Sam the Octopus @troubleMoney@computerfairi.es

Now this is a good mix of youtube video and advertising partner

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-eMOCMDQj8

A video about the myt... urban legend of disposing of a body with lye

Sponsored by a VPN company you'll have wished you had a contract with before a video on how to dispose of a body ended up in your browsing history

someone: the truth always lies in the middle
me: you owe me 2 million dollars
someone: wha? no
me: as the truth lies in the middle, you owe me 1 million dollars, money please.

The Los Angeles Times is now unavailable in Europe because of GDPR

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WHAT THE FLYING FUCK WERE THEY DOING WITH BROWSING DATA THAT MEANT THEY COULDN'T JUST CHANGE A COUPLE OF LINES IN THE PRIVACY POLICY TO BE IN COMPLIANCE?!?

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?