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this notbird.site honeypot is so fucking shady. and not just "scammer" shady

honeypot in january before the incredibly fake "scammer" ad: https://web.archive.org/web/20230129064638/https://notbird.site/

honeypot today with the ad: https://web.archive.org/web/20230529131515/https://notbird.site/

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i did a funny

nintendo told steam to remove dolphin from their store, allegedly due to it's hardcoded inclusion of the wii common key

so here's a flag that represents the wii's common key, in hexadecimal form :)

EDIT: oops inkscape fucked it up in the export, i fixed it now lol
EDIT 2: fix'd info, everyone was wrong apparantly! doesn't change much but still

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NSFW TMI 

you're telling me you never whacked it after you and mom stopped fucking when she got the blood clots in her leg and an accidental pregnancy would be a death sentence?

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NSFW TMI 

Just remembered when I borrowed an old iPad from Dad, I opened safari to enter a URL, and the first thing in the suggestions was xvideos.

I told him to wipe his browser history or use incognito, but he repeatedly said it wasn't him who did it, like yeah, sure, who fucking else did, ya idiot

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Deno: we can build an executable!
Me: Oh, that's cool how big is hello wor--

Deno: 69MB
Me: :blobfoxcomputerterrified:

you fuckers who only speak english have it so easy picking pronouns

basically the only reason i don't use they/them is because the swedish equivalent is, get this, "hen"

that's a fucking chicken

my pronouns aren't chicken

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Developer: "We don't need to write documentation. Users should obviously know what to give as input. "

Users:

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I will never, ever stop loving Bill Atkinson’s dithering algorithm. If you cut your teeth on Macpaint or Hypercard, you probably recognize it without even realizing it.

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there are single-person operations that i would trust more than billion dollar corporations, and there are billion dollar corporations that have disappointed me less than 'mom and pop businesses' thru sheer incompetence and evilness both. capitalists are never to be trusted at all

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zelda TOTK, extremely minor spoilers for mechanics 

stuck a bomb on a spear, then proceeded to blow myself up

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Noticed that mastodon.social has become the origin of bot spam waves? This was all Gargron's plan when pushing mastodon.social as the entry point for the Mastodon Network :mastodon: so there is only a single instance to block to get rid of the spam. Thank you for the sacrifice ❤️

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project management / issue tracker advice 

Don't try to minimize the amount of open issues in your issue tracker! Issues are *contributions* from users, telling you about problems that you were not aware of yet - they're not pests to get rid of.

Closing issues without either solving them or a good(!) reason why they won't be fixed - for *any* reason, including stalebots - will just sour people on your project. They won't tell you that; they'll just stop showing up. And the issue still won't be fixed.

Instead, treat your issue tracker like a priority queue: accept that you're never going to get to zero, accept that some issues will remain open a long time because they are not urgent, and find a good way to order the list by your criteria of importance.

Work on things as time permits, in order of importance, communicate this to users, and establish a good rhythm of bugfixes that users are happy with even if *their* specific bug isn't fixed yet.

There are a lot more useful thoughts on this topic in this article: apenwarr.ca/log/20171213

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Did you hear about the executive body of the European Union's plan to give out standardised study points for a course in a Scottish university on using small diophantine equations to detect and repair transmission errors using an embedded programming language in a computer interface used to debug cross-border trains run by a British company? (Content warning: _no_ eye contact!) 

It was the EC EC EC EC EC EC EC EC EC (European Commission East Coast EuroCity ExpressCard Embedded C Elliptic Curve Error Correction Edinburgh College European Credit)

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Feeling pretty good about snagging the one good domain from this GTLD.

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So shitbag company #AudioEye is suing @aardrian:

adrianroselli.com/2023/05/audi

This is after sending him spurious cease and desist letters last year:

adrianroselli.com/2022/04/my-c

What is AudioEye?

It’s Magic Techbro Dust¹ you sprinkle on your website to – poof! – make it accessible.

Only it seems to keep getting folks sued for being inaccessible:

sheribyrnehaber.medium.com/mor

Almost like you can’t magically make an inaccessible site accessible or something… 🤔

¹ “accessibility plugin/overlay”

#a11y #web

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H-hewwo?? Setback fow biggest deaw in gaming histowy as UK weguwatows bwock Micwosoft's $68.7bn bid to buy Caww of Duty makew (✿ ♡‿♡)
bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-a

I should post mpeg-ts stream dumps of them, tbh - for fun

especially the old Netflix loading screen

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my TV is a bit odd when it comes to the TV tuner

It shows everything it can find, without regard for if it should be hidden or not according to the program table

So it shows me a really old Netflix loading screen on 168, a test channel with advertisements on a loop on 777, and OTA update channels for some receiver boxes in the channel list

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