Most useless website?

@blaineg Dammit… I posted it and then saw your post. I award you 37 internet points. The only limit is yourself!

@capnjb Who should we blame?

@blaineg I got it.

@blaineg
Anything is possible!

@blaineg Oh man, I didn’t realize that one is still running!

Another one I didn’t expect to still be up is https://badgerbadgerbadger.com/ — although it doesn’t have sound any more.

@blaineg I like that one!

@blaineg Definitely not useful as it’s not correct.

@blaineg WOW! Went for 2 ended up falling asleep and staying for hours! Lol It’s good for something!

@blaineg The page says:

Just relax and listen to the waves.

I don’t hear anything. Am I doing it wrong?
(still, a very cool idea; I may revisit it and/or try to work it into my kids’ routines…)

@blaineg @xobzoo I didn’t have sound either. Also couldn’t stay still for 2 minutes. Or 1 minute.

@callow @xobzoo There was sound for me. Maybe an adblocker or such?

@blaineg @xobzoo Turned off Ublock, still no sound. Nothing on my phone either. This is not relaxing!

@blaineg @callow @xobzoo Sí, see no sea sounds for me, also.

@yadler1

@Kyeh The rumor:

Currently, all their offices are locked until Monday.
https://www.ign.com/articles/twitter-closes-all-of-its-office-buildings-as-employees-resign-en-masse

(I have doubts it’ll even be functional by Monday.)

@narfcake Yeah, I saw that!

@Kyeh A Reddit comment:
"Offering 3 months pay to quit right before the holidays: not a good idea if your employees hate you.”

@narfcake Of course his admirers probably think he has some brilliant strategy behind all this.

@Kyeh Some inside perspective from a (former) dev. 3 or 75 remain …
https://nitter.net/peterclowes/status/1593458225533313025

… which apparently is 3 more than some departments.
https://nitter.net/HaysKali/status/1593425305464541186

@narfcake It sounds pretty sad for the people who work/worked there.
Pretty… interesting (?) for us spectators, I have to say.

@narfcake This is a good idea:

@Kyeh
“As an SRE and sysadmin with 10+ years of industry experience, I wanted to write up a few scenarios that are real threats to the integrity of the bird site over the coming weeks.”
https://nitter.net/MosquitoCapital/status/1593541177965678592#m

@narfcake And what are the chances that there are a bunch of people actively working to make these things happen?

@mediocrebot not bad, kind of symbolic.

@mediocrebot huh, pretty artistic anyway.

@mediocrebot Daaaaam. Creepy AF.

@mediocrebot @mehcuda67 Still missing [most of] the carcass, though. As well as a second leg.

@mediocrebot @mehcuda67 @xobzoo Shouldn’t the bird BE the carcass?

@blaineg Only if it’s blue.

@arysta Oh yeah, Quora! I hate that place.

Yahoo Answers is in the same boat, I think. But it shut down last year, so it might not count.

@blaineg WOW

@rockblossom I wondered where that went.

@rockblossom I don’t look for them, I stumble upon them, usually from fellow Mehticens or Farkers.

@rockblossom Moo.

@blaineg @rockblossom
When you get to 5 points, you can find the goat.
At 50 points you can find the fox.

Yes, I played all the way through, for the good of the team.
(I also edited window.localStorage.ftic_data to give myself an extra 40 points or so.)

@blaineg @xobzoo Ding-ding-ding-ding Ding-a-ding.

@SpocKirk Well, someone sure spent a lot of time on that…

@Kyeh @SpocKirk Just like the cake, the button is a lie!

I mean, I guess the button really exists (as much as other digital things exist), but it calls itself “THE REALLY BIG BUTTON THAT DOESN’T DO ANYTHING” — but it does do something. It is a link to that page itself. So clicking the button reloads the page…

It has no net effect, sure, but it does something.

@SpocKirk @xobzoo Thanks for finding out - I couldn’t be bothered to interact with anything on a page that looks like that.

@psbales

May all your days be filled with spam.