SCSI - System Can't See It
SAS - Support Always Subpar
SATA - Stuck At Trying Access
SSD - Storage Suddenly Disappears

so i reverse-engineered the code that draws InstallShield's famous background gradient and text and reimplemented gist.github.com/whitequark/203

Two things:

1: TIL that this hugely annoying thing that’s bugging me since childhood has a name.

2: that disclaimer before the article 😂

type of programmer who, when their C code does an out-of-bound read then crashes, moves their hands up & down and says "SIGSEGV-en"

Flock, AI vs. AI 

The shot:

Gadget Review, 2026-08-04, "Someone Cut Down Every Single Flock Camera in This Town in a Single Night": gadgetreview.com/someone-cut-d

The chaser:

Futurism, 2026-08-05, "Google’s AI Is Telling Users That Flock Cameras Are Filled With Valuable Gold and Copper": futurism.com/artificial-intell

ukpol 

Only about 7 days until Clacton is given the chance to make the funniest thing in politics anywhere happen. (Well, this USA American thinks it'd be funny.)

Farage losing to a bin (excuse me, "the establishment") would be the funniest outcome ever. Funnier even than that time Scotland's winds tested if Trump's comb-over was a toupee.

(I know Binface likely won't win, but really Farage lost 3 weeks ago.)

“Are you okay, ma’am?”
“I think I swallowed my router.”
“Here, take my seat.”

Too hot, way too hot!

Yesterday we had 40°C in the afternoon and still over 30°C at 22:30 at night.

Artwork by Jade Merien

@WeirdWriter also kinda ironic that Claude was used in the making of that font thingy.

If you use this font to protect your text from AI, it also blocks *me, a human* because I use a screen reader. I did try the demo. If you want me to remove your RSS feed, this is the best font to prevent blind people from reading your blog/words. That timer is an inaccessible solution. shieldfont.org/#hero #AI #LLM #Accessibility #A11y

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