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CISSP Exam next week
Cat apparently suddenly is quadriplegic or something
Major DB upgrade at work

how this did this fall apart so fast

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Rivetgeek (He/Him)
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I totally feel this, had something at work completely fall apart and now I'm questioning my own competence.

Do you think I can crack my USB bluetooth dongle open and find some contacts to alligator clip an antenna to?
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christian mock
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That's a shitty situation!

Maybe you can find some other BT dongle that has an external antenna?

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silverwizard
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@christian mock the issue there is that it would then cost me money, and take work that wasn't "stupid electronics hacks"
@christian mock

I want to play Burning Wheel in the Castlevania show universe. Just so many big ol vampires and nightmare monsters hanging out, and so many good options for trying to stop them from living. And lots of times to angst about it.

DuckDuckGo: Podman in Docker

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CISSP exam in two weeks, and I've no iudea how the exam compares to the practices

I feel like I know all the stuff, but feel like a 4 hour multiple choice exam I have to wake up at 6:30 am for is the least ideal way to test that

Any advice/assurances for someone who really just needs letters that tell well-meaning HR people that I am hirable?

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BB
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@silverwizard: if I can pass it, just about anybody can. There is certainly a lot of stuff to take in, but it is learnable.

I should admit that it took me two tries, but i got there 🙃

@silverwizard
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silverwizard
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@BB :verified_cool: I really hope I don't have to find another fee, that's my main fear!

but thanks!

@BB

matthewseiji.itch.io/twwds
Man, this doesn't miss

The Writer Will Do Something by Matthew S Burns

You are the head writer for the third game in the wildly popular ShatterGate™ franchise.
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Tailscale is surfshark for IT pros
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@silverwizard: ...i was too until I tried it and then I wanted this thing everywhere.
@silverwizard

Fuck
I just realized why I'm always confused why my coworkers want an update in slack for PR changes rather than just using the automated emails.

It's because I've levelled to the point of being Email Driven

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silverwizard
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@Hypolite Petovan Just shark your wires! It'll be fine!

Or use some screen scraping! We're too afraid of writing software that lies to other software! Mouse clicks are just programs!

@Hypolite Petovan

Doing a vulnerability hunt at work. Finding everything that's low priority and triaging it.

Everyone is learning why they don't want to do my job!

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the Netflix show Is It Cake is entering its third season, but it's great for when the kids are tired and we're tired and we want to watch something without stakes. So uh, I am happy but baffled

Thinking overlong thoughts about the 5 minute workday in D&D
obscuritus.ca/RPGs/5_Minute_Wo…

Robot vacuums need a "I have a toddler and they want to push you around" mode

I need to figure out what happened and then file a bug report for blueman >.<

Anyone have an issue where the default bluetooth controller is powered off, but there's a secondary controller, and so when the open blueman-manager the window closes immediately because the controller is disabled?

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I had a currywurst at a pub last summer, and I've thought about it on and off since. Went back to the pub a week ago, and now I made my own.

Currywurst is fucking amazing

"I wont help, but I will hinder" - @Becky trying to explain her oath in Wednesday night Burning Wheel
@Becky

fuck, I vaguely cut a biscuit recipe in half and just guessed and made the fluffiest lightest biscuit I've ever soon

they're probably tasty for about an hour but who cares

Aw fucking shit!

@Titan Up the Defense posted a fucking episode! I know it's a different show now but it doesn't matter! Fuck yeah!

I should make a neocities for this as well! To rival the amazing titanupthedefense.neocities.org

@Titan Up the Defense

My mother-in-law still wont look at me, talk to me, or be in the same room as me, its been almost 6 months since I told her she couldn't blame my son for being bullied (and explicitly she couldn't tell him it's his fault). Apparently she just wants an apology.

Parenting sucks,

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silverwizard
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@Erin the hard part is that it's his cousin bullying him and my wife and sister in law are super close, making it very hard to avoid.

I'm just mostly so upset how much non-parents think they are entitled to parent kids. And I know my mom is super bad about it to, we just have way more experience fighting with each other.

And yeah, trying to be better parents than your parents is the eternal struggle ain't it.

@Erin
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silverwizard
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@Erin thanks and good luck with your own parenting! I know it's not easy, but I hope you find it as rewarding as I do!
@Erin

I just found out about the Nexus Q which is literally just a sphere computer. My desire for it grows infinitely, but the ebay listings around all over $100 and that's enough to stop myself from being a dumbass.
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Morgan McMillian
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Would you keep it as a music device or do something else with it?
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silverwizard
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@Morgan McMillian So there's a valid cyanogenmod for it (no, not lineageOS), so you can shove fdroid on it. So it'd likely spend most of its time as a small terminal PC and a music player, since it has good music interfaces on it and basically nothing else.
@Morgan McMillian

Boardgamers say they hate Monopoly and then buy from Asmodee

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My son has decided he only wants @Alasdair Beckett-King 's books at bedtime. All other books can pound sand.
@Alasdair Beckett-King
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silverwizard
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@Alasdair Beckett-King your publisher's supply chain to Canada is horrendous, and so now I've got to figure out how to convince a UK publisher to send a book overseas again!
@Alasdair Beckett-King

I am on my second cup of coffee today. I am dreaming already of my third.

