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Why have I been sick as hell since September when my first kid started school?!
@j_angliss nah, my kids have been sick as hell. Poor kids
oh man, that sucks too. Speedy recovery for all of you.


Important language question:
If a house cat is a felis cattus, what would a plush cat be? felis puppa? Felis pulis? Something else?
a house Santa would be a felis navidad


I see so much bafflegab about how Mastodon DMs are readable by admins, do people not think that's true of Discord and Meta?
@silverwizard I don't host my own, but I do have my own domain. I often get people thinking I'm backwards on my actual email when I tell them its [organization]@[myname].com
@Nick | OneThingWell.dev @Ji Fu I... don't understand the value of this really - right? This feels like it strongly values an attack by an ephemeral attacker? I guess?


I found a band I love (https://thebeths.com/ - very much Love At First Note of Expert in a Dying Field! Check it out!), and now I need to wait to find out if there's gonna be any more Bandcamp Fridays :'(


I wonder what the hardware cost of Miro and Slack are in terms of companies who need to increase the RAM and CPU of their hardware orders due to knowing their employees will run Slack so can't just work from a raspi.

I know that the only things I do at work that wouldn't run on the first computer I ever bought (in 2002) are:
1) use Slack
2) use Miro
3) use Kumospace (a video chat hellhole)

Everything else would have been just as easy on that old Pentium 3



I ended up grabbing a serial to USB adapter while sick to the point of sleeping 16+hours in a day

In order to call in sick to work

(My router just.... stopped and didn't come up, luckily before I got my energy together from panic, it came up)



The problem with having 10+ highest priority items is that I just lock up and do nothing
@silverwizard Then decide on whose opinion you care about the most. Or who you care about the most. Or pick a different issue that you do care about.
@Martijn Vos Ah, but you could also do my trick! Lock up and do nothing!


Well, uh, I guess Dell just burned all of their good will.

They place a meeting in my calendar, and then when I rejected it, they did it again. Tried to claim we already had a business relationship.

@Patch Arcana Yeah, but I don't think this sales person *wanted* that relationship.

And yeah - their email is /dev/nulled




I need to write a novel called Do Not Wear Your Body To The Internet apparently



I was trying to explain a security situation to a coworker in order to design an auth flow, and I got to send them the security incident response from 1password to the Okta breach, since it was exactly the kind of issue we were attempting to prevent. So thanks so much to 1Password for publishing


Keeping a Root Cause Analysis a Blameless Root Cause Analysis sucks, and stopping people from blaming *themselves* is included in there



So I think I can combine my two current projects and get Hannah Montanna Linux up and running and use that to play qSpaceHulk


I feel like I'm the only person on earth who puts their laptop to the right of their monitor
@silverwizard Miner is to the right, but it's in a vertical laptop holder because I have two monitors.
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@Rivetgeek Yeah - that's a different beast! One day I'll be all monitors no laptop


My discord friend just pointed out that Scott Pilgrim is Night In The Woods for people who graduated

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@taco, bird/cat :verified420: you're allowed to like both

But I think there's some level of empathy with Scott that gets lost if you didn't spend your whole life stuck in school until 22, Scott's inability to be a whole adult feels very tied up in that, and I think a lot of people kinda mess that up trying to empathize with him



I just got an invite for a meeting at "Wednesday 10-11" and I was like "wait, isn't that in the past.

The fact that it was next week dawned on me a second later. That tells you everything you need to know about my meeting schedules



The true value of being a Sysadmin these days is that your job description is futzing with broken crappy software, so you get paid for it rather than have it block your work

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My 4yo is stressed out about The Princess Bride, I'm worried I did a bad dad

This is approx the age I saw it, but

@silverwizard 4 seems a little early for me, we watched it with my kid when she was 7. At this time she was already jaded outside of incomprehensible Minecraft-themed comedic shorts on YouTube.
@Hypolite Petovan we have been managing Youtube fairly responsibly, watch a lot of content about pokemon, but very little "kid mush", but he's more upset by the tension than the fear


Made mini loaves of bread and whipped cream into butter for lunch. Added some brie and cheddar and some basic vegetables.

Next time I need to whip in some garlic to the butter



My least favourite trope in media is that you need a more powerful computer to hack something.

