Now explain PartialEq, and why it’s mandatory.

Cowsay should be installed by default on every distro.

Yes, the high latency and intermittent connectivity is a big challenge. Delay tolerant networking (DTN) is one good way of solving this problem.

So someone is finally going to jail? …right?

ALL SHALL BOW BEFORE THE DARK OBELISK OF TECHNOLOGY.

It could also be a BO⊥S sign that’s been flipped upside down.

Punchr did it first. (Comedy skit by Loading Ready Run.)

No, it’s a magical morbidly obese senior citizen. Totally different.

Hannah Montana 5 eva.

This post is horrifying, not funny.

Please link to the original artist, Lucas Nascimento. This JPEG has been recompressed so many times it’s getting fuzzy.

Um, actually it should be “That’s us”, since Borg never refer to themselves in the singular until Hugh goes and ruins everything.

A few years ago, William Shatner did a PSA about exactly this.

Plot twist: The founder of this pyramid-shaped scheme is Jeff Bezos, since he’ll profit from every book sold regardless of where it ends up.

Lemmy: Did someone say BEANS!?

I remember when Signal used to be a drop-in replacement for SMS. It used phone numbers so you could automatically upgrade to secure messaging if your recipient also had Signal, and just use regular SMS otherwise.

This is outrageous. Where are the images with humorous text? Where are they? This kind of behavior is never tolerated in Risa. You post text like that, they put you in meme. Right away. No trial, no nothing. Killing Tuvix, we have a special meme for Tuvix. You are Kevin? Right to meme. You are drinking coffee: right to meme, right away. You undercook leola root? Believe it or not, meme. You overcook leola, also meme. Undercook, overcook. We have the best treks in the galaxy because of meme.

[Citation needed]

Every reverse-engineering study I’ve read has been about the apps built in top of the Google API, not the Google binaries. Here’s one, and here’s another, and neither paints a flattering picture.

Maybe it’s possible to build a perfect implementation, but that is not what we got.

You know what does work? Masks and vaccines. Phone-based tracking was a dangerous waste of time.

Blank space in the corners that’s not filled with ads? What kind of Ferengi display is this!?

The Google system allegedly shares hashes of a ID-number salted with a rotating timestamp over BLE. But it’s also a closed-source binary. Can you or anyone else actually inspect its implementation? Can you really guarantee it doesn’t have even the smallest design flaws?

This technology is exceptionally dangerous. There is very little difference between these two scenarios:

• A doctor has identified a COVID patient. Let’s notify everyone who’s spent time with them recently.
• Secret police have identified a “dissident”. Let’s round up all their close associates.

It’s voluntary (for now). It’s allegedly secure (for now). But did anyone actually benefit from this complicated system? All I see are downsides.