I've been saying!

today i learned x264 has a setting specifically for encoding touhou games

Screenshot of Wikipedia text saying the following: An early example of anti-debugging existed in early versions of Microsoft Word which, if a debugger was detected, produced a message that said, "The tree of evil bears bitter fruit. Now trashing program disk.", after which it caused the floppy disk drive to emit alarming noises with the intent of scaring the user away from attempting it again.

microsoft used to be a real company

it's been long enough for me to admit publicly that when i left Gizmodo in 2022 I changed my Slack username to "S1ackbot" and the G/O Media failed to detect or delete it for months

lil network attached storage x

my timeline is just

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reply from paul: absolutely. I understand your concerns. we're opening a new job position for chief empathy officer

The "various misrepresentations of this moderation policy sound like 1984 to me" discourse is unpleasant enough on a tiny Discord server; it's regrettable that you're having to field it here.

Many social science phenomena, like the Dunning-Kruger effect, are named after the people who described them (David Dunning, Justin Kruger). You'd think the Baader-Meinhof effect is also named for its discoverers, but actually it's named after a 20th c. German terrorist group for tangential reasons?

across the spiderverse clearly glowfic inspired

*in the club shouting over the loud music at the bartender* WHAT IS THE SOUP OF THE DAY

they’re just like me fr

tpot or whatever

I'm quite unconfident that there is any currently-practical high-accuracy way to implement this distinction - seems very fuzzy

I regret my actions