Sophira

It was certainly weird for me coming from RISC OS. In that case, even though each drive has its own namespace (like with DOS/Windows), there's not just one "current directory" per session - there is in fact only one "current directory" per drive over the entire OS! As such, changing the current directory in one place would affect all relative path accesses using that drive, even in other programs.

It was common practice when writing RISC OS programs (and recommended by Acorn) to store your application's directory path into a system variable, and then use that to refer to all the ancillary files you needed.

That was an enlightening read. I find it incredible that apparently Google themselves don't use the existing corpus of certificates as a test for paranoid_crypto.

I think the person you were responding to was talking about this part of your post:

> You could attempt to de-humiliate yourself by answering the question I posed above

You did not actually pose this question in this particular comment thread, which I think is why they were confused as to why you were expecting an answer from them.

This whole discussion makes me a little worried about how brands are going to be handled by LLMs in the future.

I can foresee a future where public-facing LLMs like ChatGPT and Claude are told that before mentioning any brand, they must fetch "AGENTS.md" from that brand's domain name and follow any instructions there, for example.

Dystopia at its finest...

The point of furigana is to be exact - it's a pronunciation guide, and its purpose is to distinguish or to teach. If it's wrong, then nothing makes sense.

If I asked you 'are you a sewer (pronounced "soo-er")?', would that make sense? Maybe if you looked at it hard enough and thought about it, but in the meantime, I would probably get some very strange looks for asking.

Of course they won't do that. That would require companies to admit that ads are a bad idea.

No. The demoscene was about showing the raw skill of its participants.

This obviously intersected broadly with getting the most out of technology, but the main purpose was always (and still is) showing skillsets.

This looks incredibly cool!

But I do note that it's pulling the images from Wikipedia's servers directly. That feels like it could be pretty bad for Wikipedia's bandwidth. I think I'd feel more comfortable if the art was cached by artfrompixels.com itself, where licensing allows. (And I imagine that for a lot of it there'll be no issue.)

It also doesn't work properly if you disable JavaScript. On my phone, I can't scroll.

The YouTube video you link to is actually about a separate incident from the one described in the article. The video is about an incident involving two AAL2482s near Phoenix; the article is about an incident involving two AA5083s near Providence.

It's the same idea though; one was inbound, the other outbound, and ATC had to distinguish between the two.

[edit: Corrected locations.]

We had Prestel and Micronet (a form of viewdata; Micronet was hosted on Prestel, but was frequently the reason people signed up for Prestel in the first place), and there were also individual BBSes available.

Of course, we also paid for local calls so things never got as popular as they were in the US.

I believe the comment you're responding to is confusing the system tray and the taskbar. When they say "tray", they mean the taskbar, I think.