I just can’t take an article complaining about ads seriously when it’s that peppered with ads …

Only if it’s installed somewhere beneath the current working directory, whichever that might be when running the command.

I like my stuff self-managed.

Bitwarden / Vaultwarden is a popular available working solution for self-hosting and self-managing passkeys (as well as passwords).

Why would someone own 8 vehicles?

He might be too poor to be able to afford more than that.

Doesn’t need any comment:

int getCount() { return count; }

Absolutely needs a very extensive comment:

double getBojangleFlux { return fubar * .42; }

It had a wonderfully bizarre name: fsn

The funny thing about that quote is that it really was a Unix system that was shown on screen.

Okay. So how do we turn it off!?

This is probably not the reply you want, but as someone who (in the past 40+ years) has never owned a TV, I simply can’t refrain from asking: Have you considered simply not owning a TV?

Please ban all the stupid password rules.

Yes.

I would rather just get hacked […]

Eh, no.

https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/08/dot_internal_ratified/

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Just curious: If you’re willing to use Discord, why not Google?

It’s now been 18 years since the last time an employer paid me to write assembly, but it’s only been a year or so since the last time I had to read assembly at work (in order to verify what the compiler really was doing).

Sure, but when was the last time you saw, say, a Python project using some third-party library instead of simply calling isnumeric() from the standard library?

There’s a reason for these jokes always being about Javascript.

We have Unicode these days: blåhaj

We have Unicode these days: blåhaj