fixing geocities animated gifs
I've been using internet since the mid-1990s, so of course I remember Geocities and even had a page there once (which I think was under the "TelevisionCity" category). A very common thing was to use animated GIF images.
Were those images saved somewhere? Yes. Internet Archive has GifCities, which has hundreds of thousands if not millions of those GIFs, all searchable, and in original form...
...and that's the problem.
Many of those old crusty GIFs never had a frame rate set, and I know exactly why.
i live in a world where chicken tenders and fries are 18 bucks
While I totally understand inflation is real and there's no such thing as eating out cheap anymore, the prices of some things legitimately disgust me.
So I'm looking around the online map and thought hey, chicken. I could go for that. With me being me, I see three chicken places that might look good and read the menu for each to see what they offer and what the prices are.
Side note on that: If the restaurant doesn't show a menu WITH prices right up front when I go to look them up online, I don't go there.
I look at the menus, and see the prices.
This is when the disgust happened.
the oldest usable garmins
As time goes on and more people realize that navigation on a phone is complete garbage, they're turning to Garmins. I own a bunch of them. Got the newer stuff with the 53, 66 and 76 (yes, I do own all three), older stuff that goes as far back as two decades ago, and many models in between that.
Over the years, I've seen things happen with all the screens I have as they age. Some are definitely better than others.
But before I get into that, I'll answer this question: What is the oldest usable Garmin?
it's now dangerous to edit text in windows
It is legitimately dangerous to edit plain text in Windows now. Yes, you could be forgiven for thinking I'm completely making that up, but unfortunately I'm not.
Microsoft incredibly found a way to break Notepad so bad that one of the very recent 'updates' for it resulted in the software having a remote code execution vulnerability. That is INSANE.
I could understand (but not condone) if this happened with a web browser. But a text editor, and frickin' NOTEPAD of all things? Really? Yeah, really.
You might think okay, just use Notepad++ and then and all is well, right?
Wrong.
the spam solution i can't use
I decided to regex everything to keep my email inbox clear of spam, but I have looked into other options.
There is one and only one way that is absolutely guaranteed way to stop all spam, and it's on-the-fly email aliasing.
What this basically means is that everybody, be it a person or business, gets a separate alias address to email you with. With on-the-fly aliasing, you can create an alias whenever you want and immediately start using it. Also, if any alias starts getting spammed, you can delete the alias, make up another one, and that spam problem is solved instantly.
But there are three huge problems with this, even though it absolutely does work to stop spam.
