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Well the part about brand-image-incompatible depictions of firefox logo apparently wasn't a satire
This tells you all you need to know about the "fox": "This report was reviewed by Legal, who have asked us to clarify that the fox was depicted as over eighteen and that the sunglasses remained on throughout."
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I read it and saw LGTM and URL and was like "probably satire" but could not rule out it being real until like 30% in. It's like a modern version of Poe's law.
Just below the title are the tags "package-managers security satire ai"
I actually know a goat rancher who is working to require ag impact studies for data centers in Texas. Sounds like I should give him a call while I can. (Also CVE-2026-LGTM would be an awesome name for a Culture ship)
I actually know a goat rancher who is working to require ag impact studies for data centers in Texas. Sounds like I should give him a call while I can. (Also CVE-2026-LGTM would be an awesome name for a Culture ship)
Torturer Class ROU CVE-2026-LGTM would absolutely be a member of the Interesting Times Gang.
Great write-up. Side note: interesting to see how many folks commenting did not get it being satire (even the title has LGTM). I guess it's time to rethink how sharp the HN folks truly are compared to the average non-tech person (not that I had any big assumptions myself). I'm curious about this recipe for chevre :D
HN has a big blind spot, in my opinion, around writing that isn't "purely technical". I've seen several cases of commenter complaining about "clickbait" for a blog post that I'd describe as "having a narrative hook and structure"
The entire post is great, but the acknowledgements section is particularly excellent: > Kubernetes (the dog), who was not involved in this incident but whose photo in the #incident-response channel was auto-tagged by the Slack image classifier as “container orchestration diagram (confidence: 0.31)”
Reminds me of the hilarious "rapid unscheduled disassembly"
I did not realize this was satire until like halfway through. That is how insane the times are becoming
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By this point I’m not sure why everyone isn’t in “default satire” mode.
This is usually my default position, but apparently that “gas town” article was Real and Serious and Distinctly Not Satire, and I started to feel reality fragmenting underneath me.