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David BissetWhy I 🧡 the web.A zoomable, searchable archive of BYTE magazine.<a href="https://byte.tsundoku.io/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://byte.tsundoku.io/</a><a href="https://phpc.social/tags/byte" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#byte</a> <a href="https://phpc.social/tags/oldschool" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#oldschool</a> <a href="https://phpc.social/tags/getoffmylawn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#getoffmylawn</a> <a href="https://phpc.social/tags/magazine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#magazine</a>

Edwin GroothuisOne of my colleagues got locked out of his computer today because one of the keys on his keyboard didn't work. Even the keyboard on the laptop, it didn't like that same one key. A reboot fixed the problem.I don't trust all this new stuff. In the past: You press a key. They keyboard controller generates an interrupt, the CPU deals with the interrupt, and the key pressed gets processed.These days: You press a key. They keyboard controllers sends an USB message to the USB hub, which sends an bus message to the USB driver which forwards the pressed key information the keyboard driver of the operating system which sends an asynchronous Key Pressed message to the application which will deal with it when it is done repainting the application view on the screen.<a href="https://aus.social/tags/getoffmylawn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#getoffmylawn</a>

your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦some nordic dude has done a remix of Astor Piazzola’s VERANO PORTEÑO and am feeling a way. that piece is perfection; why sully it with your EDM wankings 😠😡😒here’s my preferred version, because it was recorded in one afternoon, at the Central Park bandshell and i was there, mesmerized by the whole performance. <a href="https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eqXHwDUp1hU" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eqXHwDUp1hU</a>just pretend you hear me hooting and hollering after each piece… cuz i was 😋<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/m%C3%BAsica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#música</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/getOffMyLawn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#getOffMyLawn</a>

Triangle RabbitsToday we shine our Throwback Thursday spotlight on Lebowski. Not to be mistaken as The Big Lebowski. He's just a handsome dude napping his way through life one nap at a time. When awake, he gives off a "Get off my lawn" vibe. <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ThrowbackThursday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ThrowbackThursday</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/GetOffMyLawn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GetOffMyLawn</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Napping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Napping</a>

thefathippyI have an ancient microwave, but they say 40 is the new 30... It's probably why my hair fell out. Occasionally I think a new microwave would be good, but to be honest, I use mine as a heater/reheater/defroster, & only two settings, max & defrost. I forget its power so I guess a time, based on experience, & *twist the dials* accordingly*. 800W? It's always slower than the box says for 1000W. 🤷‍♂️I'm sure I could cook fancier meals in a flash microwave, but couldn't be arsed.<a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/GetOffMyLawn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GetOffMyLawn</a>

Justin ThomasMaybe I'm the only one, but I find this whole fixation with "fold" phones completely undesirable. Sure, give me a smaller, "flip" phone that's half the height of a normal smart phone when closed but has the same size screen when unfolded. That sounds great.But some giant thing that's twice as fat and a dumb massive bendy square screen that no unmutated human's thumbs could possibly interact with? For like twice the price? No thanks. <a href="https://enigmatick.social/tags/GetOffMyLawn" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GetOffMyLawn</a>

Kitty<a href="https://allovertheplace.ca/@singingnala" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@singingnala</a> Waitasec! But nobody minded *this* geekgirl when she blew up the image of the badass bat throne so *her* AI's could describe it! <a href="https://mastodon.stickbear.me/tags/GetOffMyLawn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GetOffMyLawn</a>

PeterSo as of today I'm officially "gets audibly pissed off in Home Depot when the trimmer line selection changes" years old.<a href="https://mastodon.coffee/tags/GetOffMyLawn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GetOffMyLawn</a>

IBBoardCan't believe .com domains are $17 from Namecheap now. They used to be $8!(And .co.uk used to be £2.50 plus a 39p handling fee from 123-reg!)<a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/GetOffMyLawn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GetOffMyLawn</a>

Brad L. :verified:There's a lot talk about "ZeroDisk" infrastructure backed by S3. The pitch is "move your data from locally attached NVMe storage to S3 and your applications will scale easier and be more performant!"Maybe I'm getting too old for this shit, but I swear to dog this is the 4th such cycle in my career:1. NFS 2. iSCSI / Fibrechannel 3. Hadoop / HDFS 4. ZeroDisk with S3Am I the only one that's like: "wait, move TBs of data to S3 from NVMe to increase performance? Are you high?"It doesn't work, so you scale up. Now you're back to local NVMe "cache disks" running instances as expensive as the locally attached NVMe instances when you add those costs to your S3 bill. The performance is worse because of course it is.It always comes back to the two hard problems in computer science: naming things, cache invalidation, and off-by-one errors. 😂 <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/zerodisk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#zerodisk</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/s3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#s3</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/hadoop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#hadoop</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/cache" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cache</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/datalake" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#datalake</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/GetOffMyLawn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GetOffMyLawn</a>

