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Degoogling Guide: Vim Edition

1 day ago 135.0K views 0 shares

The ultimate privacy solution: replace every Google service with Vim. Because nothing says "I value my digital freedom" like editing your emails with keyboard shortcuts that require a PhD to memorize. Want to check your calendar? Just type :calendar and pray you remember how to exit. Need directions? Good luck rendering Google Maps in ASCII. The irony of replacing ChatGPT with Vim is just *chef's kiss* - trading one text interface that understands you for one that makes you want to throw your computer out the window.

The World's Most Helpful Security Breach

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1 day ago 160.4K views 1 shares

The World's Most Helpful Security Breach

OH MY GOD, the AUDACITY of this login form! 💀 Imagine typing your super-secret password and the system basically screams "HEY EVERYONE, I KNOW WHO YOU ARE!" Talk about the world's worst security design! It's like hiring a bodyguard who announces your social security number through a megaphone. The poor developer who created this monstrosity probably also keeps their house key under a doormat labeled "SECRET KEY HERE." I'm having heart palpitations just looking at this security nightmare!

The Evolution Of A Developer's Search History

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6 days ago 122.3K views 0 shares

The Evolution Of A Developer's Search History

First day of programming: "Let me just Google this regex real quick." Ten years later: "Let me just DuckDuckGo this regex real quick." The only thing that changes after a decade of coding is your search engine preference and privacy concerns. Regex remains the eternal mystery that no one bothers to memorize. It's like learning to fold fitted sheets – technically possible but why torture yourself?

What Kind Of User Are You?

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6 days ago 136.7K views 0 shares

The tech evolution iceberg is the perfect personality test for developers. Started with Windows and macOS? Basic normie. Running Linux/Windows dual boot with Firefox? Congrats, you've achieved tech bro status. But the real fun starts when you hit the nerd level with Vim and full disk encryption. The basement dwellers are running custom kernels and using IRC like it's still 2005. "What messaging app do you use?" "Oh, just /bin/dash, you wouldn't understand." Then there's the glowie tier with encrypted GRUB and air-gapped machines. These folks compile their own compilers because they don't trust the ones that compiled the compilers. And finally, the ascended beings who've transcended physical hardware entirely. They probably run consciousness.sh directly on the universe's quantum fabric. The rest of us are just trying to remember our WiFi password.

The Myth Of The Good Tech Giant

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14 days ago 160.8K views 0 shares

That blue paperclip isn't offering to help with your Word document. It's the tech industry admitting what we all suspected - they'd have started harvesting your data decades earlier if they'd only thought of it. Remember when privacy was just something we had instead of something we clicked "Agree" to surrender? Those were the days... before every app needed to know your location to tell you the weather outside your window.

The Ultimate Cookie Consent Dialog

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18 days ago 181.8K views 0 shares

This is a brilliant multi-layered joke that works on so many levels! In "The Matrix," Neo meets the Oracle who offers him a cookie—but in web development, "cookies" are small data files websites store in your browser to track you. So Neo, who's literally fighting against machines that control humans, accepting a cookie from "Oracle" (also a massive tech corporation in real life) is hilariously ironic. It's like the ultimate privacy policy acceptance scene that happened years before web cookies were even mainstream. The perfect intersection of 90s sci-fi and modern web development frustrations!

He Never Asked For My Data

Microsoft Security Windows Programming

21 days ago 126.9K views 0 shares

OMG, the AUDACITY of people romanticizing Clippy in 2023! 💅 That paperclip assistant from Microsoft Office was literally THE ORIGINAL PRIVACY INVADER before it was cool! While we're all losing our minds about apps tracking our every move, Clippy was just sitting there, innocently bouncing around our Word documents, NOT asking for our age, NOT canceling our perpetual licenses, and NOT demanding our location. THE HORROR! A digital assistant that just... helped?! Without stealing our data?! What a concept! *dramatically faints onto keyboard*

Zero Logs VPN Providers

Security Networking Programming

23 days ago 126.5K views 0 shares

That moment when you realize your "no logs" VPN is actually Ned Flanders in a trench coat peeking through your browser history. VPN providers love to advertise their "zero logs" policy while simultaneously watching everything you do like an overly attached ex. It's the digital equivalent of someone promising they're not listening to your conversation while wearing noise-canceling headphones backward. Trust in the cybersecurity world is about as reliable as a chocolate teapot in a sauna.

The Cobbler's Children Have No Smart Shoes

Security Networking Iot Hardware Linux

29 days ago 126.4K views 1 shares

The Cobbler's Children Have No Smart Shoes

OH. MY. GOD. The ULTIMATE tech paradox! 💀 While regular humans are turning their homes into Star Trek command centers with voice-activated EVERYTHING, IT professionals are living like it's 1972! The sheer AUDACITY of tech experts using OpenWRT routers (that's a hardcore open-source firmware, honey) while refusing to let a single "smart" device cross their threshold! And that printer from 2004?! PLEASE! Nothing says "I understand technology too well to trust it" like keeping ancient hardware and a weapon nearby just in case it dares to beep unexpectedly. The irony is so thick you could cut it with a non-smart, manually operated knife! 🔪

How To Browse Websites In 2025: 13 Simple Steps

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1 month ago 99.4K views 0 shares

How To Browse Websites In 2025: 13 Simple Steps

The dystopian future of web browsing is upon us! What used to be a simple "click and read" has evolved into a psychological obstacle course where the actual content is buried beneath 11 layers of digital garbage. Step 12 is where the real programming happens - debugging your own mental state after the browser equivalent of running through a minefield of dark patterns. By the time you reach step 13, you've completely forgotten your original query because your brain's stack has overflowed with popup-closing operations. The irony? We frontend developers created this monster. We implemented those cookie banners, subscription modals, and location trackers that we ourselves despise. It's like we're trapped in an infinite recursive function of our own making with no base case in sight!

Terminal Asks For ID Before Showing Downloads

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1 month ago 148.3K views 0 shares

Terminal Asks For ID Before Showing Downloads

Imagine running a simple ls command on your Downloads folder and getting hit with age verification! The terminal's like "Sorry buddy, can't show you your own files without proper ID." Next thing you know, you'll need two-factor authentication just to check what's in your homework directory and a background check to run rm -rf . The UK Online Safety Act getting implemented at the filesystem level is the dystopian command line we never asked for. Sudo make me a sandwich? More like sudo verify-you're-old-enough-for-sandwich!

The Escalating Scale Of Developer Mistakes

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1 month ago 135.9K views 0 shares

The Escalating Scale Of Developer Mistakes

Regular coding mistakes: "Oops, I forgot a semicolon." Enterprise coding mistakes: "So I accidentally stored everyone's unencrypted photos with location data in a public Firebase bucket and now there's a map of all users circulating online." This is why we can't have nice things in tech. Some junior dev probably skipped the security training to finish that "urgent feature" and now lawyers are measuring their future yachts. The difference between "ship fast" and "shipwreck" is just a few lines of code and a complete disregard for basic security practices.

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