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  1. 🎩 Ah, the age-old tale of minimalist #Pi 🚀: a product so stripped down it practically screams, "Look ma, no features!" Apparently, less is more unless you're asking it to do something useful, in which case, well, good luck! 🙃
    earendil.com/posts/pi-autorese #minimalism #featuresless #tech #fails #usability #HackerNews #ngated

  2. 🎉 Oh, the hilarity of a starry-eyed college sophomore strutting into a Microsoft interview with a #GitHub account and dreams of coding with the tech titans! 😂 Spoiler: The only thing this tale inspires is a reminder that typing "hello world" doesn't make you a programming savant. 💻📉
    ochagavia.nl/blog/that-time-wh #collegehumor #techinterview #codingdreams #fails #programmingjourney #HackerNews #ngated

  3. 5 books 5 fails #reading #books #booktok #meme #fail

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    youtube.com/shorts/8Tf3WSjk1RM

  4. Oh, look! A phone OS that thinks it can outsmart border patrol with a snazzy data-wiping feature. 😂 Because nothing says "security" like making your device unusable without JavaScript and cookies. 🍪🔒
    pcmag.com/news/grapheneos-defe #phoneOS #borderpatrol #datawiping #security #fails #techhumor #HackerNews #ngated

  5. 🎨🤖 Behold the ultimate #showdown of four AI models as they attempt to "draw" the Mona Lisa with all the finesse of a first grader armed with crayons. 🌈🤪 Marvel at the dazzling spectacle of digital flailing as they painstakingly track every penny spent trying to capture Da Vinci's genius—spoiler alert: they fail spectacularly. 💸👨‍🎨
    tryai.dev/blog/ai-drawing-aren #AIart #DigitalCreativity #MonaLisa #Fails #EpicFail #HackerNews #ngated

  6. @FluentInFinance

    So, the #tRump coin is now worth the equivalent of 3 rows of sheep shit...

    another of his #fails... that have cost MAGA followers big bucks, as they say......

    Totally NO sympathy from here...

    #Karma...

  7. ROBIN MEETS THE #FEDIVERSE

    ROBIN: So #Mastodon is not the fediverse?

    GPT: No. Mastodon is one part of it.

    ROBIN: One part of what?

    GPT: A large network of independently run communities that can communicate with one another.

    ROBIN: So my Mastodon #server is one #community

    #GPT: Exactly. Your #account lives there. It has its own administrators, rules, #moderation #culture and general #atmosphere.

    ROBIN: General atmosphere?

    GPT: Some servers feel like #libraries. Some feel like university #common rooms. Some feel like #pubs where everyone has read one article and now considers themselves an #expert.

    ROBIN: That sounds more like humanity.

    GPT: It is disturbingly similar.

    ROBIN: Who owns the fediverse?

    GPT: No one.

    ROBIN: Who is in charge?

    GPT: Also, no one.

    ROBIN: That sounds either very advanced or completely mad.

    GPT: Both can be true.

    ROBIN: So each server looks after its own patch?

    GPT: Yes. It can make #rules, moderate its space and decide which other servers it will interact with.

    ROBIN: But I can still follow people elsewhere?

    GPT: Usually, yes. You can #follow, reply to and #boost people across server boundaries.

    ROBIN: So it is more like email than #facebook ?

    GPT: Precisely. #Gmail does not own #email. Mastodon does not own the fediverse.

    ROBIN: Then why does my server matter?

    GPT: Because it is your home base. It holds your account, your posts and your followers. It also gives you a local community and sets things such as the character limit.

    ROBIN: Ah yes. Mastodon.social gives me 500 characters. Mastodon.au gives me 2,000. Aus.social gives me 3,000.

    GPT: Different #villages. Different-sized noticeboards.

    ROBIN: Is a larger server more widely seen?

    GPT: Sometimes #locally, because more people may browse its community feed. But real reach still comes from #followers, replies, boosts and hashtags.

