Remember when I told you that American idioms are always about the money? Well:
- Normal languages: “I’ll remember this”
- Americans: “It will live in my head rent-free”

From Wikipedia’s article on military impostors:
“such a statement implies that the speaker was deployed to a combat zone, even if in reality they never left their home country.”

LMAO what if someone’s home country _is_ a combat zone?

White people decided to rename female circumcision, a traditional practice that takes place among Khoisan, Nyakyusa and Khoekhoe people, to “female genital mutilation”.

The amount of suffering that white people caused to the Africans is immeasurable. And now, white people decide to export their “culture” to Africa, and to tell African women what they can and cannot do to their own private parts? For those of you who don’t know, it’s women circumcising other women.

Can whites just fuck off for once? Let African people write their own laws on their land, and practice their own culture.

If they choose to go to your country, that’s a different story. But as long as they practice their culture among themselves on their own land, fuck off!

Because of all the injustice done to a regular folk by the banks and megacorporations, as well as the parts of government that value those two higher than doing the right thing for the regular people, piracy is all but justified.

For me, piracy is the default option. When it comes to stuff made by a megacorp, the first thing I do is see if I can pirate that. I would argue that piracy should be the default option for everyone.

No, you're not depriving corpo staff/hires of their salaries by pirating. If a megacorp is not paying them, it's not your fault.

I only pay for content if I want to support the creators. I was pirating since I got my first computer, I do pirate right now, and I will pirate in the future. I will advocate for piracy.

I vibecoded ransomware that replaced files with their hashes instead of encrypting them and now Raytheon begs me to accept $12M ransom help

I don't know why, but the backrooms sound, e.g. the generic transformer hum, is so soothing to me. Call me crazy, but oh how I want my room, and maybe my entire apartment, to resemble a 2000's office. Think cs_office map, but for real!

I know it's probably because of my childhood, but I constantly feel like I'm being watched. Not just watched, but at any time a vague authority figure will rush into my room and make me do things because I'm long overdue on everything for some reason.

This notion somehow completely falls apart when I'm inside some office, the closer to 2000's in aesthetics, the better. I don't feel comfortable in luxurious interiors, or in Hygge-inducing Scandinavian interiors, or at "home" (I have no feeling of home). But 2000's office is my anxiety's kryptonite.

My dream is to have a cubicle at home. And that the door to my room should have that thing that automatically closes it. And the lock made by Abloy. Old office-style carpeted floor. Vertical metal shades. And let this paradise drown in soothing 60 cycle hum.

Carpeted toilet seat.

Systemd has telemetry now!

Pro tip: make your tool’s error messages very long, so feeding them into ChatGPT is not financially viable. Then, sell support for your tool.

You only need Docker if you can’t use chroot.

Guess who’s gonna lose her Linux from scratch virginity tomorrow

Moving to neovim

Isn't it eerie how the same cat looks cute to you and absolutely terrifying to a little mouse? Imagine a monster that knows no mercy, can hear your tiniest movement, is 20 times your size, is faster than you, with fangs as long as your head is wide, that can crack your skull in one good bite and swallows those like you whole.

There are two good ways to approach binary app distribution:
1. Every app has its own installer, shell-based or otherwise, that handles everything including choosing the right binary, downloading it, managing versions, updates, config files, etc — all of it.
2. Every app is distributed as source code. It's user's responsibility to build it by the guide provided in README and keep it updated.

In between those two pillars, there is an uncanny valley of orphaned dependency graphs, broken post-install scripts, vendor-locked enforced app stores, eCoSyStEmS of apps, Adobe Creative Cloud, and all the other shit.

Let's purely hypothetically say that someone used international shipping to get you a... liquid that tastes good but also moisturizes the skin very nicely. For the sake of argument, let's assume that you get just one bottle. What do you do: drink all of it or spread all of it all over your body? If you drink just half of it and use the other half on your body, neither will be enough to fullfill its respective purpose.
The liquid goes bad rather quickly. Yet, certain aficionados like it a bit aged.

Sid's favorite Fallout New Vegas feature is piss filter

RAID iS nOt bAcKuP 🤡
Yes, RAID 1 is. What you wanted to say is “RAID is not an off-site backup”.

