tommy879

FURRFU, YBIR PELCGB?

[tommy879 @tommy879]

No, sir. We call it "Mr. #Covfefe". Care for some?

[3PickupMusicMan @3PickupMusicMan]

Some dads play catch with their kids, others trade licks.

[Christopher Lauer™ @Schmidtlepp]

@quin69 Während seines Twitter-Spaces mit Alice Weidel war der Charakter online und spielte. Also hat Musk entweder gezockt, während er mit Weidel sprach, oder naja, er bezahlt jemanden dafür, einen Charakter zu leveln, von dem er dann behauptet, es wäre seiner und er hätte ihn gelevelt.

[Mel Aura @mel__aura]

🤣

[Johanna Sprondel @jsprondel]

Gold!

[SalchoBob @SalchoBob]

Who of you is the thief? @Delta who charged me for already paid baggages? Or @KLM who declined a refund of the unused baggage voucher?
However, next time @united
Never had such trouble with them...

[tommy879 @tommy879]

@sjuerges awww maaan! ╥_╥
hugs goin' out!

[WWF Deutschland @WWF_Deutschland]

Für den guten Start ins Wochenende nochmal unsere Nachricht der Woche 🫶

Bayerisches Gericht bestätigt: #Fischotter dürfen nicht abgeschossen werden. Auch nicht in #Bayern. Und auch nicht, wenn sie Karpfenteiche plündern.

Mehr dazu: https://t.co/Et31JATHAH #Otter

[Dave W Plummer @davepl1968]

This is the Corvette that Windows zip folders bought.

Back in '93 or so, I was working at Microsoft on COM, and at home for fun I started writing a shell extension to browse zip folders in the new Win95 user interface, making them appear as if they were just folders. That grew into a shareware product call VisualZIP.

Then one day just before heading into work, I got a call from a lady at Microsoft. She wanted to know if I was the Dave Plummer who wrote VisualZIP, and long story short, they wanted to buy it, and could I come in to talk about it at some point?

I said "Sure, what's your office number, I'll stop by!" and it kinda freaked her out.

She said "No, no, we'd have to coordinate with travel and legal..." but I was confused as to why I'd need to book travel to talk to someone where I already worked!

And THEN I figured it out. She didn't know that I already worked for Microsoft, and I didn't know that she didn't know. So that was a bit awkward. But we worked it out.

In the end, my choices were pretty limited - either quit my day job and compete with Microsoft, or do what I wound up doing instead: cheerfully accepting their first, best, and only offer. So that's what I did!

I accpepted their offer, paid the taxes on it, and bought a lightly used red 1994 Corvette LT1. There wasn't much left over. So next time you open a zip file on Windows, think of my car :-)

If you've ever wondered why the zip support is so slow today, there are two main reasons: first, being 25+ year old code, it's single threaded. It doesn't matter how many CPU cores you have, it only uses one.

Second, because of the way the shell used to work, you couldn't just hand it the contents of a file, you had to give it a local file path as the source. So the code first extracts the file to a temporary location, hands that location to the shell, and the shell copies the file. In other words, there's an extra temp copy operation involved in every operation.

That *could* be fixed, but I imagine the sense is that anyone who's hardcore about their zip performance or feature set will likely be using 7-Zip or WinRAR, etc. I don't see them improving it any time soon, but they have added more compression formats like RAR to the mix, so you never know.

If you enjoy these random nostalgic looks back, follow me for more! And heck, if you made it this far, you might as well share it too :-)

[YorkshiremanDan 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @YorkshiremanDan]

Android and iOS were so dull compared to Windows Phone and budget hardware ran better with it than today's phones.

[tommy879 @tommy879]

@GabrielBerlin weil ich grad' Mails gelesen habe: Ich hätte mich ja mit "Brauseschlauch" mehr abgeholt gefühlt #Verkrempelung

[Matt Johansen @mattjay]

The Okta hack that keeps on giving!

Cloudflare announced a new data breach today in it's continued battle against creds stolen during a previous Okta hack

Let's dig in:

[Namgest @namgest]

Best of both 💾💿⌨️🕹️🎮

[Ko.dll @ko_dll]

Various palette limitations through time.
#pixelart #pixelartist #indiedeveloper #solo_dev

[tommy879 @tommy879]

Passend zum #Bahnstreik heute im @Katapultmagazin Kalender

[Intrigue Archive @IntrigueArchive]

@The_CasualGam3r Fun fact the creator, Jordan Mechner, filmed his younger brother performing various moves, and then used those videos to trace and create the animations.

Some footage of his brother and in-game character.

[tommy879 @tommy879]

Otter auf der Abschussliste - was kommt als Nächstes in Bayern?!🥺
https://t.co/kmLqSKuPO5 via @ChangeGER

[tommy879 @tommy879]

Tag 3 in #Budapest

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Tag 2 in #Budapest

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Tag 1 in #Budapest