soni

really excited for maia's series. also, i love its website :3

you can apparently sechedule a windows shutdown up to 10 years prior:

    /t xxx     Set the time-out period before shutdown to xxx seconds.
               The valid range is 0-315360000 (10 years), with a default of 30.
               If the timeout period is greater than 0, the /f parameter is
               implied.

• Libre™️ clones of 90s FPS games (development abandoned ~10 years before boomer shooter revival¹)
• several billion different bespoke config file formats that should have been replaced by XML or something at least 20 years ago
• extremely accurate console emulators that, by the grace of god alone, have not been DMCA'd out of existence by Nintendo and co.
• the stupidest idea you've ever heard in your life, which has somehow also become a pillar of modern computing
• tiny program that fixes this weird problem you've been having on just about every computer you've owned in the past ten years (cannot be built with modern compilers, only prebuilt executables are 32-bit and require libc2 to be installed)
• oh shit there's actually some really good applications here (Firefox, Audacity, LibreOffice, Krita, Telegram, etc.)
• perfectly fine programs rewritten in Rust/Go/${TRENDY_LANG} by extremely annoying narcissists who act like they've just changed the world (they suck at programming and their implementations run like 4x slower than the original)
• xscreensaver! let's fucking go!

1. rip in peace OpenArena, Sauerbraten, Tesseract, OpenQuartz, Red Eclipse, Warsow², AssaultCube, and so on. you will not be forgotten.

2. actually on second thought fuck you Warsow. mwaga, if you're reading this, chug a dick.