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.

"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.

Program goes to Operating System, tears in eyes, says "my state, it is very bad"

Operating System says "is no problem, have good error reporting facility, detailed but concise report, contextual information included. you will submit bug there"

Program sobs loudly "but Operating System, I *am* error reporting facility"

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! 🤑

Update the HTML and CSS spec to use the correct spelling of "colour”, you cowards.

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

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/

trying to hide malware by changing the file extension

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