Sam the Octopus @troubleMoney@computerfairi.es

This "tiny house" trend is just getting silly

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/scientists-have-built-worlds-smallest-house-180969149/

Quitting smoking status:

One month in, have managed to reduce my intake to less than half of what I used to smoke

Hopefully I'll be able to kick the rest soon, but even if not cutting out half is fairly decent

It is now Towel Day

Are you a hoopy frood who really knows where their towel is?

If you're considering putting together a hadoop cluster to do stuff to things, maybe make sure it's not 235 times faster to just throw it through awk

https://adamdrake.com/command-line-tools-can-be-235x-faster-than-your-hadoop-cluster.html

"but, like, where are my flying cars lol"

WE HAVE THOSE, MOTHERFUCKER

THEY'RE CALLED HELICOPTERS

NEW TOM SCOTT HOSTED QUIZ SHOW!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xS-BIcu4ew

hug computer*

*if and only if computer wants to be hugged

the more I see of linux techtips the more I want him to be nowhere near anything that uses electricity

The Battlefield V reveal trailer has, as a featured character, a badass british sniper lady with a prosthetic arm that kills a nazi with a cricket bat wrapped in razor wire

THAT'S FUCKING AWESOME

People who loved Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality for its rational take on the Harry Potter universe will love my new trilogy of fanfic that details what would actually happen in a reasonable world;

"Hogwarts fails an Ofsted inspection", "Hogwarts gets shut down by the Health and Safety Executive", and "Oh yeah, voldy turned up again and we took him out with a drone strike"

A calzone is just an Italian pasty

"Whisperings in Westminster tell me that both parties are about to change their Brexit strategies"

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/brexit-theresa-may-leadership-contest-irish-border-eu-european-economic-area-a8361846.html

...they have strategies?

9 out of 10 dentists agree: the tenth is a contrarian dick

another good one I've heard:

He's making a list

He's checking it twice

He's gonna find out who's naughty or nice

Santa Claus is in contravention of article 5 of the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679

I keep asking around for a decent GDPR consultant

Everyone I've asked said they know a great one but none of them'll give me their phone number