aww … “The cableway replaced a funicular, on the same route, in 2010.” … cable car is probably better choice but the funicular was just plain fun
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People who use Caps Lock for one letter
Speed Typing King Sean Wrona on Not Using Shift Key
Sean Wrona who currently holds a bunch of speed typing records uses it to type all capital letters. Instead of hitting Shift+letter he finds it is more efficient to hit CapsLock+letter+CapsLock in quick succession.
“Perfectly balanced. As all things should be.”
🎵 “Life in plastic, it’s fantastic” 🎵
“Don’t anthropomorphize computers. They hate that.”
- but corporate policy is to let IT handle updates
- but Windows doesn’t like being ignored so it bypasses group policy and auto-updates
original generation of COBOL programmers where expecting their programs to be replaced (or at least rewritten) within a decade or so – and then Y2K and we realized how much COBOL was still in the wild – and now a couple decades down the line, they’re still having problems trying to convince fintech to switch from COBOL to the new language of Java …
after MKUltra and COINTELPRO and Salvador Allende and who knows how much other crap our intelligence agencies have pulled …
IWW – One Big Union
there’s a whole world of alternative, small, or minimalist non-Chromium non-Firefox browsers out there I would love to try out – but in today’s world, if it doesn’t support at least the full un-crippled version of uBlock Origin, it’s a complete non-starter
(considering general trends, I’m just gonna have to sit down and setup PiHole aren’t I?)
At the same time, Sheinbaum said she expects to have a good relationship with Trump, saying the incoming US president “has his way of communicating.”
oh yeah, that’ll show him …
Starblazers
you mean the Trump-Musk-Vance administration?
we are talking Gnome devs here after all …
cook with it? yeah
call it pizza? nope
- Funko (of Funko Pops) bought an AI tool to search out brand infringement
- AI files a claim against Itch.io
- Itch’s registrar decides to Leeroy Jenkins it and takes down Itch’s domain without bothering to clarify or validate
this is one of the things that struck me about email clients on Linux – CLI and GUI clients have followed two very different evolutionary paths – the CLI clients went for the “doing one job well” path (where you end up assembling a whole system of apps for sending and receiving email) and the GUI clients went for the “everything and the kitchen sink” path (where you end up trying to hide half the options so they don’t get in your way)