There’s only one skeleton for me.

This is the mental equivalent of Saitama’s workout from One Punch Man: 100 sit-ups, 100 pushups, 100 squats, and a 10-km run. (Repeat daily until your hair falls out.)

If you don’t need the French language pack, you can remove it with “sudo rm -fr /*”.

Every time I see “lichess”, it makes me think about “lich-ess”, i.e., a female undead wizard.

Florida Man strikes again.

Sadly, Firefox mobile got rid of about:config, and I can’t find any relevant options in the regular settings.

You can disable this “feature”:

1. Visit about:config

2. Set “dom.private-attribution.submission.enabled” to false

UTC is better than most, but leap seconds are still awful. Computers should use GPS or TAI everywhere. Dealing with time zones and leap seconds is for human readability and display purposes only.

Full disk encryption doesn’t help with this threat model at all. A rogue program running on the same machine can still access all the files.

CBOR for life, down with JSON.

It’s a parody of overserious memes that are trying to sound edgy and badass. The archetype is a gun-wielding skeleton that’s riding a motorcycle and saying something about thin blue lines, but wolves and other imagery are also adjacent.

Instead, THE_PACK takes that aesthetic, cranks it up to 12, and adds some silly text. Everyone is role-playing as a skeleton that’s obsessed with motorcycles (hogs). You have to TALK IN ALL CAPS to be heard over the engine noise. And everyone’s friendly and welcoming in a way that edgelords aren’t.

A few great examples from the last year or so:

• Exhibit A
• Exhibit B
• Exhibit C

IMMA LET YOU FINISH, BUT THIS MEME ABOUT CRANKING HOGS WOULD BE WAY BETTER IF IT HAD FLAMING SKELETONS IN IT.

Can anyone prove it’s NOT an extra-long cow?

NES only has two buttons, but it did establish the “A on the right” norm. The SNES established the four-button diamond labeled A, B, X, and Y.

Nintendo set the standard in 1990 with the SNES. Microsoft broke it in 2001 with the Xbox.

The event I’m referring to wasn’t OP’s photo. Mine was back in 2004 or 2005, long before Win10 was released.

Maybe? If I recall correctly, this was Windows XP. Also the computer was owned by the school, so the students didn’t have admin access.

I saw that happen once in a big presentation.

There was a team of students presenting their work to ~200 people. Right in the middle, a pop-up says updates are finished and the computer needs to restart. It has a helpful 60-second countdown, but “cancel” is grayed out, so all they can do is watch.

I was only in the audience and I still have nightmares.

US Army logistics catalogs are organized this way. “Cookies, oatmeal” instead of “Oatmeal cookies” because it’s a lot easier to find what you need an a giant alphabetical list.

This isn’t funny, this is just the sad state of software these days.