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Alternate way to tax bug tech:
Levy fines of a few million a month to enough places for crimes inherent in their business model



I just actually screamed at Google Calendar

Holy shit - how can a calendar be this bad?!

Did you know you can only put Events on secondary calendars?! Team communication?! Fuck it!




My 4yo dropped a thing and said "I can't find it! It disappeared! I must be learning magic!"


When I recently replaced my server I went from 64 GB of RAM to 128GB, and now I'm seeing that i'm using 54% of that at steady state, so apparently I needed the upgrade

also - damn



Is there a good SBC that supports HDMI and will do native full Android?
I'm looking to build a tablet with a 4 yo, and I don't wanna use a raspi, but I wanna plug everything in, no soldering.

Odroid? Pine64? OrangePi? Any advice?

#sbc #diy #android



Fuck - I'm using dwm again and a proper OS

Having a nice computer again is kinda nice. It kinda sucks - I've been enjoying the hell out of convertible tablet computers - but it's hard as hell when doing the touchscreen thing.



And for my biyearly post...


I just think it's funny we did a tarot reading tonight with @silverwizard new deck, after an impromptu trip an hour and a half away to get a scroll reader we ended up not finding. We did get a few other things instead, and then some free cotton candy. All in all, I needed the spontineity since I'm about to be over extended at Shæ's school, according to the cards..


I am starting to use Tridactyl without a mouse to use Firefox. I'm starting to think I should dig out my Tap keyboard in order to try to use it as a mouse.


Ok - someone has stolen a cool fucking WorldCoin orb - will you send it to me? I wanna make it a server.

Fuck - I want a spherical server forever

in reply to silverwizard

@silverwizard So the latter, "do as I say, not as I do". Plus white collar crime, I suppose.
in reply to Hypolite Petovan

@Hypolite Petovan Yeah - the US definitely is just intervening because it's rich people and their whole stance of "US Citizens should be immune to law enforcement"


My son wanted to listen to OpenBSD release songs for bedtime...

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in reply to silverwizard

my middle one listens to audiobooks for bedtime when he’s with his mom.

When he’s with me he always wants to listen to that one episode of a podcast about war history where the hosts decided to talk about Warhammer 40k lore instead…

in reply to Tinyrabbit ✅

@Tinyrabbit ✅ yeah, he *normally* listens to audiobooks of Dragon Masters before bed. But just one night he's like "I want to listen to songs about Puffy"


Wife's birthday is Saturday

I think the cake plan is a Queen Mother Cake, a nougat middle layer, a peanut butter frosting, and then cover that with the standard queen mother hard chocolate icing

Going for a "chocolate bar but it's a cake", as was the request



Youtube is a weird fucking beast.

It's a first class media type. It is definitely the new Television. But no one is making money from youtube ads, and external services (sponsors, patreon, and so on) is where the money is. But the *value proposition* of Youtube is supposed to be money.

But the value is obviously discoverability. Not even just the recommendation engine, but because if you search for a thing, Google will give you YouTube links early in the listings, and lots of people search for media on YouTube first. To the point I suspect it's the most popular music, book, video, and podcast platform.

There's literally no value to youtube basically. But because of how centralized everything got, it's nearly impossible to break out of. We *just* need better tools to search the web. It's literally all we need. And because of that, they're all getting incredibly bad.



So I have a Shadowrun GM who wants to run deep political intrigued and complex cons

But he's absolutely awful at it

So he trying to run a political grift that we're opposing and we found why the politician who had backed down, they had received a note saying "Change your vote, or else"

And I was like "ok, but this is a grift, what the fuck is actually happening, we gotta figure out why nothing made her fold" and then the GM was like "oh, it had an explicit death threat"

And I think I'm offending him because I keep thinking that "a politician receiving death threats" wouldn't even crack the top ten surprising things that had happened to her in a day. But he keeps saying how this is deep politics and no hints we have to figure it out.

in reply to silverwizard

"Or else" isn't very specific. At the very least include a photo of the politician's children at their school or something. That's what makes a threat at least somewhat credible.

I'm also running a somewhat political game, but it's not that deep. I'm mostly following the SRM4 adventures, fleshing them out a bit more here and there. I want to do a bit more with the corruption around the Backhaven administration, but I'm not sure how. It's mentioned a lot in various sources, but never very fleshed out.

in reply to Martijn Vos

@Martijn Vos yeah that makes sense!

And yeah! It is a very minor unactionable letter with no proof they can *do* anything. As I read it, it's a violent person blowing off steam, sure, it could be a problem, but that's why you have security!

