@misty@digipres.club wait: the first -v encountered will be assumed to be verify, which is after verbose in the man page and come the fuck onnn

@misty GCC has a similar issue but it is not as bad. `-v` by itself just prints the version info. but `-v` with the normal options means verbose (which also prints the version info).

@misty They’re not actually the same character. Neither of them is a Latin letter v, they are both from different Unicode planes that happen to look like a v.

What? It’s not like the real explanation makes more sense!

@misty apropos, did you see that "in defense of pixels" talk that was floating around the last few days? Highly recommend it if not.

@misty I still got mine. Its screen is messed up and the battery probably lasts like 15 minutes total.

@misty I’ve got a modded classic but the 5th gen is peak Apple.

@misty From the account in the article, it seems like Gaudreau was being careful and was trying to verify a telephone number from what he reasonably expected would be an authoritative source.

This is absolutely Meta's fault.

@misty @mcc can you imagine if Meta *did* have phone support, though! They’d have to hire like 1% of the earth’s population to staff it…

Actually, that would be a good law to fight these big companies. For every x active users, you must have one (1) CSR

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Does this mean Meta Support is just an hallucination?

@misty "Although Charlotte is undoubtedly a special fish—all fish are special—…"

This author gets it

@misty If anyone needs croissant recipes, I hear that Wolfram Alpha suggests them as equations.

@misty there's a twilight zone episode waiting to come out of this.

@misty And that's the second fork.

The original Chromium was based on a fork, then they got it merged upstream but there was still a lot that was just conditionally compiled so that there were some features only used by Chrome (for instance, it had an entirely different JavaScript engine) and some used only by the other WebKit ports.

After a while where they were maintained in one codebase but with a lot of ifdefs and divergence and conflict, they eventually forked again.

@misty @rmondello
Hold my beer
I’ve had people tell me Safari is based on Chrome

@misty Maybe they’re referring to the rendering engine setup on iOS?

@misty I have this on floppy disc

@misty I don't think Street Fighter on CD-ROM is quite as weird as it seems. Arcade games would routinely be extremely large by home console stds, since they weren't being mass-produced on the same scale. Buying those ROMs at the home release scale would have been prohibitively expensive.

Street Fighter in arcades was over 4 MB of ROMs. In 1988, it was inconceivable to do a home release of that size; only a handful of late SNES games in the mid-'90s were that big, after prices had come down.

@misty that's such a cool post. Would you also consider LaserDisc games? Or are you a CD purist?

@misty how badly I might want it, I have no use for it (don't have any Amiga machines). So I thought, I'd share it with my network.

@misty You def should image it and put it up on IA.

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Maybe @amigalove ?

@misty If I only had the hardware to run it on. 😩

@misty @drdpj is this your sort of bag?

@misty if you have a PC that isn't capable of running Windows 11 due to its TPM nonsense, it just shames you with "YOUR COMPUTER IS TOO OLD TO UPGRADE TO WINDOWS 11" every time you open Update

@misty it's not like secure boot actually does anything useful ;)

@misty oh wow I had no idea about Photo CD as a format! This is so completely of a piece with my beloved Gadget (1993), I wonder if the creators had played a bunch of Photo CD games