this one is interesting in that it's been updated since I initially found it 12 years ago
I'm still trolling through my backups. Going to post some more stuff I found that's fun or interesting. I'll keep it to one thread.
A webcomic about robots who work in an office that I used to like. Since I've been working, I think the jokes will be more relatable.
http://www.wetherobots.com/
#nostalgia
Debian bullseye reaches final milestone and is now fully frozen! https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2021/07/msg00002.html
Haven't been keeping up with #Chef for automation, but they seem to have doubled down on "enterprise solutions" from was a fairly comprehensible agent-based configuration management tool.
Doing hardware and worried about security? Make the boards so large the hackers need to clean their desks, which will buy you some extra time.
Via https://nitter.cattube.org/colinoflynn/status/1411741980560871430#m
@2ck I thought you were being creative...
https://www.designswan.com/archives/incredible-3d-pretzel-art-by-pretzel-factory.html
Also used the same quantity of dough to make this ball. I assume it's basically a rock because of how dense it would be but IDK. I made it as a kind of joke.
Cool use of synchrotron #tomography
https://phys.org/news/2021-06-beetle-species-pristinely-fossilized-dinosaur.html
"The Ultraviolet Catastrophe" would be a pretty good band name #physics #quantummechanics #humor
I did see one comedy sketch (from BR) where some farmer type lad started excitedly speaking in Boarisch at 200km/h and the subtitles changed to "Keine Ahnung. Ich verstehe kein Wort mehr".
OTOH the Boarisch version of Despacito (Des bassiert hoid) that is on Youtube has 100% correct subtitles which have been manually added...
Listen to an audiobook. https://librivox.org/ has free, public domain books recorded by volunteers.
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/gigayear WotD? I didn't know SI prefixes were used for years : I've always seen bya (billion years ago). Not sure I've ever seen byo (billion years old) though.
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