The Cursed Computer Iceberg
The Cursed Computer Iceberg
this is not a hall of shame. the intent is to awaken you to many of the peculiarities and weirdness of computers. hopefully, after reading these articles, you will have learned a lot and will embrace chaos.
All the words in the picture are links!
If anyone didn't notice, everything on this page is a link.
53 0 ReplyThis literally saved me from clicking away with a sensible chuckle. There goes my evening.
19 0 ReplyI did NOT, thank you!
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rm -rf $STEAM_ROOT/
takes me wayyy back. I remember hearing about that one. It was part of a script that shipped with a Stream installer?Whatever it was, the bug was that if the env var in that line wasn't defined, it would just
rm
the actual root. Hilarious if doesn't happen to you!36 0 ReplyI was surprised by how many of these I already knew but also horrified at some of the things I have now read about
30 0 ReplyLike what?
5 0 ReplyThe Japanese Postal CSV seems truly cursed
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Having some of them as Twitter-links was not that good of an idea...
And it has that awesome xerox scanner bug found by David Kriesel! 😂
I watch his talk (german) like once or twice a year, because it is that funny!
22 0 ReplySo much cool stuff in there
17 0 ReplyI love it, thanks for sharing!
16 0 ReplyI didn't see the magic switch tho I may have overlooked it.
13 0 ReplyThis always makes me so happy to read. I'm glad technology can still have some whimsy to it, even though the story is dated.
4 0 Reply"Middle of the iceberg" layer.
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I love these icebergs.
12 0 ReplyOne of my favorites is the fast inverse square solution.
It's like Fermat's Little theorem: meh, this is easy fuck you.
The rest of the world: what in the ever loving fuck is going on here? How in the... Jesus Christ... How did you?!? What is this black magic??!? What part of your soul did you sell for this?
8 0 ReplyYou know it's very weird when you see that brainfuck is 'above the iceberg'
7 0 ReplyOh it hurts how many of these are recognizable.
2 0 ReplySo... Is the Basilisk Collection still not explained?
2 0 ReplyIt appears to be a work of fiction.
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Very neat, thanks for sharing
3 1 ReplyOn archive.is
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