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I have massive logs from IRC in the 20teens. I used IRC loads when the web was new, and revisited it and built a couple of bots in 2015ish, and one of those logged everything as part of a game - it was a spy

IRC is chat. Chat is sometimes nuts

Domains seldom expire on the new year, they are typically registered for a number of years with the proof starting on the day you register

So register today, it expires yesterday + 10 years

5 o'clock shadow? Try 3 o'clock stubble. Right after shaving there's shadow when your beard is black.

Fred Flintstone style

If I grow a beard, and wish to satisfy my wife's preferences, my only choice is a wild beard

It's normal. I can grow a moustache - a proper soup strainer; I can grow a chin beard. No chance can I grow sideburns, the hair goes super sparse above my mouth (aside from directly above my lip)

There's great variation in the facial hair men can grow and whatever one can grow will increase as one ages.

That was my dad in the Navy in the '60s. The rules were you could have facial hair, but if you wanted to go from clean shaven to facial hair you needed permission and you had two weeks to grow it - if it wasn't good enough you had to shave.

He couldn't grow a beard in a fortnight. I can't grow a beard in a fortnight.

So he applied right before going on leave so he would have 4 weeks of leave + 2 weeks to grow the beard, which was sufficient

I grew a bushy beard over 2020, then when masks were recommended I shaved to a moustache

My wife wanted the beard back "sorry hon, that stops the mask working"

Now 2024, still mo. I like it

Reddit, for example, went too hard into enshittification before they worked out how to extract the money. The platform isn't looking like it will die soon, but it also doesn't look like it will make huge profits either.

The tube is fine, it's the inter city rail that sucks

Then deny location access

It varies. Usually fares are just there to ration use of the mass transit, providing less than a third of its cost (ignoring capital)

Also: why would you ration transit? You want as many people as possible to use it

No one's so cheap they cycle instead. Those who cycle do so for health. We could free up there roads for the die hard drivers

For the public and environment policy that mass transit is made for (freeing up parking space; removing polluting cars from the road; reducing congestion; reducing carbon burn) yeah. Mass transit should have no usage cost

I'll accept public service adverts. Telling you about services, advertising health and well-being, telling you to keep your feet off the seats

London can take tens of minutes to get a ticket in peak times. Not a problem for most commuters, but for tourists and random travellers it sucks

I probably should take another image of the 286 and diff it against the earlier backup

And if I time travel, I'll put the key on a hard drive, tape, DVD, and archive quality dvd

I guess if you're in the perfect partnership you and your partner could simultaneously take the red pill :)

Pixel 6 on current version

I give a few apps background location access, and for a couple of weeks after enabling each android would occasionally ask if the app still needs background data

Weather wants your location so you can get weather for where you are

I must have been lucky with my 286's 20MB hdd

I wonder if that sort of right wing person is capable of doing science. I think they can't, due to the parallels with the most deadly scientific fraud perpetrated by Ancel Keys. He had no qualifications, but in the late '40s he stole a hypothesis and claimed it was his

This new affliction heart disease could be caused by eating saturated fats

The only good thing he did was design a good study to test the hypothesis, but his study unfortunately proved the opposite. People in the control group (eating the normal diet full of butter, eggs, and meat) lived longer than the intervention group, who replaced butter, eggs, and meat with linoleic acid (an omega 6 oil)

So he buried the study and said "we didn't run the study long enough, but we are certain due to the results we have that saturated fat is causing heart disease"