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Month: August 2016

  • Image representing post: Quake

    Quake



    Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw (Zero Punctuation)

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    • Repost
    • posted 31 August, 2016
  • SMBC: Teach a Man to Fish

    Teach a Man to Fish



    Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

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    • Repost
    • posted 31 August, 2016
  • Extra Ordinary comic 434

    434 | Extra Ordinary Comics



    Extra Ordinary

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    • Repost
    • posted 27 August, 2016
  • RSVP slip; third option for meal choice is "children"

    I'll eat the third option, please



    https://i.imgur.com/d9uDDwM.jpg

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    • Repost
    • posted 26 August, 2016
  • Why GNU grep is fast


    I am the original author of GNU grep. I am also a FreeBSD user,
    although I live on -stable (and older) and rarely pay attention
    to -current.

    However, while searching the -current mailing list for an unrelated
    reason, I stumbled across some flamage regarding BSD grep vs GNU grep
    performance. You may have noticed that discussion too...
    Mike …

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    • Repost
    • posted 26 August, 2016
  • Bohemian Rhapsody in code

    The Queen of Code



    https://i.imgur.com/fuDDhdL.jpg

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    • Repost
    • posted 26 August, 2016
  • Daryl Hannah in Splash

    I Want to See a Gender-Swapped Version of Every Movie. Literally Every One.

    In case you haven’t heard, Splash – the 1984 fantasy romantic comedy starring Tom Hanks as the man who falls in love with a mermaid Daryl Hannah – is being remade, with Channing Tatum as the mermaid.

    I like this.

    Bullish

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    • Repost
    • posted 26 August, 2016
  • Newspaper with headline "Woman in sumo wrestler suit assaulted her ex-girlfriend in gay pub after she waved at man dressed as a Snickers bar"

    When your headline takes up half the page



    https://i.redd.it/5vzlnx0agsgx.jpg

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    • Repost
    • posted 25 August, 2016
  • History of the browser user-agent string

    In the beginning there was NCSA Mosaic, and Mosaic called itself NCSA_Mosaic/2.0 (Windows 3.1), and Mosaic displayed pictures along with text, and there was much rejoicing...

    WebAIM
    Have you ever wondered why every major web browser identifies itself as "Mozilla"? Wonder no longer...

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    • Repost
    • posted 25 August, 2016
  • Stereotypical hacker in a hoodie, from the article.

    NISTs new password rules what you need to know

    It’s no secret. We’re really bad at passwords. Nevertheless, they aren’t going away any time soon.

    With so many websites and online applications requiring us to create accounts and think up passwords in a hurry, it’s no wonder so many of us struggle to follow the advice of so-called password security experts.



    At the same time, the …

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    • Repost
    • posted 22 August, 2016
  • How Learning To Be Vulnerable Can Make Life Safer - Empathy increases Shell oil workers' safety by 83%

    Men who worked on oil rigs lived by certain rules. They were tough. They worked under any conditions. They didn't ask questions. It was this way as far back as Tommy Chreene, 60, who started working on rigs in the Gulf of Mexico back when he was 15, can remember.

    Back then, it wasn't unusual to …

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    • Repost
    • posted 22 August, 2016
  • Oglaf: Ellipse

    Ellipse



    Oglaf

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    • Repost
    • posted 16 August, 2016
  • The Asexual Succubus



    Discord Comics

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    • Repost
    • posted 16 August, 2016
  • A hacker 'steals his own slides back'

    Breaking https' AES-GCM (or a part of it)

    The coolest talk of this year's Blackhat must have been the one of Sean Devlin and Hanno Böck. The talk summarized this early year's paper, in a very cool way: Sean walked on stage and announced that he didn't have his slides. He then said that it didn't matter because he had a good idea …

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    • Repost
    • posted 16 August, 2016
  • #FirstSevenLanguages
    Basic (Locomotive, Q, Visual)
    Z80 Assembly
    Pascal/Delphi
    Perl
    PHP
    Java
    C

    Yup, I don't really use any of them nowadays.

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    • posted 15 August, 2016

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