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Homer Simpson: From now on, I'm gonna be just like Krusty and tell it like it is. Marge, you're getting a little fat around the old thighs! Bart Simpson: Dad! Homer Simpson: You too, Bart! Marge Simpson: Oh, knock it off, Homer, you're the fattest one in the car! Homer Simpson: [shocked, hurt]...

I'm personally surprised he didn't try to some Apple-style "technically correct" petulalant/malicious-compliance games, along the lines of "well you only said we had to block X, didn't say anything about blocking twitter.com - checkmate!"

I was thinking it looked like something you'd see as a prop/level-dressing in those amateur Doom maps that tried to recreate "real-world" locations.

That's Cloudflare's SOP (and most of "big tech," but Cloudflare is one of the worst offenders): while they do have a published TOS, it's little more than a pretense/list of things that they might terminate service for, in a purely theoretical sense -- but in practice, their TOS/AUP could be...

Hmm, now you're making me wonder how much/little effort it would take to troll Shiva Ayyadurai into claiming that he's the inventor of Bitcoin...

On the flip side, it probably doesn't help that there's been an uptick recently in BS "vulnerability" reports, from people explicitly requesting a bug bounty payment. Usually in the form of "your website can be loaded within an iframe, isn't that scary? Now please pay me $200 for alerting you to...

Speaking as someone who's been working from home for going on 2 decades now (and routinely puts in 200+ hours/months), the absurd fear mongering over WFH seems distinctly familiar, but I couldn't put my finger on exactly what it reminded me of. Then it finally hit me: it's very similar to some...

Between this, and the bait-and-switch "okay, we're past the 'growth stage,' time to jack up prices, crack down on account sharing, and cut investment in content production to the bone" bullshit that all of the big streaming services have been pulling, Kodi box and a Real-debrid subscription are...

I like to refer to that as the "oppressed majority complex" -- or the "doctrine of insufficient special-treatment." Basically, the reasoning seems to be that because they see themselves as fundamentally entitled to special treatment, then insufficient special treatment == oppression.

Yes, another fine example of the "Aryan master race": as tall as Goebbels, as fit as Goering, and as blonde as Hess.

To paraphrase Churchill: Apple is a wonderful company, they always do the right thing... After they've tried everything else.

It would be nice if this came with a corresponding drop in the number of "greetings of the day" SEO/web dev spam emails I receive from GMail accounts, purporting to be from "top India web agency," imploring me to "do the needful" and "revert back" to them with my requirements... or at LEAST the...

The last one was terrible. It was almost impressive the way they managed to make giant monsters fighting each other so damn boring - it was practically the anti-Pacific Rim, trying to use the same recipe but screwing it up at almost every step. And WTF was with the "hollow Earth" BS? I don't...

Reverse CAPTCHA/Negative CAPTCHA is a concept that's been around for a while, but sadly seems much less common than regular CAPTCHAs. Basically the idea is that, instead of requiring humans to prove they're not bots, you set up forms in a way that tricks bots into revealing themselves. The most...

Hey now, that's not entirely fair - FT is also a great source of uncritical praise for amoral profiteering.

After recently learning that speech-to-text on Android lets you enter emojis by saying their name, and combined with Twitter's recent practice of auto-responding to press inquiries with "💩", I now like to imagine Musk spending most workdays doing nothing but repeatedly yelling "Poop emoji! Poop...

Something amusing, and semi-related that I haven't seen reported here*: the first-party timeline widget that Twitter provides (for embedding a feed of recent tweets on an external website) has been broken for going on two weeks now. There's a looooong thread on their support community griping...

It's a site for people who get really, REALLY excited by network routing equipment... no, wait, sorry, that's "HubPorn" I'm thinking of.

Never been stung in any of those... other places, but even without being allergic, wasp stings on the back of the hand are damn painful. Though I've found that getting ice on the sting quickly keeps the swelling and pain down fairly effectively. (Which reminds me that I'm overdue for making my...

Or hell, turn it loose on their massive issue with outgoing spam from GMail. It was already at the point where Google's servers were consistently the single largest source of spam I see most months (and when they're not, they're second only to Microsoft's freemail spam), due to all of the...