Reposted by Zander HornEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/05/2025we have failed as a society to train people to communicate, the way we teach students to write (when we bother to) is the most bland, anodyne crap, all while making them go to college for reasons that even we can't explain beyond "you need it to get a job." Kids don't get why they're going. 652676562
Reposted by Zander HornDavid Buchanan @retr0.id · 27/05/2025vibecoding is when I write the README and then never get around to writing the rest of the project 1236834
Reposted by Zander HornOpinion Editor @ Bluesky @dly.bsky.social · 21/03/2025there's "terminally online" and then there's "terminally online (desktop)" and it is so much worse 1226831893
Zander Horn @enginerd.co.za · 14/02/2025Has anyone ever called knock-offs Tupperware, Tupperwarez? 000
Reposted by Zander HornSwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 22/01/2025Computers used to bang. Aston Shell, Yzdock, real millennialcore before UX design was just padding. 5160065
Zander Horn @enginerd.co.za · 18/01/2025These profiles following 10k+ people, why? How do you meaningfully interact and digest what's being shouted into your void? 000
Reposted by Zander HornGale Galligan @galegalligan.bsky.social · 17/01/2025there are too many pokemon 2018419
Reposted by Zander HornTechnology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 17/01/2025I wish we could cultivate a culture where people get excited about and share the new skills they've learned more than the new stuff they've bought. 4948803811
Reposted by Zander HornCharl P. Botha @charlbotha.com · 08/01/2025#til if you want to share a song, use song.link to create a universal song link. The recipient will be able to listen to the song you shared via any streaming service of their choice. Here's an example: song.link/i/1559885421song.linkNever Gonna Give You Up by Rick AstleyListen now on your favorite streaming service. Powered by Songlink/Odesli, an on-demand, customizable smart link service to help you share songs, albums, podcasts and more. 041
Reposted by Zander HornRichy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 08/01/2025A knife that's just been used to slice bread can go back in the drawer. Bread doesn't count. 2874925259
Zander Horn @enginerd.co.za · 01/01/2025After spending most of this year sleeping I suppose it's time to get up and do something 010
Reposted by Zander HornDavid Buchanan @retr0.id · 30/12/2024in 2025 I will probably go on the computer 1234676
Zander Horn @enginerd.co.za · 30/12/2024Sometimes I need to admit to myself that I simply enjoy configuring things 010
Reposted by Zander HornJacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · 24/12/2024Suddenly mad that we'll never get a Discworld book in which the wizards invent something like Large Language Monsters that eat everyone's stuff before regurgitating it, and Vimes arrests them all for being bloody stupid 702925539
Zander Horn @enginerd.co.za · 11/12/2024The biggest quality of life improvement in using the internet since uBlock Origin is Consent-O-Matic. Never again do I need to deal with some dark pattern data consent pop-up. 000
Reposted by Zander HornUncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 11/12/2024Steinbeck: What did you think of my draft of 𝘖𝘧 𝘔𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘔𝘢𝘯? Publisher: It needs more characters. Steinbeck: I'll see what I can do. 753563285
Reposted by Zander HornU.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 10/12/2024They haven't invented an AI that can do what we do as poorly as we do it. 382839486
Reposted by Zander HornThe Name Is Cupcake @rouxgarou.bsky.social · 30/11/2024I've closed at least 7 browser tabs in the last few days. This counts as personal growth. 15311
Reposted by Zander HornBen Kuchera @benkuchera.bsky.social · 30/11/2024I remember when a new version of Windows meant there would be all sorts of new features and the trailers would have a big song announcing the update and everyone waited in line for the new hotness and now your computer randomly reboots at some point and the update is you can no longer save files. 721649128
Reposted by Zander HornBirds Are Dinosaurs @birdsaredinosaurs.bsky.social · 29/11/2024Dune has the same plot as the Westminster Dog Show: After generations of careful breeding, we have produced this perfect little freak of nature and now it has behavioral issues 8287312266
Reposted by Zander HornFalse Knees @falseknees.bsky.social · 02/11/2024Kneesvember 2024 Day 1 111207211
Zander Horn @enginerd.co.za · 28/11/2024The statistician in me is loath to be anecdotal, but I've had improbably bad luck with Seagate drives ☹️ 010
Zander Horn @enginerd.co.za · 22/11/2024I seem to have stained my fingers brown from working with some fancy wood today. I am not sufficiently mentally prepared for this burden. 000
Reposted by Zander HornElizabeth Hackett @lizhackett.bsky.social · 15/11/2024The backstory to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein puts unrealistic expectations on how much work you can accomplish in a vacation house. 975084396
Reposted by Zander HornGrace @gracekind.net · 13/11/2024The future of work is spending 8 hours copying one-time passwords between various windows and devices 0637
Reposted by Zander HornSwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 11/11/2024There was a time you'd run EXE's for fun. There were malware before Bitcoin but they were often stupid shit like playing random porn noises. We have lost a part of ourselves and our children's. 2222825
Reposted by Zander HornBrandon “Bouncing Beebles" Kirkman @kirkmanbrandon.bsky.social · 05/11/2024Doom Scrolling? Sounds impressive as hell, not even sure how you can emulate Doom on a scroll. That’s gotta be some real special papyrus 665841879
Zander Horn @enginerd.co.za · 06/11/2024I'm pretty sure people are medium entropy saladoids: saladtheory.github.iosaladtheory.github.ioSalad TheorySalad Theory 000
Reposted by Zander Hornkate wehwalt @katewagner.wehwalt.net · 03/11/2024kinda have to say the internet / literacy stuff scares me more re having a kid than climate change 41253
Reposted by Zander Hornkate wehwalt @katewagner.wehwalt.net · 30/10/2024100,000 workers estimated missing www.archpaper.com/2024/10/docu...archpaper.comNew documentary reveals that 21,000 laborers have died working on Saudi Vision 2030, which includes NEOM, since construction beganAccording to the expose by ITV, more than 21,000 workers have died since 2017 while working on Saudi Vision 2030 and NEOM. 11321153
Reposted by Zander HornSwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 28/10/2024A story I like telling is how I ran the AV at a place and when I deployed adblock the detections fell off a cliff. I wish more people had this visceral "holy shit" moment. "It was this easy the whole time?" ~2012. I recently deployed uBlock Origin to an F500, on my insistence. 826155
Zander Horn @enginerd.co.za · 27/10/2024C'mon Cloudflare, I've been accessing you from the same IP for five years now, do I really have to do a CAPTCHA twice? 020
Reposted by Zander HornLuke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 21/10/2024kotaku.com/discord-foru... 312004733
Reposted by Zander HornStella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 11/09/2024Remember what they took from us 11494121
Reposted by Zander HornLumin @screwy.bsky.social · 18/10/2024Even funnier is that right after he left, BSky's team immediately reprioritized into stuff like video support because he kept prioritizing Web3 bullshit over basic functionality during his tenure Also he's now glazing Elon's Twitter lmao 8633272
Reposted by Zander HornIan Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 17/10/2024There's got to be a new corollary to Poe's Law that says something like "You cannot write a science fiction premise so obviously nightmarish and terrible that some insanely wealthy tech dingbat won't think 'gee, what an awesome idea'" 31781220
Reposted by Zander HornBig Dracula Energy @mayawest.online · 04/11/2023becoming a RETVRN guy, but only for translucent tech. 48833197