irelephant

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[–] irelephant@programming.dev 1 points 21 hours ago

Or just print the spreadsheet with the dot, so everyone is wondering why loads of blank pages are printing.

[–] irelephant@programming.dev 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

We're all sharing the same communal air? Tragedy of the commons. Someone must privatise it immediately!

[–] irelephant@programming.dev 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Isn't facebook trying to buy a nuclear power plant?

[–] irelephant@programming.dev 44 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Sharing is a type of communism, of course.

[–] irelephant@programming.dev 3 points 2 days ago

I'm sure they could have afforded an em dash.

[–] irelephant@programming.dev 13 points 2 days ago

Its a bit charitable to call fox news journalists.

[–] irelephant@programming.dev 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This was when they either went public or were bought by microsoft iirc.

[–] irelephant@programming.dev 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Not without an e-note

[–] irelephant@programming.dev 215 points 2 days ago (16 children)

A pull-request to forked your reposotory obviously.

 

This screenshot is old (at least 12 years).

[–] irelephant@programming.dev 31 points 1 week ago (5 children)

pro tip:

"ba" + 0/0 + "a"
[–] irelephant@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago

Hiding file extensions is one of the worst decisions they made.

I don't blame the kids for not knowing stuff, that's usually a systemic error, but I will blame them for refusing to learn.

 
 

I would prefer activitypub on stuff like this, but its still cool.

 
 

TranscriptThe person disappering meme. It has the caption: "Users when you call them 30 seconds after they sent in a critical ticket with no information (this will come up in the quaterly survey."

 

TranscriptA skeleton lifting weights with the caption "MY BODY IS A MACHINE THAT TURNS INTO unfortunately, well will not be moving forwards with your applications."

 

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/30458353

That laptop is no longer a laptop, it is a bomb.

TranscriptA photo of an extremely swollen HP laptop. The panels are kept on with clips. The caption says: "User calls about disc being stuck in another computer, mentions off hand about this laptop. They'd been using it like this for weeks...

 

That laptop is no longer a laptop, it is a bomb.

TranscriptA photo of an extremely swollen HP laptop. The panels are kept on with clips. The caption says: "User calls about disc being stuck in another computer, mentions off hand about this laptop. They'd been using it like this for weeks...

 

Transcript[A tower of blocks is shown. The upper half consists of many tiny blocks balanced on top of one another to form smaller towers, labeled:] All modern digital infrastructure [The blocks rest on larger blocks lower down in the image, finally on a single large block. This is balanced on top of a set of blocks on the left, and on the right, a single tiny block placed on its side. This one is labeled:] A project some random person in Nebraska has been thanklessly maintaining since 2003

 

TranscriptA piece of paper on an old printer (a laserjet 4050 to be specific. It says: "Hello, My name is LaserJet 4050 and I was made in 1999. I’ve been doing my job printing your documents for many many years, however I think the motor that powers my paper feeder is bad. This makes me sad because I’m not able to do my job very reliably. As such, I am formally presenting this document as a letter of resignation. IT is working on finding a replacement for me, but for the time being, I apologize if I tell you I have a paper jam. Please allow me to refer you to my coworker, LaserJet 3390. 3390 resides outside of Ray’s office and can be reached at: Please accept my sincerest apologies for failing. Thank you for replacing my toner and restocking my paper tray. It’s been a wonderful 14 years of working together. Much love, LaserJet 4050

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