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Well, there was that time they included a rootkit in their audio CDs (this went on for a couple of years. Wikipedia)
…guilty as charged
61·17 days agoHoly shit, you’re a madman
6·17 days agoThe demo scene was always technically amazing
…how did I fail to see that coming?
Respect though - the world needs more eaters
What were the useful scenarios, if you don’t mind?
1·1 month agoSorry, I was must continuing the joke.
I’m not judging, I know the pain
Nah, it’s not a programming language.
It’s a tool for degenerates (said the kid who grew up rotting his brain with vbscript)
Knowing Aussies, the comments on this posting would be a great read.
It’s coming up in an odd way in the mountain biking community, where they talk about min-maxing.
The idea is minimum budget, maximum effect for that expense (what’s the best I can do with the bike I’ve got, rather than going the ‘full midlife crisis’/orthodontist approach of spending $15-25k on what’s basically the latest handbag bike).
Yes, floor time and getting into their world is real currency!
Show them tricks, teach them Rubik’s cubes or something. Kids love learning and novelty (not lectures: show, don’t tell!)
Even if it’s just grabbing a broom, holding it up and spinning around and getting dizzy - good, clean fun (until you throw up on them)
2·2 months agoFurther to this, to human is top err - so why would you start to rely on something that’s confidently incorrect so often.
It’s only a matter of time before this misleads someone terribly
Mmsys.cpl is the only way for me
Psychopaths!
5·2 months agoJust watched this on QI. S16E08, plants. It’s about 11 minutes in…
Eating ass and conducting ram raids, more like.
We’ve got our priorities where we like them
And anyone who knows what they’re doing would have built in decent safeguards - obviously hindsight is a luxury here, but there’s a reason there’s a whole lot of checking that goes on when others are downloading update content over a hostile network… Input validation is a thing, and all that.
They just weren’t very mature on that front, and now we all got to laugh at them but everyone else made similar mistakes along the way, just most of them started their journey decades ago (thinking windows update, etc), so we forget about the learning curve they suffered through building a resilient process