okay this is pissing me off
SNCF Gares & Connexions luggage tags are visually similar but completely different from the Voyageurs ones, from the total length, through the cutout placement, all the way down to the shape of the cutout

why

I love the phrase "bear with me" because it either means "be patient" or "the zoo heist was a success."

#FreudianTypoOfTheWeek

Prerequisitive (adj.): Curious about the requirements.

I'm looking at the Windows Update panel:

> "Windows Update is committed to helping reduce carbon emissions."

Are those reduced carbon emissions in the room with us?

It’s just a JMP to the [EAX]
And then a shift to the right
Put your faith in the chips
LET’S DO THE SPECULATIVE EXECUTION AGAINNNNNN!

(h/t to @todb )

#shitpost #programming

Can AI increase your output? Sure, but so can a laxative.

each time you refresh the pakige tracking page they give the truck a bit of nitro boost so refresh more == arrive faster. this is true information. i would never lie to you.

When you download software from The Pirate Bay, you’ve accepted an End-User License Disagreement.

Perhaps it's time to tap the chart again. Left-handed people were once seen as sinister (the word sinister, from Latin, originally meant "left" or "on the left side") so kids were forced to be right-handed. However, with advances in science it became clear that brains were hard-wired for handedness, and society began to accept it as normal. The number of left-handers rose dramatically, but plateaued at 12% in the 60s and has stayed steady since.

This is a post about trans and non-binary people.

Yes, there’s another phishing campaign contacting fediverse users to fill out a form to avoid being suspended or whatever. Stay calm and just report them and be sure to check the option to inform their home instance so the account gets suspended for everyone.

Also, please consider enabling moderated signups if you don’t already have them. I get it - signups dropped by >90% when I did it, but there’s very little capability for dealing with bad actors proactively once they have an account. I know it’s not a foolproof way to keep the scammers out, but it is an improvement.

This XKCD comic is rather pertinent for the current zeitgeist I feel.

https://xkcd.com/1521/

Remember when you were a kid and you learned about Superman and thought it was totally ridiculous that Krypton was going to be destroyed but nobody did anything about it? I miss feeling that way.

#USB keyboards can't interrupt the CPU themselves, but the USB controller continuously polls them and will interrupt it on their behalf. Loudly.

#keyboard #shitpost

A code generation tool that gets you 80-90% of the way there is like a boat that gets you 80-90% of the way.

You'll need to be a strong swimmer.

anyway given pepole's insistence on making unusable alt text just to be "boostable" because they know no alt text gives them less engagement, consider checking if the alt text is actually useful before boosting.

Our autistic ass thanks you, but moreover, people using screenreaders thank you. Lets keep the fediverse usable for them yeah?

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a little light Classical Chinese translation before bed because that’s what I’m like:

Zengzi’s wife was going to the market when their son ran after her, crying. She said “Go home! When I get back, we’ll slaughter a pig.” When she came home, Zengzi went out to catch a pig. His wife stopped him, saying, “I was just joking with the boy!”

Zengzi told her “you can’t joke with children like that. They have no wisdom, only the guidance of their parents. If you deceive him now, what he will learn is deception. If a mother deceives her child, the child no longer trusts their mother, and nothing more can be taught.” Then they had bacon.

(source: the Han Feizi) #translation