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Cake day: December 20th, 2021

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  • all the way from 1991 to 2024, I think the only other OS that has managed that is Windows

    It’s easy to forget about MacOS when it only has 15% desktop market share.

    Operating systems that started before 1991 that are still in active development (had a release in the last 12 months):

    • Multics (1969-)
    • MVS (1974-) via OS/390 (1995-) -> z/OS (2001-)
    • VMS (1977) via OpenVMS (1992-)
    • BSD (1978-) via 386BSD -> FreeBSD, NetBSD -> OpenBSD
    • HP-UX (1982-)
    • SunOS (1982-1994) via Solaris (1992-)
    • MacOS (1984-)
    • AIX (1986-)
    • RISC OS (1987-)

    Almost made it:

    • Minix (1987-2017)
    • Genera (1982-2021)
    • AmigaOS (1985-2021)
    • NeXTSTEP (1987-1997) via GNUStep (1993-2021)
    • IBM i (1988-2022)
    • SpartaDOS (1988-2022)









  • I lost my earbuds in a remote town in Chile, so tried buying a new pair at the airport before flying out.

    True Apple lightning devices are more expensive to make.

    I wish @Apple would devote an employee or two to cracking down on such a technological, psychological abomination as this.

    He wants to take away a budget option from developing countries where people can’t afford the expensive version of the proprietary technology, and he wants Apple to be the one to do it?

    Fuck this guy.


  • For anyone that has to wait for their distro package manager before they get this update, here is a workaround for the most annoying bug (losing the ability to drag/re-order tabs in Firefox):

    If the bug is present, you will find that drag-and-drop functionality has seized working in Firefox and it is not possible to select and drag drop images, texts, URLs, tabs etc.

    4 Either restart Firefox or do the following to restore drag-and-drop functionality:

    a Open another application like a text editor.

    b Enter some random text, select it en drag it unto the URL-bar area in Firefox.

    This will cause Firefox to try and open the selected text as if it were a URL.

    c After this, try step 1 again to see if drag-and-drop functionality has returned.




  • Why not post your blogs to a fediverse platform? Do they need to be on a separate hosted system? You’ll probably get more people reading and engaging with your posts if you are just posting to a Mastodon instance rather than hosting on a separate web platform and hoping that people stumble across it.