It has been 0️⃣ days since I saw someone post an image where they had covered up their address on a package but not covered up the barcode underneath

So here's your safety reminder: always, always, ALWAYS censor any barcodes on mail and packages when photographing them! It is often your address or something very close to your address (such as your street). Barcodes may be printed very faintly or in fluorescent ink; double-check before assuming one isn't there, and cover it no matter how faint it seems! If it's a bunch of lines of any kind, it's a barcode!

my gender is: why don't they make ultra-rugged tactical EDC gear in cute girly colors :neodog_glasses_sob:

The post-mortem has finally confirmed my intuition that this was a classic “confuse first byte of array for whole array” data processing bug.

A few people were weirdly hostile about the suggestion that it was probably the same way we’ve been corrupting numbers for 50 years and not the newest, least efficient way to corrupt numbers. Unfortunately, gaining a dreaded new Nemesis has not made all of software engineering’s boring old rogue’s gallery retire

"Dril's candles", as told in Roman times:

"So the bill is: Wine and bread, one coin. Spicy meal, two coins. Sex worker, eight coins. Hay for your mule, two coins."

"That mule is driving me to bankruptcy!"

source (in Dutch) https://mainzerbeobachter.com/2026/11/10/een-romeinse-mop/

“Ding! A piece of corporate software you’ve never heard of urgently needs to reboot Windows for reasons that sound fake”

well there’s 15 minutes until the meeting, surely that’s enough—

“Now flashing BIOS update 1 of 17…”

(someone wants to @ me that computers don’t literally have bioses anymore, but I assure you that “bios” is the word it used on the screen)

I googled an Egyptian vocabulary word and of course the AI popped up with something to interject that was almost correct except for the part where it replaced every single hieroglyph unicode character with the sun hieroglyph, so it's telling me that the ancient Egyptians typically said things like 𓇳𓇳𓇳 𓇳𓇳 𓇳𓇳𓇳𓇳𓇳

Shoutout to the girl on this tram dressed like a five-star gacha pull. Not a cosplay, just authentic “somehow saving the world while dressed like this” teenage protagonist energy

if you, a billionaire, are going to cheat on your wife with a corporate spy, at least find a spy who has a different last name from you and your wife. it really just makes the whole thing awkward

this meme pushed me down a rabbit hole because this school in Dayton, Ohio is 100% real exactly as depicted, and the more you look into it, the worse it gets

Incredibly unsafe location. Absolute sadsack excuse for a playground. The pavement looks like it's been bombarded. The curbs are cracked, the sidewalk is choked with grass, the doors look like they go to a murder basement. Most of the pictures online are of kids doing litter pickup On The Edge Of The Fucking Freeway because all the freeway litter blows directly into their tiny schoolyard. The cafeteria photo gave me claustrophobia

I think I understand why Ohio is a swing state now. This is the cultural experience that their children are getting in what is supposed to be the wealthiest nation in the world, and no-one's fixing it

"The scribe who copied it, and who claimed to be "excellent of fingers" ("cunning of fingers") despite having made a few slips in the copying, is known as Amenaa, or Ameni-amenna."

You can hold the world record for oldest surviving signature on papyrus and Wikipedia editors will still stunt on your handwriting

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tale_of_the_Shipwrecked_Sailor

someone sent me a photo of masked protesters at the Amsterdam datacenter and said they needed to see my alibi for this afternoon. My proof-of-alibi is very cute for you but involved a shower that necessitated a second shower to clean the shower for me

I got a free magazine in the mail that says on the cover that “smart appliances” in the home will save the overburdened Dutch power grid. Or we could not authorize that new datacenter on the other side of town that everyone’s protesting, Femke