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When Your Private Key Is Public

5 days ago 141.7K views 0 shares

When your private key is just a Lady Gaga tweet from 2012. Somewhere a security engineer is having a heart attack right now. Nothing says "military-grade encryption" like random characters from a pop star's keyboard smash that's been publicly available for over a decade. Next up in cybersecurity innovations: using your cat's walking pattern across your keyboard as your password hash.

Death By Windows Update

Microsoft AI Hardware Windows Programming

12 days ago 170.0K views 0 shares

Looks like Microsoft found a way to make the Grim Reaper redundant! First, they proudly announce that 30% of their code is now AI-generated, then their Windows 11 update decides SSDs should retire early. Nothing says "cutting-edge technology" quite like cutting the lifespan of your storage devices. Perhaps the AI misunderstood "planned obsolescence" as a feature, not a bug? Next update might just include a digital coffin for your entire system. At least now we know what KB stands for in those update codes - "Killing Bytes."

Everything Is Down (Thanks AI)

AI Programming Debugging Cloud

13 days ago 177.3K views 0 shares

The duality of Google's AI strategy in its full glory! Upper text: "25% of new Google code is AI-generated." Lower graph: "Massive spike in Google outages." That red spike isn't just a graph—it's the visualization of what happens when your AI autocompletes semicolons with emojis and replaces error handling with "try { } catch (e) { // TODO: fix later lol }". Correlation doesn't imply causation... but that spike is suspiciously vertical right when the AI started writing production code. Coincidence? I think not!

Slurpee.exe Has Stopped Working

Debugging Hardware Windows Programming Linux

14 days ago 149.9K views 0 shares

OH. MY. GOD. The slurpee machine is literally having an existential crisis right now! Instead of serving up that sweet, sweet Mountain Dew, it's spewing out raw BIOS errors like it's having the digital equivalent of food poisoning! 💀 That error dump is the machine's way of screaming "I CANNOT EVEN RIGHT NOW!" The caption is pure gold - "bro I'm getting the BIOS flavor" - as if the machine decided debugging itself was more important than quenching someone's thirst. Honestly, I'd pay extra for a cup of pure, unfiltered computer anxiety. For the uninitiated: BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) is the firmware that runs when you first boot up a computer. Seeing it on a slurpee machine means something has gone CATASTROPHICALLY wrong. It's like ordering a coffee and watching the barista have a complete mental breakdown instead.

Microsoft Is A Corporation That Turns Into Windows 11 Update KB5063878

Microsoft AI Hardware Windows Programming

14 days ago 180.1K views 1 shares

Microsoft Is A Corporation That Turns Into Windows 11 Update KB5063878

So Microsoft brags about 30% of their code being AI-generated, then pushes an update that kills your SSD. Coincidence? I think not. This is what happens when you let GitHub Copilot write your disk I/O routines. Next update will probably require a blood sacrifice and your firstborn child just to boot up. Remember when updates just fixed things instead of creating exciting new problems? Those were the days...

Bugs Are Progress

AI Devops Ios Programming Debugging

23 days ago 159.5K views 0 shares

OH MY GOD, LOOK AT THAT CHART! Grok with 25 updates while everyone else is barely crawling with 2-3? Honey, that's not "evolving faster" – that's the digital equivalent of throwing spaghetti at the wall and seeing what sticks! 💅 When your app needs TWENTY-FIVE updates in two weeks, you're not winning the AI race – you're winning the "our first version was a catastrophic dumpster fire" award! The rest of those companies are just sitting there like "maybe test before release?" But who has time for that when you're busy being REVOLUTIONARY?! The absolute DRAMA of bragging about how many times you had to fix your broken toy. Next up: "My car is the fastest because I've replaced the engine 25 times this month!"

Idk What To Do With These Interns Anymore

Networking Security Devops Hardware

1 month ago 129.0K views 0 shares

Idk What To Do With These Interns Anymore

When the senior dev says "set up the network switch" and the intern takes it literally . Nothing says "enterprise-grade infrastructure" quite like a switch duct-taped to the ceiling with cables dangling like some avant-garde IT installation art. The blinking lights add that special touch of "it's technically working so don't touch it." Five years later, this temporary solution will still be running production traffic while documented in the company wiki as "ceiling network node alpha."

The Escalating Scale Of Developer Mistakes

Security Programming Debugging Databases Backend

1 month ago 149.5K 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.

Flush Mounted Engineering

Hardware

2 months ago 114.9K views 0 shares

When you've been in IT long enough, you start appreciating the finer things in life—like a USB receiver hammered so flush into the port that it's now a permanent hardware feature. Sure, you could use the little eject button they provide, but where's the primal satisfaction in that? Nothing says "senior developer" like hardware modifications that would make the warranty department cry. The best part? When someone asks for help removing it, you get to say "Have you tried turning it off and on again?" with a straight face while secretly knowing it's never coming out.

When Your API Key Goes Public Before Your Resume Does

Security AI Programming Cloud

2 months ago 218.3K views 0 shares

When Your API Key Goes Public Before Your Resume Does

Ah, nothing says "top-notch security" like giving a 25-year-old access to government databases AND AI systems, then watching them accidentally paste an API key on GitHub. Because what could possibly go wrong when someone has access to both Social Security data and cutting-edge LLMs? This is peak "move fast and break things" energy, except the "things" are national security and AI safeguards. The sarcastic "should fill all Americans with a deep sense of confidence" is chef's kiss material. Future historians will call this the "control-C, control-V apocalypse."

This Will Work... Once

Windows Microsoft Programming

3 months ago 133.8K views 0 shares

Ah, the classic "delete System32 to make your PC faster" trick – the digital equivalent of removing your car's engine to improve gas mileage. For the uninitiated, System32 is a critical Windows directory containing essential files that, you know, make your computer actually work . The look of pure horror on the friend's face says it all: "I'm witnessing a digital murder in real-time." This is basically the computer equivalent of watching someone pour sugar into their own gas tank because they read on a sketchy forum that it "improves combustion." Spoiler alert: your PC will indeed run faster... straight into a brick wall of the Blue Screen of Death. The only thing getting optimized here is your path to buying a new computer!

The 11-Minute Tech Support Tragedy

Debugging Hardware Windows

3 months ago 167.4K views 0 shares

The classic tech support escalation in just 11 minutes flat! First, you're innocently looking up how to clean your PC, probably thinking "I'll just delete some files, run a quick scan, maybe blow the dust out..." Next thing you know, your computer's transformed into an expensive paperweight. That rapid descent from "routine maintenance" to "existential crisis" is the universal tech journey. The perfect representation of how cleaning your digital workspace is basically playing Russian roulette with your hard drive. Pro tip: always Google "how to recover data from dead PC" before attempting any cleaning.

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