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Sorry

8 minutes ago 2.2K views 0 shares

So you casually mentioned you don't have Netflix and suddenly you're being held at gunpoint while someone forces you to read Windows Internals documentation, Sysinternals articles, browser exploitation CVEs, and reverse engineering repos. Because apparently that's the ONLY logical explanation for why you'd skip Netflix—you must be spending your evenings doing deep dives into kernel architecture and memory management like some kind of masochist. The intervention energy here is absolutely unhinged. "Take off your shoes, we're gonna talk about the Windows kernel" has the same vibe as "we need to talk about your life choices" except somehow MORE terrifying because it involves Pavel Yosifovich's 350-minute exploit development articles and Dave's Garage videos. Your friends really said "no Netflix? You must be one of THOSE people" and decided to stage a full confrontation about your extracurricular OS deep-dive habits.

Introducing Windows 12

Windows AI Microsoft

1 hour ago 24.7K views 0 shares

Microsoft's design team went absolutely wild with those fancy new wallpaper curves, but apparently forgot to allocate any budget for the actual UI. We've got this gorgeous, futuristic Windows 12 backdrop that looks like it was rendered on a NASA supercomputer, and right in the middle sits "Message Copilot"—a window so aggressively blank it makes a fresh index.html look feature-rich. The contrast is *chef's kiss*—they're pushing AI assistants as the next big thing while the interface itself looks like it's still loading from a dial-up connection. Nothing says "cutting-edge operating system" quite like a completely empty dialog box photobombing your $200 wallpaper. At least the taskbar icon matches the window's energy: minimalist to the point of nonexistence. Classic Microsoft move: revolutionize the aesthetics, ship the functionality as "coming in a future update."

Pic Of The Day

Javascript Programming Debugging

2 hours ago 30.0K views 0 shares

Imagine walking past a coffee shop and being personally ATTACKED by a chalkboard sign. The absolute AUDACITY of this barista flexing their JavaScript skills while simultaneously roasting anyone who can actually decipher their spaghetti code! 😭 The code itself is a masterpiece of chaos: they're splitting an empty string, reversing it, joining it back (which does absolutely NOTHING), and then building a "secret word" by concatenating three strings. Spoiler alert: str2 + str3 + str1 gives you "rcne" + "ypt" + "ion" = "rcneyptio"... wait, that's not even a word. Unless they meant "encryption" and had a stroke while typing? The tragedy is REAL. But hey, if you spent more than 10 seconds trying to debug their intentionally broken code instead of just ordering your latte, congratulations! You've earned that free coffee through sheer determination and questionable life choices. ☕

Super SWE

Programming Frontend

3 hours ago 43.0K views 0 shares

So you're telling me this "Super SWE" role wants someone who's done something remarkable, ships features before breakfast, has "undeniable proof-of-talent," believes in manifesting physical engineering futures, AND has built exceptional UIs... but LinkedIn can't even generate a job match summary because there's not enough information? Classic. The job requirements read like a tech bro's fever dream written at 3 AM after watching too many startup documentaries. "Go from 0 → 1 on an idea before breakfast" – buddy, I can barely go from 0 → 1 cup of coffee before breakfast. And "manifesting the future of physical engineering"? What is this, a software job or a TED talk audition? Over 100 people clicked apply though. Either everyone's delusional about their qualifications or we're all just that desperate for remote work. Probably both.

Don't Mind Me Just Making Some ASCII

Programming Bash

3 hours ago 48.7K views 0 shares

When you tell yourself you're just gonna make "some ASCII art" and suddenly you've spent 4 hours meticulously placing percentage signs and hashtags to create what appears to be the Death Star. Because nothing says "productive coding session" like abandoning your actual project to manually position 10,000 characters into a perfect sphere. The best part? You started with a simple smiley face in your console output, and now you're basically a digital Michelangelo painting the Sistine Chapel with monospace fonts. Your pull request can wait—this masterpiece needs more shading with equals signs. Pro tip: This is what happens when developers discover that terminals can display more than just error messages. Next thing you know, they're rendering entire Star Wars movies in ASCII and calling it "learning about character encoding."

So Many Levels

Hardware Devops Databases

3 hours ago 54.5K views 0 shares

The five stages of grief, but make it hardware failure. Someone's hard drive went from "perfectly fine" to "abstract art installation" real quick. What starts as a normal HDD standing upright gradually transforms into increasingly creative interpretations of what a hard drive could be. First it's standing, then lying flat, then someone thought "what if we bent it a little?" and finally achieved the ultimate form: a hard drive sandwich with extra platters. The title "So Many Levels" is chef's kiss because it works on multiple levels itself (pun absolutely intended). Physical levels of the drive's position, levels of destruction, and levels of desperation when you realize your backup strategy was "I'll do it tomorrow." Fun fact: those shiny platters inside spin at 7200 RPM, which is roughly the same speed your heart rate reaches when you hear that clicking sound. RAID stands for Redundant Array of Independent Disks, but after seeing this, it clearly stands for "Really Avoid Inadequate Disaster-planning."

