I hate the word content. It’s so generic. Like, am I just a vessel to be filled with “content”?

I’ve seen the term “lumberjill” (because Jack and Jill, I guess), but don’t know if it’s common or even in use.

Yeah. It was very realistic. Sometimes they simplified explanations a bit. They had real hackers as consultants, and Sam Esmail, the creator of the show, was into hacking and computers as a teen.

Yes! I did this so many times as a t(w)een! Good times.

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One of my favorites I read was the trilogy which starts with The Three-body Problem. Mind boggling stuff, and page turners, but not perfect.

I also read a lot of Stephen King, and the award for the best book I read in 2025 has to go to The Green Mile. It’s one of King’s best, and one I have great memories of reading when it came out.

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(Tech worker here, hoping to move to the countryside next year.)

Absolutely. I probably wouldn’t be doing any farming, except grow some vegetables for my own needs. But I would definitely build my own awesome local infrastructure with a server room and network cables in the walls and all that good stuff. When I retire and don’t have to spend 8-10 hours a day in front of a computer at work, it’ll probably be enjoyable and satisfying again to work on and maintain my own computers and stuff. Currently I rarely have the motivation or energy to do that.

And if the house is large enough I’d also make certain areas/rooms completely tech free. Like maybe a small library with only books and comfy chairs, and no wifi signal.

My favorite bug ever.

Tarn once explained it in more detail: the game’s code is object oriented, and the small amount of beer on a cat’s paw inherited all the variables of a full mug of beer. And the game uses a creature’s body size + amount of alcohol ingested to calculate/simulate drunkenness (all the way to alcohol poisoning and death).

*2016

And during covid?

Not sure if it still exists, but I used to have an extension called “make America kittens again” or something like that. It replaced pictures of T-rump with pictures of kittens/cats. Made browsing news much more pleasant, at least visually.

Yeah, that’s actually also why it’s no longer considered best practice to force regular password changes. But many places / websites /apps still do, obviously.

Jesus Fucking Christ

“Truth is treason in an empire of lies”

It’s attributed to George Orwell, but when I googled it it seems that it wasn’t actually him who said it… So who knows

“Truth is treason in an empire of lies”

Dark Shadows 🧛

Correct!

To be fair, he doesn’t have a title or any official position of power. His mother already had him when she met and later married the crown prince of Norway. But everyone in Norway knows who he is and he’s definitely very privileged, so he may have abused that fact…