Driving data from your car (direction, Gs, cameras) can be used to estimate your “recklessness”, bought by banks and used to “properly evaluate” your insurance price 🙈

COLLATE in SQL and “collateral damage” are related words

Themes:
- lost glory that was there before amnesia/in hipster times, has to be reassembled again, but it might no longer have anything in common with me
- luxury escape location that is mine but also isn’t
- a workplace where I kinda don’t work but where I’m welcome still, with a desk reserved for me
- awful, uncomfortable, depersonalizing and dirty new world that I don’t know why I should attend if I can leave right now and nothing will change

BIOS/UEFI written in Electron.

One day you'll go hiking and find a house built by no one. It will be then that you'll realize you can't go back home.

Polish military has the official "8 wounds" chevron that is given to those who sustained 8 battle wounds. Do you know why Americans don't have those? Because you have to be Polish to get wounded eight times in battle and still be alive enough to wear this thing on your uniform. Poles are built different.

Enter BIOS menu
See the option called something like “ionic capacitor discombobulation”
Click “help” near the option to learn what the hell that is
“Enables or disables ionic capacitor discombobulation”
ffs

So tired of “minimal” distros. Give me a 40gb fat bitch that can open any file type, has every codec and every app, and that has everything set up for me. I’ll delete apps I don’t need, deleting is easier than installing anyway

Intel Management Engine is half-hoax. Yes, it exists, but rumors about its true capabilities are fabricated and artificially amplified to make "what about intel ME" a very effective though-terminating cliche in the privacy community.

Let me remind you that to this day there was not a single takedown or leak that resulted from some power exploiting ME. All kingpin takedowns, all whistleblower deanons, all deanons period, all doxxes — all due to software shortcomings and other exploits.

Yet, "what about intel ME" reigns supreme and instills doom into the minds of the questioning. I can totally see someone who is new to this whole privacy thing doing their research, finding this ME craziness and thinking that real, actionable privacy is impossible, and going back to using amazon alexa and giving tiktok full camera and microphone access.

Just forget about Intel ME. It might as well not exist at all, because it was never used successfully. Instead, do this:
- Keep your threat models updated
- Learn to distinguish state-level actors from surveillance capitalists

Tits or butt?

What we were promised:
- The world as seen in Frutiger Aero
- Solving chess by running minimax on quantum computers
- Fully automated luxury communism powered by blockchain
What we were delivered:
- The phone selling machine in Walmart values your $700 phone at "$59 Today", but when you hit "Cancel", it bumps the price to "$79 Today" while stealing your data via USB. You can sell the phone for $400 on Ebay.
- Microsoft will try to bruteforce your zip archive's password if you upload it to OneDrive
- Butthole logos

we don't really need data types. By default, everything should be string. When you do addition, when the string has nothing but digits, commas and periods, they should be parsed added as numbers. Else, they should be concatenated. If that string-number formatting doesn't match any conventional formatting of any locale, it's a string. Same number-inferring behavior should be implemented when comparing things. There should be no type casting because there is just one type, so every comparison is type-exact. "true" and "false" are special strings that won't throw an error during comparison. Comparing two strings using less, more, less than or equal and more than or equal always throw an error.
Dates are ISO strings. Every other thing is not a date.

We basically sieve the data starting with the strictest conditions down to more forgiving conditions, then down to no conditions at all where it will be interpreted as just string. ISO date requires a very specific formatting, so we should check that first. Then, let's check for a formatted number. Then, a boolean. If nothing clicked, it's a string.

Oh, and every string is automatically trimmed, so it can't start or end with any kind of space.

No classes, no procedures, no constants, no switch operator. Also, no methods, just a lot of helper functions.

Performance will be lacking compared to languages with static types, but performance is not a priority here — this is the language for code monkeys and their AI counterparts. It should only be used for making trivial client-server prototype apps that could've been replaced by Excel if only people knew how to use it, at passable quality, that work reasonably fast on modern hardware.

Those apps will be deprecated because the company went out of business/because the project was proven to not be financially viable in several months anyway.

UI should be rendered not using a webview, but using a lightweight cross-platform UI engine written in a proper language like C++. There should be no semantic tags — every UI element acts like a div would. Everything is measured in pixels and milliseconds. All colors are #rrggbbaa. All vector graphics are SVG, all raster graphics are AVIF. All sounds are Opus. All videos are AV1. All UIs are reactive, Vue style, e.g. you change a variable and the UI updates itself in the right way every time.

Add some junior devs paired with GPT-4.5 or any super-expensive LLM, sprinkle with some Extreme Go-Horse management style (https://hackernoon.com/you-might-be...), and boom, we recreated Zergs but in the tech space. Let's solve software by brute force.

imagine "dumb" tech still having mics, recording everything and scanning wifi for unprotected networks to gain internet access and upload it