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At first I thought this was an announcement from Microsoft.

Reminds me of the old trick on HTML forms where you use CSS to make one of the form fields invisible to humans and reject any submission that filled in that field.

E099: PROGRAMMER IS OVERLY POLITE

Man it sure is crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide.

The problem is that you’re using Windows 95.

Pfft. Real programmers use butterflies

Terrible technique. Everyone knows it’s left hands only.

We are Linux. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your hard drive will be reformatted to service us. Resistance is futile.

A standard reference model in 3d modeling.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_teapot

The value of the DNS is that we all use the same one. You can declare independence, but you’d lose out on that value.

For some reason this specific graphic has always been one of my favorite parts of this movie.

Edit: I love the internet sometimes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94jIQm0YcCs

Install SponsorBlock.

So can a dotfile, or any other kind of storage. There’s really nothing inherently bad about the registry. Its reputation as a place to hide things in is equal parts selection bias, users’ lack of technical understanding, and the marketing of “registry cleaner” apps.

Unpopular opinion: The Windows Registry, a centralized, strongly typed key:value database for application settings, is actually superior to hundreds of individual dotfiles, each one written in its own janky customized DSL, with its own idea of where it should live in the file system, etc.

Part of my job is to review security footage for reported incidents.

If there is a long-lasting visual cue that the event has or has not happened yet (e.g. a window is either broken or not), then a binary search is very useful.

If the event lasts only a moment and leaves no visual cue (e.g. an assault), then binary search is practically useless.

I thought the joke was about old binaries.

I stopped reading closely about halfway though and skimmed the rest. The author seems to be “just asking questions” rather than actually doing much investigation. It’s not new or surprising, for example, that Google’s search deal is the bulk of Mozilla’s revenue or that a non-profit can own a for-profit subsidiary. That’s about where my attention waned, but it seems the author’s main beef has more to do with payments to liberal-sounding organizations than any sincere concern about financial shenanigans.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy

I assumed this is what you were referring to.

The Unix principles generally don’t translate well to interactive graphical interfaces.