the only thing more terrifying than a chainsaw is the person who's not terrified of it.

All British inventions:
- were invented in a garage
- are still being built in a garage
- would've been better if they were built in a garage.

I got so good at optimizing $3 VPS servers' performance that I want to buy https://shitbox.engineering domain and start a company.

Your computer is probably vulnerable to Samy Kamkar's poisontap: a Pi Zero-based device that connects to usb and does the following:

- emulates an Ethernet device over USB (or Thunderbolt)
- hijacks all Internet traffic from the machine (despite being a low priority/unknown network interface)
- siphons and stores HTTP cookies and sessions from the web browser for the Alexa top 1,000,000 websites
- exposes the internal router to the attacker, making it accessible remotely via outbound WebSocket and DNS rebinding
- installs a persistent web-based backdoor in HTTP cache for hundreds of thousands of domains and common Javascript CDN URLs, all with access to the user's cookies via cache poisoning
- allows attacker to remotely force the user to make HTTP requests and proxy back responses (GET & POSTs) with the user's cookies on any backdoored domain
- does not require the machine to be unlocked
- backdoors and remote access persist even after device is removed and attacker sashays away

I need several minutes with your laptop to perform the hack, even if it's locked. Full-disk encryption and secure boot won't save you.

If you use GNU/Linux, install usbguard today. If you use macOS/Windows, idk, pray.

XSS attack means game over, and no httpOnly cookie is gonna save you. Here’s why:
1. I copy the exact html and css of your sign-up form, but make it send data to my server
2. I perform XSS that replaces page content with that malicious form
3. 99% of users think they should sign in again
4. Profit: I now have their login and password.

iA writer is history. Mark my words

If you were a code antipattern, what would it be?

I'm definitely NIH -- "Not Invented Here".

I write everything from scratch. When I don't, more often than not, I don't install code deps -- I copy their code and modify it. I port it to my set of utils, my syntax preferences, optimize it, strip parts and modes I don't need, and at the end there's no clear line between what was my code and what wasn't. My code doesn't import, it absorbs.

Designers are divided into those who did create fonts and those who didn't.

"Collect Call" by Metric is my favorite song. It takes me back to Android Ice Cream Sandwich times and invokes strong Mandela effect episode that makes me "remember" how I called someone using that fancy aluminum brutalist Chromebook and a native Hangouts app built with Material design v1, while being in a cafe in the evening.

Hangouts app never looked like I remember it looking. I've never seen that Chromebook. Yet, I remember it clear as day.

melodica but moldy

For those who says haldol should be banned...
When a schizophrenic/psychotic person experiences psychosis or oneiroid, with everything that is left from who they used to be, they pray for it to end. Yes, haldol causes depressive symptoms, but I bet it feels so sweet when oneiroid, e.g. the single most painful sensation one can experience, fades away. Depression is MUCH preferrable to psychosis.

The difference between my CSS and your CSS is that you write z-index: 999999, and I write z-index: 2 to get the same effect.

If you want to make a passable UI, let chatgpt make it.
If you want to make a good UI, make it yourself.
If you want to make a great UI, test it in iOS Safari as you make it.

Isn’t it funny how you don’t know how to do web, yet your code looks like a user agent string?

Daily driving alpine linux on my laptop. Excellent distro:
- Probably the most secure linux in the world, with very low attack surface and a lot of money being spent to keep it secure — alpine is the most popular linux for docker containers, and everyone uses docker nowadays
- no systemd (but openrc, way lighter)
- no apt (but apk, the fastest deps manager for linux bar none)
- no glibc (but musl, way lighter)
- no sudo (but doas, lighter)
- wayland and gnome work out of the box
- flatpak for heavy ubuntu-centric apps like some browsers. Librewolf, Firefox and Chromium don't require flatpak, they're in the main index
- I couldn't figure out secure boot in ubuntu. I read all the manuals, to no avail. GPT-4.5 couldn't figure it out either. It was a deal-breaker for me — I need secure boot. In alpine, I spent one morning (today) and got up and running relatively easily. It just works
- everything is stupid fast
- usually, in minimal distros, you expect the desktop part to work, but dev & serious parts to be a PITA. In alpine, both work flawlessly bc it's a server-oriented distro

Alpine ftw!

new kiki zoo reform:
- only unreleasable animals are allowed to be kept in zoos
- ban cages, replace them with large ecosystems with glass panels. ecosystems are open areas with recreated microclimate that is native to the animals that live there
- ban animal shows/performances. ban circus-like animal training. let animals do their own thing
- ban private zoos. profitable zoo = cruel zoo

Rihanna changed her name to “Watermona” to become some kind of water access advocate for Africa that looks like Ramona Flowers

The year is 2057. One IPv4 address costs 1 BTC.

