The original anecdote, from a podcast about the bash shell. Note that Brian Fox was working alone, so nobody else had copies of his code, unlike the people in this group project.

www.redhat.com/en/command-l...

I remember when there was a discussion on Twitter about Shein's manufacturing practices and some apologists invented all sorts of fantastical machinery and technology to avoid facing the more horrifying truth. Reminds me of this comedian's joke.

IG bscomedian

ZOMG LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT THE SHALE

Okay, so the Burgess Shale is a fossil bed in British Columbia that contains a whole bunch of fossils of weirdass creatures from the Cambrian era, over 500 million years ago. But the great thing about the shale is that it has fossilized SOFT PARTS!

This was also the first place we saw Hallucigenia, a species SO BIZARRE that for a long time, nobody knew which end was up! Great poster by Nix Illustration here:

If you liked that, a) may the Lord have mercy on your soul and b) you’ll like this, by @mooseallain.bsky.social, even more www.worldofmoose.com/products/fla...

this exact same thing happened to me and i switched to duck duck go the same day. i'd been thinking about it for a while but the spoilering was the final straw! (still occasionally go back to google for some specific workbased queries but otherwise ddg all the way)