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Nicolás Alvarez
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Award-winning Git repository surgeon. Currently hacking and documenting Apple stuff for fun and no profit. Argentina 🇦🇷
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So you're not looking forward to the GitHub redesign?
November 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Twitter thread by UnburntWitch, from 2017: I got a bunch of dental surgery and while waiting for a cab to go home a dude catcalled me so I just let a ton of blood fall out my mouth. I wish I could do that on command cause I've never seen a dude immediately regret his decision more
November 21, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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Spanish has different words for chlorine and chloride; however,
"flúor" can mean either fluorine or fluoride
November 19, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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welp, nevermind
Comparison of old and new versions of the list of part numbers for the MacBook Pro 14-inch M5. Two part numbers for the battery were removed, and replaced with the phrase "included in top case part".
November 19, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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A few years ago I was in an ophthalmologist waiting room and I saw a Wi-Fi network with no password. I connected to it and I didn't get Internet. I thought "must be an unsecured printer", and I tried opening 192.168.0.1.

It was not a printer 😱
November 16, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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Especially easy on smartphones!
November 15, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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I CAME HOME TO HEAR MY MUM AND DAD SHOUTING ABUSE AT EACH OTHER AND MY MUM THREATENING DIVORCE AND I GOT SCARED BUT OMFG IT'S BECAUSE THEY'RE PLAYING MARIO KART
November 13, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Screenshot of a tumblr post by somesecretpie: "Played a bit of Silksong last night and I'm noticing some pretty big plot holes already. In Hollow Knight, Hornet is a self-assured badass who is very handy with her needle. But in Silksong, her character totally changed into a fresh idiot who loves jumping into spike pits."
November 6, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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Mordi says: Do you feel good when you finish a project, or do you just feel empty/hollow? I reply: what do you mean by "finish a project"?
October 30, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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October 27, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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As for our next song, here's a September classic. "I don't want a lot for Christmas, there is only one thing I need..."
October 25, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Speaking of nightmares:
ugh so... Someone in a group chat accidentally sent a homework question (wrong chat, was probably meant for classmates). Someone else replied with answers from ChatGPT. I was like wtf is the point of that, if he wanted to ask ChatGPT he'd use it himself. He said the answer was hilariously wrong and he was sharing it to make fun of it but I got angry and said "no you're just legitimizing the stupid hype of using Al for everything". AND THEN I WOKE UP! THIS IS AT LEAST THE SECOND TIME THIS BULLSHIT GETS INTO MY DREAMS! Explains the extremely weird behavior of my phone keyboard tho.
October 24, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Looking at the replies, most seem to be complaining about the AI slop.
October 21, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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your
TestFlight app on the App Store, the preview screenshot says "Access you beta apps and view updates"
October 9, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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love when I miss a round of Discourse and come back to Twitter only to find everyone saying "excuse me, but bathing habits are a VERY PERSONAL MATTER", leaving me to reconstruct the mass and diameter of the original bad take from the perturbations of nearby objects
October 5, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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October 4, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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October 1, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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GitHub comment saying "sounds like a skill issue tbh", followed by another comment by the same person saying "wait no it doesn't work for me either".
October 1, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Blame bugs in the YouTube app I guess.
October 1, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Man in full German nazi military uniform saying "Oh, so everyone you don't like is automatically a 'Nazi'".
September 26, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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And now it's even worse
sort of miss the days when you'd tweet "I like pancakes" and a human would reply "oh, so you hate waffles" instead of twelve Al bots responding with "pancakes are an enjoyable food"
September 24, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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It's an open source reference to this older post:
Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale. Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus.
September 23, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Screenshot of a Tumblr post. youcanthandelthetruth: Some old fella came up to me at work and asked a question only he didn't quite figure out if he should call me "sir" or "ma'am" by the time he got to the end of his sentence and in a moment of apparent panic ended up saying "captain" instead. Absolutely made my day. varaiancomet: petition to call non binary people captain
September 19, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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There's SO many bugs. A friend sent this with "Can you tell there’s a website address bar in this?"
September 18, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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And they have sharp needles they can stab you with.
Hornet, the character from Hollow Knight, holding her large knitting needle.
September 15, 2025 at 9:59 PM