If/when the Zombie Apocalypse hits, Vegetarians and Vegans are going to eat meat again. Don't tell me you're not. Y'all are just one juicy beef burger or T-bone steak away from being meat zombies anyway, as far as I'm concerned. I'm surprised you're not already hideously emaciated and lurching into restaurants and steakhouses after dark to satisfy your protein cravings. (Maybe you are doing that on the down low and we just don't know it.) Is your commitment to going on a…
Today in CAPTCHA/Solvemedia mysteries: WTF is a lawn gland? Is it like a lureplant in DST? I certainly hope not, because that thing is nasty (which isn't surprising, given the number of hostile entities in DST). https://dontstarve.fandom.com/wiki/Meat_Bulb_(Lureplant)
Heute auf der Suche nach Arbeitsplätzen: Es gibt einen Job für einen Eier-Leerhühnermann. Translation: Today in looking for jobs: There is a job available for an egg-laying chicken man. Next up: Searching groups on Facebook and LinkedIn. Then, the freelancing sites.
I don't know what it says about me that I recognise often-used Windows Product and Serial Keys by sight. I suspect it's not good. FM9FY-TMF7Q-KCKCT-V9T29-TBBBG is just one of them (for both Win XP and a version of MS Office, possibly Office XP).
Donald Trump may not have built the Great Wall of Mexico (and got Mexico to pay for it), but he certainly divided the American people. He wasn't the first fascist in the White House, either (so much so that when I picked up a book on the Reagan administration, I mistook it for one on Trump's, but it's clear to me that there are definite parallels).…
People without a sense of humour scare me. How do you manage to cope with the vicissitudes of life without occasionally turning into a homicidal maniac on a rampage? (I'm assuming here that that isn't something you do, but I could be mistaken.)
Manbearpig is real! I'm super serial! Well, at least, he's as real as digital art can make him appear, anyway. (I'm still not sure if he's half man-bear and half pig or half man and half bear-pig, though.) Since I could, I managed to produce some near-photo-realistic images of Al Gore's mythical monster from South Park, mainly for a laugh. I'm quite pleased with how they turned out, so am making them available on my corner of Patreon (not that anyone has subscribed to it,…
"I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving for breakfast. Forgive me. They were delicious, so sweet and so cold." — William Carlos Williams; This is Just to Say In the battle between generosity and greed, greed often wins. Don't trust me with chocolate or sweet anything; it will not last long.
I came across an interesting/novel anti-bot/humanity check system today (on Fiverr): Press the button and hold it down for five seconds while the progress bar fills. With all the various inventive ways people are finding to verify humanity (excluding WorldCoin's orbs), CAPTCHA really should be a thing of the past. Ain't nobody got time for that!
Having looked through the meta content of Fiverr's home page (yikes on bikes!), I think I'm going to have to learn how to make browser extensions for Firefox and create eMEARNgency (a plugin that parses and scans a Website's HTML, looking for such nasties as the MEARN stack, Google and FB code, issuing a warning about data and identity privacy and security risks if it finds any of them). Conceptually, it'll have the same sort of output as ToS;DR, but show the number of…
Two easy ways to piss me off (not that I suggest you try them if you know what's good for you): 1. Claim that religion is the source of human ethics/morality. 2. Make stupid statements that "God is Love" or similar. In both cases, you have ignored massive amounts of scripture to the contrary. I can cite passages from the Christian bible (both testaments) that clearly show that Yahweh/Yehowah is anything but love and that if you genuinely get your morality from the…
I don't need to read the entire Christian bible to know that it is appalling, atrocious, barbaric and horrific. The first two chapters alone confirm that. If I do end up reading the entire tome, it will be to see if there is any evidence supporting the claim that it contains anything good. So far, I have found none.
I am almost always amused when I lose followers after posting content containing my socio-economic or political opinions. Maybe it shouldn't, because it presents a loss of potential income, but seeing as most whom bail can't be bothered to stick around long enough to challenge me, I'm guessing they're probably not worth having as followers anyway.
Am I the only one whom thinks so, or is Pub0x showing a definite bias towards tipping in ETH? Lately, all the tips I've given are in ETH. I haven't looked at what I've received per post, but it seems to be that way too. I wouldn't mind so much if the amount of AMPL I have was above the minimum required to withdraw it.
Today: Sexist ads from the 1950s: I'm glad I'm not most men and I think I know how women (previously the majority of workers in STEM-related professions) started to get sidelined to the point that ~83% of IT/development jobs in the US/UK are held by men.
There's a Gardenscapes advert that has the slogan "think before you pull", which makes me think of something other than pulling pins to release coins ...
