Some middle-aged guy on the Internet. Seen a lot of it, occasionally regurgitating it, trying to be amusing and informative.
Lurked Digg until v4. Commented on Reddit (same username) until it went full Musk.
Was on kbin.social (dying/dead) and kbin.run (mysteriously vanished). Now here on fedia.io.
Really hoping he hasn’t brought the jinx with him.
Other Adjectives: Neurodivergent; Nerd; Broken; British; Ally; Leftish
Quora is (supposedly) where everyone went after Yahoo Answers closed 5 years ago. Prior to that, it had been (arguably) the better of the two sites with significantly better questions and answers.
I had an account on YA because I didn’t feel clever enough to have an account there. Maybe I should create one now, ha.
I didn’t say it wasn’t a British stereotype, only that that particular British stereotype is not one that says “innit”.
There’s a stereotype of stereotypes that there are only two English accents: “aristocratic” and “cockney”. The film Mary Poppins may have a lot more to do with this than it ought to.
Anyway, the Countryball’s appearance is associated with the aristocratic. “Innit” is cockney. (This is overly general to the point of being wrong, but for the sake of this argument, it’s close enough.)
The hat, moustache and monocle are not of a British stereotype that uses the word “innit”.
Can I pay with photocopies of cash?
I don’t know how many do, but they’re fools if they don’t.
You’d think that since those links are there, that the information on those links matches what that LLM says, and thus not a hallucination, but at least twice, I’ve found the information straight up wasn’t there, or the LLM had misread / misinterpreted the page’s content.
But then I may not be a regular user. I ask a question maybe once every one to two weeks because a regular search finds nothing and, like I say, I prefer to check the sources.
I see at least a couple of problems here. The main one is that it assumes that the computer only has one user. This is often true, but not always.
If this script is run by a child on a shared computer, and that child chooses not to lie, the child and all adults with access to the machine lose access to /sbin/doas. Likewise if one adult chooses to lie that they’re a child, they’ll lock themselves and everyone else out, child or not, which is an opportunity for malicious behaviour
It also means that something else would need to be done with regard to /etc/enviroment. Even on a one user, two roles machine, that entry really ought to be under /etc/environment.d, but the more robust, multi-age, multi-user solution would need something entirely different to be implemented. /etc/profile would be the wrong place, and editing each user’s .profile (or equivalent) and then making it read-only seems like a bad plan too.
By comparative linguistics, “Twix” is clearly Germanic in origin, and the singular ought to be Onx.
“Unix” is from the parallel Latinate sequence. Unfortunately, the parallel term to “Twix”, and the successor of “Unix”, ought to be Bix, which does exist, but is only found in Commonwealth English in the compound Weet(a)bix.
Triscuits may seem to be relevant at this point, but are a part of neither sequence on account of actually being an abbreviation of “Electricity Biscuit”
Dubious etymology is fun.
I saw that post about Firefox. If you’d said it was browser games causing issues, I might have linked it. (Or I might have failed and not done that. What ifs are tricky.).
If you want kind of funny, someone posted CSS Quake a while back and that browser game has WASD keybindings and Ctrl bound to movedown / crouch. And if you crouch and move forward, it closes the browser window. And there’s no way to fix that.
There are ways to disable middle-click pasting. A quick web search turns up a few.
Either way, I’ve never had the need to disable it for the handful of games I play, including a couple where I regularly use middle-click.
They already do that, sort of. The last I heard, people watching with an ad-blocker also blocked the mechanism that incremented the watch counter. This may or may not have been deliberate. The interesting thing is that the video appears in people’s Watch History ad-blocker or not, so there was always an easy fix sitting in plain sight.
They told creators about the watch count problem along with at least one other secret thing that they said they weren’t allowed to talk about. Charlie / Cr1TiKaL / penguinz0 said as much as he could about it a few months back.
I think the secret thing was probably “we’re working on a way to get those view counts back, but don’t tell anyone because we want to discourage people from using ad-blockers and if you tell them they’re costing people views, it might convince them to turn it off.”
Assuming true, that’s all now out of the window because they’ve “fixed” the problem.
I expect another fierce attack on ad-blockers in Q4.
Start with “NOPLATE”, “NCC1701”, “XXX” and “NULL”.
There might be others that have ended up in the news as a result of human (police or programmer) error, but just those four over fifty States is a good 200 to start with.
Had AI inflation not taken hold, I think most budget builders would still be opting for DDR4, so this headline feels like a non-sequitur to me.
What’s the cactus done to deserve that?
It looks like Clickhole either deleted or moved that article earlier this year at some point in 2025. And if they moved it, they didn’t update their link in their “best of 2018” post from 2024.
They’re also still selling the t-shirt with the headline quote on it.
Anyway, here’s an archive.org link: https://web.archive.org/web/20250517005853/https://clickhole.com/heartbreaking-the-worst-person-you-know-just-made-a-gr-1825121606/
Sorry, I never meant to imply you were stupid. Only that you didn’t seem to be of a high enough technical level - right now - to be able to solve your PC problems.
As for (non-committal) further advice: Backups, backups, backups. And then a tool like WinDirStat to track down what’s using all your space. There are YouTube videos that show you how to use it.
I believe they are exhibiting denial that YouTube could possibly be old enough to have videos uploaded 18 years ago.
This denial is being done mostly in jest to cover the true, creeping, dripping, existential despair that so much time has passed, but at the same time to commiserate and laugh with others who are similarly affected. Drip, drip, tick, tick, tick.
Also, the video turns 19 in a couple of months. yaaaaay
Given your apparent technical level, I think you need to get your PC to someone who can work on it in person.
If you had space and better technical skills, there are tools you could install to help you track down where all the space is in use, but I don’t feel confident that things would go well talking you through that on an Internet forum.
It is now my head canon that it randomly chooses a memory location and kills whatever process owns it, repeating as necessary.
The perverse logic of there being a greater chance of hitting a memory hog makes far too much sense.
It can’t actually be this though, can it?
Somehow I am all three of these people at the same time.
As I understand it, it’s supposed to be a from-the-ground-up reimplementation of NT5 / Windows 2000 with maybe a handful of later tech squeezed in. Historically, it has borrowed heavily from the WINE project, though I’m not sure of the current state of play. It would certainly make sense to have continued to do so.
It’s intended to be compatible with any and all Windows software, but the goalposts keep moving and the number of steps they are behind increases faster still. At this point it’s barely more than a passion project for the devs, though many of us really want them to succeed.
(See also Haiku, which is a reimplementation and advancement of the contemporaneous BeOS.)
I’ve occasionally tried to get ReactOS to run in a VM for the nostalgia and to see something like the screenshots, but it never seems to work for me, not that I’ve tried this new version yet.