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"The IT Crowd" Android easter egg

Holy shit! Didn't know of that easter egg.

Have you ever entered the "new emergency number" from The IT Crowd into your Android caller app?

I advise you to do so now. No, you don't need to press the call button. You don't need to actually establish/make a call. Just enter the complete number, that is:

0118 999 881 999 119 725 3

Cooooooool! 😆 And it even worked with my LineageOS ROM. 😆
(Doesn't work on GrapheneOS phones from what I heard.)

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GitHub is apparently a search engine

Colleague 1 (ironically): "GitHub what's that?"
Colleague 2: "Search engine for OpenAI API-Keys, AWS-Credentials and open S3-Buckets. Also private keys and passwords."

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Anagrams

Colleague: "Did you know? Shitposting is an anagram of Top Insights."

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Looking at the Kobayashi Maru simulation from a completely different perspective

Memory Alpha Wiki https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Kobayashi_Maru

This is one of those texts that left me with an open mouth.

I know Star Trek. I know about the fictional Kobayashi Maru simulation used in Starfleet to put cadets in an 100% guaranteed "No-win" scenario. But never ever have I thought about the whole simulation, it's tasks, it's challenges and outcomes from this perspective. Never ever have I realised how contradicting the simulation can be to the core values of the Federation.

Hence I really urge you to read "The thing about the Kobayashi Maru" written by Greg Pogorzelski. Really puts up a new perspective on everything.

And if medium.com should ever vanish and take this glorious text with it, here is a link to an archived version: https://archive.is/Cg3pd

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