Urge Person

Urge Person

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Remember the early days of open software the ideal was source code being publicly available would lead to safer code by review? And then later some terrible event would happen, the event is root caused back to the same open software and find an exploit sitting there in plain view for like 12 years.

Just a reminder, in the movie Animal House the members of Delta were the villains and by the end of the movie all lost and got expelled.

If drug commercials have taught me anything is that if you take the pills you get to do all sorts of cool outdoor activities with your friends and loved ones, despite it being too hot outside, or swarming with bugs, or too expensive, or no time to do it, and many other things.

My high school band director referred to Jack in the Box as ‘Jack in the Crack’ and after all these years I still can’t get that out of my head.

Spent the last few days wondering why my laptop bag smelled vaguely like bananas until I searched all my bag pockets today and found an old rotten banana. I’m laughing and horrified at the same time because I don’t remember putting that in my bag.

The fundamental story of the original Stargate movie isn’t about space aliens or pyramids or whatever. It’s about how reading and writing is the most essential tool we have for combating evil oppression.

We need something like those "I Voted" stickers that tells everyone I already bought Girl Scout cookies so I can stop getting asked when I leave stores.

Amazing baseball commentary from all the new Los Angeles/Ohtani fans out there. Drawing the line at a decades old game strategy instead of having the discussion about how LA outspends everyone in a sport with no payroll caps in order to essentially purchase trophies.

I saw someone posting a link to a code package that allows someone to download social media content locally curate it and interact with it with and then upload updates later. My friend, you have just reinvented the Usenet newsreader.

I implore all of you devs out there younger than 30 to please listen to us annoying Olds in this matter. Online culture has existed for several decades now. “Social media” did not invent it, it just took it in a different direction. Perhaps it’s time to steer back.

The socia concepts and technical hurdles you are encountering have been encountered before. Usenet, Fidonet, IRC, web forums, BBSes, etc. I implore you to go visit these things and actually learn from the social aspects and technical feats that were hard earned over years. Don’t use “vibes”.

There's always that one person who posts a YouTube link to some obscure, whimsical music video as a response on a Very Important Topic Thread. I have never clicked any of those links.