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i'm so glad i can process trauma

oh, healthily? no no no. but i do process it

my favourite website title is Making sure you're not a bot!

if you think "the fediverse" has "no dark patterns" you drank the social media koolaid and use "decentralised" as a catch-all feel-good term for not actually having to try to take the internet back

Ken Thompson, 1984: Whenever you use other people's software, you should think about why you trust it.

npm, 2010: LEEEEROY JENKINNNNNSSSSSSS!

krebsonsecurity.com/2025/09/se

i have come to the conclusion internal card readers for computers are something that sounds incredibly convenient in theory and nobody has ever made it work in practice

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the best really cool human invention is internal sd card readers that stop working entirely until next reboot if you eject them and that treat cards as readonly if you remove them without ejecting

💭 diy floppy disks

i've seen two different people attempt different complicated processes with middling results. what if you:

  1. sandwich ferromagnetic liquid between two sheets of thin film like sellotape sticky sides in
  2. hydraulic press
  3. cut the disk from the result

computer fairies' official moderation position is that it's ok if it's funny and the guy sucked ass

won’t lie to you: all of us here at the taco bell labs moderation desk haven’t even had to think about banning anyone for making jokes about a recent assassination. turns out it’s pretty easy to not piss off yr core userbase.

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