Amy @a@asentientbot.ca

this DLL would be better if it had more 0x90s in it

I saw this online somewhere and I just had to recreate it. This is my coding happy place.

Until I was about 14, I thought the cones you sometimes see dogs wearing were to make the dog's bark sound louder and, thus, more effective for scaring away potential burglars.

what i'm saying is: download the things you love. download even the things you like, that you find any significance in at all. hoard data. disk space scarcity is more or less no longer real if you have even a small amount of money to spend. anything that is not saved will be lost

One of my favourite graphics on Wikipedia is this illustration of the maximum dimensions of a PDF page: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Seitengroesse_PDF_7.png

Correction: not the maximum size of a PDF file, but a page within a PDF file. (Thanks Uwe.)

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you can use computers every day for thirty years and still be utterly blown away by new error messages you cannot even begin to comprehend

Google has announced that they will now consider an account dead and delete it if it receives no logins for two years. If you have any gmail accounts you don't use often, or have custody of someone else's while they're in jail/the hospital/the tundra or whatever, you should set a recurring alarm on your calendar to manually log into it every few months.

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Wavy

Fucking YIKES. This looks like it's both burnt AND corroded?
Did this get hit with wet lightning or something!?

⚠️​ HELP WANTED ⚠️​

It looks like the new M3/Pro/Max machines are shipped out with THREE separate unreleased builds of macOS:
- 13.5 (22G2074)
- 13.5 (22G2080)
- 14.1 (23B2073)
If you're getting any such machine, find it has one of the above builds and would like to help preserve its firmware before updating, please reach out to me.

It’s not just you: Apple Weather widget is showing a file icon instead of snow https://9to5mac.com/2023/10/31/apple-weather-app-widget-file-icon/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon