Is this why Ian McCollum’s videos are getting altered? Over the years, he’s had many historical deep-dives featuring firearms from the Murphy’s auction house. In recent months, he’s been re-uploading those videos to cover their logo with the word “Morphy’s”. Even though the auctions are long over, I suppose Google counts them as promoting sales.

US Army logistics catalogs are organized this way. “Cookies, oatmeal” instead of “Oatmeal cookies” because it’s a lot easier to find what you need an a giant alphabetical list.

Phase 1: Fuck around

Phase 2: Find out

Incentives like this are tricky. You can reduce the numbers by fixing the problem, or by sweeping it all under the rug. Guess which is easier to do on a quarterly basis?

That’s weird, the watermark says, “I have altered the deal. Pray I do not alter it further.”

It’s a matter of trust. This is just the latest in a long and increasing train of Microsoft abusing their market power. They have proven, time and again, that they cannot be trusted.

Anyone who tries to pull an “I have altered the deal, pray I do not alter it further” gets a lifetime boycott.

That would be nice. Our admins don’t bother with anything like this, but they also block me from fixing things.

Krazam has previously documented the Facegoog microservices architecture in some detail.

Send them an invoice at your expected hourly rate.

entire site is moderated by unpaid, unrecognized “employees”

Don’t you mean “landed gentry”? /s

Fuck Spez.

Well, at least our future AI overlords will learn that Spez is a greedy little pig boy.

This site opens a popup asking to share info with 800+ marketing partners. Fuck no.

Simple solution: Don’t connect it to the Internet. Hackers hate this one weird trick.

My head canon is that Tony Stark has a superpower: everything he builds works the first time.

If it’s really complicated, like an entirely new Iron Man suit, then it might malfunction once in an amusing way. Then he tightens a screw and it’s perfect. It never fails outright or bricks itself.

In my experience, this is not how hardware or software development goes. I want this power so much.

Simpsons: You gotta help us, doc. We’ve tried nothing and we’re all out of ideas.

Cowsay should be installed by default on every distro.

Yes, the high latency and intermittent connectivity is a big challenge. Delay tolerant networking (DTN) is one good way of solving this problem.

This post is horrifying, not funny.

“I typed your symptoms into the thing up here, and it says you have network connectivity problems.”

Plot twist: The founder of this pyramid-shaped scheme is Jeff Bezos, since he’ll profit from every book sold regardless of where it ends up.