Today in interesting humanity checks: Show a video of a cat meowing. Play audio of dogs barking. Ask the user what they saw vs what they heard.
Awaiting CAPTCHA: A reframing/retelling of Waiting for Godot for the modern age ...
The writing's on the wall. The time has come for me to be gone from the cryptosphere (at least for the foreseeable future). https://www.publish0x.com/cryptographic-viking/2023-10-12-the-week-in-review-not-that-i-think-anyone-cares-xqqkqwx
It is terrible to have a craving for something and know you likely can't afford it. 🍫🥫🥛🥣
Today, I present to you Donald Trump as a #Wankpuffin ... Later today, I plan to upload a new album to Band Camp. One of the tracks thereon, titled "Wankpuffin" is a collection of samples I've put together to make fun of US presidents past and present.
Why is it that the more I get done, the more is piled on top of me to get done? I thought I was doing well today, actually tackling the crap that's holding me back instead of procrastinating, but no, there's a whole lot more with which I'll have to deal (which is going to be tomorrow's problem).
I happened to catch a few minutes of Super Model Me in passing tonight. I wondered, once again, whom decided that to make it as a model, one has to be an androgynous and flat-chested waif. That look really does nothing for me; I'm more inclined towards so-called "fat chicks". Show me a "plus-size" woman with a bust and hips in generous proportions, please and thank you.
Today, in random things on the Internet: "It seems you woke Daddy, Mr. Bond!" in the end credits for a Harry Brewis (AKA H. Bomber Guy) video on Roblox (the Minecraft knockoff).
Somewhere, I have/had a box or two full of CDs, but I can't find it for the life of me. I really hope I didn't give it away (thinking that when I do listen to music, it's as digital files on a HD), because I remember taking some to hospice. I hope that was only the stuff I didn't want, not everything.
TIL: While looking at the list of packages available for the Nim programming language (through Nimble), I learned that there is such a thing as Dog API (dog images as a service). Aww! It has just knocked cheese.com (a Website about the cheeses of the world) out of the top spot as far as my happy place is concerned (and placekitten as my go-to for filler images when creating Website mock-ups). https://dog.ceo/dog-api/ https://www.thedogapi.com/ https://dogapi.dog/api/v2/
Watching the notcurses demo gives me the distinct feeling that my computer has been infected with a virus specifically targeting GNU/Linux and is about to experience a snowcrash. The effect is both amazing (because it's a vast improvement on ncurses) and unnerving.
Me: ^Updates the version of Cmder I'm using.^ Antivurus software: ^Quarantines the shell launcher and Windows cmd.exe^ Me: ^headdesk^
To qoute Kevin "Bloody" Wilson, "today has been an absolute c**t of a day". I have been so absent-minded and wandered around aimlessly without getting much done that I probably would have misplaced my own head if it wasn't firmly attached to my neck. Now, I'm pretty sure my brain's gone AWOL and it's best if I get to bed early tonight. Hopefully, I might get a good night's sleep (which I've lacked for a few nights in succession) and actually manage to be productive tomorrow,…
Someone tried to scam me out of my NFTs on OpenSea (and possibly more, if I had anything left in Crypto). The funny thing is that's the most attention anyone has given my NFTs in a long time. What's not so funny is that they've got my personal email address. https://www.publish0x.com/cryptographic-viking/gone-phishing-the-opensea-xdknzmo
Today's shower thought: What's the difference between a Secret Agent man and a Secret Asian man, assuming that the one isn't also the other (A secret agent Asian man or Asian Secret Agent man)? I'm sure there must be one, even though the pronunciation is pretty similar.
TIL: The Hive Keychain wallet plugin for Firefox uses node.js. It has also been interfering with/breaking the JS on many of the sites I visit (including MyLot). Since I seldom use it and am not a fan of Hive anyway, I have uninstalled it. I wonder if it's also the culprit for a lot of the weirdness I've been experiencing with the TinyMCE editor on Publish0x.
"You wouldn't shoot a policeman, steal his helmet, go to the toilet in it and then give it to his widow, would you?" So begins an elaborate send-up of anti-piracy ads on films (particularly those distributed on DVDs), as depicted in Graham Linehan's much-loved _The IT Crowd_. To that question, I answer, no, I might not, but my boss' dog might (minus the shooting bit, of course).…
At long last, I'm writing my autobiography, which I will be publishing in parts on LeanPub. This comes after much delaying, distraction (including the years in which I wrote likely inflammatory, offensive and rant-filled blog posts and attempted, in futility, to educate fellow cishet white men about the finer points of relating to other genders and races) and procrastination (at which I excel). In truth, I've been writing it for years (over a decade), since I first started…
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