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[-] chuckleslord@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago

So many levels!

The levels:

[-] Windex007@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

A keen eye would pick up 2 subtle but clever additional references in the background and related to the specifications of those particular drives.

[-] xthexder@l.sw0.com 4 points 1 day ago

Are we looking at the same image? I can't even tell the brand of the drives, let alone the model or specs. One of them might be an HGST drive? It's too pixelated/JPEGd to tell.

[-] Windex007@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Oh, I couldn't tell you what the 2 things are. I don't have a keen eye. I'm just waiting for someone who does.

[-] Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club 3 points 1 day ago

Come on, in the fourth frame the hard drive should be on its side, facing the camera. Not on it's back.

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 51 points 1 day ago
[-] chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 40 points 1 day ago

Really served this one up on a platter.

[-] Brkdncr@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago
[-] msage@programming.dev 6 points 1 day ago

Didn't really scratch the itch

[-] thatradomguy@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Better love story than Twilight.

[-] peyotecosmico@programming.dev 7 points 1 day ago

Something something 6 7 our memes were better

[-] Flagstaff@programming.dev 19 points 1 day ago

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/loss

You take a four panel comic, have one line stand up, two panels with two lines standing up, and one panel with two lines perpendicular to each other. Congratulations! It's a joke about miscarriage

It’s not a joke about miscarriage. It’s a meme about miscarriage.

[-] AgentRocket@feddit.org 9 points 1 day ago

IMO it's not about miscarriage, but about a crudely drawn, supposedly funny webcomic about gaming trying (and failing) to be impactful and emotional.

Loss is a meme about miscarriage in the same way that Press F To Pay Respects is a meme about dead and wounded soldiers.

Loss, as an episode of Ctrl-Alt-Del, was like running a sweeps week episode of General Hospital in the middle of a Jackass marathon. The audience of Jackass fans you've attracted are going to phone in to ask just what the cunting heck you think you're doing.

[-] NachBarcelona@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It's not "a joke about miscarriage" 😂😂 Brudi...

[-] homoludens@feddit.org 30 points 1 day ago
[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Bad title

The requested page title contains unsupported characters: "%2B".

[-] Ooops@feddit.org 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Your browser should normally handle that.

But you can also replace that string with '+': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_(Ctrl+Alt+Del)

[-] remon@ani.social 2 points 1 day ago
[-] Ghoelian@piefed.social 8 points 1 day ago

That's a wikipedia error, I'm seeing the same on Firefox on android

[-] Flagstaff@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago

I think you should mention the Lemmy browser as well; I had no problem using Summit + Waterfox just now.

[-] Ghoelian@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Looks like thunder or android or whatever is doing something weird with the characters when clicked

[-] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Soo… Some characters are not valid in URLs (or not used for other reasons) and must be replaced. In this case, the + is percent-encoded to %2B, which renders Loss_(Ctrl+Alt+Del) as Loss_(Ctrl%2BAlt%2BDel), which is a perfectly fine URL (cut off the front for clarity).

Hower, something on the client (OS, browser) then seems to look at that URL and think that the percent sign cannot be there and encodes that again to yield Loss_(Ctrl%252BAlt%252BDel).

When Wikipedia looks at this and tries to figure out the page to load, it de-encodes that string back to Loss_(Ctrl%2BAlt%2BDel) and seems to stub its toe on the %2B, if @SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world is to be believed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percent-encoding

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

Fine on Voyager and Firefox Android here.

[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

It's history's most boring meme, Loss. Why is it significant? Well some dude posted a webcomic without realizing how cringy it was. Now people will post references about it until the heat death of the universe because apparently something about how severely uninteresting and insignificant it was is thrilling. Or something.

[-] Landslide7648@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 1 day ago

I always figured he was coping with experiencing a miscarriage. No cringe in that.

[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

That's what people thought of it though. I don't find it interesting at all

[-] snooggums@piefed.world 6 points 1 day ago

Congratulations!

[-] Siethron@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

I only count 2 levels to this.

[-] kamen@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

laughs in 3-2-1 backup and RAID 5

this post was submitted on 03 Jan 2026
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