Frances Larina
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Joined 1 years ago
Parent, spouse, IT & nature geek.
Trans crone; She/Her, please.
Important stuff:
TransEquality / ProtectTransKids,
AutisticPride, Neurodiversity, EDS
BLM, Resist, ACAB, Pro-Abortion
Proud AntiFascist
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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."