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I'm serious about this, btw, I think it's better to have a little code duplication sometimes

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Don't Repeat Yourself is bad programming advice, Programmers can have a little code duplication as a treat

PROGRAMMING TIP
avoid repeating the same 4 lines of code twice by writing 270 lines of beautiful, abstract, generic code

@gorplop

CVE -12000-0001 Agricultural Revolution will lead to unintended consequences many of which will be serious (CVSS 9.8)

New vulnerability discovered in all Intel and AMD CPUs: upon powerup, the processor starts executing code

WARNING! ALERT! CAUTION! WARNING! ALERT! CAUTION! WARNING! ALERT! CAUTION! WARNING! ALERT! CAUTION! 

WARNING! ALERT! CAUTION! WARNING! ALERT! CAUTION! WARNING! ALERT! CAUTION! WARNING! ALERT! CAUTION!

If COVID has taught us anything, it's that people should be wearing masks in all healthcare settings, COVID or not.

In addition, if you're coughing or experiencing any other symptoms and can't stay home, please ensure you wear a mask wherever you go.

It doesn't matter if it's COVID or not, it's a matter of respect to try to do everything within your power to not expose others to whatever you may have.

tired: it's your own fault if the TLD your organization depends on evaporates for unrelated political reasons entirely out of your control

wired: shut down every .com whose index.html doesn't execute cleanly in x86 real mode

I never use Caps Lock, so I disable the Caps Lock key completely with xmodmap, to avoid hitting it by accident.

Occasionally my X server gets into caps-lock state anyway. (Usually some complicated stunt was involved, like attaching x11vnc to the display remotely.) And then I can't turn it off again using the Caps Lock key.

So I wrote a tiny X client that lets me type 'xcapslock off' at a shell prompt …

… and then I had to make an alias to it, called 'XCAPSLOCK OFF'.

New #blog post wherein misreading a @foone post made me ask the question "What if we put an image in your image?"

This post was in my drafts for months, finally found a few seconds to finish it off.

(Replies to this post will appear as comments on the blog post)

jszym.com/blog/xmp-steganograp

#steganography #xmp #metadata

if there's anything i've learned from watching old movies it's that mirrors in the past really sucked

it has been 0 days since i've been asked to agree to the- wait, what?

ENTERING MY GRAINY POTATO PHONE VIDEO FOOTAGE OF CONSTRUCTION CRANES AND FEHRNSEHTURM ON AN CHILLY AUTUMN WINTER NIGHT ERA WE ARE SO FUCKIN BACK FOLKS

[crossposting from twitter 6 hours late]

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