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Frances_Larina Frances Larina @sfba.social

Parent, spouse, IT & nature geek. Trans crone; She/Her, please. Important stuff: TransEquality / ProtectTransKids, AutisticPride, Neurodiversity, EDS BLM, Resist, ACAB, Pro-Abortion Proud AntiFascist, Capitalism is killing us all.

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Graphic city of Ottawa jaywalking ad part of a 'behaviour change campaign' on city roads, staff say

  • @Rodeo @BedSharkPal

    That may be somewhat biased if most people don't jaywalk and instead concentrate at intersections. California just made jaywalking legal, so we'll find out in a few years I suppose.

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    How do you guys remember the early days of the internet? What do you miss about it?

  • @Provider

    USENET

    Specifically, alt.hacks, which concerned ways to simplify computing (as it was called) tasks - or everyday life tasks, too.

    Especially the ob-hack.

    There was a rule that to stay on topic, every post had to have a hack of some sort. An obligatory hack, or "ob-hack". So a fun sort of footnote to postings quickly evolved, as follows:

    "...and that's how a bill becomes a law, and why so much of the Internet has already been privatized.

    ob-hack: connect the turbo case button to the enable/disable pins on an option card to reclaim the IRQ or interrupt."