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First post from a Unihertz Titan, the only phone I've ever thought was cool

in reply to silverwizard

@silverwizard This is unhinged, and likely if Pokemon was real. How would you know your catch chance is lower than you expect?
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in reply to Hypolite Petovan

@Hypolite Petovan Listen - I parent by playing Pokemon with a 4 year old. I had to name two pokemon "y67u" in order to make him happy. My mind wanders!

But yeah! You sold pokeballs painted as ultra balls, no one would know



Microservices where every service is just different inputs into the same container, and if any of them fail, it's just a blank screen.

I love microservices, but we need to stop making that



Why have I been sick as hell since September when my first kid started school?!
in reply to silverwizard

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?


I found a band I love (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.
in reply to silverwizard

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)



I see so much bafflegab about how Mastodon DMs are readable by admins, do people not think that's true of Discord and Meta?
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@Nick | OneThingWell.dev @Ji Fu well, optional means both sides need encryption to be turned on to get a benefit, so sure, but use signal

As for DB dumps not revealing keys, how do you envision them stored. Cryptography doesn't exist without key management, and it's *hard*. And thus network isn't designed for it, so LARPing crypto is way.more dangerous

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@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?


The problem with having 10+ highest priority items is that I just lock up and do nothing
in reply to silverwizard

@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.


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.

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@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
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@Rivetgeek Yeah - that's a different beast! One day I'll be all monitors no laptop


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



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



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

in reply to silverwizard

@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.
in reply to Hypolite Petovan

@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!"

in reply to silverwizard

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.
in reply to silverwizard

“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 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!





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

I am annoyed it's this good

in reply to silverwizard

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
in reply to silverwizard

if you do buy golden cables, buy white ones and set the light to yellow. It's cheaper!


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

in reply to Craig P

@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


in reply to silverwizard

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



What's the longest side of a Canadian triangle
A hypotemoose
in reply to silverwizard

re: What's the longest side of a Canadian triangle

on a slightly different topic (or a tangent if you prefer), but still very Canadian: today a customer created new servers for their in-house ERP. Customer is in the business of rubber hose manufacturing.

They called their servers HosERP and HosERP-DEV

All I can see is "Hoser Herp Derp".

in reply to Kicou

re: What's the longest side of a Canadian triangle

@Kicou Honestly, I cannot believe how many specific rubber hose manufacturers there are! It boggles my mind!

But Hoser Herp Derp, :D



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

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



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)

in reply to silverwizard

@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.



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

in reply to silverwizard

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!