Not sure if arXiv counts among "and the likes" from the first bullet point. No guarantees, but maybe worth a look?

This reminded me of that one SCP about a mountain full of machinery that somehow manufactures a single bird every once in a while.

Interesting proof of concept, but barely playable as it is.

Shootable buttons aren't. Swimming is broken. Sound has issues when it's turned on. Mouse cannot be moved while holding mouse button to fire, which breaks strafe attacking. Can't change weapons. Can't adjust mouse sensitivity.

If you've never played Quake, do not judge the game by this implementation. The level design and monster placement is the same (in fact it looks very much like they really have taken the files straight from the Shareware release), but there's just too much not quite ready here yet.

As a pasty, hand-wringing white boy, I find that "folks" is a softer word with basically the same meaning. The phrase "black people" is really easy to infuse with venom - those Ps are easy to spit, accidentally or worse - and is at least one step too far along the euphemism treadmill for me, whereas "black folks" feels a lot softer and kinder.

And as one other commenter says about themselves, I've found that I use the word "folks" for other maligned groups too. I think I used it in a thread about furries the other day.

How the targets of the word take it, I couldn't tell you, but I'd bet I'd find some who'd be fine with it, and others who'd think I'm an idiot. That's just the way it goes.

Anyone with body hair is going to lose a handful down there every year. This is not to say that you should deliberately throw full mats of hair (or beard) trimmings down there, but the system has to be able to cope with the occasional H along with the Ps. And so stray hairs I see on the floor or my clothing when I'm in there for a while might find their way into the pot.

My biggest recurrent crime is probably nail trimmings.

ETA: Vomit. Not a regular occurrence, for which both my plumbing and myself are thankful.

It's not about any one crime, although the one you mention is a pretty hot topic. The real problem is that all crimes are null and void if you have enough money. Sometimes that money is from someone who thinks it's beneficial to them to save your bacon, but nonetheless, it's legalised bribery that nullifies the crime.

Sure it's not "bribe a cop on the street" levels of corruption that you (allegedly) get in some other countries, but it's corruption all the same.

"No I'm a sports referee in witness protection"

A hard-coded list of known browsers would almost certainly work. There aren't that many of them. Or better, a list of the common support files that get installed alongside the main browser executable(s), so you can't just rename the main one and have it work.

Anything cleverer than that is about as technical as removing the custom OS and installing standard Sailfish.

Now I want to see this for the other compression algorithms. If I had to pick just one: bzip2.

I was going to say that the animal on the cover ought to be a human, given that furries (et. al.) are animals of a sort, and what's on the cover should be "opposite" somehow to the reader, but then I realised that the book is for someone who presumably isn't a furry, and so the cover should indeed be some kind of animal.

The potential problem is that the animal should be entirely unrelated. The wolf (dog? canid?) is thus a bad choice because - from what little I've seen - canids seem to be pretty common preferences*. Thus it ideally should be an animal that it's incredibly unlikely anyone would identify with. Or as.

Thus, may I suggest: a paramecium

* I'm not sure "preference" is the right word here. I may need a copy of this book.

T-shirt idea: Caption reads "Are we having fun yet?" with a picture of Zuck at his most creepy and least emotive.

In the bizarrest of twists, his evil twin is called Chaste Chaplin.

The thing is that sometimes extraterrestrials that look human do participate, but if anyone finds out a contestant isn't actually human, the SCP foundation administers amnestics, the MIB turn up and use their neuralysers or whatever actually happens in our reality that is analogous to those things and our tho 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐬 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐠𝐨 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐛𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬

Nah. I was thinking more like one of the actual non-shopped photos of him where he nonetheless looks like he's not having fun.

There's a few from the Senate testimony hearing where he looks especially spaced out, for example.

Alternatively, the one where he's peering in a window for some reason. Assuming that's not AI generated.

There used to be a website called You Park Like An Asshole that had pre-designed flyers you could attach to cars like this and other such infractions of, uh, good parking etiquette, if not also laws.

Looks like the site is dead, and either way, the other comments suggest this is in a country where the primary language isn't English so their flyers wouldn't be as useful.

... but it doesn't mean that you can't design your own in the local language and shove it under their windscreen wiper. Bonus points for putting it in a sticky-backed plastic envelope. You know. The things that parking tickets usually get put in.

The oldest initial users of the C64 are elderly now. Those folks were adults in the '80s when the machine came out.

And those of us who were kids at the time are now late forties, early fifties or thereabouts. Riiight about the age eyesight starts to go...

I know that book well, and have seen many O'Reilly covers. It was the source of my assertion that the animal should be entirely unrelated, although I admit there are some hints in that specific book that they chose the camel - presumably from a shortlist - on purpose, to be loosely representative of Perl, so maybe I was a little off base with "entirely".

Much as I'd like this to be 100% true, I'm taking it with a pinch of salt. Some of the way the article is worded seems off, especially if we assume, based on the name, that the author is a native English speaker.

I really hope I'm wrong because the Ukrainian counter-propaganda folks ought to be able to do better.

It's about even between my own bodily functions under high pressure exit conditions ricocheting back or being spat at and getting some in my mouth.

I suppose I have been fortunate to avoid any worse combination of those.

99% of people want a drop-in replacement for Windows that will install and run every possible Windows-compatible application, game and device without them having to make any extra effort or learn anything new. Basically Windows but free (in all senses).

Any even slightly subtle difference or incompatibility and they'll balk. Linux can never be that, and Microsoft will keep the goalposts moving anyway to be sure of it.

Sure, a lot more works and is more user friendly than 15 years ago, but most people won't make the time to sit down and deal with something new unless it's forced on them... which is what Microsoft are doing with Win11.