Ryan C. Gordon

@icculus.icculus.org

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Don't use this service, didn't you learn _anything_ from Twitter?

T-shirt that simply reads, “THE LAST OF THE BUGS”
Firefox warning page text: "Be careful. Something doesn’t look right. Firefox spotted a potentially serious security issue with www.msnbc.msn.com. Someone pretending to be the site could try to steal things like credit card info, passwords, or emails. www.msnbc.msn.com has a security policy called HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS), which means that Firefox can only connect to it securely. You can’t add an exception to visit this site. Advanced What makes the site look dangerous? The site is set up to allow only secure connections, but there’s a problem with the site’s certificate. It’s possible that a bad actor is trying to impersonate the site. Sites use certificates issued by a certificate authority to prove they’re really who they say they are. Firefox doesn’t trust this site because its certificate isn’t valid for www.msnbc.msn.com. The certificate is only valid for: *.azureedge.net. What can you do about it? www.msnbc.msn.com has a security policy called HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS), which means that Firefox can only connect to it securely. You can’t add an exception to visit this site. View the site’s certificate Learn more about secure connection failures Error Code: SSL_ERROR_BAD_CERT_DOMAIN"
Interview with Steve Jobs, from Newsweek: QUESTION: Microsoft has announced its new iPod competitor, Zune. It says that this device is all about building communities. Are you worried? ANSWER: In a word, no. I've seen the demonstrations on the Internet about how you can find another person using a Zune and give them a song they can play three times. It takes forever. By the time you've gone through all that, the girl's got up and left! _You're much better off to take one of your earbuds out and put it in her ear. Then you're connected with about two feet of headphone cable._
Application crash dialog on Haiku OS. The confirm button while "Terminate" is selected says "Oh no!"
iOS notification from Chess.com’s app: “ryancgordon, commit to 1 lesson…Your blunders demand immediate attention.”
Clementine, the dog, nose close up.
Cookie Queens movie poster with South-by-Southwest Festival Favorite award logo at the top.
Article screenshot from Popular Mechanics: “Antartica Looks Like It’s Bleeding. Scientists Finally Figured Out Why.”
William Frankenstein telling his brother, "you are the monster," in Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein.
Screenshot of Audible app playing “This Is How You Lose the Time War”
PLAYER: They're hardly divisible, sir--well, I can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and I can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and I can do you all three concurrent or consecutive, but I can't do you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory--they're all blood, you see. GUIL: Is that what people want? PLAYER: It's what we do.
A photo of Ryan’s copy of Programming Linux Games by John R. Hall.
"you need to calm down."
Rolling Stone article screenshot: “That great popping sound you may have heard ripple across New York City and beyond Tuesday night around 10:30 p.m. wasn't champagne. It was the sound of a thousand Republican heads exploding at the news that 67-year-old accused sex pest and former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo had conceded the Democratic mayoral primary to Zohran Mamdani, the 33-year-old Democratic Socialist who captured New Yorkers' imagination”