Notices by a kilo of saucepans (rakslice) (rakslice@mastodon.social), page 2

LB: So much of the investment back then seemed driven by vibes-based whole sector optimism about the Internet and just random people wanting to own a piece of the action. Do people today even realize what it was like? I feel like nowadays the vibes-based stuff is more localized to specific grift-companies

This is the one that did it. This is the one that made me say yeah, I'm not waiting for those bozos to figure it out anymore, and change my default search engine *even in Chrome*.

wtaaf https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1940_Brocklesby_mid-air_collision

@lanodan just like "we all know" nobody was asking how it's possible to delete /dev/null

@lanodan @fgaz @duponin that's not what "regular file" means on Linux (or any Unix)

"having the assembly language embedded inside your source code meant that the code was very portable" what even are words https://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=279

"And the web browser is 30 today [...]" LMAO. The web has an inventor, who wrote the first browser, and it isn't the people behind Mosaic. Are people boosting that shit ironically, or?

@thomasfuchs at a certain point I realized "people also ask" is more often a problem than it is useful, and so I set up an ad blocker rule on div[data-initq] to make it never appear