dave@hal9000

I am a historian whose specialty is too recent to deal with anything like that (20th century), but also have a friend who, to be generic here, deals with a handful of a few centuries back. She found a baggie of a drug mistakenly stored with a letter in an archive (think 18th century) and on a whim, dipped their pinky into the powder and tried it. They regret that decision, but also, nothing happened:)

EDIT: Historians can be boring, but not always that tame

Hmmm sweet forbidden wine!

Fuck… I got this Amber alert today while playing videogames with my kid… I dismissed it, told him it was just an alarm, and then got another later saying it was cancelled, “check local news sources for details”. I assumed it was what I thought a lot of them are: domestic dispute leads to a parent driving off with the kids and the other parent calling the cops. This is way more grim than I thought

Lol the für Elise thing is funny. Back in highschool I got a “PC maintenance” credit which had me assigned as support in the computer lab. I made a batch script that ran on startup and showed a warning message saying the hard disk will self destruct and did a countdown from 10 with the motherboard speaker beeping down, fun times

I was just about to comment that this reminded me of the sub7 days. Not sure when it was released, but I definitely used it in 1998

Edit, memory was wrong, it was released in February 1999

I am someone who should have found a way to legal status through those means by the time when I went to college circa mid 2000s… I am lucky that I found other means, which were pure circumstantial luck… Kids’ livelihood should not be dependent on dumb luck … PS.: my “dumb luck” required an American citizen ally and a shitload of money I got through student loans I am still paying for, and will still be paying for through most of my career, despite being technically in “public service”

Wow, I generally knew about the vast surveillance apparatus Israel has, but the details are beyond dystopian

Coming from the 9000 series, I am wondering what do you like about the 5700 series HAL?

“like diapers or alcohol” lol. That resonates to me as a parent

Well, I am off to eat my dinner of duck cooked rare with a glass of raw milk!

I use it to bridge Whatsapp, SMS, signal, and to receive any incoming messages on my inactive Instagram and Facebook Messenger accounts ( sometimes people contact me there). It’s a pretty nice client app, I use it on desktop too. I guess I never think about iMessage until I see reactions coming in as text haha

Yeah, I totally understand how it’s necessary across many parts of the US. There’s so much I couldn’t have done in high school, like having a job, if I couldn’t drive. I didn’t live in a rural area, but between the sprawl and lack of public transportation…

Yeah, I assumed most of the world was at least 18. I was surprised when I moved to the US at 15 and could get a learner’s permit and drive with an adult, and drive by myself at 16.

Lol, my exact first thought, Bobby Tables turned 18!

I am married to an Iranian and go there to visit family every couple of years, and my country is supposedly on the list, but I just apply for a visa regardless because it’s such a mess even figuring out how exactly no visa entry is supposed to work (as in we get ambiguous answers from the consulate) is not worth the potential headache of having some issue on wntey

Fancy exploits… Or at first maybe just a 17 year old wearing a costume mustache haha

If you think this is run down, check out John Oliver’s recent piece on “dollar stores” in the US

I actually googled error 542 thinking I missed some obscure HTTP code 😂. Turns out lots of different things give out 542s but the first hit was SMTP

I love that I open the link, get hit with a 404 error, then wait, no, the website’s name is 404 media, then read just enough to learn what I already knew from the Lemmy post before I get hit with a paywall… So it might as well have been a 404 error lol

Weird - I see a lot of comments about how this is some evolution in the war of bots vs CAPTCHA, but I have come across this once, and it was many years ago. I just assumed it was a weird small captcha company that was doing their own thing