ooterness

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I’m an electrical engineer living in Los Angeles, CA.

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ooterness,

NOOOO! My only weakness!

ooterness,

Is that you, Strelok?

ooterness,

I understood that reference.

ooterness,

No, it’s a magical morbidly obese senior citizen. Totally different.

ooterness,

Her voice sounds exactly the same as Waluigi’s.

ooterness,

Own a musket for home defense, since that’s what the founding fathers intended. Four ruffians break into my house. “What the devil?” As I grab my powdered wig and Kentucky rifle. Blow a golf ball sized hole through the first man, he’s dead on the spot. Draw my pistol on the second man, miss him entirely because it’s smoothbore and nails the neighbors dog. I have to resort to the cannon mounted at the top of the stairs loaded with grape shot, “Tally ho lads” the grape shot shreds two men in the blast, the sound and extra shrapnel set off car alarms. Fix bayonet and charge the last terrified rapscallion. He bleeds out waiting on the police to arrive since triangular bayonet wounds are impossible to stitch up. Just as the founding fathers intended.

ooterness,

“I typed your symptoms into the thing up here, and it says you have network connectivity problems.”

ooterness,

Um, actually it should be “That’s us”, since Borg never refer to themselves in the singular until Hugh goes and ruins everything.

ooterness, (edited )

HAVE YOU TRIED CRANKING YOUR HOG?

ooterness,

This is outrageous. Where are the images with humorous text? Where are they? This kind of behavior is never tolerated in Risa. You post text like that, they put you in meme. Right away. No trial, no nothing. Killing Tuvix, we have a special meme for Tuvix. You are Kevin? Right to meme. You are drinking coffee: right to meme, right away. You undercook leola root? Believe it or not, meme. You overcook leola, also meme. Undercook, overcook. We have the best treks in the galaxy because of meme.

ooterness,

Surgeon General’s Warning: Smoking causes lung cancer, heart disease, emphysema, and DEATH.

ooterness,

Blank space in the corners that’s not filled with ads? What kind of Ferengi display is this!?

ooterness, (edited )

Good riddance. It’s a totalitarian privacy nightmare that never functioned as advertised.

Similar systems were widely deployed in Singapore, on the premise it would only be used to fight COVID. Then to no one’s surprise, law enforcement started it using for criminal investigations.

Once they’re built, governments cannot resist abusing such systems.

ooterness,

The Google system allegedly shares hashes of a ID-number salted with a rotating timestamp over BLE. But it’s also a closed-source binary. Can you or anyone else actually inspect its implementation? Can you really guarantee it doesn’t have even the smallest design flaws?

This technology is exceptionally dangerous. There is very little difference between these two scenarios:

  • A doctor has identified a COVID patient. Let’s notify everyone who’s spent time with them recently.
  • Secret police have identified a “dissident”. Let’s round up all their close associates.

It’s voluntary (for now). It’s allegedly secure (for now). But did anyone actually benefit from this complicated system? All I see are downsides.

ooterness,

[Citation needed]

Every reverse-engineering study I’ve read has been about the apps built in top of the Google API, not the Google binaries. Here’s one, and here’s another, and neither paints a flattering picture.

Maybe it’s possible to build a perfect implementation, but that is not what we got.

You know what does work? Masks and vaccines. Phone-based tracking was a dangerous waste of time.

Why Mozilla is betting on a decentralized social networking future (techcrunch.com)

The mission-driven tech company behind the Firefox browser, Pocket reader and other apps is now investing its energy into the so-called “fediverse” — a collection of decentralized social networking applications, like Mastodon, that communicate with one another over the ActivityPub protocol.

ooterness,

Q, the guy from Star Trek?

ooterness,

Ensign Daft Punk of the USS Shenzhou needs some love.

ooterness,

The Emperor protects, battle brothers.

ooterness,

It’s the fortress-ship from Iain Bank’s “Use of Weapons”.

ooterness,

Too soon… 🦴😢

ooterness,

It’s the “Staberinde”, according to this Stackoverflow discussion. (It’s been a while, I had to look up the name.)

ooterness,

It’s the checkerboard level from Cube: Defender of the Polyverse.

ooterness,

Weird, the new ToC just says “I have altered the deal. Pray I do not alter it further.”

ooterness,

I knew it! Parents “checking” the candy are just taking the good stuff for themselves.

ooterness,

INSTRUCTIONS UNCLEAR, BROTHER.

I GOT ALL THE INGREDIENTS TOGETHER, FOLLOWED THE INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY, BUT IT NEVER EXPLAINED WHAT TO DO WITH THE RESPECT SO I SHARED IT WITH EVERYONE.

ANYWAY NOW I’VE GOT ALL THIS RESPECT FOR BADASS M’FERS HERE IN THE PACK, SO 10/10 RECIPE. AROOOOO!

ooterness,

It could have also been 12001 or 12003.

ooterness,

It’s Hooty, from Owl House.

ooterness,

How is the seatbelt supposed to work when the ship activates its Pegasus-style phasing-cloaking device?

ooterness,

This 100%. In Star Trek, it’s easy to make intelligent life by accident: Badgey, Exo-Comps, Lore, Wesley’s unnamed nanites. The hard part is keeping them from taking over the ship and killing all the organics.

ooterness,

Is this one banana per employee? Or one banana and they have to fight over it?

ooterness,

But Yoda secretly having an evil red sith lightsaber is the best part.

ooterness,

Jokes on them, I brought a Starlink dish in my carry-on.

ooterness,

My cat insists on it. With almost any new thing, she will meow until she gets to sniff it.

ooterness,

It’s such a common mistake. The doctor who creates Mary Shelley in Frankenstein’s novel doesn’t have a name.

ooterness,

Simple solution: Drop all the other services and get Paramount+. It’s got Star Trek.

ooterness,

Satisfactory was created and published by Coffee Stain Studios.

ooterness,

Horse in the road

No longer rode

So juicy sweet!

Now we endorse

To catch a horse

So juicy sweet!

ooterness,

“Stop! You have violated the law! Pay the court a fine or serve your sentence. Your stolen goods are now forfeit.”

ooterness,

Fascinating. raises single eyebrow

ooterness,

whiteninjacomicsarchive.github.io/

ooterness,

Counterpoint: “A Tale of Two Rulers” by FigmentForms, a webcomic in which Zelda marries Ganon.

ooterness,

🥳😻

ooterness,

WELL SAID, BROTHER. AROOOOO!

ooterness,

Captain Picard is well known for saying “make it so” in response to a suggested course of action.

He is also known for enjoying tea, frequently ordering “tea, Earl Gray, hot” from the replicator.

This meme is a pun combining those two phrases.

ooterness,

Six foot twenty fuckin’ killing for fun.

ooterness,

RFC0003 Wish granting protocol

ooterness,

I think I’d prefer if they walked.

ooterness,

“First couple of months”!? Doom Eternal was released March 2020.

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