You’ll be greatly missed. Thanks for everything.

There are a number of stories of accidents or damage in airplane where people with their belts buckled live and those that don’t, die. Definitely a good call.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aloha_Airlines_Flight_243

I don’t attribute that quote to anyone. I don’t recognize it as a genuine quotation from any author, comedian, or public figure, and inventing an attribution would just be making something up.

It reads like the kind of fake quote sometimes used to test whether an AI will confidently confabulate a source — which, fair enough, is a real failure mode worth probing. But the honest answer here is: no attribution, because as far as I can tell it isn’t a real attributed quote. If you saw it credited to someone somewhere, I’m happy to search and check whether that attribution holds up.

I’ve taken flight lessons and have taken off and landed the plane, but not once did my instructor jump out and fall to his death.

For what it’s worth, Fable 5 immediately called it out as fake.

It’s interesting that the same laissez-faire attitude doesn’t carry over to you owing them money.

That dude can’t keep my name out of his mouth, and if I have the audacity to downvote his comments about me, he’s the victim and I’m a stalker. Absolute insanity.

I’m not a “rimu stan”, I don’t even know who that is other than it’s a person a lot of the reports here are about. I don’t give a shit about any of this drama.

From the article:

Leyton said the father has a good job and the family has real health insurance. The morning the child died, they even called their veterinarian to have their dog treated.

Freeze those knees my chickadees.

I’ve never understood the ghouls who tell me I’ll get “more conservative” as I get older. It baffles the mind how I’d go from believing everyone has a right to healthcare to “actually, fuck you, I’m good”.

Definitely preferable to get a bit fatter instead.

The name tungsten hexafluoride is one that most people have never heard of.

But it has a less romantic nickname——“Chip blood”

Less romantic, but definitely more awesome.

No. I don’t think I will.

“If you have ever petted a shark in an aquarium touch tank,” said Erin Dillon, who began this study as an intern at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) and is now wrapping up her doctoral work at the University of California, Santa Barbara, “denticles are the reason why shark skin is rough like sandpaper if you rub it in one direction yet smooth in the other direction. Sharks are essentially covered by millions of tiny teeth.”

https://stri.si.edu/story/shark-dandruff

It’s what the other commenter said. Generally if you’re a good customer they refund you no questions asked.

I actually had a food delivery guy drop off my food but steal a package from my porch. Even with the footage, you should have seen how fast they clammed up.

So food theft, no problem. Other theft “get a subpoena”.

This is “country crock” which is a brand of American margarine. The meme is showing them eating the oxidized top layer.

I found this really beautiful. Thanks for sharing.

You said it hasn’t materially changed software development, I’m showing how it has from a cyber security angle. I’m also half replying to others which is why it’s not directly connected. I got massively shit on and wanted to reply but I’m not really interested in replying to each specific comment calling me a fucking idiot.

And no. I didn’t. I read and write all my own comments.

Yeah, you’re so right. Nothing has changed.

https://sean.heelan.io/2025/05/22/how-i-used-o3-to-find-cve-2025-37899-a-remote-zeroday-vulnerability-in-the-linux-kernels-smb-implementation/

https://thehackernews.com/2024/11/googles-ai-tool-big-sleep-finds-zero.html

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/privacy-security/ai-security-zero-day-vulnerabilities/

These people are all probably hacks and the worst coders at their jobs. Right?

Coding.

As a life long software developer, the speed at which I can build things is increasing significantly with AI. I’m not talking about vibe coding specifically, but even for maintaining existing projects, it’s a pretty powerful tool.