Melllvar

I just use Everything desktop search and let the files fall where they may.

Just lemmy in a browser for me. Never used facebag or twatter or others besides reddit.

I want Roland Emmerich to make a movie out of the short story A Pail of Air.

tl;dr/spoiler: ~20 years ago, a black hole passed through the solar system and captured the Earth, dragging it inexorably away from the Sun. This causes great earthquakes, tsunami, and other immediate civilization-ending catastrophes, but the real disaster comes when the atmosphere freezes and falls like snow to the ground. The original story follows a young boy born after the cataclysm whose chores include collecting buckets of frozen air.

Looks like compatibility hacks for various websites.

Interventions - are deeper modifications to make sites compatible. Firefox may modify certain code used on these sites to enforce compatibility. Each compatibility modification links to the bug on Bugzilla@Mozilla; click on the link to look up information about the underlying issue.

User Agent Override - change the user agent of Firefox when connections to certain sites are made.

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Compatibility/UA_Override_&_Interventions_Testing

Today, the US is withholding billions of dollars in Afghan assets, cutting off a crucial economic lifeline for the people of Afghanistan.

What assets are they talking about here?

Annual commemorative pastry observance

Super Mario Brothers 2

Bust this trust.

Stop, drop, and roll

Florence Foster Jenkins singing the Queen of the Night’s aria.

Windows 95 had to change the time zone selection map because of disputed borders.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20030822-00/?p=42823

There is a correlation, though. I for one was deeply homophobic before I came out of the closet, and it was based on my tear of being labeled gay.

The value of the DNS is that we all use the same one. You can declare independence, but you’d lose out on that value.

“Please” is short for “if it pleases you” or “if you please”. It’s used to turn a command into a request. It’s probably not used on Lemmy, etc. because we’re not requesting things of each other a lot.

Why Windows doesn’t have an ‘expert mode’ (2003)

rofl

He seems to be confusing “freeware”, which is basically a license for copyrighted work, with “public domain”, which is the absence of a copyright.

I wouldn’t willingly live anyplace else.

I’m a professional in the industry.

It’s probably not an eviction notice, but a “comply or vacate” notice. Journalists often confuse “eviction notice”, which is a court order, with the sort of formal written demand notices that tenants are entitled to receive.