Some book I was reading like a year ago mentioned “Coke” about 900 times. Definite product placement there. That one was glaringly obvious but yes, it is common.
Amusing
It’s Nukin’ Season
Definitely. I’m one of those who grew up with constant prep for war (and nuclear war) with the Soviets. The younger people who don’t recall any of that have a vastly different mindset when it comes to many political and social topics. Scientists can prevaricate and dissimulate all they like, but that’s a very huge and extremely substantive generational difference there.
Foiled
Velveeta ate through its own foil.
That’s some kind of bug (as someone mentions). Anyway, eating the foil of Velveeta tastes better than the actual “cheese.”
Forcework
Why Didn’t AI “Join the Workforce” in 2025?
It did. This dude just doesn’t know how to account for it. Look in the wrong place, you won’t find anything. And most people right now are looking everywhere but the right place due to mulish stupidity.
AI is all over the place. My company uses it extensively, to great effect. Recently a project was completed that sans AI would’ve taken perhaps 700 person-hours. With AI, it took maybe 150. This is typical now. And this is happening everywhere. Did it directly replace a person? No. Did it allow that individual to do far more far more quickly? It sure as fuck did.
Considering that in the business world a 10% improvement is highly praised, a 467% improvement is pretty dang impressive.
So, yes, AI is everywhere and that is increasing all the time, inexorably. Just because this clown doesn’t know where to look (or how to look) doesn’t mean it’s not there.
Can All F Off
An advantage of my tendency to tell actual authorities to fuck right off is that scammers pretending to be authorities have zero chance with me.
Problem Lies
A lot of women: Sex is all men want and all they care about.
Same women: I only provide sex, have no other interests or personality, and these men don’t want me! That means they’re evil!
As with male incels, they never seem to to realize the problem is with them.
IPv6 Tricks
IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn’t taken over the world.
As usual, the Hacker News comments are full of utter idiots. More than half of the people there (mostly the ones praising IPv6) who speak authoritatively about networking know fuck-all about it. Which is the norm there.
Like this fucking clown talking about IPv4 and NAT. His claim that “the connection will just head right on through your router” is 100% false for a normal NAT gateway. Doesn’t matter where the traffic originates as as long it’s coming from a public IP. His comments are fully wrong. Packets arriving from the internet are addressed to the router’s WAN IP. Without a DNAT/port-forward rule (or an existing NAT state entry that matches), the router does fucking not “route them onward” to some LAN host. There is no destination inside to route to because the destination is the router itself. This cannot, cannot happen. Idiot.
The comment how about how “NAT only changes the source address” is also wrong. Typical residential NAT is always NAT/PAT (address and port translation) and is stateful.That means it creates a mapping only when an inside host sends outbound traffic first and uses that mapping to translate inbound return traffic. Unmatched inbound traffic is dropped because it can’t be translated. Period. Therefore, that makes NAT a very effective security measure for essentially free.
From the outside, you simply cannot open a new TCP connection to an arbitrary PC on a residential network behind a simple NAT without port forwarding or some other explicit/implicit mapping mechanism. Thus, Dagger2 is a clown idiot, as mentioned above.
Motherfuckers are always like, “NAT is not a firewall!” And never, ever, ever, understand how NAT actually works. Blows my mind.
Long Gap
That’s a newcomer. That screenshot is from Windows XP. I’d been dialing into BBSes at the command line fifteen years before that both on the TRS-80 and in DOS.
Army of None
It takes an army of developers to hold me back. And they still can’t.
What Did Stephanie Ever Do To You?
Stuff Stephanie in the Incinerator.
This has to be one of the worst movie titles of all time. And though I watched tons of trashy horror movies in the 1980s, this masterpiece was not among them. I think I will continue to pass on viewing this work.
Bit Roll
If at least once a day I don’t make my computer do something the developers attempted to prevent me from doing, I’m not happy.
That’s just how I roll.
Lost World
Neighborhood? LOL.
No. My parents let me ride my bike anywhere I wanted once I was in 6th grade. I would bike to the outskirts of town. I would get lost. I would meet strange people. I would get home after dark.
My parents’ generation wasn’t weird; this one is. https://t.co/bmGyHylOFR
— i/o (@avidseries) December 29, 2025
To think that my childhood and the childhood of everyone I knew in the 1980s is now some mythical lost world that Gen Z clowns do not believe even existed. However, by the time I was around 9, I could ride my bike anywhere I wanted. It was the same for all the other kids I knew about. It was absolutely, completely normal.
Racing Where
Unless this is just a word game, what the fuck are you talking about?
Whether I am "a Negro" or whatever is a social convention – but any competent blood test can determine that I am 40% West African Bantu, 40% Northern European and specifically Celtic, and 20% Plains Indian. https://t.co/4UGNDuhWBH
— Wilfred Reilly (@wil_da_beast630) December 26, 2025
It’s hard to believe the “race doesn’t exist” propaganda when a genetic test can determine it quite reliably.
Issue
Issues · WordPress/gutenberg · GitHub.
LOL @ Gutenberg having more than 5,600 open issues on GitHub. That’s hilarious.
Great work. Really gettin’ it done.
Spacing In
At work there’s one customer (that has over 10,000 times our yearly revenue) giving us trouble about why we don’t have two disaster recovery locations. Hello, we do not have nearly-unlimited monopoly money like you do. We can’t go spooling up data centers and environments all across the land.
Anyway, as long as I have the data (which I do), I can spin up an environment anywhere nearly. I’m tempted to list “the ISS” as our second DR location and be done with it.