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.
53This literally saved me from clicking away with a sensible chuckle. There goes my evening.
18I 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
rmthe actual root. Hilarious if doesn't happen to you!36I was surprised by how many of these I already knew but also horrified at some of the things I have now read about
30Like what?
5The 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!
23So much cool stuff in there
17I love it, thanks for sharing!
16I didn't see the magic switch tho I may have overlooked it.
13This 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"Middle of the iceberg" layer.
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I love these icebergs.
12One 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?
8You know it's very weird when you see that brainfuck is 'above the iceberg'
7Very neat, thanks for sharing
2Oh it hurts how many of these are recognizable.
2So... Is the Basilisk Collection still not explained?
2It appears to be a work of fiction.
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On archive.is
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