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xkcd #3253: Sunbeam
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While weather control is typically thought of as a superpower, the unconscious ability of astronomers and astrophotographers to summon clouds is more properly classified as a curse.
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### Security
There is likely no plausible deniability possible for extreme threat models for phones.
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xkcd #3245: Results Age
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Please, we need your help. Our research suggests you’re the last living descendant of the person who knew how to format this config file.
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xkcd #3245: Results Age
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Please, we need your help. Our research suggests you’re the last living descendant of the person who knew how to format this config file.
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Nowhere on XKCD’s map of The Contiguous 41 States does it say that you need to find the missing seven states, but that’s immediately where my mind went. And it was a little more challenging than I anticipated — all of New England is present & accounted for somehow?
The answer key is here, along with this tidbit:
The United States did have exactly 41 states for a few days in 1889, from the…
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xkcd #3238: Soniferous Aether
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Imagine you could ride alongside a sound wave. It would probably be pretty cool, right? We’re putting in a departmental budget request to buy a really fast plane so we can check it out.
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xkcd #3237: Husband and Wife
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Borat came out twenty years ago this year–closer to the breakup of the Soviet Union than to today–but it honestly feels like it’s been even longer, somehow.
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xkcd #3235: Types of Board Game
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I can’t believe Candles of Vienna caved to commercial pressure and added the Goku expansion.
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xkcd #3232: Countdown Standard
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Anyone who is caught counting ‘three … two … one … zero … GO!’ will be punished with a lifetime of eating only ISO standard food samples.
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xkcd #3232: Countdown Standard
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Anyone who is caught counting ‘three … two … one … zero … GO!’ will be punished with a lifetime of eating only ISO standard food samples.
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I don’t think we should advise people on specific situation. There are people who already do that for a living (you?) but generally speaking a few remarks.
All of this sounds great and all, but at the end of the day, still vulnerable to the “5$ wrench attack”
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If you are a serious (publicly know target) of a nation state target, you need to take step to ensure physical…
I love this planet & stars chart from XKCD because it’s technically correct but also completely useless.
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xkcd #3214: Electric Vehicles
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Now that I’ve finally gotten an electric vehicle, I’m never going back to an acoustic one.
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The Bad Map Projection series of xkcd cartoons are mischievous and brain-melting but often as not come with a kernel of truth. Last Friday’s is a case of geomagnetorectification, distorting the map to line up… More
Version 3.0 of the Offpunk offline-first, command-line web, Gemini, and Gopher browser has been released. Notable changes in this release include integration of the unmerdify library to ""remove cruft"" from web sites, the xkcdpunk standalone tool for viewing xkcd comics in the terminal, and a cookies command to enable browsing web sites (such as LWN.net) while being logged in.
Something…
XKCD was at it again with another funny substitutions comic.
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I figured it would be fun to create a Chrome extension that does this. Truth be told there are already a ton of extenstions that do this in the Chrome Store. XKCD even links to the most popular one: XKCD substitutions offered by alec.posney. Since there are already so many competing plugins I decided to do…