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A broken clock fixed by taping a working clock over it is a metaphor for every codebase you’ll encounter in your professional career as a software developer.

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polluting zoom's LLM input by holding regular hangouts where we all wear grotesque masks and communicate through grunting and gibbering, so that the first time zoom tries to generate something from its dataset it looks like the baccanale from Häxan (1922)

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SunOS 4.1.4 says it can't possibly be the year 2023: "WARNING: preposterous time in filesystem -- CHECK AND RESET THE DATE!"

sorry SunOS, there's nothing i can do to fix 2023.

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Every time I hear about a particularly stupid belief that's somehow common in the USA I just remember that 80% of americans want mandatory labels on foods containing DNA.

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@mangeurdenuage @rgarner Love how more than half the issues are telling them to get fucked and all of the ones that aren’t are still saying it’s a bad idea lmao

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>have problem
>look up problem
>someone else had problem and made an issue on the github
>other people +1d it
>This issue has been automatically marked as stale because it has not had recent activity. It will be closed if no further activity occurs.
>other issue created for same problem
>other people +1d it
>This issue has been automatically marked as stale because it has not had recent activity. It will be closed if no further activity occurs.
>other issue created mentioning the other auto closed issues
>even more people respond with their experiences with this annoying ass bug
>This issue has been automatically marked as stale because it has not had recent activity. It will be closed if no further activity occurs.
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I saved this a while ago and I still laugh every time I read it. I'm not sure what it is about it, but it's one of those things that are always funny to me. There are only two meme/cartoons that have this effect on me (the other one is Dog Fort)

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I hear the government is doing IoT cybersecurity labels? They're welcome to reuse mine from a while back.

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I love how this makes perfect sense as a programmer but would sound horrible to anyone else

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People screaming about the Web Environment Integrity proposals are not exaggerating. It's the biggest threat to user freedom I've seen for a long time.

Its proponents state that one goal is to "continue to allow web browsers to browse the Web without attestation" - but this goal is simply not compatible with reality. If they can block non-attested user agents, they will. (remember when they were agents of the user???)

Where could I check if a product respects privacy and preferably also how it appears through the FOSS lens? Not being insane and giving the worst rating because a product contains a binary blob driver would be a nice bonus.

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The GNU Boot people actually sent me a cease and desist email, citing trademark infringement. Amazing.

Despite the original site clearly stating that it's unofficial. I literally made it to help them. You know, to help them use newer Libreboot because they use old Libreboot and even older coreboot.

Anyway, I complied with their polite request and have renamed the project to non-GeNUine Boot. The release archive is re-compiling.

notgnuboot.vimuser.org/news/no

Personally, I like the new name better.

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Reddit users figured out that some bot crawlers scrape popular threads and auto-generate AI articles based on user comments, so they decided to create some fake hype to confuse them.

reddit.com/r/wow/comments/154u

It worked.

archive.li/2023.07.20-203104/h

This is why real journalism matters.

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Like, I get it - if you're like me you've spent a ton of time getting decent at a craft and then to see an AI do it is upsetting. But if you'd told me in the abstract "in the year 2030 or so, you'll be able to make a feature film in your basement" I'd be in favor of it at almost any cost!

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I owe you all the deepest and sincerest apology. It has been brought to my attention that my facts are enabling fascism and destroying democracy. I am especially sorry for the harmful facts stating that:

-Every month is National Potato Month.
-George W. Bush has a Foo Fighters tattoo on his back.
-Optimus Prime is the only heterosexual Transformer.
-The Lord of the Rings was filmed in New York City.
-Cher’s full name is Chernobyl.

I pray that you can all find it in your hearts to forgive me.

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