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Strange New Words (Adam) @strange-new-words.tenforward.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026

My mom's 2018 x86 Macbook Air has reached planned obsolescence, she doesn't want to replace it, and her very basic needs don't require more powerful hardware. She basically uses Firefox, Zoom, Word and PowerPoint. So I'm experimenting to see if I can make […] [Original post on tenforward.social]

A screenshot of Debian 13.5 with a KDE Plasma desktop theme that imitates MacOS. The only change I made was moving the close/minimize/maximize buttons to the left side.

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Strange New Words (Adam) @strange-new-words.tenforward.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/05/2026

I'm such a nerd that tonight I made a command-line program for those moments where I'm like "which episode did Spock say..." #StarTrek

A bash shell. I've typed a command and the program is displaying all the time Spock says "Live long and prosper."

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Strange New Words (Adam) @strange-new-words.tenforward.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/04/2026

Ce vendredi je lis une petite biographie de Proust écrit par Edmund White. C'est un petit tome mignon d'à peu près 150 pages, probablement je le terminerai ce soir. #VendrediLecture

La couverture de "Marcel Proust" par Edmund White, un petit tome rouge avec une photo circulaire de Proust au centre.

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Strange New Words (Adam) @strange-new-words.tenforward.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/03/2026

I'm watching Star Trek: First Contact and it's really jumping out at me that they forgot to do make-up on the hands of this Borg extra. #NitpickersGuide #StarTrek

Scene from Star Trek: First Contact. A Borgified Starfleet crew member is grafting skin on Data's arm. While his face is gray, his hands are regular skin color.

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Strange New Words (Adam) @strange-new-words.tenforward.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/03/2026

I see the #Firefox "block AI" setting has arrived. It's clearly labeled and easy to find in Settings. It would be even better if #AI were deactivated by default, but I give #Mozilla credit for listening to the criticism. It's still a million percent better than Google Chrome.

Block AI Enhancements toggle in Firefox settings

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Strange New Words (Adam) @strange-new-words.tenforward.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/02/2026

Any comment on this six-fingered hand in SFA comic book, @virtualbri ? I know it's not your department but the rumor mill's really spinning. It'd be nice to get a denial and the name of the human artist soon.... #StarTrek #StarTrekStarfleetAcademy

Screencap of the comic from Starfleet Academy "Come, Let's Away," showing a Starfleet officer with a six-fingered hand. The comic is widely suspected of being AI generated.

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Strange New Words (Adam) @strange-new-words.tenforward.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/01/2026

Today I learned that this 1837 photo by Louis Daguerre is actually a photo of a busy street. But because the exposure time is so long, everything that is moving disappears and only what is still can be seen. This is unspeakably beautiful. #photography

"Boulevard de Temple," a daguerreotype photograph taken by Louis Daguerre in 1837, appears to show a totally empty street in Paris. The only person who appears is a man on the corner who has stopped to have his shoe shined.

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Strange New Words (Adam) @strange-new-words.tenforward.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/12/2025

I honestly don't know what bothers me more: that Microsoft uses the Windows 11 lock screen to advertise AI, or that it doesn't bother to align the advertisement properly. #Microsoft #Windows #Windows11 #AI

The Windows 11 lock screen with a red line down the center. On the upper part of the screen, the time and date are center aligned. On the bottom part, an add for AI is *slightly* off center to the left.

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