When the power goes out and that fan stops, it's the quietest thing you've ever imagined. It shouldn't even be possible. I hate it.

I was in a very, very rough spot. Was mostly worth taking the offer. It sure beat wasting 13 years of obscure product knowledge at some new job for the less pay others were offering.

I know there's a big joke about furries running the IT world but I know a huge number of them in aviation, too.

I stopped paying any attention to them when they started talking about NFTs. This is cool news.

I'm naming my kid Dangle-balls.

god i wish that were me

I had my Reddit very heavily curated, my subs were mostly smaller subreddits. I was incredibly active and had my settings so that anything I voted on would not appear on my homepage. I got to see a ton of posts because of that.

Around 2021, I started noticing that reposts weren't just people coming in and posting things we've seen a dozen times because they had no way to know it was a repost. It was bot networks that would take top posts and then other bot accounts would recreate the original post's comment section. The accounts followed patterns and became really obvious to spot after a while.

The original tells were the bots taking really specific posts that only made sense in that context. Popular post from last Christmas? The bot doesn't know what Christmas is, sees a popular post from a few months ago and reposts someone happy about their gifts in August. Look at this beautiful picture I took of the summer Alaskan wilderness this morning but it's February. The photography subreddits were obvious because the bots would rotate the picture a few degrees which would sometimes ruin the picture's aesthetic.

I'm not sure if it was just me spotting them easier or if they were really ramping up into 2022 but by the time they killed API access and I stopped using it, I think over 80% of posts were bots. Made leaving the site way easier.

I'm going to try to swallow some shotgun shells if I have to see one more article telling me to work until I die.

This story should be done and dusted but these devs keep dredging it up and coming back for more. It's really astounding.

Put me in the dick sucking machine, please.

I have a buddy who learned English as a second language early in life and he has a fluent Irish accent. I've never been able to wrap my head around that one.

This image looks like a horror movie hostage situation.