Notices by Misty (misty@digipres.club), page 2

@foone Zed has excellent builtin support; it’s what I’ve been using.

@foone Hm, do I want coreos or mac-o-s this morning…

I tried serializing some data using a kebab-case formatter, and accidentally invented "mac-o-s". Going to use mac-o-s as my operating system from now on

@foone And that's why the DS won out

@foone This is *very* cool!

web.archive is down, better go to web.archive.org/web/*/web.archive.org to access a backup

@foone God is it ever. I’m glad they still seem not that bad to source though?

Oh man, this news story. Former MLA from Manitoba asks Meta's own "ask AI" chatbot if a phone number he found on Google is really Meta support. It tells him yes. It isn't, and he's scammed out of $500 and control of his accounts. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/facebook-customer-support-scam-1.7219581

@foone Oh god. That sounds like an *experience*

Every Linux and macOS shell script programmer is a retrocomputing practitioner because shell script has been forbidden from changing for 40 years

@foone Right??

When it was sent to me, all the floppies had been relocated to an acid-free paper sleeve - I guess a previous owner had noticed and knew what to do. But I guess they still spent a couple decades nestled up to the manual.

And this is why you don’t store floppies next to acidic paper.

@foone Boosts wanted?

New blog post: I dug out my old copy of a favourite Japanese Mac game from 2004, and ended up discovering that it's had an official English translation hidden inside its files this entire time - that can be unlocked by just changing a single byte in the save file.

https://www.mistys-internet.website/blog/blog/2024/04/07/unlocking-puyo-puyo-fever-for-macs-english-mode/

@foone Wow, VERY purple indeed!

@foone I love that this still *looks* like it’s from 2000.

Looks like it's official - Akira Toriyama, world-famous manga artist, passed away on March 1. The website is failing under load, so here's a copy of the letter.

https://en.dragon-ball-official.com/news/01_2499.html

@foone That would be genuinely pretty incredible. Also hard, but very cool.

“If you are the stingray at the center of a pregnancy scandal, you are probably doing fine because you have no concept of social media.” https://defector.com/charlotte-the-ray-did-not-have-sex-with-a-shark-so-stop-asking

*Incredible* mark of desperation here. Twitter's trying to rebrand itself as a "video-first platform". https://fortune.com/2024/01/09/elon-musk-x-video-first-platform/