I was expecting some level of:
inside person who was leveraging a weakpoint to talk her into being stressed out and afraid, balanced by threats and perhaps demonstrations, but apparently not



My 4yo doesn't understand "I don't mind you sleeping in our bed when you're really scared. It's the kicking me in the face in the morning that I don't like"
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Welp, my 2yo has apparently grown up enough that's he's started the plan of cuddling his face into his mom, and kicking his dad repeatedly in the face when he's too sick to sleep on his own without crying


My boot config gets lost so damn much, across multiple disk arrays across different hardware, I'm just about ready to give up on freebsd
in reply to silverwizard

@silverwizard Is this your “I’ve been kidnapped and I’ve been able to send only one innocuous-looking social media post but completely out of character for my friends” canary?
in reply to Hypolite Petovan

@Hypolite Petovan It does fucking look like it doesn't it.

I'm so fucking annoyed. This is three times I've put together a valid zpool and then booting from it fucked up. On three HBAs and two chassis. I've also replaced all but 3 disks




in reply to Jay Hannah

@Jay Hannah oh - is that because it's good or real bad?

I am trying to write a card game for fun - but in order to do that I wanna put routines on cards, so that means objects. But uh.... blah

in reply to silverwizard

Conway's OO Perl book from 20 years ago was AWESOME at the time, changed our code very much for the far better. :)

Nowadays OO Perl is Moose metacpan.org/dist/Moose/view/l… or one of it's many lighter-weight alternatives (lightweight is unnecessary for your use case).

~Soon-ish OO Perl will probably be Corona, but it's only (partially) in bleeding edge Perl for now, if I understood correctly. Check out @ovid for his many posts about that if you care about bleeding edge Perl stuff.

in reply to Jay Hannah

@ovid Happy to chat you through it if you like: discord.gg/W3hu4e8r2w
in reply to Jay Hannah

@Jay Hannah @Curtis "Ovid" Poe ok yeah, I've used moose a lIttle, not sure what edition my OO Perl book is (again, bought as joke), but I think I saw Moose in it

I am kinda... anti bleeding edge, I like stable and boring.

But thanks!

in reply to silverwizard

@ovid if your OO Perl book has Moose in it that's probably a modern book that's good to go. My OO Perl book was ~20 years ago, looooong before Moose was invented. :)
in reply to Jay Hannah

@ovid Moose was invented in 2006 apparently, and it's been backwards-compatible the entire time as far as I know. So anyone anywhere writing about how to use Moose is probably all still solid and completely usable on latest stable perl (5.38.0), no problems. :)
in reply to silverwizard

@deafferret If you want to take a risk with the new OO syntax, ask me anything. I'm the lead designer 😃 (though I'm fortunate that I had a great design team who helped me avoid some major screwups)
in reply to Curtis "Ovid" Poe (he/him)

@Curtis "Ovid" Poe @Jay Hannah Well I'm great at being a major screwup, so, sure, if I am gonna learn something it might as well be the new thing, I'll do my best to bug report, but uh, I am not doing anything strenuous or complicated, and only when I'm too tired to work on something important, but have time to do something for fun, which is rare.
in reply to silverwizard

@deafferret Be aware that it's still experimental not not complete! `perldoc perlclass` should tell you which features are implemented.

The MVP for the core itself is here: github.com/Ovid/Cor/blob/maste…

You can use the latter to see what will be coming up. @leonerd is doing the implementing, so he might have an idea on the time frame (though I don't think there is one)

in reply to silverwizard

@deafferret

Also, for a more realistic view of what can be done now, check out @perigrin 's Roguelike Game Tutorial using the new syntax. He's up to part 6 now.

chris.prather.org/perl-rogueli…

in reply to Curtis "Ovid" Poe (he/him)

@ovid huh. I thought github used to render POD? Did they stop? Is there a HTML render of this anywhere? github.com/Ovid/Cor/blob/maste…
(This is the landing page for people (like me) who want to learn how to use Cor?)

(Apologies for calling it Corona, that was NEVER the name. Whoops! 🙂)

in reply to Jay Hannah

@deafferret I drank a Corona last night. Perfect for hot weather, so I've no complaints about that mistake :)

Yeah, github not rendering POD there is disappointing, so I created a better version a while ago: gist.github.com/Ovid/4cc649c1e…

in reply to Jay Hannah

@deafferret @ovid Honestly for OO theory from a practical standpoint I think Conway’s Object Oriented Perl still stands up. I was recently thinking about how Corinna finally introduced a fly-weight pattern that I didn’t find exceptionally painful like I did when I first tried it after reading Conway’s book.


