I asked my good friend @david_chisnall if there is a commonly known slang to describe a massive propagated error. He replied with one word - and nailed it:

“Windows”.

To be honest, “x86” would also be a good answer. However, a more accurate way to describe x86 is as a “pile of horrible, independent ideas forming a huge, unmaintainable mess”.

- Do you play any musical instruments?
- I play the Unicode.
- Huh? The Unicode? What's that?
- It's a kind of string instrument.

@TyrionTargaryen @mookie @briankrebs for anyone who hasn't seen this masterpiece yet:

"But Ryan, the C preprocessor isn't a programming language!"

Skill issue.

fedi is a scam made by big girls () to make more girls

Come join the fediverse! We got

• tech bro
• fossbro
• transfems, lots of transfems
• one of them is trying to port fedi software to a game console you haven’t heard about in 20 years
• the shitposter
• new creatures not yet recognized by the science committee
• incomprehensible horrors of federation
• insanely large emojis

The plural of regex is regrets 😂

If you tell your friends about Mastodon, you’re technically an ambassador of the federation.

I remember in the mid ‘90s, Bill Gates said something like ‘if the car industry had improved at the same rate as the computer industry, cars would go at a thousand miles per hour and get thousands of miles per gallon’ and someone at a car manufacturer replied that their customers are quite glad that the cars don’t crash several times a day.

I am starting to wonder if Tesla is an elaborate piece of performance art in support of this joke.

int. Kremlin
agent 1 (sets down bong): what if
agent 2: (giggling)
agent 1: what if we get trump to buy, like...
agent 2: (stifling laughter, holding back tears)
agent 1: ...fucking greenland
agent 2: (fully crying)
agent 1 (opens gmail): who's the dumbest senator

https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/01/13/danish-intelligence-russia-forged-letter-to-spark-trumps-greenland-purchase-bid/

My mom accidentally referred to cryptocurrency as “kleptocurrency” this morning and I think I’m going to call it that from now on! 🤑

Time to cause DOGE some pain!

Rep. Jamie Raskin has announced a campaign encouraging Americans to FOIA their personal data held by DOGE.

Recent court rulings mandate DOGE must comply.

PDF form letter: https://archive.ph/JYXXA

My Typst template: https://tangled.sh/did:plc:hgyzg2hn6zxpqokmp5c2xrdo/47-watch/blob/batman/supplementary-files/raskin-doge-privacy-request.typ

Consider this code. One thread repeatedly prints the number 100 in decimal to std::cout. Another thread repeatedly prints the number 0x100 in hex (which will output as '100') to std::cout.

You might reasonably expect that the output will simply be '100' over and over and over.

Unfortunately, the calls to operator<< can get interleaved so you end up with crosstalk of the format specifiers:

Imagine you're a #Gentoo packager, and you're about to bump a #Python package. Which of the release summaries sounds the most ominous to you?

#packaging #FreeSoftware #FediPoll

Remember: when you run #curl shipped by Apple with the --cacert flag it won't behave like #curl does everywhere else. As I wrote about last year. I think they're doing it wrong. They think its fine.

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/03/08/the-apple-curl-security-incident-12604/