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My favorite joke to tell people who are debugging JavaScript code: "Which this is this this?"

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I love how Windows 8 and 8.1 are both historical footnotes so quickly and easily forgotten that even Microsoft itself pretends they never happened.

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:konsti: :villain_heart: Portable doggie 🔜 NFC, FE

honest to god itd be funny as shit if we abandoned win10 and 11 en masse and just went back to win7 as an F U to ms lmao

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:konsti: :villain_heart: Portable doggie 🔜 NFC, FE

you should upgrade to windows 7

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trickykat

if you can't sleep it's prolly cos you missed one of the sheep in the dream captcha

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bebatjof 🇵🇸

Algorithms were invented in 825 AD by scientist Mohammed Algorithm

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It's Friday

do not forget that today is friday

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tiddy roOoOsevelt 👻🎃

Shadow boxing time!

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Danny Palmer

Thinking of this classic* @smbccomics during Cybersecurity Awareness Month

*From 2012 (!?)

smbc-comics.com/?id=2526

#cybersecurity

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CatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :blobcatrainbow:

What's the big deal? A tie is just a business attire choker anyway.... >_>

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Taggart

Cloudflare is a parasitic vine that has coopted the nutrient flow of its host tree, the internet.

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(It's operator precedence that simple calculators are designed to ignore, which is why they answer my example with 35, while advanced calculators and machine-free math both answer with 23.)

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Related, if you did never learn math because calculators exist, then you don't know that your simple calculator lies to you with problems like "3 + 4 x 5", let alone how or why.

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Newsroom (NZ), "When students' brains go quiet": newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/02/when

The lede is spot-on: "Students starting to learn with AI is the difference between using a calculator after understanding math versus never learning math because calculators exist"

Even with a bias in favor of (the LLMs pretending to be) AI being effective tools when in expertly knowledgeable hands, the conclusion of it being harmful in general is inescapable.

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1.3.6.1.4.1.61513

hi, security team, I keep getting fishing emails.

security team: you mean phishing?

no. fishing. I'm pretty certain.

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I love clicking on one button, then the page scrolling on its own with an update, and then the page deciding that I actually clicked on an entirely different button.

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@maddy You're welcome, and best of luck!

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@maddy At that point, I'd see if the Windows Update Troubleshooter could nuke the update cache as a troubleshooting step, then find out how to do it myself if it won't or can't.

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A known activist

i thibk I'd be a really good inkjet printer. I have years of experience in making mysterious sounds and complaining while achieving nothing at all

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