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This photo reminds me of pre-Corona times, when I could go to tech conferences

Developer conferences are often close-packed affairs in trench-like spaces, there’s a tendency towards drab clothing, and while the situation has been steadily improving, they’re still largely sausage parties.

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Frightening, but true

Luckily for me, my Stack Overflow profile puts me in the top 5% for Python and Ruby, and top 30% for Swift:

Thanks to @CodingBourbon for the find!

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T-shirt of the day

Tap the photo to see it at full size.

If you don’t get it, ask a friend who knows computer networking. Alternately, you could do a little Googling…

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The general idea behind VPNs

Unfortunately, VPNs don’t finish their tasks with a great song-and-dance scene.

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I’ll admit it: This Facebook trick question impressed me.

Look at that stat: 87,672 shares. I wonder how many people posted an answer.

I should come up with a list of the other common security questions, cleverly re-phrased.

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Hardware Humor

If you thought it was bad when your COMPUTER decides to update while you’re in the middle of something…

Tweet by @robdaemon. Tap to see the source.

…wait until your IoT grill does it.

I need to look up this grill to see what its embedded controller does. Aside from…

  • reporting its current settings and temperature, and
  • some limited ability to control it remotely (very limited, if at all — the computers in IoT devices are cheap and insecure, and attackers can cause all sorts of mischief with a networked propane tank)…

…what else does it do that needs an update, never mind an update big enough to interfere with cooking?

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Humor Process

We’ve all been the dog

You really should listen to the “egineering” team, and it wouldn’t hurt for some “egineers” to work on their communications and sales skills.