David BissetSo I just took my 15 year old daughter to get her driver license permit.<a href="https://phpc.social/tags/GetOffMyLawn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GetOffMyLawn</a>

jeffMaybe it's because I am an older millennial, but I have a pretty negative attitude towards dating apps. I think they're toxic. And should be avoided at all costs. <a href="https://my0.net/tags/getoffmylawn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#getoffmylawn</a>

axemonkeyToday Oi harve mostly bin listening to <a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/SleepToken" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SleepToken</a> and <a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/Yungblud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Yungblud</a>The kids are alright. <a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/GetOffMyLawn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GetOffMyLawn</a>

rdm<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jul/17/clive-palmer-trumpet-of-patriots-united-australia-party-data-breach-ransomware-attack-ntwnfb" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jul/17/clive-palmer-trumpet-of-patriots-united-australia-party-data-breach-ransomware-attack-ntwnfb</a>The kicker for me is “We do not know comprehensively what information of yours was on the server but you should assume that any information you have provided would have been stored on the server." along with “We do not keep a record of all individuals who were on the server.” and that it was impractical to contact everyone who's data had been accessed.I have never, ever seen such utter incompetence and disregard for the party members and supporters.I hope the book gets thrown at the lot of them.<a href="https://aus.social/tags/Infosec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Infosec</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/it" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#it</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/cybersec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cybersec</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/fail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fail</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/GetOffMyLawn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GetOffMyLawn</a>

Ari "Two Dogs" JacksonI just yelled angrily at my laptop for a ridiculously inordinate amount of time because it would not type out the word "elucidate" when I was dictating a document. It wanted to say hallucinate, or type the letters C & U, or some proper name -- ANYTHING besides the word I wanted it to say.I weep for the death of our language.Oddly, my iPhone has no problem with me dictating that word; it got it on the the first go -- as evidenced by the first sentence in this post. However, I have had numerous issues with my iPhone ever since I've had one because it *always* thinks that I'm talking about the people in my contacts list. I am never, ever, ever talking about the people in my contacts list. I rarely talk about other people at all. I. Don't. Fucking. Gossip. For instance, if I say the word "bond", it thinks I'm talking about somebody named Bond. I do have somebody named "Bond" in my contacts list; it is my sixth grade nemesis. Perhaps I will tell you that story at another time.However, I was talking about something completely different the other day when it decided I was talking about said nemesis, and I never think or talk about that person! (I know. I know; I am talking about them right now, but that is beside the point.)I feel like computers are more of a hindrance than anything these days. And no, I don't have AI turned on for my laptop or my phone. And yes, I have looked up to see if you can stop iPhone from thinking that you're gossiping about the people in your contacts list. You can't. There is no way to stop it from assuming that you're talking about people you know when they have a name similar to a word that you are trying to dictate. The only option would be to remove most people from your contacts list. I've considered it. I've considered going back to a Rolodex, or a paper address book. I tried to do so a couple of years ago, and it was an honest pain in the ass. I don't know how we survived the 1970s. So my phone is always going to default to using proper names instead of non-capitalized words when I am dictating, because it apparently ALWAYS thinks I am talking about other people. 😖I joked with my best friend that I should probably put all of the Star Trek characters whom we talk about in regular conversation into my contacts list so that my phone will automatically spell them correctly. Wharf. See? Fuck this phone.Jaze. It did it right once, and then changed it to that. I was trying to say Chad Zia NOPE Jaa Jaa nope Ja Zia Ja Zia Zia (trying to say "Jadzia"). O'Brien it gets right.Cisco it does not get right.Spock Spock yep it gets it right and then it doesn't: Spark spark spark. ROM? Thar is computer talk, not a Fergi (FERENGI, you asswipe piece of glass and metal). Nog it gets right -- after a confused pause. Heaven forbid I try to dictate any Klingon names. (oh my stars it got the word "cling on" right? And then nope. it didn't...)Larissa. Better. Nope, not gonna get their names right.Ugh. I was trying to say the word "gin" the other day and it autocorrected to Jen every single time. One of my best friends is named Jen, and I will occasionally mention Jen, but I was talking about the drink. Not the person.You get the idea. I'm fucking annoyed. It's time to wind down with a paper book and pray that AI does not become sentient tomorrow. Note that it understands just fine when I say "AI". 🙄🤬Elucidate. Elucidate. Elucidate. Oh, gods, how I love that. Elucidate.<a href="https://beige.party/tags/GetOffMyLawn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GetOffMyLawn</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/IAmOld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IAmOld</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/TechWoes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TechWoes</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/OldManYellsAtCloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OldManYellsAtCloud</a>

Piggleston PecanpantsTrying to find accurate information about anything these days is nearly impossible. People think they're witty saying, "Let me Google that for you" but the search returns are just enshitified garbage. Researching in books took time but at least the results were routinely reliable. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GetOffMyLawn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GetOffMyLawn</a>

David Croyle<a href="https://polymaths.social/@roguefoam" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@roguefoam</a> I just blocked someone from Belgium that triggered my search for how to disable that much-abused feature. He sent me a totally disingenuous email which really ticked me off. Glad that's blocked and that feature is turned off. <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/GetOffMyLawn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GetOffMyLawn</a>

Denis 🌏<a href="https://writing.exchange/@MargaretSefton" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@MargaretSefton</a> I live right by the fields where the town does their fireworks. So it's incredibly convenient (walk about 50 ft, sit, watch fireworks, walk 50 ft back home) but for the rest of the night there will be stupid teenagers going by my apartment all night long doing their stupid teenager things.<a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/getOffMyLawn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#getOffMyLawn</a>

JordanKids these days will never know the stress of waiting for the TV to "warm up" while hearing the audio of a show you've already missed the first 5 minutes of.<a href="https://defcon.social/tags/getoffmylawn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#getoffmylawn</a> <a href="https://defcon.social/tags/crt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#crt</a>

Jeff<a href="https://mastodon.social/@siracusa" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@siracusa</a> Yikes! I had to stop watching that about halfway thru. I feel bad for the folks making fun of how they're talking.. Kids these days are even more vague with their speak and terminology. I officially feel out of touch and old <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GetOffMyLawn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GetOffMyLawn</a>

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