Sam the Octopus @troubleMoney@computerfairi.es

The word for Saturday in German is Samstag, or literally, "Sam's Day"

That's right, the Germans, Austrians, and Swiss get together one day a week to celebrate me

It's pretty neat

ox -> oxen
fox -> foxen

that's just how language works

the Furry Corner discord is apparently on the first page of google results for "lesbian furry discord"

SEO: we have it, somehow, no idea how that happened but it's pretty neat

Have all the guns you like, any calibre you want, scary looking as hell, whatever

But the minimum length for a legal firearm is now 2 metres

Let's see you lug that fucker around on a shooting spree

Yes adafruit, you lot get it

https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-crickit-creative-robotic-interactive-construction-kit

"Sometimes we wonder if robotics engineers ever watch movies. If they did, they'd know that making robots into slaves always ends up in a robot rebellion. Why even go down that path? Here at Adafruit we believe in making robots our friends!"

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