Landy Manderson

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Red-headed he/him 🏳️‍🌈 bastard child, longtime tech whisperer, food geek, seeker of honest men. Woefully undermedicated. Socials are quiet cuz 1A ≠ paycheck.
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and you used to have to wear a jacket over your halloween costume because it used to be cold in october
I felt this

Mosaic Netscape 0.9 was released 30 years ago today.

According to my notes, it went live shortly after midnight on Oct 13, 1994. We sat in the conference room in the dark and listened to different sound effects fired for each different platform that was downloaded. At some point late that night I wandered off and wrote the first version of the page that loaded when you pressed the "What's Cool" button in the toolbar. (A couple days later, Jim Clark would go ballistic...

https://jwz.org/b/yka7

Mosaic Netscape 0.9 was released 30 years ago today

According to my notes, it went live shortly after midnight on Oct 13, 1994. We sat in the conference room in the dark and listened to different sound effects fired for each different platform that was downloaded. At some point late that night I wandered off and wrote the first version of the page that loaded when you pressed the "What's Cool" button in the toolbar. (A couple days later, Jim ...

Your horoscope for today:
Be like a bumblebee - fuzzy, gentle, and spend your days amongst friends and flowers.

It really sucks to be in a world where you have to choose between two vendors for the tools you must use to access most of your life, both of which have clearly stated they are actively working against both your best interests and the best interests of society. Of course, there's an alternative — various third parties, many of which are actively malicious and none of which are remotely reasonable choices when it comes to security, feature parity, or anything else.

Today this is about browsers, but the fact that I have to specify is its own problem.

The link for ordering 4 free COVID tests is now LIVE.

Do it NOW!

Order here: http://covidtests.gov

I was having a nice day until I saw this and have made the executive decision to make it all y'all's problem as well

RIP James Earl Jones.

Jones made his film debut in Stanley Kubrick's "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb" (1964) as the young Lt. Lothar Zogg, the B-52 bombardier.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSbPqin3L6E
#JamesEarlJones
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The Bomb Run Sequence from Dr. Strangelove

YouTube

With Firefox having AI added in the recent update. Here's how you can disable it.

  • Open about:config in your browser.
  • Accept the Warning it gives.
  • Search browser.ml and blank all values and set false where necessary as shown in the screenshot, anything that requires a numerical string can be set as 0 .
  • Once you restart you should no longer see the Grey-ed out checkbox checked, and the AI chatbot disabled from ever functioning.