As a hacker from the 90s this is basically making me vibrate with stress

Dragan Espenschied

2022-08-30 11:43:29

My simple secret to "being good with computer" is using a mouse. This 12 EUR device allows me to reach every pixel on my screen with unparalleled precision while most other folks fumble around with a touchpad that requires them to set interface scaling to 200% so they can with at least some chance hit screen areas roughly the size of Liechtenstein #protip

Yesterday my 3yo saw a 2yo have a ball taken from them at the park, and start crying. (They had taken the ball from another kid, so it wasn't anything bad). But my 3yo went over a comforted the crying kid and gave them one of his toys.

And... uh... hard not to be the proudest

One shot RPG called Murder at a Circus:

1 investigator who is defined by the series this is an episode of
1 strong man
1 clown
1 acrobat
"Bonus Roles" (sheriff, ringmaster, elephant trainer)

There is always a murder, players draw lots and spend the whole game inventing details

Each scene the next player (by turn order) can invent a clue, and then has to convince the investigator that their clue is true. At the end of the scene the investigator says if the clue is real or not.

Catch: The Murderer is always lying

At the end, the Investigator explains how the death happened, using only clues they accepted.
Then the murderer shows which clues were false. Then if the Investigator can still rebuild their story with those clues being false (rest of table arbitrates) they solve the murder.

I just screamed "Just let me download your Whitepapers" at the screen

Damnit

Trying to get "new security program" to "SOC2 certified" done in 3 months means I am developing mad scientist face

I need to cultivate this hair and sunken eyes so that I can write security training videos were I scream at the camera or something

Hey! A contact of mine just moved to a new instance, and my follow stayed working! I did get a new follow notification - but that's totally fine!

Go go #friendica team for making everything easy!

In grade 8, I dressed up as Jessica Fletcher when asked to dress up as my favourite tv show character for school

We're rewatching Murder, She Wrote again, and feeling like not much has changed in my preferences, apparently

My PinePower seems to violate the USB spec by having all the ports wired in upside down - is this normal?

Also - I hate it

Mail client that automatically fetches remote data in the email via a small cluster of proxies so that everyone gets the same locations for their tracking, but we don't need to tell people to not use features that are often necessary for them

Bonus points: GMail plugin

Dear pipeline:
You may fail with an error
You may succeed

But you cannot do neither

youtube.com/watch?v=ONne1YQclb…

Ok - does anyone else remember this movie

IN THIS MOVIE THEY MADE A SUPER VIRUS! BECAUSE THEY WANTED TO CURE A SUPER VIRUS!?

CAN SOMEONE EXPLAIN THIS LOGIC?! It has been bothering me for 22 years!

Mission Impossible 2 - Opening Scene

^YouTube

Toronto Police Service Guns Seized #offthestreets

2022-08-22 15:22:32

#offthestreets this week

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I just had a user tell me that their Mac got pushed an update, but it's probably not the high priority update I mentioned he should install

The fact that people don't know what an update is bothers me. And it's annoying that I know that the confusion is intentional.

Turns out I like music the most when the song is designed to attack me.

It's funny because I love songs that call me awful and super melancholy music, and I am neiiiiiither of those things outside of music.

I hate the feel of keyboard wrist rests. I hate them generally and they annoy me.

But my new desk hurts my arms, and a wrist rest hates it - and it's annoying

A part of me feels like I shouldn't have to be stressed to talk to certain friends of mine because they want to hang out more and don't necessarily understand my 'extreme' caution around covid because of my children.

I want to be clear that I've been careful in who I've let in and these are all people who I appreciate greatly and have no interest in not having in my life, and I don't want to sound ungrateful, I'm just a bit tired of the anxiety I get from expressing my needs around it

I feel like most people have moved on because their circumstances are different and they don't necessarily understand why I haven't yet

Just smashed a potion flask, leftover from doing a ritual from The Golden Dawn during a vampire LARP, while cleaning my office

Maybe my dad was right and D&D would get me into the occult

"The sun is a mass of incandescent gas, a gigantic nuclear furnace"
"Mummy, what's a gigantic nuclear furnace?"
Uhhhhh

I managed tho

Parenting during a pandemic is all about scamming children

My son just found out what a hotel is and wants to go to one. So my wife is taking them to a campground to go around trails and look at campsites and "Car Hotels" ... aka RVs

Adding a .php-info.php to my webserver, but it's just an incorrect static page

Just to annoy people

As a parent I'm seeing the fucking Jeanette McCurdy thing and fuck.
Why are people so focused on what kids owe their parents and not what parents owe their kids.

Parents fail kids
Kids don't fail parents