"I need a half billion gigs of RAM to hack this system!"

I mostly seem to need small devices with a hardware keyboard to hack systems. Come on get me a new Nokia N900 replacement, netbooks or even just a cheap transforming tablet.
“I need a much scarier-looking rubber hose to hack this system!”



@Titan Up the Defense You brought up the Unwear On The Outside thing on a recent episode

Somewhere in this channel https://www.youtube.com/user/skunkap Chris told me that it was because it made Superman look like a Circus Strong Man, and the strong men wore them because when lifting big heavy things their pants split a lot.

Imagine you were lifting a tank over your head and your pants split!

That actually makes a lot of sense! Thanks!


I bought a lightbulb with a speaker in it, and it's amazing

I am annoyed it's this good

If you aren't buying golden fuckin' HDMI cables for audio, I bet most daily audio can be handled by this thing, it seems pretty simple
if you do buy golden cables, buy white ones and set the light to yellow. It's cheaper!



Has anyone written a Magical Kitties Save The Day hometown for Gabny's Doll House? Asking for the kids in my life

@John Nephew
#MagicalKittiesSaveTheDay

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I feel like there's new bad movies I should watch but I don't have time to watch *movies*. I watch TV shows while I do projects in the evening sometimes, but that's it.

I still haven't seen any Neil Breen

@Craig P I am a pretty seasoned bad movie type from my 20s, but kids killed it.

But yeah, I'm excited to be able to get a bad movie group together again in my life

IMO, this is the only true use of voice chat.

Like many podcasts they don't have a website, but I made that site for them as a joke

But they are here! @Titan Up the Defense



I feel like I've been hit by a truck, which is the best I've felt all week

Schools are a terror

(And our kid masks at school, and we tested negative for COVID, likely just flu)

@silverwizard: im so sorry to hear that, man. Hope you feel better soon. Got hit with RSV 2x and food poisoning once this past month - i feel your pain.


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People keep talking about Kagi being cool and good - but it turns out they're just AI scum?
https://help.kagi.com/kagi/ai/kagi-ai.html

The reason to move of DDG is that DDG is AI scum, that doesn't seem like Kagi is better?

I didn't know that about DDG.

So we're basically completely losing the ability to search for information on the Internet.


Yum! Would make nice Christmas presents if the leftovers last until then.


Hey guys - random question: do we have anyone who might have VBA (I'm assuming that would be the required language) scripting capability?

I think this is the actual worst question I can get on a Monday morning

so long as it isn’t an ancient one that’s grown over… 4GB, I think the hard limit was, before they went bang? Good luck!
This turned out to be the highlight of my day



I run more than a half dozen VMs and a bunch of jails on a home server
I play video games
I have been asked to work on building and training LLMs as part of a work project

The most computationally intensive thing I do in a week: attend a meeting and open the collaboration tools

With any luck, the project will keep going like that until the hype curve hits the Trough of Disillusionment, and it can be safely cancelled without doing too much damage.
@Darcy Casselman I feel like Disillusionment is already about 50% there, it's gonna crash soon. But as far as I can tell, our plan is to go as hard as we can so that we've got half the company committed right as it becomes worthless


Apparently https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/atlasgames/infunity-tiles?result=project&term=atlas%20games is worried about funding

These things look cool as hell, infinite puzzles are fun as hell, and games trying to figure out how to ethically and safely use and reuse plastic is cool

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don't tell Microsoft it really fell C♭

Hah!



Employer has decided they need to "Build an LLM" in order to be "a leader in AI"

I feel like a baby playacting business.

@silverwizard I feel like this idea has already been explored in the cinematic franchise "The Boss Baby", no need to go for it again.
@Hypolite Petovan two sequels and a series! Exactly our business goal
@Rivetgeek I have never usEd an LLM without my prompts giving me garbage inside 2 prompts

@Jay Hannah @Shannon Curtis Oh, yeah, I get that conceptually (and yeah, I'm not a giant music lover, I have one large binder of CDs that's all the CDs from my childhood into my 30s)2m Bandcamp in theory gives me that "Own it forever", but I don't know how that's gonna work in the future.
@shannoncurtis this too shall pass 😉❤️