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Happy Labrador Day, I hope your day was filled with Canadians and dogs

(listens to earpiece)

Sorry, LABOR Day, I hope you passed a small human out of your body in a relatively non-punishing way

(listens to earpiece again)
September 1, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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This is Tuffy. He is the only example of taking up the whole sidewalk that is not only justifiable, but encouraged. 14/10 (IG: mypittuffy)
August 21, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Is the whole "difference between brands of tubes" thing an inside joke among amp builders?

I A/B listened to each of the sound clips in this article, and they sound completely identical to me

www.mojotone.com/blog/6v6-out...
6V6 Output Tube Taste Testing
www.mojotone.com
July 3, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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This is really good, and in particular, I would never use Go's encoding/xml for anything security-sensitive.

blog.trailofbits.com/2025/06/17/u...
Unexpected security footguns in Go's parsers
File parsers in Go contain unexpected behaviors that can lead to serious security vulnerabilities. This post examines how JSON, XML, and YAML parsers in Go handle edge cases in ways that have repeated...
blog.trailofbits.com
June 21, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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David R. Hagen just solved a small mystery that I mentioned 13 years ago in the mouseover text of a comic drhagen.com/blog/the-mis...
The Missing 11th of the Month - David R Hagen
Personal website of David R Hagen, scientific software engineer
drhagen.com
June 19, 2025 at 11:40 AM
The "AI" that we've got now is basically universal auto-complete. So if what you're making is "the same game, but..." then you can definitely get to the working demo phase a lot faster.
ign.com IGN @ign.com · Jun 4
Epic Games boss Tim Sweeney believes small teams will soon be able to use AI prompts to make video games on the scale of Nintendo masterpiece The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.
AI Prompts Will Soon Let a 10-Person Team Build a Game Like Breath of the Wild Where the AI Is Doing All the Dialogue and You Just Write Character Synopsis, Tim Sweeney Predicts
bit.ly
June 8, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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This dog politely asked for a musician's drumstick in the middle of their performance. Always excited to find a fellow stick lover. 12/10
May 15, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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The ideal two person podcast has one fairly upbeat normie (usually the host) and one grump who loves to complain. Unbeatable formula.
April 12, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Then you might’ve missed the Ted Lasso season 3 flavor flav reference,,, and you especially missed THIS,,, jason sudeikis showin up in the MOST unexpected way,!!! Blew me away GEE.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=w3sL...
"Bring the Noise" (Public Enemy cover) • Flavor Flav & Jason Sudeikis • THUNDERGONG! 2024
YouTube video by Steps Of Faith Foundation
m.youtube.com
March 14, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Pick a Movie, and we'll erase all memory of it's content and story from your mind and replace it with an urge to watch it.

What movie do you pick? Just one!
March 9, 2025 at 9:02 AM
TIL that the neck pickup on a Telecaster is the same distance from the bridge as the 5th fret is from the nut, so it will not pick up 5th fret open string harmonics.
March 6, 2025 at 10:06 AM
I assume that this started as a bug, but the Apple Music folks liked it and left it this way
February 4, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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You’re still arguing about tabs vs. spaces? May I present…
December 25, 2024 at 6:37 PM
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Someone is looking for a game they wrote for c64
November 8, 2024 at 1:11 PM
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New: Do some political conversations on Twitter strike you as a little less than authentic? For the first time, researchers have uncovered a coordinated LLM network of nearly 700 fake accounts devoted to gumming up Twitter replies to advocate for specific GOP races:
www.nbcnews.com/tech/interne...
An AI-powered bot army on X spread pro-Trump and pro-GOP propaganda, research shows
The bot network supported Republican candidates in states like Ohio and Pennsylvania and boosted North Carolina’s Republican-led voter identification law.
www.nbcnews.com
October 16, 2024 at 7:20 PM
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it's me, the bitch who's writing about copyright again www.theverge.com/c/24239057/m...
The year of the music licensing legal wars
When the Supreme Court decided against Grokster in 2004, it changed the internet forever.
www.theverge.com
October 16, 2024 at 3:52 PM
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NOBODY CARES IF YOU ACT LIKE AN ASSHOLE, ANDY. YOU’RE AN NFL COACH. BUT IF I, LIKE, LEAVE THE TOILET SEAT UP, THE NEXT DAY THE NUMBER ONE SONG IN THE GODDAMNED WORLD IS “OH APPARENTLY TOILET SEATS ARE MYSTERIOUS.” DO YOU KNOW HOW PARANOID THAT MAKES ME
February 12, 2024 at 2:04 AM
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OpenAI blows up and IMMEDIATELY headlines like this start appearing and you’re telling me I’m supposed to believe that’s not related
what fresh hell
November 18, 2023 at 12:34 AM
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Check into my hotel room, and this is the artwork on the wall. I am not sure how I should feel about this.
October 25, 2023 at 9:56 PM
All of the kids hanging around at the local Aussie Rules football game today were playing Soccer.

The women's world cup has really changed something in Australia - Go Matildas!
August 13, 2023 at 6:20 AM
What's the right way to Barbenheimer?
1) Barbie, then Oppenheimer
2) Oppenheimer, then Barbie
3) Both at the same time, at drive-in cinema
July 25, 2023 at 2:17 AM
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I loved this and wanted to create a little comic for it. This is how I imagined the exchange going. I hope you like it @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com ☺️
June 26, 2023 at 7:45 PM