🎶 What if I bake you a coconut cake?
With lots of nuts, the kind that you hate?
What if I threw your car keys in the lake?

What if I took you to the edge?
What if I pushed you off a ledge?
What if I scratched all your Sister Sledge?

Would you still love me? 🎶

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Cheesus.

First reaction is “social media really isn’t safe for teenagers” - but then I think again: the worst stuff always comes from the USA, usually the platform formerly known as Twitter. We really should ban that shit.

Hope springs eternal!

The welded metal - it could’ve been a playground. Or somebody built a dome like that for different purposes (I’ve seen a hothouse one, and then people have all sorts of esoteric theories about these shapes). Abandoned in any case, and of course I have no idea where it is.

Yet another mask coming off, right after they pulled in the Greenland deal.

I never understood why people would say JSON is superior, and why XML seemed to be getting rarer, but the author explains it:

XML was not abandoned because it was inadequate; it was abandoned because JavaScript won.

I’ve been using it ever since I started using Linux because my favorite window manager uses it, and because of a long-running pet project that is almost just as old: first I used XML tools to parse web pages, later I switched to dedicated data providers that offered both XML and JSON formats, and stuck to what I knew.

I’m guessing that another reason devs - especially web devs - prefer JSON over XML is that the latter uses more bytes to transport the same amount of raw data. One XML file will be somewhat larger than one JSON file with the same content. That advantage is of course dwarved by all the other media and helper scripts - nay, frameworks, devs use to develop websites.

BTW, XML is very readable with syntax highlighting and easily editable if your code editor has some very basic completion for it. And it has comments!

Yes. Arguably, HTML is a form of XML. Also, the ML means the same in both. XML tools can often also be used to query HTML documents.

This should be a fun little detail in a movie or something like that, but booting is just loading data, and doing that from analog media is nothing new.

edit: tbf, the author points that out, too. It’s just a little joke.

Can’t really compare the two. I like both but for very different, almost opposite reasons.

ooooh you really walked into that one

I’ve come to accept that US Americans do this, that America can be a synonym for USA, but in this context they really should have sprung for two more letters… 🤣

(I’ll forgive them fo the car though, looks old enough to not include in the statement)

alien: whelp, I guess it’s this then:

We’re all just beta testers.

Only one. Because he created the board so there’s no need to invite him.

Is it that thing you need to pay $1bn (one billion) to get in?

I understand that media have to report on this, but still: this is sanewashing. This person is unhinged or worse. But if all of his admin fall in line behind his smelly brainfarts, unquestioningly, we must take it seriously. It’s fucked up.

Oh, I see it now. Yeah, another 5 minutes wasted.

TikTok outrages should never become news headlines.

But it’s the Daily Fail, so 🤷

That said - as if he could tell what each one would taste like.

I used to have a static IP at home so I cold run my own physical server. I stuck it under the fridge because there were wall plugs and I didn’t want it in my living room. Hence the name.

It used to serve NFS shares locally, websites and CalDAV/CardDAV globally. A dual-core-but-32-bit stone old intel processor, 2GB of RAM, and never a performance problem.

Agreed. They follow the seasons of his Lies Social posts, and he follows the seasons of his own outrage.