I went off coffee for 3 months for reasons of "I try to force myself to not get too addicted", but fuck, I am so happy I am back on coffee

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Lester Ward
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I’ve always hated coffee, but I quit caffeine by accident, and then felt like my heart was going to explode when trying it again after a few months.
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silverwizard
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@Lester Ward I am pretty light on the effect of caffeine, hence my ability to spring from nothing to 6 cups in a day. But I also go off coffee for three months every 5 years to make it nearly impossible for me to get badly addicted, hence the cause of all this.
@Lester Ward

It doesn't matter if Firefox's AI is good, it doesn't matter. Firefox is doing this to advertise, and the people thinking of switching wont switch to firefox if it's touting AI.

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Jonathan Lamothe
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@silverwizard It's one thing if you choose to use it. I haven't been able to figure out how to turn it off though. Actually, I did by switching browsers (LibreWolf).
@silverwizard

What ever happened to that weird mess of uzbl, xombrero, surf and so on. I've heard so little about weird minimal browsers. Might be that I'm out of university - but I thought the Fediverse was filling that hole.

I never got into uzbl or surf - I was a Xombrero user due to the OpenBSD package being easy - I wonder how stable those are? Kinda the inverse of LibreWolf.

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@silverwizard: i used to be partial to luakit if "as minimal a browser as humanly possible" is a goal. Maybe still good?
@silverwizard

Fuckin' Drata rolled out a support AI and now their support doesn't appear to look at tickets. Who the fuck.

And to think it was called 386BD

So I redid my phone homescreens to avoid having application links, and replaced everything with widgets.

For years I've felt like desktop widgets are mostly a gimmick and pointless, and basically after a day this way I've completely reversed my decision on them. I basically got annoyed at the way that the shortcut model leads to just a soup of icons and I usually just go to the display of all and then use the link from there, and I completely reversed my decision. Feels very weird.

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Hypolite Petovan
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@silverwizard This sounds absolutely dystopian to me, but I've been blessed with a kid who mostly follows rules, so I'm in no position to judge.
@silverwizard

So I gave up coffee until Lent back in November, and I've been chasing the dragon of something that tastes half as strong as coffee
A cup with a ginger teabag floating in it
The same cup with the tea bag, but also slices of raw ginger

So I spent all of the weekend with sick kids and then yesterday with a sick family. So, during this, I bought Mario+Rabbids - and holy crap - how did Nintendo let such shitty people control their brand?! So much misogyny and unkindness
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silverwizard
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It's almost completely avoidable. But you'll be going along, and then suddenly it'll make a joke about Rabbid Peach being super vain because she takes selfies.It's like 3 hours of good gameplay and then one little 4 second joke that reminds you Ubisoft sucks

Honestly, with my startup job starting to fall apart, and my CISSP exam, and my kids sick, and me not really sure what the purpose of the economy is - I just

I feel like things are in chaos, and I need to figure out stability for the next little bit, somewhere to ride this out

some people's parents bring them computer problems

my parents message me with DeltaChat to tell me SSL is broken and I realize someone *else* deleted the nonprofit's DNS entry for their domain

tann.itch.io/slice-dice

an indie game that works perfectly in my brain is awesome. I want the devs to do more so pay them for me!


Slice & Dice by tann

Roguelike dice tactics game
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Fuck - I hate job hunting
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silverwizard
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@jhx Luckily I have a job. I just had the meeting that was "Oh, oh no, this meeting's topic is that I need to job hunt"

So yeah - thanks

@jhx
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jhx
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Ah, gotcha.

Yeah... the day did not start quite so good.. meeting was rather annoying

Oh well, life can be fun sometimes 😂

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The amount that Absinthe tastes like a burny delicious liquorice all sort is probably bad for me

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silverwizard
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@Patch Arcana That makes a lot of sense, my previous weakness was sambuca
@Patch Arcana

My Burning Wheel party failed a navigation roll and stumbled into the wrong magical ritual of demon summoning

I love this keyboard so fucking much

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m8ic621
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That's a awesome keyboard

whats the switches and keycaps or is it custom from ground up?

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silverwizard
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@m8ic621 it's just this maxkeyboard.com/max-nighthawk-… a very boring build, but I wrote some magic circle generating code and got glowing magic circles and I love it
@m8ic621

fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/where…

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