I am starting to get auditor questions like "Do you use any cloud computing". And this is super frustrating. These are mostly banks asking if we use offsite stuff like AWS or Azure mostly I think. But I need to be like "We manage code in BitBucket?" because what even is The Cloud.

When legal and financial teams adopt your buzzwords without defining them then you've made it as an industry I guess?

in reply to silverwizard

I'd probably be tempted to reply «of course not! I only trust infrastructure I configured myself». 🤣
in reply to Lapo Luchini

@Lapo Luchini Is this because you don't trust yourself and therefore trust the Stack Ranked Hellhole with your infra more? Or because you are lucky enough to actually use real computers?


Sorry, I'm reading that Excel will now phone out to a random Microsoft service, shove your sheet into it, and then run arbitrary python code? Whenever you type "py("?

Is that what I'm reading?



It's upsetting how different a movie A Midsommar's Night Rave is from A Midsummer's Night Rave

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in reply to silverwizard

Yes, an obscure Rave Culture movie from 2004 is obviously more in my brain than Shakespeare, what else would it be?


My favourite acronym is GAI for Generative Artificial Intelligence

It's good for discourse and 100% not designed to fuck up the world




Today telling son a story, I theorized that Ghost Ships can only sink in salt water


Elon is mad that Jack is considered a better twitter CEO than him, so he's trying to wipe Block off the earth.

I assume.



I'm starting to realize that my favourite Scooby Doo are the two crossovers with Wrestlemania because they are a stable context to make jokes about the situation, rather than attempting to modify them into "complex characters" or force overly complex situations.


Last night I was trying to debug an issue with upgrading Ruby, so I spent an hour *causing* the issue somewhere else, and then had to go to bed.

Meaning I spent all my debugging time causing the problem I was fixing.

Aw computers



Thinking about the day that Google tells us that Analytics or ReCaptcha are going down in the next 30 days



Been playing Baulder's Gate because BG3 was just released and reminded me I have the game

And the fact that my travel is like "1 day" and I travel and show up at the dungeon and my characters are like "I'm so tired" - fuck - camp while you travel



I broke a coffee mug over the weekend, it was new, I wanna fix it.

Looks like stake of the art is Epoxy and most epoxy isn't food safe?

Art Resin brand Resin is FDA certified food safe (they say FDA certified and in Canada and Great Britain and 13 other countries, which is a claim you can't make without getting in very fraud, but also worthless), but it only allows up to 50°C before that's worthless.

The MSDS on other resins and epoxies seems to be not food-safe?

Anyone know how to fix a coffee cup?

Was thinking maybe finding some non-PB tin?

#ceramics
#repairability #repair

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@semiotic_pirate @artcollisions you can’t use the gold to eat out of tho. It’s not food safe. Just decorative. And not strong enough to hold a handle.
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@semiotic_pirate @artcollisions that’s a good question. I’ll ask my dentist in two weeks!



So thinking about openai.com/gptbot-ranges.txt

Hear me out:
We need to make a project to make a site with infinite links all of which are autogenerated garbage, just for those ranges

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in reply to Hypolite Petovan

@Hypolite Petovan yeah - basically

In university I wrote a tool called The Eye of Argonizer (makes text more like The Eye of Argon) and a wikipedia dump and the Eye of Argonizer ported out of ancient java, easy to do

Put OpenAI on a tarpit that serves the Eye of Wikipedia on the fly, and and distribute it as a plugin service



Fuck - holy shit - Datadog! Don't rescale my percentile graphs!

If I suddenly see a DB capping out utilization I *panic*.

If I realize a second later it's because the Y axis tops at 50% I am so angry.



I should do the courses, become a certified SOC/ISO/whatever auditor, and then dye my hair blue

I have some of my most fun work conversations with auditors - but ... uh... the auditor stereotypes always make me laugh

in reply to Hypolite Petovan

@Hypolite Petovan It's just

I love talking to auditors, they seem so refreshingly dedicated to work. And yet whenever I talk about audits people are like "auditors are boring" and so ...

I would make a normal audit person - right? Make people being audited explode



A horrid thought entered my mind, and the internet delivered
etsy.com/ca/listing/1523389419…


One thing I am noticing in my auto-complete location bar, and my searches, is that top level pages are getting ignored.

If I go to "example.com" it will show "example.com/blog_post" but will only fill example.com at the last minute.

It feels like we're being dragged by automation toward the less Destination Web and more the Search Web.

(to be clear this is with DuckDuckGo and Firefox not even with Google/Google)