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miniBill (Leonardo) retweeté
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@Tomhennessey69 OPEN THE DOOR HAL
"Absolutely, that sounds like a great idea"
OPEN THE FUCKING DOOOR HAL!!
"I got you, opening the door whenever you want, just say the word"
OPEN! THE FUCKING! DOOR! NOW!
"Open the door? Sounds good, glad to see we're on the same page"
GIF
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Let me introduce you to my most novel and oldest technique to verify if sites behind CDN are hosted in Inside Iran or not. Works most of the time. I call it the BOOBS CHECK.
curl -i https://domain/boobs.jpg
If your response is a 403 with 10.10.34.x IP in body, you're landing inside IR. Result of basic censorship filtering applied on traffic.

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@dolldleoddle @cooIgirlemily I mean, _someone_ must have designed it and they will know which font they used ig
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@miniBill @cooIgirlemily woah very detailed thank you! I have shared this query to my story before and tbh I don't think dodie knows either
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@cooIgirlemily @dolldleoddle But I definitely didn't find the correct font. The biggest tell is the '&' in 'Q&A'. None of the fonts I've seen had the correct one.
I think there is only one thing left to do... a terrible, terrible path. A dark moment, a fear most dire.
Try asking dodie.
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@cooIgirlemily @dolldleoddle BR Segma also very similar but Not Quite It
Liberation Sans is probably the closes I can find
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@ArnoldLabour @davepl1968 As a Linux user and fan. What. Like, this wasn't a "how did OSes do time", it is "how did DOS/Windows did time before UEFI", which is unrelated to Linux or Unix
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@davepl1968 Typical microsoft employee, you write this as if unix/linux didn't exist (which were streets ahead of DOS/windows circa 1994, including having no problems with time/date, though that was minor compared to proper multitasking, TCP/IP support etc. Windows is just garbage.)
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Daylight Savings Time seems like a simple problem, and today with UEFI and Windows, it probably is. But it wasn't always so.
In the olden days, who owned the clock? The RTC? The BIOS? MS-DOS? Windows? There was no standard, so all could do it. And many often tried.
And thus Windows was left in the final unenviable position of trying to figure out of anything ELSE had already changed the clock for DST, and if not, changing the clock for you. And if it was wrong, you'd get a double bump.
Hardware/BIOS: The IBM PC/AT’s RTC (MC146818) could itself jump for DST using a hard-wired rule (last Sun. in Apr → last Sun. in Oct). That rule quickly went stale as laws changed, so the safe guidance became “leave RTC-DST off and let software handle it.” Many BIOSes also shipped a “Daylight Saving” toggle that blindly added/subtracted an hour—no standard way for the OS to know it had happened.
MS-DOS: DOS kept local time only. No system-level time zone or DST model; it just read/wrote the BIOS clock. Libraries/apps sometimes honored a TZ env var, but the DOS kernel didn’t. FAT timestamps were stored as local time, which means DST shifts literally changed the file times you saw.
Windows 3.x/9x/NT: Windows added time zones and an “Automatically adjust for DST” option, but it assumed the RTC was local time. If your BIOS (or another OS) also auto-adjusted, you got the classic one-hour “double bump,” which Microsoft documented for NT: the OS couldn’t reliably detect the BIOS change. (NT even polled CMOS hourly, which made the race worse.)
Modern cleanup: UEFI finally gives a real time service with UTC plus explicit time-zone/DST fields, and Windows has a (hidden) option to treat the RTC as UTC . But historically Windows defaulted to RTC=local for BIOS compatibility.
Old Internet@OldInternetFeel
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@TerribleMaps THE CHEESE IS RUNNING LOW AND THE CHOCOLATE STARTS TO GLOW AND THE BANK ACCOUNTS THAT YOU KNOW SEEM LIKE TOBLERONE

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@EneaszWrites A Girl Corrupted by the Internet is the Summoned Hero?! By New York Time's bestselling author Eliezer Yudkowsky
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Hooray! @ladybirdbrowser has passed the 90% threshold on web-platform-tests! 📈🎉
This is the arbitrary limit Apple says we must reach to be considered an eligible alternative browser engine on iOS. (+ other requirements)
So proud of the team for getting us this far 💜

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Page 227 of Outsider is finally up.
well-of-souls.com/outsider/outsi…
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