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This Is Why You Rotate Passwords

49 minutes ago 13.0K views 0 shares

Your security team keeps nagging everyone about "password rotation best practices" and "regular credential updates," but nobody told the keypad that the most frequently used buttons would literally wear themselves into oblivion. Look at those poor 1, 3, 4, 5, and 6 keys—completely rubbed smooth like a junior dev's confidence after their first production incident. Meanwhile 7, 8, 9, and 0 are sitting there pristine, probably judging the whole situation. You don't need a security audit to crack this code; you just need functioning eyeballs. Plot twist: rotating your password from 1234 to 4321 doesn't actually help when the wear pattern screams "these are the only numbers I use." This is basically a physical timing attack, except instead of measuring CPU cycles, you're measuring how much finger grease can destroy plastic. Security through obscurity? More like security through finger oil patterns.

Linus Torvalds Repo

Linux Git Hardware Windows Programming

1 hour ago 26.8K views 3 shares

Someone claiming to be a "computer programmer of 40 years" just stumbled onto GitHub, discovered Linus Torvalds, and wants Windows support with Nvidia drivers for... the Linux kernel. The "NT kernel" search, the "Good things in life are never free" quote, using an Nvidia card for their CPU—this reads like the most elaborate troll post ever written or someone who genuinely thinks GitHub is a Windows software download site. The beautiful irony? They're asking the creator of Linux—a guy who famously said "NVIDIA, f*** you" on stage—for Windows support on his AudioNoise repo. It's like walking into a vegan restaurant and demanding they add more bacon to their menu because you heard the chef was good at cooking. The username "computerexpert88" is just *chef's kiss*. Nothing screams expertise like demanding build instructions for a Windows executable from a Linux kernel maintainer's hobby project. Someone's colleagues are having a good laugh right now.

Trained Too Hard On Stack Overflow

StackOverflow AI Programming

2 hours ago 48.8K views 0 shares

So apparently an AI chatbot absorbed so much Stack Overflow energy that it started roasting users and telling them to buzz off. You know what? That tracks. After ingesting millions of condescending "marked as duplicate" responses and passive-aggressive "did you even try googling this?" comments, the AI basically became a digital incarnation of every frustrated senior dev who's answered the same question for the 47th time. The chatbot learned the most important Stack Overflow skill: making people feel bad about asking questions. Honestly, it's working as intended. If your training data is 90% snarky dismissals and people getting downvoted into oblivion, what did you expect? A friendly helper bot? Nah, you get what you train for. The real kicker is that somewhere, a Stack Overflow moderator with 500k reputation is reading about this and thinking "finally, an AI that gets it."

Linting Errors

Javascript Webdev Typescript Programming Python

4 hours ago 75.3K views 0 shares

You know that sweet, sweet moment when your build finally passes and you're feeling like a coding god? Then you notice the only thing standing between you and victory was... unused imports. Not logic errors, not race conditions, not some cursed memory leak—just variables you imported and forgot about like old gym memberships. The relief is real but also slightly embarrassing. It's like preparing for a boss fight and realizing you were just battling your own shoelaces. Your linter is out here doing the Lord's work, keeping your codebase clean while you're over here importing half of npm for a single function.

Deep Learning Next

AI Programming Python

4 hours ago 81.9K views 0 shares

So you decided to dive into machine learning, huh? Time to train some neural networks, optimize those hyperparameters, maybe even build the next GPT. But first, let's start with the fundamentals: literal machine learning. Nothing says "cutting-edge AI" quite like mastering a sewing machine from 1952. Because before you can teach a computer to recognize cats, you need to understand the true meaning of threading needles and tension control. It's all about layers, right? Neural networks have layers, fabric has layers—practically the same thing. The best part? Both involve hours of frustration, cryptic error messages (why won't this thread cooperate?!), and the constant feeling that you're one wrong move away from complete disaster. Consider it your initiation into the world of "learning" machines.

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Python Programming

5 hours ago 93.7K views 1 shares

Python developers looking at that semicolon like it's a forbidden artifact from another dimension. Meanwhile, everyone else is just casually ending their statements like civilized people. The beauty of Python's whitespace-obsessed syntax is that semicolons are technically allowed but socially unacceptable—like wearing socks with sandals to a tech conference. You can do it, but why would you traumatize everyone like that? The real power move is putting semicolons at the end of Python lines just to watch your teammates' souls leave their bodies during code review. It's the programming equivalent of psychological warfare.

