Trailblazing Braille Taser

I don’t even capitalize pronouns for gods, why would I do it for you? Wait, are you saying you used to be a god?

Wow, you’re a jerk.

Just to add another anecdatum, I had the exact same experience installing Windows 11 this year. I have never had this much trouble installing an OS in the 20 years I’ve been screwing with computers.

Democracy dlweaks in darkness

I loved my 1600x1200 Viewsonic, used it till 2010 or so. The flicker wasn’t ideal, but man the colors were so much more vibrant than shitty LCD screens of the 2000s were capable of. These days, I think Apple’s fancy LCDs with HDR win on all fronts, but it took a while to get here.

Are we talking about Crowdstrike? There was no hacking involved, was there?

Oh dang, sorry about that. I’ve used rclone with great results (slurping content out of Dropbox, Google Drive, etc.), but I never actually tried the Google Photos backend.

You could try using rclone’s Google Photos backend. It’s a command line tool, sort of like rsync but for cloud storage. https://rclone.org/

They’re also so old they were compiled without any modern instrumentation, e.g. stack canaries.

And especially now the work week has slimmed down where no one works on Friday anymore

Excuse me, what now? I didn’t get that memo.

Wake me up when AI can simulate my brain. Literally, run me.exe and let me know.

Ubuntu Linux excretes 20% more performance

I always interpreted it as a person that has devoted their life to the topic of the meme with monk-like devotion.

The best comments are “why” comments, the runner up is “how” comments if high-level enough, and maybe just don’t write “what” comments at all because everyone reading your code knows how to read code.

Could also have been a test run

Yup: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_baby_jokes

Reminds of the dead baby jokes from my day. Like why? Too horrible to be funny.

I legitimately thought 501c3 was a commit hash before my brain engaged.

DRM = Direct Rendering Manager, in case anyone else was thinking Digital Rights Management…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_Rendering_Manager

Kyle Gass?