Post #3682819
2026-07-08 22:41 UTC
Replies (11)
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@Megawatt@infosec.exchange 2026-07-09 00:44
@fribbledom@mastodon.social QEMM
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@lord@pleroma.lord.re 2026-07-08 22:49
@fribbledom@mastodon.social Me and my 1320 partners are asking your permission to put a cookie in your browser to grant you the privilege to display 5KB of our precious ai generated content on our 85MB web page.
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@dbrgn@chaos.social 2026-07-08 23:09
@fribbledom@mastodon.social that's what a SOCKS proxy is made for... I think.
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@12thRITS@mstdn.social 2026-07-09 00:07
@fribbledom@mastodon.social
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@trainguyrom@techhub.social 2026-07-09 00:15
@fribbledom@mastodon.social the best part is all of this tracking results in useless data that fails to actually target any better than just guessing demographics that would enjoy the given content that the ads gets loaded around (y'know how ads were targeted back in the broadcast TV/Radio days)
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@cchisholm@infosec.exchange 2026-07-09 18:35
@fribbledom@mastodon.social Oh god, this is me.
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@arem@mstdn.ca 2026-07-09 21:44
@fribbledom@mastodon.social It felt easy most of the time. If a program needed 640K, I could skip most of the startup. For protected mode, I could skip everything, just load the mouse driver, and it ran well. It became harder with later computers, simply because the Bios was starting to become larger, but by then Dos was starting to be replaced.
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@FritzAdalis@infosec.exchange 2026-07-10 01:59
@fribbledom@mastodon.social @kevin@mastodon.km6g.us These kids today don't know what it's like getting 639k free base memory so your badly coded bbs will load.
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@fribbledom@mastodon.social 2026-07-09 18:38
I've written about programming languages, compilers, open source, distributed systems... The Fediverse's response: "Tell us more about CONFIG.SYS and sock surveillance!" Love it! 🤣
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@anthropy@mastodon.derg.nz 2026-07-17 22:45
@fribbledom@mastodon.social https://mastodon.derg.nz/@anthropy/116936850826928017 this seems like the perfectly appropriate place to mention you can emulate that whole 640kb 8086 machine in CSS now
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@fribbledom@mastodon.social 2026-07-17 19:33
The funniest thing about that post is that nobody even questioned the 2 GB browser tab. Somewhere along the way we all just accepted that as perfectly normal.