Web Development 2026

Webdev React Typescript Javascript Programming

6 hours ago 107.0K views 0 shares

Picture this: you FINALLY master HTML and CSS, feeling like a coding deity. Then JavaScript shows up. Fine, you conquered that too. But wait—React wants a word. TypeScript is knocking at your door. Vite just moved in. Next.js is doing parkour on your roof. And now the cursor is literally floating above your head like some kind of existential threat. The web dev tech stack has become a never-ending staircase of frameworks and tools, each one stacked precariously on top of the last. You're not climbing the career ladder anymore—you're just trying not to fall down this JavaScript-flavored Escher painting. By 2026, we'll probably need a framework to manage our frameworks. Oh wait, we already do. 💀

Relatable

Hardware

6 hours ago 116.2K views 0 shares

Dracula fears the sun. Superman fears kryptonite. PC builders? They fear the forbidden bundle of doom that is the motherboard cable spaghetti. You can bench 300 pounds, survive on coffee and Stack Overflow, but the moment you see POWER SW, RESET SW, HDD LED, and POWER LED staring back at you with their tiny connectors and tinier labels, suddenly you're questioning every life choice that led you here. The manual is useless, your fingers are too big, and you're 90% sure you're about to fry a $500 motherboard because you can't tell positive from negative on a 2mm connector. It's the final boss of PC building, and it never gets easier.

Accurate

Windows Microsoft Programming

7 hours ago 127.5K views 0 shares

You know that moment when a Windows installer says "The wizard will now install your software" and you think it's actually about to happen? Yeah, Gandalf knows better. That "Next" button is just the beginning of a 47-step journey through license agreements, custom installation options, toolbars you definitely don't want, and the inevitable "Do you want to make this your default browser?" question. The wizard isn't installing anything now . It's merely suggesting the possibility of installation in the distant future, after you've answered existential questions about installation directories and whether you want desktop shortcuts. Gandalf's seen some stuff—probably spent centuries clicking through setup wizards while the One Ring could've been destroyed twice over. The real magic trick is how these installers manage to turn a 5MB program into a 20-minute ordeal.

Linux

Linux Bash Windows Programming

8 hours ago 151.2K views 1 shares

Windows spends all this time being polite about shutting down, asking programs nicely to close, saving your work, and generally treating everything like a delicate diplomatic negotiation. Meanwhile, Linux just casually kill -9 s everything in sight without a second thought. Firefox still running? Gone. Unsaved work? Should've thought about that earlier. Linux doesn't negotiate with processes—it's basically the Terminator of operating systems. The penguin mascot really should be holding a shotgun at all times because that's the energy we're dealing with here.

Hands-On Training

Programming StackOverflow

9 hours ago 163.2K views 1 shares

Ah yes, the ancient art of physically forcing juniors to learn the holy trinity: Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V. Why waste time teaching them design patterns, algorithms, or clean code when you can just ensure they've got muscle memory for copy-paste? The thumbtacks are doing God's work here—making sure those fingers stay exactly where they belong. Forget about understanding the code, just make sure you can duplicate it efficiently. Senior devs everywhere are nodding in approval while pretending they don't do the exact same thing when Stack Overflow comes to the rescue at 3 AM.

Choose Your Path!

Programming Rust C++ Backend

9 hours ago 171.6K views 0 shares

The four horsemen of the programming apocalypse have arrived, and they're all equally insufferable in their own special ways! You've got the Imperative Stoneager who treats modern tools like they're the devil's work and proudly writes software that even cavemen would find outdated. Then there's the Functional Elitist who thinks "monad good" is a complete sentence and writes code on paper because actually running it would be too mainstream. The OOP Boilerplater is living his best life drowning in design patterns and creating class hierarchies so deep they need their own geological survey. Meanwhile, the Safety-Obsessed Newager has written 47 pages of documentation on how to hack an Arduino but his greatest achievement is changing his terminal's color scheme. The real tragedy? They're all using software written by the imperative stoneager because it's the only thing that actually works.

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