Matthew Garrett on Nostr: Many years earlier I'd been trying to download the code referenced in a scientific ...
Many years earlier I'd been trying to download the code referenced in a scientific paper but the URL provided resolved to an HP printer and after a month I just started sending print jobs with big text saying "TAKE THIS TO YOUR IT DEPARTMENT" and small text telling them to fix whichever of their DNS or DHCP was broken
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