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It’s known that Vauxhall produces vehicles for the UK that are branded as Opel on the continent. Vauxhalls are essentially Opels with the steering wheel on the right

But what is even more hilarious is that Opel and Vauxhall use the same adverts… But mirrored. Like they are the exact same videos, but the video is flipped for the UK

The best example to show you is the advert for the latest Astra model

https://youtu.be/ht36CeDLxmI - Vauxhall

https://youtu.be/D0arupTbe6E - Opel

did you know that SSH has a little-known secret menu?

i wrote a post about this on cohost a while back, but since that site shut down i'm posting it here too

The best part of having a doctorate is any time someone asks me to do something I don’t want to do, I write “absolutely not” on a post it and say sorry can’t I have a doctor’s note

RE: infosec.exchange/@catsalad/116

normalize making custom licenses, they make corporate lawyers nervous

there's seemingly a funny side effect for this one btw:

> 2. No part of a work under this license may be used or reproduced in any manner by organizations or businesses with more than fifty (50) employees.
> The Filthy Human Hands License is licensed under the Filthy Human Hands License.

so any org with >50 employees can't even copy the license without immediately needing fair use exceptions or equivalent

#licensing

@catsalad I know these were super serious UNIX business magazines back in 1985, but today they would literally be the cover of some punk zine.

#UNIX

They should re-create this steel-bound UNIX reference manual.

#UNIX

Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.

#UNIX

(lang/ghc is a dependency of devel/hs-ShellCheck, and virtually every line scrolling by while GHC is compiling starts, "Run Ghc".)

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Nobody on LinkedIn has ever had a bad day. Every setback is a "growth opportunity." Every firing is a "new chapter." Every complete professional disaster is framed as "excited to announce." These people would describe the Titanic as "a bold pivot to submarine operations."

The best advice I have for new nerds: Refuse to pay rent.

Don't subscribe. Don't lease. Don't use their cloud. Don't slip down the freemium slope. Don't create accounts on their services.

Buy it once. Run it local. Avoid commercial software.

It'll be a huge pain and you'll be an outsider but it'll be endless, interesting, and hard fun that'll pay you back with a curious mind and an understanding of the fabric of our intellectual infrastructure that will make you light-years more capable, useful, and healthy than the "AI" zombies.

Someone said something about ingesting libc and this is what popped into my head

Covid and AI 

I recognize your right to get infected and suffer. Knock yourself out. Permanently, if you feel like doing us that favor.

But you have no right to infect others. Yet here you are, trying to poison us as you've poisoned yourselves, and you dare to wonder why we're so desperately resisting you, fighting you, and cutting you out of our lives one way or another.

Operating systems, Web browsers, and websites are giving some of my customers weather forecasts for cities or states in which they don't live by default, implying that they somehow aren't where they really are.

Not a little bit trans, not just trans, not very trans, but actually, legitimately, GIGATRANS

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