Ernie Smith

The Onion bought Infowars. Not a drill. Not a drill.

https://theonion.com/heres-why-i-decided-to-buy-infowars/

The fediverse rules and I plan to stay here as long as I can.

But seeing Bluesky carry a similar mission into the mainstream is ABSOLUTELY worth respecting.

https://mas.to/@swelljoe/113467896206066079

I can’t quite replace the Internet Archive, which has been down for many days due to a hack attack, but I can point out that the @tedium archive is full of great posts on the history of tech.

Like this one, originally posted in 2019 and refreshed for your reading pleasure:

https://tedium.co/2024/10/13/gateway-2000-history-outsourcing/

I know a lot of tech-heads are on here, but Bluesky also deserves to have tech-heads. It’s lonely being the only guy talking about Hackintosh and distros on that site.

Let’s start a community over there. I’m here: https://bsky.app/profile/ernie.tedium.co

What did this guy expect would happen? He posted something savaging the platform and people got up in arms about it.

https://mastodon.social/@o_simardcasanova/113053473600003123

“Still, few things last forever, and the market for written tech journalism is not what it once was – nor will it ever be again.”

Well, that’s heartbreaking. I’m glad they got 27 years out of the old horse.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/21542/end-of-the-road-an-anandtech-farewell

Someone made a #udm14 app to add the feature to Safari in iOS. It’s explicitly not affiliated with udm14.com (even though it uses its logo), but let me take the moment to explicitly condone it. More stuff like this, please.

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/udm14-for-safari/id6520379591

The CD had a lot of hidden tricks. The best one was the pregap.

Here’s how they figured out how to hide songs in there:

https://tedium.co/2024/07/06/compact-disc-pregap-history/

The irony is not lost on me that the Internet Archive went out of its way to acquire the physical versions of millions of books and loan them out carefully and in a limited way, and is facing a near-extinction-level event over it, while for-profit and VC-backed companies are just stealing people’s content and making up excuses to validate the bad behavior.

Had a friend soft-pressure me into posting on Threads in earnest

… but I don’t wanna