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3:23Hitler uses git
823K views • 15 years ago
ronopolis
A short parody clip in the 'Hitler learns about...' meme format, in which Hitler rants about git's confusing commands. It riffs on git's complexity and the Linus Torvalds and Facebook angle.
3:32New Robot Can Now Fight Back! (Corridor Digital)
40.6M views • 7 years ago
Corridor Digital
Corridor Digital's comedic fake video of a Boston Dynamics robot fighting back against its human tormentors, made with motion capture and VFX.
4:13New Robot Makes Soldiers Obsolete (Corridor Digital)
91.3M views • 7 years ago
Corridor Digital
A Corridor Digital parody of a Boston Dynamics promo, showing a CGI military robot trained for combat that goes rogue and refuses to kill a robotic dog.
11:17Live Forever As You Are Now With Alan Resnick | Infomercials | Adult Swim
1.9M views • 12 years ago
Adult Swim
An Adult Swim fake infomercial in which Alan Resnick pitches a four-step program for creating a digital avatar to live forever. It is absurdist satire of tech immortality and digital popularity.
4:48Raiden Warned About AI Censorship - MGS2 Codec Call (2023 Version)
581K views • 3 years ago
CYBERGEM
A fan-made Metal Gear Solid 2 codec call using AI voice synthesis, in which the Colonel warns Raiden about using AI to censor the internet and enforce digital ID. It riffs on the game's 'Selection for Societal Sanity' conversation.
10:20Dev Deletes Entire Production Database, Chaos Ensues
3.6M views • 3 years ago
Kevin Fang
Kevin Fang comically retells GitLab's 2017 incident in which an engineer deleted the production database, based on the company's postmortems. It walks through the confusion and failed backups.
43:44Scammers Wanted $3,000 - They Watched Me Spend It All
21M views • 6 years ago
Kitboga
Kitboga baits tech-support scammers into believing they will get $3,000, wasting hours of their time while he plays along and screen-shares. The scammers become frustrated as it becomes clear the money will not reach them.
Topic match · Privacy, surveillance & cybercrime
2:26Honest Government Ad | Anti Encryption Law
1.4M views • 8 years ago
thejuicemedia
A satirical 'honest' government ad from The Juice Media about Australia's 2018 Assistance and Access anti-encryption bill. It lays out in blunt terms what the law would let authorities do.
Topic match · Privacy, surveillance & cybercrime
14:05Best Lenny call ever! "I got to hang up. I cain't do this no longer. No, sir." (14:04)
369K views • 11 years ago
Toao.net
A recorded phone call in which the Lenny bot, a looping set of prerecorded replies from a rambling old man, keeps a telemarketer on the line for 14 minutes. The uploader calls it the best Lenny call yet.
Topic match · Privacy, surveillance & cybercrime
1:46TRUCKLA: The world's first Tesla pickup truck
7.9M views • 7 years ago
Simone Giertz
Simone Giertz presents Truckla, a homemade pickup truck conversion of a Tesla Model 3, shown in a short humorous promo.
Topic match · 3D printing, CNC & maker projects
3:15Facebook CIA Project: The Onion News Network
761K views • 15 years ago
c0pyr1gh7
A short satirical Onion News Network segment presenting Facebook as a CIA project. It plays on surveillance and data-collection fears.
Topic match · Privacy, surveillance & cybercrime
3:46The Power Of Selling Out: Your Customers As Political Capital - Onion Talks - Ep. 9
434K views • 13 years ago
The Onion
A satirical Onion Talks episode in which a startup founder explains making money by selling his users' data to oppressive governments. It parodies tech conference talks and monetization of communities.
Topic match · Privacy, surveillance & cybercrime
4:40Interview with a VIM Enthusiast
1.2M views • 4 years ago
Kai Lentit
A parody interview with a fanatical Vim user, mocking editor-loyalty culture. It is a short programmer-humor sketch from Kai Lentit.
Topic match · Testing, debugging & developer tools
1:55Gross COPPA Violation
86K views • 6 years ago
Videos
A short video claiming that the chat app PiperChat violated COPPA, the US children's online privacy law, because it had no parental consent form. It says this led to a very large fine. It appears to be a clip from the TV show Silicon Valley.
Topic match · Privacy, surveillance & cybercrime
0:06Do I look like I know what a JPEG is?
8.5M views • 13 years ago
BobRobster
A King of the Hill clip in which Hank-style character rants about saving images as PNG instead of JPEG after exporting from Windows Paint.
Topic match · Information theory & signal processing
6:57Nathan For You - Fixing Computer Repair
2.2M views • 9 years ago
Comedy Central
A Nathan For You sketch in which Nathan Fielder tackles customers' privacy fears at computer repair shops with an awkwardly absurd business solution. It is a comedy clip from the Comedy Central show.
Topic match · Privacy, surveillance & cybercrime
2:18Google Opt Out Feature Lets Users Protect Privacy By Moving To Remote Village
2M views • 17 years ago
The Onion
A satirical Onion news segment announcing a Google feature that lets users opt out of Google's data collection by moving to a remote village without Google products or sunlight.
Topic match · Privacy, surveillance & cybercrime
8:50Interview with an Emacs Enthusiast [Colorized]
1.7M views • 3 years ago
Kai Lentit
Kai Lentit's comedy sketch parodies a retro documentary interview with an Emacs enthusiast, joking about Emacs's endless configuration and devotion.
Topic match · Testing, debugging & developer tools
0:26Space Force - NetFlix - John Malkovich - Dr. Adrian Mallard - "Fuck Microsoft"
1.3M views • 4 years ago
IronFistDigitalMedia
A short clip from the Netflix series Space Force in which John Malkovich's character delivers a profanity-laden rant about Microsoft.
2:45Welcome to Life: the singularity, ruined by lawyers
3.7M views • 14 years ago
Tom Scott
Tom Scott's three-minute satirical short about a corporate-run, DRM-and-ads-laden afterlife after mind uploading. It imagines copyright law and lawyers applied to human memory and consciousness.
1:38The Sopranos - Patsy and Burt failed extortion attempt at "Starbucks"
4M views • 12 years ago
amigomac
A scene from The Sopranos in which two old-school mobsters try to extort a Starbucks and learn that electronic payments leave an indisputable record of sales.
8:32My robot double sells out (so I don't have to)
3.8M views • 4 years ago
Tom Scott
Tom Scott shows a robot double of himself, built from an Engineered Arts Mesmer robot, delivering a VPN advertisement in his place.