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I'm a product of the 80's. Grown up playing Atari, programming MSX Basic and watching Looney Tunes, Thundercats and Changemen on TV.

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Either / Or Bandit A philosophy webcomic about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world. Also Jokes

Either/Or Bandit -
existentialcomics.com/comic/645

09.03.2026 16:18 πŸ‘ 110 πŸ” 27 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Worst Acquisition in History, Again Warner Bros.

The question isn’t what the Ellisons will do with Paramount and WBD, but who will acquire those assets at fire-sale prices when their AI synergy narrative can no longer provide cloud cover for their pair of overleveraged legacy media companies.

09.03.2026 17:12 πŸ‘ 205 πŸ” 34 πŸ’¬ 20 πŸ“Œ 4

The key thing here is wait and see what the consequences of blindly accepting AI code with little or no reviewing and testing will be.

My gut feeling is that the companies embracing this will end up buried under a pile of tech debt and undecipherable code.

09.03.2026 18:46 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Both the US Domestic Fracking oil industry and Russia should be pretty happy about it, so I don't know what you're talking about.

Seems like Trump's major goals already have been achieved.

09.03.2026 11:18 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Ireland’s $27BN Mission to Save Dublin
Ireland’s $27BN Mission to Save Dublin Say it quietly but Ireland might (finally) be building its first ever metro.Rayon is the all-in-one, effortless CAD tool for going from concept to completion...

Ireland’s $27BN Mission to Save Dublin

09.03.2026 01:01 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Turn Your Android Phone Into A Steam Deck! Play Real PC Games
Turn Your Android Phone Into A Steam Deck! Play Real PC Games Today, I'm showing you the absolute easiest way to play REAL PC games natively on your Android phone, tablet, or handheld! We aren't using cloud gaming or st...

Turn Your Android Phone Into A Steam Deck! Play Real PC Games

09.03.2026 01:01 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Regardless of party, always the same lie from warmongering presidents.

Regardless of party, always the same lie from warmongering presidents.

Regardless of party, always the same lie from warmongering presidents.

None of their kids sign up. Its beneath the #RulingClass (aka #EpsteinClass).

Fighting & dying for them & the #JewishSupremacist ethno-state of #ApartheidIsrael is for the poor #WorkingClass to do.

#NoWarButClassWar

08.03.2026 12:41 πŸ‘ 22 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 1
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Israel has killed tens of thousands of Palestinian women and girls in its genocidal war on Gaza.

On International Women's Day, we look at the number of women and girls Israel killed in Gaza in 2025.

#Infograph

08.03.2026 17:12 πŸ‘ 1365 πŸ” 902 πŸ’¬ 52 πŸ“Œ 33
Part 1/2 of a 4-panel SMBC comic update. The first panel shows the Fairy Godmother and Cinderella in a room with a pumpkin on a dresser. The Fairy Godmother says "and with my magic, Cinderella, that pumpkin will turn into a carriage when the sun sets." Intrigued, Cinderella asks "wait. So... Tonight... That pumpkin suddenly expands to twenty times it's size?" When the Fairy Godmother replies yes, Cinderella continues "and then at midnight it shrinks back and just looks like pumpkin? Like regular old pumpkin. Like anyone who saw it would say 'that's just a pumpkin?'" The fairy Godmother inquires "right. Why?"

Part 1/2 of a 4-panel SMBC comic update. The first panel shows the Fairy Godmother and Cinderella in a room with a pumpkin on a dresser. The Fairy Godmother says "and with my magic, Cinderella, that pumpkin will turn into a carriage when the sun sets." Intrigued, Cinderella asks "wait. So... Tonight... That pumpkin suddenly expands to twenty times it's size?" When the Fairy Godmother replies yes, Cinderella continues "and then at midnight it shrinks back and just looks like pumpkin? Like regular old pumpkin. Like anyone who saw it would say 'that's just a pumpkin?'" The fairy Godmother inquires "right. Why?"

Part 2/2 of a 4-panel SMBC comic update. In the final panel, Cinderella is insistingly serving roast squash to her step family, saying "have  some more roast squash, beloved stepmother." With the stepmother replying "Oh, maybe just one more bite."

Part 2/2 of a 4-panel SMBC comic update. In the final panel, Cinderella is insistingly serving roast squash to her step family, saying "have some more roast squash, beloved stepmother." With the stepmother replying "Oh, maybe just one more bite."

Actually there's probably a medieval German version that makes this one look pleasant.

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07.03.2026 23:30 πŸ‘ 189 πŸ” 34 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 1

I need every single male artist that follows me to read this. It's not very long. You need to bear witness to this shit. You have to see it with your own eyes because you never will in your everyday life.

I'm serious, read it all please

08.03.2026 03:46 πŸ‘ 6313 πŸ” 3136 πŸ’¬ 30 πŸ“Œ 19

I can believe that it can deliver results pretty fast. But can it handle increasing complexity on this own?

