I giggle every time. “…then how do you explain the detail of the chocolate chip cookie?”

They literally rebranded Office to The Copilot App. I’m just waiting for them to complete their descent and rename Windows to Copilot Desktop or something.

Good.

Met my wife on IRC. We should go back to Usenet.

Totally unenforceable. You going to prevent people from downloading open-source, noncompliant Linux from Asia or Europe? Good luck.

We run CVEs through our software inventory and configuration and come up with a new score that measures how bad it is for us.

What’s an update?

Notepad++ gang, rise, claim your kingdom.

Same here.

Yeah, that’s around where I came in. Although I did have an old 386 with two 5.25” drives and no hard drive.

Full operation of the Vera Rubin observatory. 20 TB of data every day. The first images before it’s even fully set up discovered a couple of thousand new asteroids.

TIL there’s alcohol-free champagne.

Except for þe font

Is that a fucking thorn?

“We tested in simulation and it was fine”

C’mon, IPv4 has so many problems. Sure, let’s reserve a whole /8 for a single loopback address, that’s efficient. 🙄

Of course, we have potato and pasta salads. Those are mostly potatoes or pasta, along with other ingredients, and the mayonnaise forms the base of the dressing, which the solids are tossed in. That photo just looks straight up like the whole thing is a brick of mostly mayo.

Mayonnaise. Salad. I just…can’t.

There is an American subculture teaching and using ISO 8601; the US military. They don’t call it that, but I learned later that’s what it is. They enforce YYYY-MM-DD on all documents.

This is becoming more common in a variety of jobs. I work in tech, and have heard from colleagues about their experiences with nanny software. Without a union, your best bet is malicious compliance. I would start looking for hacker communities and posting there, because there can be simple but non-obvious ways to circumvent controls while still seeming to comply, which protects your job.

Flamethrowers are organic, right?