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Welp, if you were wondering when it was time to get the fuck out of GitHub, here's your sign ig 🤷‍♀️

Fixing parents' PC because after 20-odd years of virtually every HDD coming with SMART on board & virtually every BIOS coming SMART-enabled, Microsoft Windows still doesn't have a SMART monitor/notifier built in. That's right, it's time for slow & painful data rescue, racing against imminent hardware failure. :blobcatoh:

silicon valley VCs' best ideas of the 2020s:
-put a drone on something
-wrongness generator 3000 (uses more energy than a small nation)
-fraud
-space pollution
-self-crashing cars
-an app that is actually criminally underpaid workers in another country
-an app that is actually criminally underpaid workers in this country
-fascism
-vrchat but it cost 20x to make and it fucking sucks
-layoffs

You're telling me that we make LIGHTNING go through STONES so we can put DAEMONS in them so they'll perform tasks for us? Computers are actually magic

ENTER NEW PASSWORD: chicken

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⁾

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