Installing Alpine Linux with GNOME (yes, I want to move from ubuntu to alpine as my daily driver)
Expectations: several days of debugging by entering contradictory commands and workarounds that make little sense
Reality:
type “setup-desktop”
type “gnome”
wait
type “reboot”

Alpine, what the heck? You’re a server-oriented distro with openrc instead of systemd, your own package manager and musl instead of glibc. Making you a desktop should be a challenge! It’s very unlinuxy of you.

switching to tor browser

my plan for perfect state:
- powered by nuclear energy
- metric system, 24-hour clock
- state-owned and built midrisers for public housing with regulated prices, privately owned and built luxury housing
- free healthcare, free generic drugs, option to pay for name-brand drugs. option to choose the gender of your urologist/gynecologist
- free public education, free kindergartens
- free centralized heating, Russia-style
- same-sex marriages are legal. legal documents for polyamorous partners, though not the same one as what you get when you get married. they grant some rights and don't grant other rights
- gender-neutral bathrooms in all state-owned buildings. privately owned places have the choice to make non-gender-neutral, separate bathrooms. bathrooms for wheelchair users are mandatory
- weed is legal, psychedelics are legal. you can grow, but there are limits
- possessing any drug in small (relative to the drug) quantities is not a criminal offense
- free HRT & voice coaching for trans people. But puberty blockers are illegal. gender-affirming surgery for children is criminal offense. let kids wait till they're able to consent
- Swiss-style gun laws
- no official religion, but the capital city has state-owned churches of all major religions. religious leaders are elected
- pragmatism, statistics, no ideological & demagogic bullshit
- extensive tram, metro & rail network
- bike and pedestrian-first roads
- multiple "city centers", all walkable
- scientology and other cults are banned
- no free parking on publicly owned land, option to pay for a parking lot for your car. All paid lots are equipped with fast charging for EVs
- no petrol cars in cities. no car restrictions in the countryside
- Barcelona-style superblocks
- all office workers have the right to work remotely and visit offices only if they want to
- free abortions
- mandatory vaccines for children, free vaccines for everyone
- free, state-owned bike "rental" network
- airbnb and other short-term rentals can't occupy more than 10% of the city center, companies that own airbnb places can't be incorporated overseas, they should be present locally
- Japenese-style "obsessed with fairness"-style local elections
- free shelters for the homeless, dedicated shelter network for domestic violence survivors of all genders
- refined sugar content in all food products (except for 100% refined sugar) is regulated and limited
- all vegan food items that are designed to replace meat-based items can't cost more than their meat counterparts
- four day, six hours per day work week. for people working in shifts, eight hours per shift max (you'll need three shifts to fill 24 hours)
- mandatory vacations, paid for by the company
- six months worth of salary if you're laid off, two months worth of salary if you quit on your own with two weeks notice
- autobahns with no speed limit
- no noise after 21:00
- ban underground and overhead crossings. people shouldn't climb to just cross the road
- Swiss privacy laws
- well-funded, well-equipped police force. all bodycam footage is public. turning bodycam off is grounds for termination. small task-force within police to fight corruption
- every citizen gets a free domain name of their choosing
- bike theft = car theft
- graffiti is not a criminal offense, but city cleanliness laws are Singapore-style (though not as harsh)
- all phones have user-replaceable batteries
- PRISM-type shit is illegal. all electronic devices sold here should be stripped of backdoors & surveillance
- completely ban hostile architecture
- government secret service should exist, but the number of people there should be limited
- ban exotic pets
- real, long sentences for pedos (pedos in the us are basically free, they barely get any time)

overall, I think there should be more separation between city and countryside laws. no one needs a Ford F-150 in my imaginary city, but some farmers do need it in my countryside!

we need autistic james bond

I made this
https://miloxeon.codeberg.page/libr...

her penis
his vagina

Americans love to complain that schools don't teach students about taxes...
If American schools started teaching American youth about American taxes, how they work and where all this money is going, it will end in either First American Socialist Revolution or the Second American Civil War.

"Regional Car Dealership Rococo" is not an architecture style!

The fact that “сермяжная правда” directly translates to “homespun truth” proves that the working class was abused in both “capitalist utopia” and “socialist utopia”.

Starving again. I’m in that “running on fumes” state already. Come, sweet slumber

One of the top comments under a lobotomy sound effect video says this:
"Imagine that annoying sound playing in your head as it, your memories, feelings and thoughts slowly fade away"

Bitch, what if ALL my memories, feelings and thoughts are literal hell that I want to purge by all means necessary, but I don't want to die? Priviliged people be valuing their precious priviliged experiences without realizing that for a lot of us life is hell

Slacktivism and privacy don't mix well. Privacy is a conscious, active effort that never ends. Don't outsource privacy. Avoid integrated "privacy" solutions that offer centralized "all-in-one privacy thing" for a monthly fee/for free, like Proton and Brave. Privacy doesn't exist without decentralization.