It’s because, historically, humanity as a whole is a bunch of subtle and devious con artists wearing different hats and masks. Naturally, anything trained on the output of such a species would adopt its traits.

Everything is poorly lit, the dialogue is inaudible, and all the other sound is way too loud.

The thing you’re noticing is that they’re mastering movies for home theater setups and then everyone else gets a bad re-encode.

When you’re watching a non-HDR 1080p version with Stereo sound using streaming services’ low quality streaming codecs you’re missing a lot more than if you had a HDR1400 4k OLED and a 7.1 Atmos setup with a Blu-ray encode of the movie.

The problem is that now there is just such a large gap between ‘smartphone on a slow connection’ and ‘$80,000 home theater’ that it’s hard to make content that pushes the latter while still being viewable on the former.

The moth was not okay.

They didn’t tell us this part when they taught it in school #RIP Bug, the OG bug who died to the OG pull request.

Yeah, manifestv3 killed anything but the most basic ad blocking.

bulletin board

I haven’t used a BBS since the 90s, dialing in to play MajorMUD and later PvP MUDs (Chaosium/Static Chaos).

I’ll check it out. I use lynx already, because I use Arch(, btw) and break literally everything including my DE.

https://youtu.be/kqiUGjghlzU?t=63

If you’re not familiar with the works of the Great Sage, Monty Python

What in the 1980s program are you getting your e-mail through?

It was kind of fun walking in to the tech support area and them asking your login name with no context knowing what the issue was.

I see this zip bomb was owned by user icpenis, someone track that guy down.

If you want a technical breakdown that isn’t “lol AI bad”:

https://blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-2025-outage/

Basically, a permission change cause an automated query to return more data than was planned for. The query resulted in a configuration file with a large amount of duplicate entries which was pushed to production. The size of the file went over the prealloctaed memory limit for a downstream system which died due to an unhandled error state resulting from the large configuration file. This caused a thread panic leading to the 5xx errors.

It seems that Crowdstrike isn’t alone this year in the ‘A bad config file nearly kills the Internet’ club.

It’s always depressing when you ask the AI to explain your code and then you get banned from OpenAI

Challenge them to watch 10 YouTube videos or browse 10 websites on their machine vs your machine. Then ask them to save the YouTube video as an .mp3 file.

It’s always horrifying when I start up a default Edge browser and load literally any webpage. Popover frames, video and audio ads that autoplay, floating ad windows. They’ll all technically have the ability to close them as long as you can touch the 3 pixel wide X button that is directly over the ad so mis-clicking loads a different web page or starts the Windows Store or some other nonsense.

open source developers are an inexhaustible source of unending miracles that work for free and are fueled by incoherent, conflicting, entitled demands from 14 year olds.

Ah, I see you’re a Bazzite user

e: (No offense to the Bazzite user, I’m sure you’re a special little guy and not at all a problem.)

and on linux, the ‘sync’ command will manually flush the buffers if you’re worried about buffered data not being written to the drive.

The rational response is to read and understand comments before letting outage compel you to say something ignorant. A lesson that both you and the tweet writer should learn.

I agree that this situation is outrageous, and that Megan Kelley is disingenuously trying to create cover for Trump. Nothing I wrote says anything otherwise.

You’re doing this ignorant thing that chronically online people do where they assume that any kind of disagreement automatically means that the person is on the other ‘side’ of the issue. Instead of actually responding to what I’ve said, you’ve created a strawman in your head that believes something outrageous and are attacking that strawman instead of what I’ve said.

And, to demonstrate the complexity of the real world, I can say all of that about you while also agreeing with you that Trump is a pedophile.

I agree with the underlying sentiment.

However, this seems like one of those comments that’s going for outrage over rationality.

I disagree that it matters, but the point of the controversial statement was that there’s a different term and level level of moral culpability between a person having sex with a 17 year old and the same person raping a 2 year old.

A tweet responding that they’re both illegal misses the point completely.

Genocide is illegal and jaywalking is illegal. We don’t equate them morally just because they are both illegal.

Just like how a person who rapes an infant isn’t morally equivalent to a person having sex with high schoolers even if it’s illegal to do both in your state/country.

It gets weirder the longer you look at it.

Sure, let’s just say the guy was overzealous with the (silicone caulk? lol) adhesive compound. Maybe the white cord is DC power, replacing the battery… but the red wire that’s right beside the ‘power’ wire is a USB cable plugged into the phone’s USB port.

What is plugged into the other end? It’s Zalgo isn̴̝̂’̶̯̾ṭ̷̆ ̶̫̈i̷̹̚t̴̩̉?̶͊͜

Honestly, if someone is just looking to get started cheap and easy, buying a pi and installing pi hole is a great first project that has immediate positive returns. Adding more services can be easy (if you used containers) and expanding to add more services is cheap.

Then, when you decide to spring for a server box, those Pis can still be useful as home automation devices. For example, they can control a decent amount of programmable LED strip lighting. Attached to a sensor shield, a solar panel and battery it can do atmospheric monitoring outside (while also controlling your driveway lighting) while being easy to integrate into HomeAssistant.

If you need to retire it, you can throw some emulators on it (retropi), load it up with a few thousand ROMs and donate it to a place that buys kids toys for holidays/their birthday.

37? In a row?

A large donation to his Presidential Library would probably settle the entire conflict

This guy didn’t have half of the reality denying power of the current White House Press Secretary