Imagine The World With More Windows Computers

Linux MacOS Apple Windows Programming

4 hours ago 60.7K views 0 shares

Imagine The World With More Windows Computers

Steve Jobs really tried to pull a "join us and kill your baby" move on Linus Torvalds back in 2000. Imagine the audacity: "Hey, come work for Apple, but first, stop doing that thing you're literally famous for creating." Torvalds looked at that offer, probably laughed in Finnish, and said "nah, I'm good." Thank the tech gods he did, because without Linux we'd be living in a dystopian hellscape where servers run Windows and Docker containers are just a fever dream. The man literally chose open-source ideals over a cushy Apple paycheck and continues maintaining the kernel that powers like 90% of the internet, Android phones, and basically every server worth its salt. Meanwhile, Steve's probably doing that prayer hands thing from beyond the grave, still wondering why anyone would turn down Apple.

British Devs Be Like

Git Programming

4 hours ago 64.9K views 0 shares

British devs pronouncing "init" like "innit" (their slang for "isn't it") is the kind of linguistic coincidence that makes git commands feel like proper British banter. Meanwhile, American devs are over here saying "in-it" like cavemen who never watched a single episode of Top Gear. The Drake meme format really drives home the superiority complex here. Rejecting the boring American pronunciation? Nah mate. Embracing the cheeky British version that sounds like you're questioning someone's life choices? Absolutely brilliant, innit?

iOS App For Honey Extension

Javascript Webdev Security Programming Frontend

9 hours ago 133.3K views 0 shares

Someone reverse-engineered the Honey browser extension (you know, the "coupon finder" that supposedly saves you money) and found some... interesting code. The highlighted sections show tracking events being sent with coupon data, and then there's a function literally called maybeShowUserShare() . Not "definitely protect user privacy" or "ask for consent" - just maybe show the user you're sharing their data. The function name is doing some heavy lifting here. It's like naming a function maybeStealYourWallet() and acting surprised when people get upset. The code is sending analytics events with coupon codes and tracking whether coupons were applied - all that juicy e-commerce data that's worth its weight in affiliate commission gold. Nothing says "trustworthy" quite like discovering the free money-saving tool you installed is potentially monetizing your shopping habits without being super transparent about it. But hey, at least the developer was honest enough to use "maybe" in the function name. That's more transparency than most privacy policies give you.

What For 1 Follower In Real Life

Git Webdev Programming

10 hours ago 157.7K views 0 shares

Getting 1,000 Instagram followers? Cool, whatever. 100 Twitter followers? Meh, decent. 5 Reddit followers? Now we're talking—you're basically a celebrity because who even follows people on Reddit? But ONE GitHub follower? *Chef's kiss* You've ascended to godhood. Someone looked at your spaghetti code, your half-finished projects, and your README that just says "TODO," and thought, "Yes, I need MORE of this in my life." That's not just validation, that's a spiritual awakening. Move over influencers, we've got a developer who someone actually wants to stalk... I mean, follow... for their code commits.

If Too Expensive Then Shut Down Prod

Gcp Devops Backend Cloud

11 hours ago 168.6K views 0 shares

Google Cloud's cost optimization recommendations hit different when they casually suggest shutting down your VM to save $5.16/month. Like yeah, technically that WOULD save money, but that VM is... you know... running your entire production application. The best part? The recommendation system has no idea what's critical and what's not. It just sees an idle CPU and thinks "hmm, wasteful." Meanwhile, that "idle" VM is serving thousands of users and keeping your business alive. But sure, let's save the cost of a fancy latte per month by nuking prod. Cloud providers really out here giving you the financial advice equivalent of "have you tried just not being poor?" Peak efficiency mindset right there.

Rtx $5090

Hardware AI Gamedev

13 hours ago 189.8K views 0 shares

Oh look, it's the classic "I hate Nvidia but also I'm completely addicted to their GPUs" paradox! Watching the price go from $1999 to $2499 to $2999 and finally landing at a cool $5000 is like watching your bank account slowly file for bankruptcy in real-time. But here we are, Star-Lord style, pretending we're confused about why we keep crawling back to Team Green like Stockholm syndrome victims. The GPU market has basically become an abusive relationship where Nvidia keeps raising prices to absolutely BONKERS levels, everyone complains about monopolistic practices and scalper-friendly launches, and then... we all line up at 6 AM on launch day anyway because we NEED those ray-traced reflections and DLSS magic. It's fine, we're all fine, everything is fine while our wallets weep in the corner.

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