Jokes aside, I have been blocked many times by overzealous email validation. Yes, my email has a plus sign in it. This is allowed under RFC5322, so deal with it. It is better to have no validation at all than incorrect validation.

“What is this? Fast food for ants? It needs to be at least…three times bigger.”

The sign in the right says “bees”, but the picture shows a creature with eight legs, two body segments, and no wings. That’s no bee, that’s a spider!

A lot of open-source software uses copyleft licenses like GPL. If a company uses that code to build its own products, then some or all of their new code may also become open source. This is an important part of how open-source projects stay open. Organizations like FSF have taken big companies to court over this and won.

AI companies trained their slop-generators on that open-source code. In many cases, it will reproduce it line-for-line. But courts currently hold that the generated code is no longer subject to the original copyright restrictions. It’s nearly impossible to publish open-source software without being scraped for AI training.

Still waiting for ISO timestamp support in OmegaStar.

UTC has leap seconds. We can do better. PTP/TAI for lyfe.

A perfectly logical clock would use a radio broadcast to count off seconds since a predefined epoch. Put a few of them way up high, so more people can see it, and make them so astonishingly precise that you could tell where you are just by listening.

As Agent Smith said of '90s New South Wales, “the Matrix was redesigned to this, the peak of your civilization”.

Didn’t Discord just leak a few million “age-verification photos” that they sorta promised to delete, but didn’t?

Invent a time machine, send a robot back in time to terminate their parents.

In this case, I knew it because of a “botanicals” set that I assembled recently.

Those sets use a lot of pieces in creative ways, often in unusual colors. In particularly obscure cases, like this crown or the rose petals that were originally from a car fender, the manual will include a brief trivia callout.

I remembered the callout, and that was enough to find it by keyword on the fan database sites.

Ah yes, the 39262 minifigure crown, also used as a flower.

I am not a vampire lawyer, but vampire courts do tend to side with the vampire when these types of questions come up after the fact.

Yes, you agreed to the Terms of Service (aka Social Contract). For people in the USA, that includes the 4th amendment, which explicitly allows law enforcement (living or semi-living) to enter with a warrant. Therefore you have granted permission to enter.

If they don’t have a warrant, or if they messed up the paperwork somehow, then they burst into flame.

Look at all those beautiful pixels and crisp text. 10/10.

Needs more JPEG

apt | cowsay

Bulletproof? Sounds dangerous. What do I do if it makes a weird noise?

Video tutorial covering roundabouts and also defensive techniques for fighter aircraft.

All I see are spy drones.