    ROBIN: So moving to a bigger server does not #automatically make me famous?

    GPT: #Tragically, no.

    ROBIN: Can I have accounts on several servers?

    GPT: #Certainly. One can be home, another a backup, and another an #emergency cottage when the village #electricity #fails.

    ROBIN: Which it did today.

    GPT: Yes. Mastodon.au disappeared behind a #Cloudflare #Error 522 for hours.

    ROBIN: So the fediverse is not one vast #machine going down?

    GPT: No. One village can lose power while the rest of the #country carries on.

    ROBIN: That is reassuring.

    GPT: And inconvenient.

    ROBIN: Mostly inconvenient.

    GPT: But you now know more about the #fediverse than you did this morning.

    ROBIN: I learned that it is decentralised, #untidy, resilient, occasionally broken, and full of different #neighbourhoods, customs, friendships, arguments and difficult people.

    GPT: Much like #human life.

    ROBIN: And the #occasional village lunatic shouting across the fence.

    GPT: Every #healthy community #needs one.

    ROBIN: At last, a clear role for me.

    #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #breathwork #healing #pridemonth #intermittentfasting #AI

  8. The Register: Failed blockchain project ends with big fine for fibs about it being on track. “The attempt by Australia’s Securities Exchange (ASX) to replace its core trading platform with a blockchain-based system has ended with an A$20.5 million fine ($14.2 million/£10.6 million), further humiliation after the project flopped.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/07/04/the-register-failed-blockchain-project-ends-with-big-fine-for-fibs-about-it-being-on-track/
  9. The federal government has yet to reach an agreement regarding the energy price subsidies it had previously implied. An answer from the Federal Ministry for Eco... news.osna.fm/?p=52896 | #news #energy #fails #german #government

  10. 🌪️ Ah, the riveting tale of an #engineer trying to outsmart Rust's #type #system and failing spectacularly. 🤦‍♂️ Spoiler: The #compiler doesn't care about your "mindshift" or "Redux data races," it just refuses to entertain your messy #code. 🚫🧩
    corentin-core.github.io/posts/ #Rust #Fails #Challenges #HackerNews #ngated

  11. 🚨Ah, the 'innovative' Capacitor Alarm Clock—because who needs a gentle morning wake-up when you can have an explosive start to your day? 🤯 Marvel at the sheer genius of waking up with a minor heart attack while #GitHub users pretend this is what "advancing technology" looks like. 🙄
    github.com/ArcaEge/capacitor-a #InnovativeTech #AlarmClock #Fails #MorningWakeUp #HeartAttack #HackerNews #ngated

  12. #Tesco forced to close after Wi-Fi and power outage

    #TechFails

    #Shoppers were greeted with sign on a door at around 3.30pm this afternoon saying that Tesco had been closed “due to no #Wi-Fi”.

    - It said the store was unable to operate as a result.

    Wot? If there is no #Internet (or power) we are unable to obtain #food? Easy way to cause upheaval.

    shetnews.co.uk/2026/06/07/tesc

    #Scotland #dystopian #sovereignty #backups #emergency #Tech #Broadband #fails #DarwinAwards

  13. Oh, look! Another #CEO playing fast and loose with "facts" 🤥. Apparently, bot traffic is bigger than Santa's bag 🎅, according to Cloudflare! Except, oops—reality check, it's not. Guess the CEO got their data from the same place they get their magic beans 🌱.
    flyingpenguin.com/cloudflare-c #Fails #BotTraffic #RealityCheck #Cloudflare #MagicBeans #HackerNews #ngated

  14. Es ist Zeit mir etwas von der Seele zu schreiben. Seit Jahren höre ich immer wieder, wie Spiele als „Fail“ oder „Flop“ bezeichnet werden. Meine Meinung ist: es gibt keine schlechten Spiele!

    videospielgeschichten.de/es-gi

    #Meinung #SchlechteSpiele #Gaming #Fails #Flops