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The Onion’s Guide To Web3

https://www.theonion.com/the-onion-guide-to-web3-1848356077

Never been a big Windows/Office fan but if I had to choose I’d say that Windows 95 and Office 95 were peak usability* in the area of personal productivity software.

(* usability does not mean stability eh!😅🤣)

And yours?

Not a day goes by without at least one Amazon recruiter trying to find his or her way through my email.

Is Rhode Island a nice place to settle?

This M1 MacBook Pro is a friggin' beast. But running anything other than macOS on it is a bit a pain in the ass at the moment...

Raise your hand if you know who has freaked out for the past 15~ minutes trying to find his own glasses.

(Yeah, this person's glasses were on his nose the entire time)

There’s hardly a better example of alternative rock than Oasis’ 1995-98 discography.

Ah. It’s January 1st. Happy new year, I guess?

TIL that the following is a valid way to declare parameters in C, though pre-ANSI; it's apparently still supported but - obviously - deprecated:

void some_function(param1, param2, param3)
int param1;
float param2;
double param3;
{
/* ... */
}

I know there are apparently cooler things out there but I really love C: its minimalistic simplicity is probably something that I'd never trade for anything else.

ExoMars discovers hidden water in Mars’ Grand Canyon

URL: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/Exploration/ExoMars/ExoMars_discovers_hidden_water_in_Mars_Grand_Canyon

Computers are not “the thing”: computers are the thing that get you to “the thing”

(I love this quote from Halt and Catch Fire)

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-bristol-41167296

I’ve been browsing http://www.mcom.com
Such nostalgia! I can clearly remember my first adventures on the Web with Mosaic and Netscape.

I feel sooooo old!

Folks, Halt and Catch Fire is among the best TV series ever. Strongly suggest to give it a shot!

Ah! My Mastodon archival job has been failing since august. Oopsie!

Fixing it now.

(Hopefully it didn't bother @szbalint too much, if so: my apologies)

"The best programs are the ones written when the programmer is supposed to be working on something else." - Melinda Varian

(Source: https://twitter.com/codewisdom/status/1200474551873875968)

Archaeologists find partially mutilated Vesuvius victim at new Herculaneum dig

https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/12/partially-mutilated-herculaneum-skeleton-was-fugitive-of-vesuvius-eruption/

I think (hope?) that with all these changes in Twitter we may experience a surge in popularity for the ‘don

Today it’s the 50th anniversary of Project Gutenberg.

If you’re unfamiliar with it: it’s a vast collection of freely available ebooks.

https://www.gutenberg.org