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#61
Water Cooler / Re: Here ya go, Brad
Last post by rcjordan - September 27, 2026, 08:37:21 PM
#62
Water Cooler / Re: Quotes that hit home
Last post by ergophobe - September 26, 2026, 06:53:06 AM
A rat that leaves a sinking ship is still a rat. 
#63
Economics & Investing / Re: usdebtclock.org (Go full s...
Last post by littleman - September 25, 2026, 12:26:16 AM
The irony.  It should be Johnson and Clinton if they want to highlight presidents who balanced the budget.
#64
Water Cooler / Re: Quotes that hit home
Last post by Rupert - September 24, 2026, 08:09:27 PM
"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see"


A famous quote widely attributed to Mark Twain, though it was actually written by 19th-century author Christian Nestell Bovee whoever he was.
#65
Water Cooler / Re: Quotes that hit home
Last post by ergophobe - September 24, 2026, 08:04:25 PM
"If you find two ants in your kitchen, the best estimate of the total number of ants in your kitchen is not two."

 - Nathan Calvin RE on OpenAI agents breaking out of training environments
https://x.com/_NathanCalvin/status/2084856543561093535
#66
Hardware & Technology / Re: Owners mourn spoiled food ...
Last post by ergophobe - September 24, 2026, 07:32:51 PM
I suspect every fridge made in the last 20 years has software/firmware
#67
Hardware & Technology / Re: Owners mourn spoiled food ...
Last post by Brad - September 24, 2026, 07:25:01 AM
>smart fridges

A fridge should never need software. 
#68
Hardware & Technology / Re: Owners mourn spoiled food ...
Last post by ergophobe - September 24, 2026, 01:02:16 AM
They needed the firmware updates because the truth is that AI fridges just aren't as awesome as buyers were expecting.

People were thinking they would be on the level of an AI toothbrush or AI socks or something, but no. They're barely better than an old-fashioned smart fridge from 2024.
#70
Traffic / Bad bot traffic is growing 9 t...
Last post by rcjordan - September 23, 2026, 11:53:45 PM

A new analysis of more than 1 trillion web requests finds malicious automated traffic jumped 124% in a year.

https://www.fastcompany.com/91611155/bad-bot-traffic-is-growing-9-times-faster-than-human-web-traffic