition (smells a bit musty and the box is somewhat squashed, but otherwise intact).

I didn’t know they re-issued it! Neat.