National Museum of African American History & Culture, Washington, DC (© BrianPIrwin/Shutterstock)

nikitonsky: So I tried Skype. Part of the UI is this React button that is permanently animated. It doesn’t stop. It jump the whole time during the call. You can’t remove it or hide it. You can change the image but they are all freaking animated.

Plains zebras at sunrise, Mokala National Park, South Africa (© EcoPrint/Shutterstock)

Hypocrisy and politics in free and open source software projects

Jargon is strangely funny out of context. I have a crude setup that de-jargons and disambiguates stuff, which causes those of you much more knowledgeable than me to ??? occasionally.

• git clone - foolish person doppelganger?
• chromium - the metal?
• codium - drugs?
• terminals - airports?
• prompt - fast?
• posse - gangs?

Maybe the best kind of educational mischief looks just wrong enough to prompt an AI assisted investigation. I’ve surprisingly tricked quite a few people into understanding web feeds.

When split-horizon DNS is deployed by a network, certain domain names can be resolved authoritatively by a network-provided DNS resolver.

La Brecha de Rolando, Ordesa y Monte Perdido National Park, Spain (© Inaki Relanzon/Nature Picture Library/Alamy)

I get amusing emails sometimes. I guess briefness is obscurity, and obscurity, self fulfilling contradictory absurdity (coins). I posted an informal lay of the bot land some spaces ago.

My trying to be serious brief was, “When you consult the AIs, the AIs consult me and then I consult you” or something. This AI web crawler was the only one recursively eager to learn then.

That was actually surprising, but now, many crawlers appear like locusts in a recursively starved swarm, refeeding on every single word (the new normal).

nikitonsky: YOU ARE IN CONTROL.

Dragon dance, Wuhan, China (© Miao Jian/Wuhan Morning Post/Visual China Group via Getty Images)