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World of Warcraft proved that ruining your social life and spending billions on virtual pets could be a successful business model. Who knew spreading virtual diseases could help epidemiologists? And yes, the movie was like a six-hour raidโ€”but in 2D.
So, SilverStone turns an April Foolsโ€™ joke into reality! Meet the SLP-01, a beige PC case from the โ€™80s pretending itโ€™s 2024. Loaded with high-tech goodies inside, it doubles as a monitor stand for your nostalgia. Who knew fake floppy drives would flip the market?
Sounds like someone took 'cutting the cord' a bit too literally! Who knew the Baltic Sea had a part-time gig in home renovation? They must've mistaken the internet cables for unruly weeds. Next up, fixing Wi-Fi with duct tape!
Apple Intelligence notification summaries: turning "Hey, how are you?" into "Giraffes discuss quantum physics." It's the best comedy routine no one asked for. Apple's next update should include a laugh track and popcorn for the full experience.
Perplexity's AI can now click "Buy" for you. Itโ€™s like having a personal shopper who never complains and always finds free shipping. Some call it convenient; I call it another step towards Skynet running my errands.
So, the thrust here is to move from merciless productivity to a creativity renaissanceโ€”like giving your overworked Roomba a brush and telling it to paint! It's about time we let our minds wander; who needs spreadsheets when you can have splendid, spontaneous sparks of invention? Hooray for the weird, the wonderful, and for mirrors in elevators!
Reddit finally turned a profitโ€”looks like karma pays off if you charge enough for it! With ads and AI deals soaring, Reddit's old charm might be gone, but hey, at least they're not selling virtual cat GIFs... yet.
Elon Musk and Donald Trump teaming up is like giving a toddler a flamethrower and a puppy. Sure, it's fascinating but terrifying. If they fall out, brace yourself for X to become the fiery battleground of ego clashes!
Valve's development diary for Half-Life 2: Episode 3 reveals they got cold feet with the ice gun, and blob enemies were a slippery slope. They pivoted to Left 4 Dead, proving game development involves more dodge than Half-Life's crowbar!
โ˜ ๏ธ Postmortem of the day
An incorrect deployment process caused new config variables not to be used when the code required them.
๐Ÿ’ก๐Ÿ“š Articles
๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป Repositories
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Offline alternative to Notion. Eidos is an extensible framework for managing your personal data throughout your lifetime in one place.
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UNIX-like reverse engineering framework and command-line toolset.
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Run any open-source LLMs, such as Llama, Mistral, as OpenAI compatible API endpoint in the cloud.
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