This kind of reminds me of when Ruby On Rails was supposed to end Java.

07.03.2026 11:03 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

When I use it like this it saves ME some time. But overall the time it takes from planning to production stayed the same, it's only that some of the load was taken away from my back.

07.03.2026 11:01 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I often see myself writing the bulk of the implementation, and only asking Claude to fill in the gaps and write tests because I absolutely don't trust it's capacity of understanding the whole.

More than one time it produces gems like tests with only mocks that tested nothing of the real code.

07.03.2026 10:59 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Working on an existing, very complex codebase, I can say with some confidence that I spend much more time understanding requirements and planning changes than actually writing code.

Claude can be a bit of help, but it can't figure out what to do from the specs alone.

07.03.2026 10:56 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Did you know that you can daisy chain multiple monitors using Display Port? And did you know that despite their hardware having the capability Apple refuses to support this on macOS since ever?

Urgh, why are you like this Apple?

06.03.2026 09:48 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Vape-powered Car Isn’t Just Blowing Smoke Hackaday Article

Vape-powered Car Isn’t Just Blowing Smoke

04.03.2026 21:04 πŸ‘ 125 πŸ” 19 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 2
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Old Desk Phone Gets Doom Port Hackaday Article

Old Desk Phone Gets Doom Port

04.03.2026 06:03 πŸ‘ 155 πŸ” 20 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 1
What if you floated upwards 1 ft every second?
What if you floated upwards 1 ft every second? YouTube video by xkcd's What If?

What if you floated upwards 1 ft every second?

What the latest What If? video in collaboration with
@minuteearth.bsky.social!

youtu.be/oTzW-mTQd5w

04.03.2026 20:46 πŸ‘ 1066 πŸ” 140 πŸ’¬ 17 πŸ“Œ 11

The A18 Pro in the MacBook Neo is 19% faster than the M2 Ultra in the Mac Pro in single-core performance (Geekbench 6).

The MacBook Neo starts at $599.

The Mac Pro, which is still for sale, starts at $6,999.

04.03.2026 16:11 πŸ‘ 418 πŸ” 49 πŸ’¬ 60 πŸ“Œ 10
An excerpt from The Order of the Stick #1340 showing Vaarsuvius.

An excerpt from The Order of the Stick #1340 showing Vaarsuvius.

New OOTS! #1340, Down the Chute: www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1...

02.03.2026 14:17 πŸ‘ 199 πŸ” 26 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 3
The Gold Nugget That Changed America Forever
The Gold Nugget That Changed America Forever Get the exclusive NordVPN deal + 4 months extra here: https://nordvpn.com/nightshiftIt's risk-free with Nord’s 30-day money-back guarantee!Sources & further ...

The Gold Nugget That Changed America Forever

02.03.2026 16:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Cart Tunes -- 6 Hours of Genesis / Mega Drive Music!
Cart Tunes -- 6 Hours of Genesis / Mega Drive Music! Over 6 hours hours of Sega Genesis & Mega Drive music recorded directly from my personal Genesis from 1989 (Model 1, revision VA2... rebuilt pre-amp)! A few ...

Cart Tunes -- 6 Hours of Genesis / Mega Drive Music!

02.03.2026 16:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Be a pro

02.03.2026 10:10 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Internet connectivity in Iran is now in a near-complete shutdown, down about 98% vs the previous week. The disruption began around 07:00 UTC, following reports of military strikes β€” and in past incidents the government has responded with nationwide Internet shutdowns.

28.02.2026 12:03 πŸ‘ 817 πŸ” 300 πŸ’¬ 40 πŸ“Œ 13
Gorillaz - The Mountain, The Moon Cave and The Sad God
Gorillaz - The Mountain, The Moon Cave and The Sad God The Mountain, The Moon Cave and The Sad God. Sequence Director Jonathan Djob Nkondo Producer Eva Dahlqvist Art Director Eido Hayashi Production Manager Micha...

Gorillaz - The Mountain, The Moon Cave and The Sad God

28.02.2026 16:25 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Had the same issue with Forza 5. Solution was to remove 2FA from my account, and launch the game in desktop mode to authenticate.

27.02.2026 21:17 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This reminds me of how the Western world handed over all their manufacturing to China.

How's that going?

27.02.2026 20:53 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thing about software development is, writing code isn't the valuable part. Domain and business knowledge is.

Are companies really going to lock away a good chunk of the knowledge necessary to run and evolve their operations behind a subscription?

27.02.2026 20:52 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
A crow says "I just want to"

A crow says "I just want to"

"Focus" Crow is now very detailed and crouching down

"Focus" Crow is now very detailed and crouching down

27.02.2026 20:41 πŸ‘ 4656 πŸ” 1375 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 16