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Baader-Meinhof.

I too applaud this terrible (amazing) pun.

One of my favourite quiet jokes is the "Editorial Board" list for The Annals of Improbable Research¹ where RTM is listed under Computer Science. Asterisks after each name denote qualificatio…

Location: Stockholm (remote or hybrid) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Java, AWS, Linux, technical writing Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in…

That's obnoxious. Do you only promote the interests of your employer? Do you expect people to assume that? It's not even as if Canonical has a particularly bad reputation for that kind of th…

I guess FTP was the extinction event for Kermit ... and didn't Kermit itself kill off the various [XYZ]Modem protocols? I too recall the reversed addresses. The transition from X29 to Internet fe…

Growing up my home phone number was 4 digits for a local call, or at least so I was required to memorise it as a small child. In the very late 90s I briefly had a rotary dial phone - very anachronisti…

I took it as being a tongue-in-cheek way of saying "mathematicians."

I guess the interesting question to me is: how often does this matter? How many successful mitm attacks on ssh connections are there and in what sort of circumstances do they occur? It seems like it…

Uh. I seem to be suffering from the Mandela effect; it is not in the site guidelines. It's definitely the overall policy officially or otherwise though (one which I'm entirely happy with d…

Low effort humour is discouraged, it's in the site guidelines and since it wasn't amusing, just confusing, perhaps you should skip the humour and consult them.

Unless you mean that a physically moving part caused the banks to switch then "mechanically" is the wrong word here. If that is how the bank switching was done then that's fascinati…

Inevitably there's a reddit sub for it (I adore the name of it): https://www.reddit.com/r/Thatsabooklight/ …

A bit late back to the party, but checking today I can curl archive.org from an AWS Cloud Shell in eu-west-2 no problem.

I was going to throw in a rather glib "and the other side was styled by Hugo Boss" but I figured I'd check if that was actually true first and... only kinda: https://www.redd…

Ant had the ability to write build scripts. It's part of what made Ant such a terrible build tool and IMO it's what makes Gradle such a terrible build tool. Maven's requirement that you…

It requires that it offer the opportunity for an interesting discussion in the view of those checking the /new page at the time that it's posted. This ticks several boxes - the desire to arc…

> you can sign up same day for a card Do you know if there are any hoops to jump through these days? My understanding was that a reader card used to require an academic referral or at least a write…

Random Sweden-based person here. I was using it fine yesterday & it's up and available today as well. Are you perhaps using some DNS provider that's blocking it? Or a VPN or something th…

I was a devotee of PC Plus back in the early 90s with my first XT compatible. I have exceedingly fond memories of the 5¼" cover disks and discovering a variety of shareware, freeware, nagware, co…

Incidentally I did find this previous cry from the heart, but it's complaining about a different aspect of LinkedIn's terribleness (keyword search failures): https://news.ycombina…

The paper is very approachable too: https://academic.oup.com/res/article/76/326/339/8198901 Includes mention of M.R.James whom I know mostly as an author of g…

It's a treasure. I feel for those expressing their loss - and at the same time am slightly in awe that IANA used to be "just some guy" - this plus the April Fool tradition gives the RFC…

Not forgotten, but this article did not mention my favourite and the most moving RFC: 2468 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2468 There's quiet genius in that ch…

I meant the full angry diatribe, not just "stop" Seems to me the evangelist is just being rude here, there are times and places where evangelism is fine, no?

Did you tell the guy that annoyed you that? Why tell us? You'll probably enjoy this ancient one though; it makes good points: https://www.perl.com/pub/2000/12/advoc…

People were using Amazon every day. But people were also using Pets.com every day. A bubble bursting doesn't make everything disappear. Just some things.

The only rationale for that billion dollar purchase of MySQL that has ever made sense to me was that they wanted it to attract the attention of Oracle and IBM for acquisition purposes.

Not an action movie, but I enjoyed The Pod Generation sci fi flick a lot a year or two back: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pod_Generation …