And for the 90s: Information Superhighway.

That’s, like, halfway down the list of things to try!

https://github.com/hakluke/how-to-exit-vim

Cat-Lassie will save us.

Are you sure that you’re remembering this right?

I find it hard to believe that the newspaper didn’t come up with a headline based on calling her “Cinders”.

Making it the one-and-a-half state area?

The Register kind-of models itself after a tabloid style so has deliberately jokey headlines. It’s been around a long time (I read it in the 90s) and seems to have quality underneath the humor.

Possibly the only remaining place where you can read the word “boffins” regularly.

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No it’s not. It’s more of a spongy consistency compared to a the dry, breadiness of an English muffin.

My pixel 7 has adaptive charging. If there’s an alarm set and I charge it at night, it paces the charging to be full near the time I’m getting up.

So it’s doing what it can to preserve battery health.

Alternate option, set up a premium number and profit!

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-23869462

If you’re visiting from another country, try giving them a number from there (real or fake). What are the odds that their system can cope with international codes?

a fisheye lens-style view of a plane making an air trail.

The trail emerging from the tail of the plane, as if it was a rocket.

A few days ago I almost tried to pause my ebook reader before putting it down.

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Someone once told me “meat is murder, but fish is justifiable homicide”. I hope that helps.

Chicks, not checks, btw.

It seemed that way, it asked me to scan a QR code on my phone to link it, which didn’t happen before.

Or maybe the option to use my phone was some older auth method, where I’d use the fingerprint reader on the phone to confirm a login on the laptop. I thought that was a passkey, but that doesn’t fit with what I’m reading about what it does now.

The Register is deliberately tabloid-like in style (right up to the “red top” site banner), but is good quality (at least when I read it).

They won’t write an article about science without using the word “boffins” either. It’s just their thing.

I think that passkeys are simple, but no-one explains what they do and don’t do in specific terms.

Someone compared it to generating private/public key pairs on each device you set up, which helps me a bit, but I recently set up a passkey on a new laptop when offered and it seemed to replace the option to use my phone as a passkey for the same site (which had worked), and was asking me to scan a QR code with my phone to set it up again.

So I don’t know what went on behind the scenes there at all.

Back at school in the UK, in the 70s, I read a book about traditions from around the world. It included a description of trick-or-treating as part of the “what people do in other countries” theme. We would put candles in turnips in that era.

In the 90s I had some kids at the door in costume but who got confused and said “penny for the guy”. Or maybe it was the other way around (they had a guy but said trick or treat).