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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


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KERNEL -> DOCKER -> GRPC-> DBUS. The bug starts at the kernel, docker doesn’t handle that well but keeps going and well GRPC also doesn’t handle it and finally dbus, gets the blame but technically it’s not at fault. To fix this I’d have to fix bugs in 4 different stacks. Container infrastructure is inherently complicated, disjointed, nested and messy.

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IT HAS STARTED!

🍁The Steam Autumn sale is ON!🍁

All our games are 30-70 percent off until November 28th!

store.steampowered.com/develop…

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Maybe hire an archivist to organize your company's shared drive of folders that have been yeeted in randomly, and help tackle the backlog of knowledge that prevents people from being able to go on vacation or retire because no one else knows what they know. It may be low level work in your eyes, but that's also why your problem never gets better when you assign it as a three month project to an intern... once every few years.

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Remixing this post: hire an anarchist to disorganize your company, yeet profits out, and tackle your CEOs. No one should ever work.
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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


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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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The top causes of personal bankruptcy in the USA are job loss and medical expenses. Fellow Canadians, please do not take our socialized health care system for granted. It needs to be protected. Fixed, yes. But not done away with.

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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

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@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.
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@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

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"infrastructure as code" for the love of god what are you doing, do you know what you want from infrastructure, have you ever met code

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I wonder if someone has written about IaC as (further) alienating programmers from any whiff of people who do physical labour (like racking servers). Or for that matter, the idea that there are people who do valuable work that is not programming.

(Then of course the IaC people got demoted to 'devops', not 'real programmers', because this is the way of the tech industry.)

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@cks
My first two years as a TD were spent doing IaC, as a person who had just spent four years racking servers - I filled an important niche in the team in actual fact but felt pretty incompetent the whole time.

I have "hot take" level opinions more generally about "User Friendlly" and how that all worked out. This is part of the set.

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@mhoye I once met a system where they enforced DRY on all the code

Meaning we had a meta makefile which used make to run terragrunt to run terraform to build 40 AWS accounts with 40 separate unrelated configs


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So fucking funny when people believe that this messed-up system we live in somehow "fosters innovation" or some shit. Look at the world, man. Innovation has basically stopped cold, altogether, globally. Technological innovation has stopped because in between all their fictions of money and productivity there's no funding to be found, and social innovation has stopped because this narcissist fucking culture somehow believes itself to be the pride of creation. It's fucking pathetic. We're not getting anywhere.

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It doesn’t help knowing that every country which issues its own currency easily could give every citizen a liveable wage without affecting inflation. It would grow the economy and everyone, even billionaires, would benefit.

The current system is like a game of Monopoly where one player would start out with $1000, three with $10 and eight with $1.

#MMT


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when the Computer was created, heroes vowed to end its malevolent reign. the only thing powerful enough to destroy the Computer? a type of advanced weapon called Software. the battle has been ongoing for decades, with the Computer fending off all manner of assaults, and growing exponentially more powerful. but soon, the end is in sight. our heroes have the upper hand. we have mighty stacks of Software, tall as castles. soon the Computer will slow to a crawl, and its evil will be stopped forever

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@josef Why yes, I’m an SJW, a Software Justice Warrior.


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


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How to interpret RFC 2119 keywords:

- SHOULD: do this
- MAY: don't do this
- MUST: I'm going to open a can of whoop ass if you don't do this

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SpaceX gears up for second flight of Starship rocket, launches marketing campaign β€œOwn a Piece of the Starship” to households under anticipated flight path.

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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!"

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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.
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β€œI 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

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

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political (to be read in a Norm Macdonald voice)

a recent opinion piece claims Joe Biden would be "aggressively left-wing" in a second term.

unfortunately for the campaign, people born yesterday will not be old enough to vote by next year

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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

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@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


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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


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The Matrix: Wow this Anderson guy is a slave to the system

The Matrix 2023: Wow this guy had his own cube at work

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our modern office life has zero privacy, just like our modern online life.

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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".

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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)

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@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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You know what’s even more amazing than an AI generated headshot?

A professionally taken headshot.

By a freelancer who knows what the fuck they’re doing and will make it their professional mission to represent the best version of you.

Support photographers.

They’re worth the money.

And they won’t make you look like a soulless carbon copy.

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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

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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!


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Apparently kickstarter.com/projects/atlas… 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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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

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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.
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@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


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A rule where if a corporation goes bankrupt, it has open source its entire codebase
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i rule that if a company abandons a piece of software for 2 years or more, it has to open source it's entire codebase

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Does anyone remember when software was just…done? When something performed its original vision and only performed bug fixes and compatibility improvements? More of that, please.

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I am not calling Facebook "Meta" and I'm not going to call Twitter "X".

These companies cannot be forgiven for prioritizing profit over people. I will not indulge their attempts at public image cleansing.

Never forget the torment nexus they unleashed.

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Not that I don't dislike these companies but prioritizing profit over people is a fairly common pattern nowadays, innit?


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Astounded and elated by this #onPoli news: Ontario is rolling back all of its urban boundary changes, not just the ones in the Greenbelt. We have been fighting for this relentlessly in #Waterloo region. It’s a complete victory ✌️

We know now that with enough people power, this government backs down from its terrible decisions. Bill 66, education workers, the Greenbelt, and now all the other urban growth plans. Hell yeah!

news.ontario.ca/en/statement/1…

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Given how hard they're going on damage control I'm wondering just how bad whatever they're trying to hide really is. This about face on hurting folks is somewhat out of character for them.

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It's impressive to see Okta working so diligently to erase any and all trust anyone has in them.

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