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• Post #4070722

  code hosting, but for assholes. Next product from CloudFlare. calling it now

• Post #3999472

  Very thoughtful of Linus to single-handedly usher in the Year of BSD on the Desktop

• Post #3794639

  I am irked whenever I see people defending their Tesla ownership by saying they bought it before Elon Musk started being a dipshit. I'm like, really? You drive a 1996 Tesla??

• Post #3590718

  Tom Holland just cannot stop blurting out spoilers. The man has no self control.

• Post #3304447

  "Mozilla built an AI kill switch into Firefox after its users demanded one. Only 1% have used it. Another 3% turned off some AI features selectively. The rest left everything on." Poppycock. The people who turned off all the AI had already turned off the telemetry that measures this.

• Post #2366891

  I just realized that Simone Giertz is a live-action Gadget Hackwrench from Rescue Rangers.

• Post #2236105

  With everyone freaking out about how Microsoft is now saying the quiet part out loud re: GitHub being a repository that exists mainly so they can train Copilot on its contents, I think it's important to mention that Microsoft also owns NPM.

• Post #2196629

  This excellent chronicle of brawls, fisticuffs, gunfights, bridge collapses and business failures in the life of Colonel Sanders contains one of the greatest series of parentheticals I've ever seen: "This was the “Hell’s Half-Acre” where Sanders later engaged in advertising-related gunplay with Matt Stewart (who, by the way, was sentenced to 18 years for the murder of Shell manager Robert Gibson (though, incidentally, Stewart died just two years into his sentence at the hands of a depu...

• Post #2145416

  New unhelpful alt text just dropped: "Image from Microsoft SwiftKey Keyboard"

• Post #2005164

  Visual Studio Code suffering from Electron's "you can't paste anything into an Electron app anymore" issue is literally acting out a joke scenario I once invented about the tech industry collapsing because no developers can paste the stuff they copy from Stack Overflow anymore. 🍿

• Post #1918338

  I keep seeing people describing the Banksy statue as "a man whose flag is obscuring his face," apparently not realizing that the politician-coded statue-man is about to blindly step off his plinth and tumble into the void below. (I altered the focus on this photo to make it more obvious.)

• Post #1900753

  Being goth for the aesthetic instead of the ethos is stolen pallor

• Post #1780403

  The new editing functionality in Android Messages is interesting. I wondered what happens if you edit a message to contain nothing. The answer is it won't let you save the edit if it contains nothing. So then I tried editing it to just a space, but that didn't work either. Then I went down a list of various Unicode spaces. None worked Except for one. When you edit a message to contain just that Unicode space, the message just plain disappears. However, if you use the new "delete...

• Post #1765932

  "Could the moon ever be blockaded? Experts predict cislunar space could be the next Strait of Hormuz "Just as the Strait of Hormuz is a narrow waterway, cislunar space, though seemingly large, actually contains a few unique and exclusive points of transit through which all lunar travel must pass," said Feldman. "Like the Strait of Hormuz, cislunar space is a critical, strategic passage, Taylor and Feldman explained. "If it falls into the wrong hands, all of NASA's...

• Post #1733229

  I recently saw a single panel comic of George Jetson vacuuming the house while Rosie the robot stands at an easel working on a painting, but I can't locate it now. Do you know the one I mean?

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• Post #1293777

  I'm curious how replacing custom emoji works. I suspect it relies on some kind of cache timeout or something, but maybe there's an activitypub event to update or something? is this bing logo black or white? :bing:

• Post #1144202

  I saw something the other day about how the new HBO Harry Potter show hasn't yet cast a Voldemort, but is considering both men and women for the part. I think maybe Jo Rowling might make a pretty excellent Voldemort... if they can get her to tone down the evil a little.

• Post #1008426

  NYT reviewer lets AI write his review of a book that an AI wrote, readers use AI to summarize his review and then also to summarize the book.

• Post #979269

  "China can track everything American TikTok users do, so it's very important that America takes control of it. So America can track everything everyone does, everywhere on the internet."

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• Post #712529

  People have been bitching about distros using systemd for 16 years. 12 hours after the schema supported storing a user's birthdate and people are apparently demanding distros rip it out. Uh, can we get Wayland to store birthdays now? Ooh, or maybe just check in a Claude.md?

• Post #649556

  Leadsbestos