a real life example? you mean like a photo of a person next to a router?

depends a lot, but yes some lights are like that.

“Your password doesnt meet the required 64 bits of entropy”

This could have been amazing if integrated into a district heating network.

♫ Voulez-Vous Coucher Avec Moi Ce Soir ♫

Yes, I can imagine. It’s done literally all the time, in every genre.

alternate caption:
“has feet”

this sends a clear message though. No the old “just hook them, then we have guaranteed income forever” isn’t actually working. That’s great.

shoelaces can be a tangled mess yet not properly knotted

this is why I love it!

Entropy always increases.

There’s one way for a cable to be untangled, and an incalculable amount of ways for it to be tangled. When letting it randomly change state it is very improbable for it to randomly end up in the untangled state.

Same for shoelaces, there is but a few ways for the shoes to be properly knot, and a comparatively essentially infinite ways for them not to be.

I know it’s a joke, but I find this perspective fascinating.

but only if the platform is sufficiently large

hm, that sounds sensible actually

… cloaca?!

Are you ok?

oh no that one actually hits the nail on the head. That’s exactly how these read.

I agree with the sentiment, I just found it to be a funny context to bring it up in ;)

your talk about art sparking the imagination tells me you don’t see two legs and a jar in the tv shadow.

…or maybe you do, who am i to judge.

I’m not a donut, I’m a coffee cup!

I disagree, lots of things are much cheaper and worse.

Clothes are much cheaper and far worse. Power tools are generally a lot cheaper bit also built to break.

Houses are somehow more expensive AND lower quality though.

all the more reason for the allegory

What happened?

edit: never mind, i should learn to read the fucking article hah