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Mike
@mstefan.bsky.social
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Grumpy old man who writes code. Believer in science, objective reality and human rights. The Earth is an oblate spheroid. Emojis in Unicode are a blight.
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Everything is going great, completely normal on X.
A completely insane rant someone paid to have shoveled onto people's feeds on X. You really don't want to read this unless you hate yourself.
July 10, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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I like this energy.
Release notes for Notepad++ I received a lot of feedback regarding the previous release, v8.7.8, titled “We are with Ukraine”. While some expressed gratitude, the majority consisted of ridicule and insults. I sincerely apologize for any discomfort or anger the last version may have caused. As a gesture of my sincere apologies, the latest release, v8.7.9, continues to show support for Ukraine.
April 17, 2025 at 6:59 PM
mstefan.bsky.social
I suspect there's a wide gulf between what people think factories are like vs. what they're actually like. As both robotics and AI advance, you'll need fewer and fewer humans in the mix.
An automotive factory in the 1960s An automotive factory in the 2020s using robots
April 13, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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I guess this is how we end the day. Things looking bleak.
A graph on April 3, 2025 showing the market over the past 5 days, with everything in the red. The DOW down almost 4%, the NASDAQ down almost 6%.
April 3, 2025 at 8:13 PM
mstefan.bsky.social
This is different.
A Tesla Cybertruck covered with images of the "Doge" (Shiba Inu dog) meme.
March 25, 2025 at 7:05 AM
mstefan.bsky.social
Getting a lot of use from this.
The dildo of consequences rarely arrives lubed.
March 23, 2025 at 5:35 AM
mstefan.bsky.social
We're doomed
March 22, 2025 at 5:29 PM
mstefan.bsky.social
A clip of the dystopian movie "Soylent Green" (1973) with Charlton Heston saying "Soylent Green is made out of people".
March 22, 2025 at 11:50 AM
mstefan.bsky.social
The dildo of consequences rarely arrives lubed.
March 22, 2025 at 5:45 AM
mstefan.bsky.social
Apparently Apple has lobotomized Siri.
www.reddit.com/r/iphone/com...
Siri being asked what month it is and responding with "Sorry, I don't understand."
March 22, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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I am so tempted to forcibly display a task modal message box whenever a user connects to a website using an old version of TLS and/or weak cipher suites.
A message box title "Choose Better" which reads "The website you have connected to uses a version of TLS which vulnerable to exploitation."
March 21, 2025 at 11:38 PM
mstefan.bsky.social
A bridge too far, apparently.
A poster that says "everyone is welcome here" with hands help up, drawn in several different skin tones. A teacher was ordered to take it down from her classroom because the sentiment was "her opinion" and not endorsed by her school.
March 21, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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Just in case you had doubts about needing oxygen, their marketers want to educate you.
An ad explaining the benefits of breathing air. Complete with a young woman who looks like she's taken her first deep breath in weeks.
March 21, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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Done and done. Air for the low, low price of 59.98. Save 10% with Subscribe & Save.
Bottles of "Boost Oxygen", for when you really feel like breathing.
March 21, 2025 at 3:47 AM
mstefan.bsky.social
For those who celebrate today.
An apple pie for thsoe who celebrate Pi day.
March 14, 2025 at 4:53 PM
mstefan.bsky.social
Hey, when you're using a PDP-8, you need to be careful with those spreadsheets.
A DEC PDP-8
March 14, 2025 at 4:14 AM
mstefan.bsky.social
What they envision... what they'll get.
A futuristic walkable city with a modern design and green spaces. The Kowloon walled city, which used to be an extremely densely populated and largely lawless enclave of China. The image shows delapidated, structurally unsafe buildings with extreme crowding.
March 13, 2025 at 6:23 PM
mstefan.bsky.social
We truly are living in the stupidest timeline.
An ad on X talking about how a guy supposedly turned $12K into $15M buying a cryptocurrency named "FARTCOIN".
March 11, 2025 at 12:00 AM
mstefan.bsky.social
"We are with Ukraine"
The About dialog for Notepad++ showing the icon in the colors of the Ukrainian flag and the text "We are with Ukraine".
March 10, 2025 at 6:20 PM
mstefan.bsky.social
A man holding a bottle of "snake oil"
March 3, 2025 at 6:42 AM
mstefan.bsky.social
For a hot second, I thought this was about Ontario, California and that would have been ... interesting.
Ontario, California
February 26, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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I know who did it.
A scene from Firefly's "The Train Job", showing the Serenity hovering near a train.
February 25, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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This was apparently a motivational meme from in my photos from 2015. Must have been from my positivity period. How time flies.
A picture of a man leaping out a highrise window with the caption "Whenever God closes a door, he opens a window. And then throws you out."
February 25, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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From our new HHS secretary.
An old cigarette ad for Philip Morris which reads "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure!"
February 20, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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Not enough toolbars, this is better.
Internet Explorer with 16 toolbars.
February 20, 2025 at 2:46 PM