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May 2025

Cuts Like a Knife

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Mike V. shares a personal experience with the broadest version of Poe's Law: "Slashdot articles generally have a humorous quote at the bottom of their articles, but I can't tell if this displayed usage information for the fortune command, which provides humorous quotes, is a joke or a bug." To which I respond with the sharpest version of Hanlon's Razor: never ascribe to intent that which can adequately be explained by incompetence.


Charge Me

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The lights are on here and the roof is intact and I'm grateful. Is anybody home? You decide.

Pharm fan Ian S. clucked "Perhaps they'll put those as dates on my headstone." If you're very lucky.