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There is only one way to get a ton of likes on your Mastodon post. You must find a decades old piece of technology that only 12 people in the world own and write a 10,000 word essay on how to use it.

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It is the early 2000s and Microsoft has introduced an onslaught of security vulnerabilities incorporating Internet & web connectivity into every part of Windows.

It is the mid 2020s and Microsoft has introduced an onslaught of security vulnerabilities incorporating GenAI into every part of Windows.

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"what's your biggest weakness?"

"being overly blunt when asked awful interview questions"

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Microsoft: I have made Notepad✨

Security researchers: You fucked up a perfectly good plaintext editor is what you did. Look at it. It's got RCEs.

cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-

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Happy with the result of this commission of an aptly named Scottish Deerhound called Nessie

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theverge.com/tech/877008/t-mob
ok.. walk me through where the ffmpeg cache for this is gonna live.

cuz like..
im just picturing the s3 bucket leak here

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438) Jokebot. Has an infallible memory for jokes and loves to retell them. #SmallRobotsRemastered

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in 2017 a popular twitter game was to type a partial phrase then see what your phone auto-completes it with.

this proved so popular that it is now the only business model in the US.

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"In the digital world, it is wise to appear unpredictable… like a Windows update." - The Art of Cyber War

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Does advertising really work?
Everyone I know mutes TV ads when they come on.
Everyone I know uses ad-blockers online.
I avoid sites that say 'You can't view this site unless you turn off your ad-blocker.'
And some ads are so annoying &/or repetitive that I refuse to use the product on principle.

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In case you want a prestigious certificate on your wall theagat.co

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There are two problems in computer science:

1. We could do this better
2. We should not do this at all

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Q: Why did you need to wait in a long line at Radio Shack to buy a 6502 microprocessor?

A: Not enough registers.

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431) Tbot. A robotic t-shirt. Very comfortable. Not to be confused with Teabot or Teebot. #SmallRobotsRemastered

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I have made an M42 camera. Very literally, it has no film or sensor.

It's as a testing buck, to represent the front half of an SLR camera for working on sensor assembles for the back.

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There is a difference between “I resigned when I found out” and “I resigned after you found out”

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asking a senior eng to use ai is like asking a professional cyclist to ride a children’s bike with training wheels that also has a reverse steering mechanism for some reason

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Mastod1 be nice. (sorry, closed for new registrations after a bunch of 'commercial/spamming' accounts jumped in - rule 3 on site)