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draco18s.bsky.social @draco18s.bsky.social · 9h

I actually taught my mother that broccoli was tasty.
The trope comes from an era where mom boiled everything to cook it. Boiling sucks all the flavor out of vegetables, so the result is a tasteless mush (and raw broccoli is kind of bitter). You'll see the same with brussle sprouts (try grilling em!)

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draco18s.bsky.social @draco18s.bsky.social · 2d

Eeey, a fellow magpie gryph!

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draco18s.bsky.social @draco18s.bsky.social · 3d

I want two. ;v;

draco18s.bsky.social @draco18s.bsky.social · 15d

Says the guy that never realized that Youtube, Vimeo, every other video website, Itch.io, and every other Flash and Unity game site has had fullscreen functionality at the click of a button.

(Why yes, this ad hooks into that very same browser feature, what a surprise!)

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draco18s.bsky.social @draco18s.bsky.social · 15d

It's not really an exploit if it requires user participation.

And this "exploit" has existed "in browsers" ever since Win+R was added to the OS. So since Windows 95.

I'll also point out that this advertisement--displayed on a Mac--won't fool anyone.

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draco18s.bsky.social @draco18s.bsky.social · 15d

Right. And malicious advertisements have been the bane of web browsing since Javascript was implemented. One of the selling points of early Chrome was the fact that it had built-in adblock.

But in the ad / adblock / anti-adblock war, the vender is invisible (and so, they do no oversight).

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draco18s.bsky.social @draco18s.bsky.social · 15d

bsky.app/profile/kype...

Kypepe @kypepe.etheirys.social · 16d

oh this is malicious as fuck. Win + R opens command prompt, and it asks you to paste and enter what's on your clipboard. that's like actually evil holy shit

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draco18s.bsky.social @draco18s.bsky.social · 15d

Both of those functions has legitimate uses.

1. Browser game (doesn't matter what engine) that has a full-screen button. Click it, browser goes full screen.
2. Clipboard via JS has entirely valid uses and isn't even malicious by itself.

The fake windows update screen itself isn't preventable.

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draco18s.bsky.social @draco18s.bsky.social · 15d

Dat face you have. It makes me smile.
Absolutely befuddled.
Love it.

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draco18s.bsky.social @draco18s.bsky.social · 18d

Well not exactly. Instead of a womb they have a shell gland (the egg stays in there for about 20 hours, almost universally across species) before being laid.

But peeps don't care and like to draw birds with giant bellies anyway.

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draco18s.bsky.social @draco18s.bsky.social · 19d

Such round~

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draco18s.bsky.social @draco18s.bsky.social · 27d

Back in my day, video games didn't have (many) bugs in them because they were on physical media so "Day 1 patch" wasn't a thing. There was a six month lead time on the last code change and the release date, so companies made DAMN sure it was polished.

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draco18s.bsky.social @draco18s.bsky.social · Aug 27

What a cute bean

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draco18s.bsky.social @draco18s.bsky.social · Aug 27

Handsome lad, then!
Can never be sure with birds sometimes.

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draco18s.bsky.social @draco18s.bsky.social · Aug 26

Oh what a lovely lady.

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draco18s.bsky.social @draco18s.bsky.social · Aug 19

Additional context required.

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draco18s.bsky.social @draco18s.bsky.social · Aug 15

Ok, but I gotta ask, why did you implement LLM-AI for *naming* tab groups?

This is such an utterly menial use of the amount of compute required to perform the task.

draco18s.bsky.social @draco18s.bsky.social · Aug 5

It went up.

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draco18s.bsky.social @draco18s.bsky.social · Jul 23

Nah, he looks fine. Hasn't even lost enough liquids to get dehydrated.

draco18s.bsky.social @draco18s.bsky.social · Jul 23

Did you mean "succtality"?

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draco18s.bsky.social @draco18s.bsky.social · Jul 21

Should learn about the Sheer Idiot's Monopurpose Programming Language Environment (SIMPLE). It consists of only the tokens START, END, and STOP. It is impossible to write a program that errors (or do anything useful), thus achieving the results of more complicated languages without all the debugging

draco18s.bsky.social @draco18s.bsky.social · Jul 15

"'Crow' in crow"
Ha, love it. Related, have you read Hollow Kingdom? Main character is a crow and has a unique view of the world.

draco18s.bsky.social @draco18s.bsky.social · Jun 21

Done. www.furaffinity.net/view/15584727/

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draco18s.bsky.social @draco18s.bsky.social · Jun 12

Not pictured: a Game Boy Advance

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draco18s.bsky.social @draco18s.bsky.social · Jun 12

"Hegseth, that's what I asked you to do."