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The ship sinking scene In Avatar 2 is very reminiscent of Titanic, so maybe we need to brace for Aliens vs Predator vs Navi vs Iceberg as well.

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The guns and dropships in Avatar are evidently v similar to the ones in Aliens, which raises the prospect of Aliens vs Predator vs Navi at some point in our blighted future.

"Excel, copy the contents of column B to this new worksheet, please."
"No problem, boss! I've copied the contents of column B to the new worksheet, and added 42,000 blank cells, just like you asked."

Ah. Broadband completely crapped out again over vast swathes of the country. gg Virgin 'on the ridiculous' Media. And this just after they put everyone's bills up by 20% because of fuck you we feel like it.

If MS had an oz of common sense, they'd have realised that integrating AI with search was also the perfect opportunity to ditch the dreadful name 'Bing' for something that doesn't stick in everyone's craw instead.

In another recently-gentrified local: group of young lads telling the barmaid "this place really needs a dartboard or something", she's like "I agree!", me thinking 'three years ago, the dartboard was exactly where that fancy coffee machine is...'

I love when Google Drive decides to scare the bejesus out of me by accessing a months-old cached copy of a folder and making me think all my metrics and meeting minutes have vanished. Keeps me on my toes.

The front and back doors to this building are so busted you have to kick them open to get in. We all assumed someone else would tell the management company. It's been 9 months. It's become a battle of wills.

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Nothing quite speaks to the relentless ravages of time quite like EMF's Spotify header image

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CVE-2023-21036 / acropalypse is absolutely bonkers.

Apparently for 5+ years the cropping / editing tools for screenshots on Google Pixel phones was only overwriting the start of the screenshot PNG file, but not truncating.

All screenshots shared for the past 5+ years might have data recoverable from them. Demo available at acropalypse.app/

Google still hasn't communicated anything on this.

(h/t ItsSimonTime on Musk's site)

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Man, I wish I'd discovered NewPipe sooner. Quite apart from stripping ads, it's interface is just so much nicer than the gd YT app.

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