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PASSWORD MUST CONTAIN A CAPITAL: chickenkiev

The word "excellent" is derived from the Christian practice of giving up the use of Microsoft Excel for 40 days to commemorate Christ's sacrifice.

It is a period of great productivity.

The date of lent is calculated by using an obscure Excel macro on a field that didn't originally have anything to do with dates, but Excel converted it to one anyway.

just woke up and i've already seen a "releasing games on linux is too hard" take, a "why bother making my website work in firefox" take, and a story about someone filing a CVE that was hallucinated by an LLM.

i'm not really enjoying computers lately

@Lyude @eevee My memory is extremely fuzzy, but I feel like it would've been about the time CVEs went from 4-digit to 5-digit sequence identifiers.

here's a list of the git terms people have mentioned being confused by so far, would love to know which confusing terms I’ve missed! gist.github.com/jvns/dfe5a8a71

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@selectric Earlier in October, I saw a bottle of egg nog with Halloween themed art on it.

Happy 40th anniversary to the announcement of IBM's famous flop, the IBM PCjr! 🎉🎂🎈🍾🥂

#ANSIArt of the #Linux mascot herself, Xenia! And a special guest. All in glorious VGA 16-color text mode with a 9x16 font for 4:3 screens! You can find out more about her here: xenia-linux-site.glitch.me/ #FurryArt

Let's get this November started!

🎉 ⁽ᴴᵉʳᵉ'ˢ ᵗᵒ ᵃⁿᵒᵗʰᵉʳ ʸᵉᵃʳ ᵒⁿ ᴹᵃˢᵗᵒᵈᵒⁿ⁾

"mom, how are computer programs made"

"you see, when two silly catgirls like each other very much-"

I just realized what a powerful influence Star Trek: TOS had on me. Thanks to CBS's tacky '00s CGI effects replacing Desilu's cheesy '60s model/rotoscope effects, I've developed an unhealthy distrust of absolutely everything appreciated in its original run and now available only in remastered editions.

Commission for 8 Xenia emotes. The commissioner paid extra to have them CC0, which means they're free for anyone to use. Have fun~
archive.org/details/xenia_2023

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