Websites that split username and password fields onto two separate pages should be blown up. Extremely.

@clacke Reminds me, one of the biggest "what if" moments of my life is the time where I came in second to take on the systems admin role at the ACMI.

Apparently it came down to me and one other guy, and they went with him because he had slightly more direct experience in video production - but it was a close thing.

Would have been a massive change for me, I might even still be there.

When we're constantly losing pieces of our culture to DRM and proprietary services having their plugs pulled, it's nice to see something like this happening, even once.

https://www.kotaku.com.au/2022/07/acmi-acquisition-untitled-goose-game/

It's somewhat intimidating to buy a nice new thing, then start cutting bloody great holes in it. But once things start fitting into place it's a huge relief.

Remember a while back I found a cute little blue project box? Well one showed up last week and my concept of "let's make something that looks like a 1970s kit computer but with modern-ish innards" is actually coming together now.

Going for bare functionality first, then I'll start hooking up blinky lights and some switches to the Pi GPIO pins when I think of things for them to do.

@ThePingMachine oh yeah there's no way "free excess" translates to anything other than someone getting ripped off somewhere.

@ThePingMachine if they put that much effort into their web site BS, I'm now wondering if the apostrophe selection was a deliberate attempt to get photos of their ad circulated on social media.

This is the gold standard for apostrophe abuse. Utter perfection.

@burgerdrome um, this is not "new". If you do some basic research I think you'll find that Xerox produced a laggy piece of shit that didn't work back in the 1970s.

This goes hand in hand with the moment the other day when I saw my reflection in a window on the way to work and thought "haha I look like someone's dad" and then realised I am, in fact, someone's dad.

I just realised that the reason people keep saying "after you" and deferring to me getting out of the lift etc these days is that I'm older than nearly everyone around here.

Not that there's any time that's super convenient for it, but right now is a really inconvenient time to blow the head gasket, Gunter.

Guess my evening is going to be an interesting one.

I live here now.

@ThePingMachine does that have a really happy ending?

@Truck not directly, but anyone who signs up to the Mastodon instance at https://social.chinwag.org/ gets an XMPP account automatically to match and there's no captcha on that.

@natecull yeah but what could you possibly call it?

@hugh this has got to be 100% down to third parties pushing the "OK, you can look at all my phone contacts" buttons and then them linking email addresses to accounts, right?

@hugh this wouldn't be services, but people you know who have your actual email address and then give the FB app access to their phone contacts when asked - I'm out of the loop but the app definitely used to do this.

It'd be pretty simple to find links then if they look at their own userbase and find your contact info in common between two groups, even if you don't actually have a profile yourself.

No browser trickery needed at all when people hand stuff over.

@dadegroot yeah I saw most of them, except Spectre I think, when they came out from this point on. Kinda like this take.

After this binge though, I kinda want them to go back and do the next few as period pieces set in the 60s now. I think contemporising Bond is just pushing it too hard now without compromising what actually works and is fun.

Making them historic thrillers might be the only interesting option left.

I've now finished Die Another Day, so I'm at the end of the "classic" Bond series, I guess. What a dull finale though, but it sure is a perfect example of an early 21st century action movie, isn't it? So many predicable tropes just wheeled out in sequence.

Into the home stretch with the Daniel Craig run now.