Fun fact: This could possibly be true at the same time.

I read the article […]

Why did you do that?

What a bizarre idea. Why would anyone want to do that?

The technicalities of usernames and underscores makes this seem more complicated than it really is:

“Without any evidence whatsoever we convicted a man named Joe Smith, because we had been told that there was some man somewhere named Joe Smith, who was suspected of being a criminal.”

https://www.alphabetworkersunion.org/

Sure, but it amuses me when that date isn’t thousands of years into the future.

Salt has an essentially infinite “best before”, so if you ever encounter a packet of salt with a “best before” less than hundreds of years into the future, you can know that it’s a lie.

But they have absolutely no way to prevent any big AI harvester from harvesting this content, so whatever they claim has no impact whatsoever on what data gets harvested.

Am I missing anything?

I have heard the term DNS a million times but don’t really understand it.

Learn about DNS, it’s the glue that holds the internet together, any time you spend on learning more about DNS will quickly pay off. You probably already know that it’s what maps domain names to IP addresses and vice versa, but it can be used for loads of other useful things too.

(My own two favourite not well known but totally standardized really convenient things to use DNS for is to provide SSH host key fingerprints through DNSSEC and requesting letsencrypt certificates for host names without any webserver.)

It can.

In Australia, it’s illegal to use a phone while driving.

Well, duh, obviously it’s illegal to use a phone while driving.

It was always a (PowerPoint) presentation.

What did you call them before PowerPoint?

Of course, that one’s awesome!

I became a dollar billionaire somewhere around fifteen years ago when a friend gave me a 5 billion dollar banknote from the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe, still legal tender at the time. At that time I was already too old to play in the street like a child, but I still to this very day walk in the street in front of where I live every day.

I grew up long after cars had already become commonplace in our city but we still played in our residential street for drivers had learned to navigate safely around playing children.

That is not what anyone means with “life” in the context of work–life balance.

I don’t consider work separate from life.

That seems deeply problematic to me.

UK still has anonymous SIM cards, which I find somewhat surprising considering the amount of surveillance there.

[…] two years after it discontinued a different AI ordering system.

This is wonderfully bizarre, but informative, I had actually wondered what exactly the rules were.