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When I was little I thought fax machines teleported paper and I occasionally wondered why it didn't work for other things.

I should go sleep soon, starting to feel the deprivation effects

aw crud, caffeine twitch

tfw you notice your mate across the lecture room and you start pinging each other on IRC

Fun thing to do in Australia:

host1$ nc host2 $someport < /dev/urandom
host2$ nc -lp $someport > /dev/null

Decrypt that, assholes

NAT is a security feature much like a brick wall is a speed bump.

π ≅ e

You people and your jorts memes, you think you're so cutting edge starting words with j? Electrical engineers had you beat ages ago!

"jmaginary"

Finding the humor in this toot is left as an exercise to the reader.

Once again, port and gouda are a match made in heaven

Nod emphatically if you think the ability to physically cut the main power circuit of a device without voiding warranty should be a standard feature on all electronics.

2019: It's easier to forcibly shut down a government than a phone, in case they don't behave how you like.

Journalists must be bad at FLOSS since they keep their sources confidential.

I'll never get tired of right-wing comments on Dead Kennedys videos.

Trying to educate myself, I read some political philosophy, follow online discourse, familiarize myself with burning issues of the day. I'm ready to have enlightening discussion about how to bring about equal opportunity and abolish hierarchies and how to implement the theories in practice.

Then I come back the real world and immediately run into:
"there are only two genders"
"antifa are terrorist"

Oh the ennui.

Websites that value your privacy don't have to tell you they value your privacy.

A few of my least favourite Unix tools

find
dd
xargs
netstat

and a Linux specific one: iptables

Funny how the renowned anarchist Noam Chomsky is also well known for something called the Chomsky hierarchy.

Imagine the outcry from the progressives if someone made a movie or a game with a straight guy in it. Or a white dude. Maybe someone should try that for epic lols.