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Les Orchard
I beg of you, web site designers, just let me scroll through a page and stop trying to make my scroll-wheel the hand-crank of your obnoxious hurdy-gurdy of a marketing presentation
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Malcolm Herbert
@lmorchard am stealing this phrase, despite the fact that I do enjoy the hurdy-gurdy on occasion ... :)
Les Orchard
Happy #caturday from Catsby, who’s trying to soak up what little sun we’ve got today
Les Orchard
Happy NYE and belated from Cheddars and Catsby #caturday
Les Orchard
My oven announced the arrival of a software update devoted to green beans and carrots. That’s when I reached for my revolver
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Havard
@lmorchard Your bullet firmware will need to be updated before firing. Please do not load or unload your revolver during this process. Expected completion time 117h 39m 54.22186s
The Witch of Crow Briar
@lmorchard Just a short hop to "Your oven will now give you progressively larger electric shocks every time you touch it until you make both dishes. Brought to you by Del Monte!"
Les Orchard
Went to try to read a thing on "MIT Technology Review" and got intercepted by 3 different popup modals and a banner before I managed to scroll 1cm through the page. The title of the piece was "How to fix the internet" and I already closed the tab.
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Bleeding Heart Liberal
🙃🙃🙃🙃🌍
Matt
@lmorchard opened up a site to download something in a new tab, finished what I was doing and opened the new tab to be greeted by a full page survey asking me if I had found what I was looking to download. Dunno, it might be behind your survey, might not. It was also *mandatory* that I fill in my details *if* I wanted to be contacted about my feedback. I was not polite
Les Orchard
"The whole point of ActivityPub as an open protocol is to turn Twitter/Instagram-like social networking into something more akin to email: truly open." The point of an open protocol is to help folks build what they want to build. Not an obligation to welcome everyone into their house. If I have a full beer keg and you have a tap that fits it, that doesn't necessarily mean you're invited to my barbecue.
Les Orchard
Holy crap, Nilay Patel just ruthlessly corners Substack’s CEO Chris Best on moderating racist content and I love it
Les Orchard
Like, you know, it is within the realm of human possibility to just not actively build a half-abandoned combination shopping mall / conference center that lets anyone wander in and use it as a venue for complete fuckery
Les Orchard
@ConsoleWitch @thomasfuchs but then how will i know this is the best computing platform for 360 noscope in hello kitty island adventure?
Les Orchard
YOU DON'T NEED HTML
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@lmorchard I need HTML. And JavaScript. Non-free. Heavily obfuscated. To pass fucking verification. And not gonna go through, I am already banned by Cloudflare anyway.
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@lmorchard This page could have been even better if browsers supported ANSI formatting sequences, but sadly, they don’t…
Einfach Nein :verified:
@lmorchard Wonderful, esp. when switching back and forth with the source tab.
Les Orchard
I feel like the older I get, the more curmudgeonly I get. But, I feel like I'm getting curmudgeonly not in a "fuck you assholes, get a job" way and more in a "fuck you assholes, take care of each other" way.
Les Orchard
Dumb people: cats are so standoffish and aloof Me waking up with Catsby as little spoon:
Les Orchard
Les Orchard
Haven't posted any pictures of #cats yet over here. Meet Cosmo, Catsby, and Cheddars |