I always knew he’s a megapsychic person.

handles all math on every machine on earth

That’s just gmp. The go-to unlimited precision arithmetic library.

SATA tears

Ah, yes, I always love it when the train does Tokyo drift.

bee hotels

Cockroach traps are call “cockroach houses” in Mandarin.

My theory of military bed making is that originally they had to grab the sheets and go on a very short notice, so it makes sense to “pre-pack” them. However, it gradually evolved into a performative art.

It’s app level injection, so presumably if you install GrapheneOS or use a different “smart feed app” (some kind of launcher for Motorola? I haven’t used one before), it won’t affect the user. Although, I agree it’s a pretty bad look on the QA of preloaded apps.

Reason why people love Scream: mood

“Copilot is for entertainment purposes only”

It’s like “nobody ever got fired for buying IBM.” Nobody ever got fired for pitching a migration to GitHub. It doesn’t have to be good. Then one day it’s crumbling down and people will have to learn to face consequences.

Blame Gen Z.

Try Shift + Right Stick…sorry that’s the launch missile button.

Alien kind.

It’s reserved for really close friends (sometimes also relatives). The problem is not the extent of politeness per se, but one that exceeds the “expected” politeness. If you’re politer than you’re supposed to be, you are being too 客气 (“acting like a guest”) or 见外 (“looking like a stranger”).

Although, the expected politeness is sometimes tricky to know as it depends on each part’s perception of the relation. On top of that, there’s also the supposed “acting” of politeness, like fighting to pay restaurant bills.

This is actually not that hard to understand. Note that across cultures, close friends can insult each other as jokes. So showing less politeness is like an insult, but with the understanding of the participants, it becomes a show of closeness.

Granted, I really had to look for that meaning.

I just realized this wasn’t an evil name across cultures as I have always thought.

Its Chinese translation 天网 (literally sky + net) is a word used for at least for 2,000 years and is still very actively used among the daily vocabulary. It’s a metaphor for law enforcement (especially the destined punishment for going against the “good natural order” i.e. the sky).

Traditionally, it’s neutral or commendatory, but nowadays due to the association with surveillance networks (both metaphorically and literally), it’s more derogatory.

The scale of penguin beaks, obviously.

So consumer grade routers are a security risk, but not ISP switches or server routers? That’s the opposite of what a state level actor would look for.

Came here to make this comment. So by the same logic, DNS or Domain Name System should have been abbreviated to DoNaS and pronounced dou-NAS.

At least he dogfooded his vision. Too bad reality happened.

Is it still harassment if you enjoy?