@Elwell @mhoye Omg, this just unlocked a lost memory. I don't know what happened to it, because I forgot it even existed, but in grade 7 or 8 I had a universal remote wrist watch (pretty sure I got it from thinkgeek.com (rip)), the primary function of which became confusing and annoying teachers 😅

@rl_dane @kkarhan @fuchsiii I love this. Honestly I always wanted to learn some COBOL... up until the moment I actually tried 😅

@rl_dane What wasn't usable about it for you? I just did a fresh install on my laptop the other day. After unchecking the two "delete everything every time" boxes, and checking the box to re-enable Firefox Sync (less comfortable with that every day, but in the short term I just need to be able to get to work), it just feels like Firefox but slightly less shit lol. Historically I also import the same BetterFox config I used to use on stock Firefox, but I kinda just stopped bothering with that at some point.

EDIT: Oh also I enable playing DRM protected content, same deal with regular ol' Firefox.

@rl_dane @kkarhan @fuchsiii I doubt a lot of new applications are being written for it, but I know legacy stuff is still out there. Costco is the most visible example because you can just go there and see it with your very own eyes every time you renew your membership or whatever.

@kkarhan @rl_dane @fuchsiii Not to mention the countless companies still running ancient AS400 software in VMs (Costco, for one). This will forever delight me.


...and the endless lines of COBOL still handling god only knows how much of North American banking/financial infrastructure. This will forever shock and horrify me lmao

@kkarhan @rl_dane @fuchsiii Oh not at all. Some of my first jobs were in offices before everyone switched from running their crusty JRE enterprise software on local intranets (and requiring a specific browser to run the janky web portal for NetSuite or w/e), to replacing all that crusty but robust old software with barely minimum-viable SaaS products (only to eventually find out during a massive AWS outage that their old local intranet had more redundancy (not to mention actual same day "we'll have someone there within the hour" service when something went horribly wrong) than the entire enterprise SaaS industry *panics in CEO*)

@kkarhan @rl_dane @fuchsiii I think it's safe to say we're well past the point that anyone should expect IE6 support. Unless you're just serving static markup over bare http I guess? In which case, sure. I suppose you could just serve up some good ol' "HTML 4.01 Transitional" (just typing that brings me immense joy; nostalgia's a funny thing lol) for old times sake.

@saramg What disappoints me most about this article is the author's view that the problem with AI is unmet promises, and we'll all change our mind when it become useful. It's like they're writing about the tech industry, yet they've never stopped to ask themselves why this ridiculous push of largely ineffective tech to a largely unreceptive audience has been going on for so long. I get the impression they'll continue trying these AI products, just waiting for the day they like one, and then everything will be okay (except that their power bill will be 10x as much as it is now and then they'll just slowly get dumber).

@saramg This is what we in The Biz™ call an extremely cold take.