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Scripting News: Friday, March 22, 2024

 

Friday, March 22, 2024

Back in the 80s before many of you were born, you could buy a word processing program, which was basically a text editor, and you could use it to write and then when it came time to send that writing to other people, you would print it. And get this the printer could take its input from any of those writing tools. There were no tiny little text boxes. The printers didn’t come with their own editors, you had choice and therefore there was lots of competition. Amazing, right?#

What if climate change comes to where you live in the form of tornadoes that last 30 days.#

If only Brendan Eich had incorporated UCSD Pascal units into JavaScript. It was easy to make modular reusable bits of code. #

Broken images suck, Google#

  • Something the HTTPS evangelists must not understand: there's substantial breakage when you convert an HTTP site to HTTPS. Every image in every page breaks. Broken images make a statement, they're like broken windows, they say no one gives a F about this site. Well I care about the archive of scripting.com, I hope people understand that. I have been creating a record here since 1994. It'll be 30 years in October.#
  • Instead of trying to blackmail me into breaking my archive, Google should be helping to preserve it. And not just mine, the entire early web. We poured our hearts and hopes into this, and massive amounts of time, without which Google would not exist. #
  • I know Google doesn't have a heart and it isn't a living thing, but it's bad PR to make that so freaking obvious. #
  • I think that perhaps Google is already run by the machines. Maybe it was the first such company. #
  • To remind you of what Google's idea of the ancient web is, I put a broken image next to this post. #
  • Thanks for listening. #

Everyone's driving to Vermont#

  • To ski, because it's snowing bigtime.#

  • For the total eclipse of the sun.#

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23 Mar 2024 at 04:00
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If the Repubs lose the house before 2025, the Dems could in my dreams nuke the filibuster and change the number of Supreme Court justices to 256 (a nice power of 2). Overturn Dobbs, reinstate Roe and 14th Amendment.

Dave's famous linkblog

23 Mar 2024 at 03:58
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What if climate change comes to where you live in the form of tornadoes that last 30 days.
Scripting News

23 Mar 2024 at 03:33

The Murderbot Diaries

The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells is fantastic. I admit that I’m real late to the party here but I can't remember the last time I read anything as effortlessly page-turning as this. The first book, All Systems Red, is a breezy 150 page novella that I finished last night and it’s all about a murderous robot on a distant planet way in the future. It’s funny and weird and I refuse to describe anything more about it.

Also, Martha Wells’ website totally rules.

Robin Rendle

23 Mar 2024 at 03:22

Broken images suck, Google

 Something the HTTPS evangelists must not understand: there's substantial breakage when you convert an HTTP site to HTTPS. Every image in every page breaks. Broken images make a statement, they're like broken windows, they say no one gives a F about this site. Well I care about the archive of scripting.com, I hope people understand that. I have been creating a record here since 1994. It'll be 30 years in October.

Instead of trying to blackmail me into breaking my archive, Google should be helping to preserve it. And not just mine, the entire early web. We poured our hearts and hopes into this, and massive amounts of time, without which Google would not exist.

I know Google doesn't have a heart and it isn't a living thing, but it's bad PR to make that so freaking obvious.

I think that perhaps Google is already run by the machines. Maybe it was the first such company.

To remind you of what Google's idea of the ancient web is, I put a broken image next to this post.

Thanks for listening.

Scripting News

23 Mar 2024 at 03:19
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I've started bingeing "3 Body Problem" on Netflix, and two episodes in, I'm loving it.

Dave's famous linkblog

23 Mar 2024 at 02:27
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