Notices by niconiconi (niconiconi@mk.absturztau.be), page 8

Cisco has removed a backdoor account Yet another one?! Cisco has added so many backdoors that they themselves have totally lost track of them.

"Mom, can we make e-sports games for iOS?"
"We have iOS e-sports at home."
*iOS e-sports at home*

Your mouse has moved. Windows 95 must be restarted for the change to take effect. Reboot now? [ OK ]

2000s network programmers: It's fast because it runs in kernel space without user overhead.
2020s network programmers: It's fast because it runs in user space without kernel overhead.

Uninterrupted Power Supply be like...
Ideal: Protect your data from grid instability.
Reality: Protect your data when you overload and trip the circuit breaker, when you forget to pay electric bills, when you kick the cable out from its AC outlet...

TIL the "GoldSrc" engine was called GoldSrc because it literally just meant "the stable branch of source code" (the "Source" engine was the unstable branch).

* Sanity check to keep you from breaking your system:
* Downgrading glibc is not supported and a sure way to destruction.
* Aborting to save your system.LMAO :blobcatlul:

@lispi314@udongein.xyz "Truth is... The game was rigged from the start."

"First of all, mouse acceleration is real."
"Example of what is not real: Half-Life 3."LMAO :blobcatlul:

GPT-4o can explain most of my tech jokes, but I found it's unable to explain this ancient one.

Q: Why doesn't Linode offer Windows VPS by default?
A: It's called Linode, and that means "Linux node", it's not called "Winode".
Q: If I install FreeBSD, does it mean that the host is going to open chatrooms for everyone?

There was a popular mailing list for RF/antenna designs and amateur radio, called antenneX. Around 2020, one day it suddenly disappeared, and 20 years of archive completely vaporized... All links to the list are now a 404... :blobcatnotlikethis:

@lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me @a1ba@suya.place Most users probably won't notice. But you can't assume this if all your users are professional reverse engineers.

@puniko it's the other kind of "digital", which just means "it has fingers".

"interdigital capacitor"
look inside
analog

@puniko mew mew mew

Good meownyaaaaaaaaaaa

Yet another cooling fan starts making the maddening clicking sound. I got it just one year ago. Magnetic bearing, my ass! It's more like "cheap FDB but with random tweaks."

Q: What do you call insider information about the Vocaloid franchise?

A: Infoleek.

[drm] Fence fallback timer expired on ring comp_1.0.0
amdgpu 0000:04:00.0: amdgpu: recover vram bo from shadow start
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000010
#PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
#PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
PGD 0 P4D 0AuthenticAMD.

It's not called "deleting the repo", it's called "removing all bugs."