I Fear No Man, But That Error Code...

Internet Explorer's sole purpose in life has been reduced to downloading other browsers. The little blue 'e' desperately seeks validation—"Hey does anyone need me?"—only to be met with cold rejection. But then! A glimmer of hope when someone finally needs it... just to download Firefox. The circle of browser life continues. The only time IE gets any attention is when you've formatted your PC and need something—ANYTHING—to download Chrome, Firefox, or literally any other browser. It's like being the ladder that helps someone climb up, only to be kicked away immediately after.

The eternal struggle of trying to convince Microsoft Word you're the boss of your own files. That desperate moment when Word is hellbent on uploading your resume to OneDrive while you're frantically trying to explain that you just want local storage like it's 2005. Microsoft's cloud obsession is the digital equivalent of someone constantly trying to store your stuff in their garage "for safekeeping" when you've got a perfectly good closet at home. The slow, deliberate explanation—like you're negotiating with a hostage taker—is painfully relatable to anyone who's ever fought with modern software's assumption that everything belongs in the cloud.

Content ferlatte 12 days ago The Second Life updater just downloaded the updater.exe from the website and ran it with no validation. One day, that returned a 404. Cool thing about Win32: if you try to run an EXE, Windows checks to see if it's a valid format (PE). If it's not, it assumes that it's a COM: 16 bit 86 instructions, no header, no validation. The 404 page, when interpreted as 86 bytecode, effectively opened the LPT DOS device and wrote garbage into it. Windows would map that into your actual printer driver in some cases if you had a printer connected directly to your computer. Cheap inkjet printers don't do any validation, so they would freak out, spew paper, and in one case, physically break.

Oh. My. GOD! The ABSOLUTE TRANSFORMATION when you go from peasant "Run" to the DIVINE ELEGANCE of "Run as administrator"! 💅 Left side: Your code running with basic user permissions, barely dressed, holding a basketball like some COMMONER who can't access system files. Right side: The SAME EXACT CODE but with a blue shield icon that magically grants it a CUSTOM-TAILORED SUIT, executive powers, and the ability to wreak HAVOC on your entire system! Because nothing says "trust me with your computer's soul" like a navy pinstripe!

Content I work in IT, which is the reason our house has: - mechanical locks - mechanical windows - routers using OpenWRT - no smart home crap -no AlexaGoogle Assistant.. - no internet connected thermostats Tech Enthusiasts: Everything in my house is wired to the Internet of Things! I control it all from my smartphone! My smart-house is bluetooth enabled and I can give it voice commands via alexa! I love the future! Programmers Engineers: The most recent piece of technology I own is a printer from 2004 and I keep a loaded gun ready to shoot it if it ever makes an unexpected noise.

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