Good. That’s a captive audience. Fuck people who do this. Same as when a dance group plays loud music on a train I can’t exit while performing a routine.

Ted’s a bigger creep. I hadn’t noticed until I heard a woman say it. Thought about it and she was right.

My father nearly died of polio as a kid. This was before the vax. My mother was slightly younger and remembered getting the vax because it was a big deal. It’s super cool how lunatics are undoing all the progress we made protecting children from diseases. Let’s have more suffering, isn’t that great? Ffs.

So do I. We had our financial person take steps to limit our exposure. Still, I expect we’ll take a major hit regardless. Hopefully, we can ride it out with no major financial emergency forcing us to sell while the market is down.

In its submission to the EU’s Counterfeit and Piracy Watch List consultation, the group calls yt-dlp “a major problem for the music industry” and names four of its maintainers by their GitHub handles.

Ok, so add YouTube to the list.

Software developers are on Mastadon, though. Big time.

I bet Elon’s gross toes are nasty right now.

Mine bitcoin! Just kidding.

I dunno, install an interesting OS or distro and use it as a throwaway sandbox for learning. Or turn it into a makeshift router (not via installing pfsense or other router OS, but by configuring network services by hand in Debian or Ubuntu). I tend to want to use redundant hardware to learn new skills.

I’m sorry because this is gonna sound terrible, but it’s an acknowledgment of the way things are rather than the way I think things ought to be: being male. Women a treated horribly.

We’ll fucking take your rights! But wait, maybe let’s wait a moment…

I accidentally forwarded weeks worth of dirty emails to our entire school and held on to my virginity.

As a fellow pro in the keeping-virginity in high school dept, game recognizes game.

The big annual release was coming soon and I was leading a small group of testers with after hours testing of a feature that was my responsibility to cover. It was already around 8pm and we’d been working for hours. Someone came and informed us that a specific device was incorrectly configured, thus invalidating all of the tests we’d run thus far. It was mine. What an asshole.

I told everyone to give me their devices and go home. I stayed until 2-3am running all of the tests myself. My manager video called me a couple of times and he had a good sense of humor about it, I think because I took responsibility for it and didn’t burden others with my mistake. I really felt terrible but after I got the report in before the deadline later that morning, no one ever gave me a hard time about it and it just was like it never happened.

Not trying to deflect or make excuses and owning a mistake is like a super power. An imprortant lesson that has basically never failed me when I’ve screwed up at work.

I’m pretty sure Ed Zitron has been keeping pretty good accounting numbers. Whether you think his predictions are right or wrong (the hype has outlived even my expectations), I think he’s right about how much debt has been generated vs how much cash will be needed to service that debt and it seems highly unlikely that we aren’t letting these companies pretend there’s a pot of gold under every blade of grass to our own detriment.

If it didn’t make sense, that’s because it’s early and I just woke up.

Perl being the first language I started learning, this makes me happy. Oh shit, press the button for the dog!

I bet it helps a lot alienation an entire market to the north.

I bought an M1 MacBook Air as my first Apple Silicon Mac when they hit the market (longtime Mac user, so direct comparison to Intel Macs). It blew me away. Still have it, despite replacing it with a MBP. At this point, it’s the extra screen off to the side playing videos while I nerd out in my office, though it can do much more.

We saw this same joke template shortly after ChatGPT was a thing. Almost exact, but now with Fable. Fake bullshit, though good chance that the original was authentic. The internet sucks now.

It makes sense. The guy running (destroying) the USA would probably invade them if they took action.

Great! Now let’s have soldier’s take selfies in the undergarments of Israeli women. Every suffering that they’ve inflicted should be realized at home.

Nerds missed old google five to ten years ago. It was crap way before the AI garbage, but agreed that they’re shoving bs on us.