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Re:Unmasking Startup L. Jackson by vram22 on Thursday March 17, 2016 @11:32AM (#11304966)
I've found @DEVOPS_BORAT to be funny too. Kept seeing his tweets for over a year or two; humorous ones about devops, from an imaginary Armenian devops guy with broken English. Seems to have stopped tweeting a while ago.
Re:Unmasking Startup L. Jackson by smcl on Thursday March 17, 2016 @11:54AM (#11305140)
When it comes to devops on twitter I've found @fart's stuff to be pretty great. Particularly this: https://medium.com/weird/why-i-am-the-most-important-devops-... - a little sample below:

"This data is encapsulated in what are called “Data Beans” which are stored on the hard drive as zeroes (Optimal bean or “prime bean”) and ones (Flatbean or “bad bean”). These Data Beans are stored magnetically and retrieved as necessary. If a user requests too much data at one time they can suffer from data poisoning.

The computer’s RAM also stores Data Beans in the cloud. No one knows how this is done or why "

Re:Unmasking Startup L. Jackson by curiousgeorgio on Thursday March 17, 2016 @12:30PM (#11305440)
Also, @fart (aka Jon Hendren) pulled off one of the best examples of trolling the media I've ever seen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WqCj_3U0Lc

Re:Unmasking Startup L. Jackson by vijayr on Thursday March 17, 2016 @02:38PM (#11306527)
Here is a super interesting article about a troll - http://priceonomics.com/the-hoaxster-who-revealed-sad-truths...
Re:Unmasking Startup L. Jackson by smcl on Thursday March 17, 2016 @12:35PM (#11305483)
Oh when you posted a YouTube link I thought it was the Star Wars script "leak" - but yes you're right that Edward Snowden video is absolutely excellent!
Re:Unmasking Startup L. Jackson by GFK_of_xmaspast on Thursday March 17, 2016 @02:28PM (#11306451)
Isn't he the dude that trolled himself with the 'Smashmouth eat the eggs' thing and the consequences thereof.
Re:Unmasking Startup L. Jackson by smcl on Thursday March 17, 2016 @04:24PM (#11307312)
That may have been @arr - David Thorpe (edit: you were right actually)
Re:Unmasking Startup L. Jackson by NamTaf on Thursday March 17, 2016 @09:58PM (#11309311)
Both of them are/were contributors to Something Awful's frontpage media

David's also really talented at trolling (though in this instance, the show was in on the joke): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdUHDDj7fhk

Re:Unmasking Startup L. Jackson by vram22 on Thursday March 17, 2016 @03:26PM (#11306870)
Oh, beans from a fart, wow, though it should really be the other way around ...
Re:Unmasking Startup L. Jackson by vram22 on Thursday March 17, 2016 @01:11PM (#11305773)
That is hilarious! Thanks.
Re:Unmasking Startup L. Jackson by grumblestumble on Thursday March 17, 2016 @02:41PM (#11306548)
since this has devolved into everyone's favorite tech-related parody accounts, i'll throw https://twitter.com/iamdevloper and https://twitter.com/NeckbeardHacker into the mix.
Re:Unmasking Startup L. Jackson by datawrangler on Thursday March 17, 2016 @03:35PM (#11306950)
Also some occasional javascript related gems here: https://twitter.com/realDonaldJS
Re:Unmasking Startup L. Jackson by _s on Thursday March 17, 2016 @06:17PM (#11308068)
@sadserver (https://twitter.com/sadserver) and @sadoperator (https://twitter.com/sadoperator) also have a bunch of gems!
Re:Unmasking Startup L. Jackson by tomjakubowski on Thursday March 17, 2016 @01:39PM (#11306060)
Borat is supposed to be from Kazakhstan, not Armenia. Did @DEVOPS_BORAT break canon?
Re:Unmasking Startup L. Jackson by datawrangler on Thursday March 17, 2016 @02:03PM (#11306242)
@DEVOPS_BORAT has Kazakhstan[1] listed as the location in their profile, so no. :)

[1] https://twitter.com/devops_borat

Re:Unmasking Startup L. Jackson by vram22 on Thursday March 17, 2016 @02:21PM (#11306387)
Ah, thanks for the catch. I sometimes mix up or forget the exact names or locations of those Central Asian countries, also the ones in the Caucasus and the Balkans. Have to keep googling and looking at maps to get it right. Will get better over time, am still somewhat new to them ...
Re:Unmasking Startup L. Jackson by strictnein on Thursday March 17, 2016 @11:38AM (#11305021)
Yeah, about three years ago now.
Re:Unmasking Startup L. Jackson by daodedickinson on Thursday March 17, 2016 @12:14PM (#11305310)
And last tweet explained why. I hope found job.