I once spent nearly a year arguing with accountants to get some software to fix a million corrupt files. it took nearly a year because they couldn't pay for it. the software was also free.

(if businesses think I'm bad about how much I call them idiots online, the US government is at a whole other level. companies at least can mismanage themselves into bankruptcy, while the federal government primarily still (technically) functions because they can't.)

"You would lose this argument even if you were right" is something more people need to be told about their rhetorical skills.

rightwing propaganda can be so effective because it relies on people wanting to live in a different, better reality

alright i maybe have been too cat centric and want to clarify: there are not enough creachers on bsky, period. i currently estimate that below 1% of posts are primarily about a little guy or small fella. its sick and its not sustainable.

i wish atproto was real

"Our platform can be adapted to your business use case! All of your processes can live here!" [ten years later] "Why won't you upgrade?! All you need to do is remove your customizations!!" See also: any enterprise PaaS

it has come to my attention that not every person has seen this photo of pancake. well he is very pensive here and i don't think anything is strictly more important on this website.

Happy birthday to this guy.

i think a lot about how JSON, a format designed first and foremost to be human readable, became the de-facto standard for communication between machines, and then i think about all the wasted energy spent on bandwidth for field tags and string parsing calls

not sure how he does it. it's a miracle that he exists and I think he knows that

Executive summary: All the hype is around AI. Companies want to prove that they're not falling behind, so they introduce AI initiatives. Now everyone in the company needs to utilize AI to meet their performance goals. Which is why your green screen replacement web app now connects to Azure OpenAI.

box-sizing: content-box;

It worked on test

eeper with no job

due to myriad drugs i rarely have the sunday scaries anymore, but if u are having them: pancake doesn't even know the days of the week

can't believe Windows 95 turned fifty this year

Me hiding from emails

I heard Fox Pro Bro is actually a Power Bi

No, but, like, genuinely, what the fuck is going on with The Cool Autistic Gamer 774. If people aren't aware, its a channel that posts Smiling Friends clips, but it gets cut with reference to the channel mascot. As the clips go on it genuinely gets more elaborate. This was uploaded yesterday.

big, stupid buffoon. no thoughts, head empty, just truffle

Only way to move Space Shuttle Discovery is to chop it into pieces, White House told

The quality is on par with the rest of their offerings. Let that inform your decision.

urgent:

i'm in love with his stupid little third eyelids cuz wot

Google's dev registration plan 'will end the F-Droid project'

tired: it's always DNS inspired: ICANN feel it coming in the air tonight

Hell yeah, I still do this

love is in the air? wrong. malware in the AUR

this is distinct-but-overlapping with: a shitpost that has its own public git repo.

webshit(n): A shitpost that has developed its own website.

So needy.

Interestingly total home entertainment spending per household has GREATLY increased since 2000 - but it has nothing to do with DVDs or streaming Cable has gone from $22/month average to $147/month average!!! Even adjusted for inflation that’s a massive jump

Is the cure to male loneliness an intricate heist carried out with a crew of highly competent but idiosyncratic professional criminals?

there should be more online services with codebases built out of C, Bash and PHP trying desperately to communicate with each other

the anti-piracy screen was supposed to be the colonel telling you to turn your video game console off but nobody listened and mgs2 is the most pirated video game of all time it s really sad why would you do that to poor old kojima he only made 2 dollars from that game

I only just remembered that Bluesky has no ads. ...it is SO easy to take a lack of ads for granted in any media nowadays when that option is there... you don't realize just how much clearer everything feels without ads until you go somewhere different and get hit with waves of advertising. :o