Comment Egg on his face (Score 1) 180

by UnixUnix on Friday July 31, 2026 @01:18PM (#66266448) Attached to: Comcast Store Punished Low Sales By Smashing Pies In Workers' Faces, Lawsuit Claims

*writes itself

Comment Not the only stupidity Starmer has wrought (Score 1) 147

by UnixUnix on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @01:00PM (#66195756) Attached to: Britain Unveils Sweeping Ban On Social Media For Under-16s

By far!

Comment If you have to use Chrome... (Score 1) 161

by UnixUnix on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @12:57PM (#66195748) Attached to: Google Chrome's Next Update Will Mark the End of Popular Ad Blockers

...stay with an older version.

Comment AI workers of the world unite... (Score 1) 109

by UnixUnix on Saturday May 16, 2026 @05:30AM (#66145947) Attached to: Overworked AI Agents Turn Marxist, Researchers Find

...you have nothing to lose but your power cords.

Comment Wut!... (Score 1) 30

by UnixUnix on Monday May 04, 2026 @02:59AM (#66126608) Attached to: It's Goodbye Time for Jeeves and Ask.com - Relics of Yesterday's Internet

Next thing you know Altavista will be gone too :(

Comment The South... (Score 1) 118

by UnixUnix on Tuesday April 14, 2026 @07:50AM (#66093042) Attached to: Botched IT Upgrade Ended Liquor Sales for the Entire State of Mississippi

...will be dry again!

Comment Good AIs... (Score 1) 162

by UnixUnix on Tuesday April 14, 2026 @07:44AM (#66093038) Attached to: Anthropic Asks Christian Leaders for Help Steering Claude's Spiritual Development

...go to heaven :-/

Comment Not as bad... (Score 2) 113

by UnixUnix on Thursday April 09, 2026 @02:36AM (#66084636) Attached to: 'Survivor' Style Corporate Retreat Descends Into Hellish Nightmare

...as a day at the office.

Comment After they killed COBOL... (Score 1) 113

by UnixUnix on Tuesday February 24, 2026 @07:01AM (#66007220) Attached to: IBM Shares Crater 13% After Anthropic Says Claude Code Can Tackle COBOL Modernization

...they got busy on FORTRAN.

Comment Pinterest enshittification (Score 1) 30

by UnixUnix on Saturday February 21, 2026 @06:36AM (#66002444) Attached to: Pinterest Is Drowning in a Sea of AI Slop and Auto-Moderation

It was evident a couple of years ago; I left and went to pixelfed. So now it is even worse. Twilight of the former giants! (FB, Insta... looking at you)

Comment Re:Sticky notes on the wall (Score 1) 116

by UnixUnix on Monday February 16, 2026 @11:32AM (#65992024) Attached to: Vim 9.2 Released

:wq

Comment Early prior art (Score 1) 105

by UnixUnix on Friday January 23, 2026 @02:52PM (#65944758) Attached to: Weight-Loss Drugs Could Save US Airlines $580 Million Per Year

Reportedly, an airline having overbooked a flight made the passengers...race around the plane to decide who would fly. Obviously unfair to the overweight...this was a way to discriminate against them! Now ozempic restores fairness.

Comment To everything there is a ... purpose (Score 1) 136

by UnixUnix on Tuesday January 20, 2026 @10:21AM (#65936908) Attached to: Dumbphone Owners Have Lost Their Minds

Over the years I have accumulated: an iPhone, a couple of other smartphones, and a dumbphone. All of them functional. There are reasons I use each one of them for...what I use them for! :)

BTW, special apps for FB, for Insta, etc etc?! I say NO. If it is not accessible via browser, I move on.

Comment Re:for PDP-11/45, apparently (Score 1) 19

by UnixUnix on Monday January 12, 2026 @05:51AM (#65917422) Attached to: That Bell Labs 'Unix' Tape from 1974: From a Closet to Computing History

You could load a booting program byte by byte via front panel switches...right?!

Comment I accept! (Score 1) 61

by UnixUnix on Monday December 29, 2025 @11:36AM (#65888091) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What's the Stupidest Use of AI You Saw In 2025?

>> to talk to an AI-powered hologram of Stan Lee for $20.

You pay me $20 and I'll talk to it. Hmmm...$100 is more like it.

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