general-chat

[lusty fossil]

hey! I only stall some of the time

Sigh, digikey: when I click a link to an old order I specifically do not want you to take me to a page that has links to my last 4 orders. I want to see the order I clicked on.

the weirdest and most annoying website bug I've encountered in a while

[umbral phoenix]

I use a new private tab for each new website, so no cookies ever accumulate. Plus blockers at several layers.

the US FTC is supposed to be cracking down on dark patterns, although I think there has only been action on one specific type so far https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/events-calendar/bringing-dark-patterns-light-ftc-workshop

[late fulcrum]

I was hoping web browsers would get smart enough to learn your cookie preferences and auto-fill them (I think I just did the eleventh copy of the same exact thing for yet another variant of stackoverflow).

[wooden schooner]

I love the container tabs extension in Firefox. Afaik, in firefox and chrome all "private" windows share the same cookies and stuff until you return to a state in which there are no private windows open, then it clears

another nice thing about container tabs is that sites that try to detect whether you're in private mode will not complain

[dusk oracle]

https://www.techradar.com/amp/news/scientist-invents-a-lickable-tv-to-taste-on-screen-flavors-and-were-wondering-why

😆

[umbral phoenix]

I think that's right about Firfox, but in Safari (and I believe Chrome) each private tab is completely independent.

[umbral phoenix]

yeah the stackexchange sites are weird... one login should get you into all of the sites, but it's a little weird since some of their sites are separate domains but many are subdomains

[lusty fossil]

Is the accordion a wind instrument?

[blissful roost]

Yes

[crystal ore]

I'd generally classify it as a keyboard instrument instead, since it doesn't use the player's breath, but that's just me.

[blissful roost]

It uses air movement.

Technically, woodwind would be better

[manic tide]

It reminds me of this for some reason

[wooden schooner]

It's not just you

[terse estuary]

It's an aerophone since it uses a vibrating mass of air, although that's a pretty high level category since an organ has a keyboard too but uses air (although the player doesn't blow that air)

[wooden schooner]

though the (Roland) Aerophone is a wind instrument 😛

[terse estuary]

Yeah i think it's one of those "all squares are rectangles but not all rectangles are squares" kind of situations

[wooden schooner]

Bought an EWI at the beginning of the pandemic and I'm loving it

I do wish I had friends to jam with though. Not sure how to find that

[blissful roost]

I do wish I had friends...

[lusty fossil]

Dang I somehow made it all the way to work with my headphones in my ears but not with my headphone charger case.

Sigh

[blissful roost]

🤪

[blissful roost]

Glad mine are USB C

[wooden schooner]

Separately: If someone needs a massage badly enough, do the explode?

[lusty fossil]

I prefer wireless

[wooden schooner]

Just touching any part of my neck and shoulders it's like oh wow

[blissful roost]

Yes, wireless.. USB C charge port

[lusty fossil]

Oh over ear headphones

[blissful roost]

Plus wired option, obvs.. lol

Yeah.. Bose NC 700

[lusty fossil]

I haven't had the heart to sink that much into headphones. Every over ear headphone I've tried has caused too much pressure on my glasses and caused headaches

[blissful roost]

No glasses, no problems. 😁

[lusty fossil]

I can't get contacts in reliably so I'm stuck with them

My eyelashes are too long lol

[blissful roost]

Oof

I would need glasses to drive, legally.

I certainly wouldn't bother with contacts.
Too much a PITA.

[manic tide]

Maybe a cutout in foam for glasses?

Well, it's kinda harmful though

[ionic sigil]

https://aiaiai.audio/ I just bought a pair of these. You can choose which drivers, head strap, and ear cups you want. I have Alcatntara memory foam ear pieces because I had the same issue as you, and so far, they are really comfortable. I also have the S10 Bluetooth drivers which have a USB C charging port and 1/8 inch if you want to go wired instead of wireless.

[lusty fossil]

Neat. Too rich for my blood atm but very neat. Thanks

[lusty fossil]

any spreadsheet wizards? I'm trying to do a SUMIF where I sum two cells if two other cells display the same text. The problem is that the cells I'm checking equality for are hyperlinks so a pure equality fails Pure equality does work, no idea what I was thinking

ah well I need to do a running sum anyways so it's kinda moot. Would still like to know how to check if the display text of two cells is equal.

[blissful roost]

I've just finished converting my car to electric, swapped the engine for the motor from a tumble dryer.
It wouldn't start at first, then I realised I hadn't shut the door properly.

[lusty fossil]

lol

[silver shale]

Got a dual Opteron 2435 server today from work. Soldered together a DVD drive SATA connector to standard SATA connector for a SSD. Came with 64GB of DDR2 RDIMM, all the same model too which was nice.

[blissful roost]

👍

I got myself a Poweredge T410 and shoved a pair of Xeon X5670 in there. It already has 48GB RAM.

[silver shale]

Sounded like a jet turbine then showed an error with all DIMMs on CPU one

[blissful roost]

I mean... Darn it.

😐

I know I have to put modules in specific banks with mine.

It's really particular.

[silver shale]

Probably got to swap DIMMs around, had to do that with a Dell PE.

[blissful roost]

I'd like to stack mine with 16GB modules, but money.

[silver shale]

motherboard defect causes processor 1 to have memory errors

[lusty fossil]

Does anyone have tricks for upper back pain? I slouch a lot. I'm trying to correct it. I'm assuming the answer is to exercise

[wooden schooner]

Exercise alone might not do it I think. Might need intentional habit formation

[late fulcrum]

Foam roller? Heating pad? Cooling pad? Massage? Gravity nullifier?

[wooden schooner]

They make posture braces, and also devices that administer a small shock when you slouch. First one didn't feel good for me, second one I won't try out of self preservation

[lusty fossil]

yeah instagram is trying to sell me a posture corrector that vibrates when you slouch. I'm considering it.

I could design one but not for cheaper than buying one.

I think it's literally a simple MCU, an IMU, and a motor

[wooden schooner]

For me the biggest thing has been proprioception and mindfulness

[lusty fossil]

yeah me and mindfulness don't go well together.

I'm just not suited for it, is the only conclusion I can come to.

[wooden schooner]

Not going to argue given how sure you sound

But there are ways to build proprioception that don't fall into the bucket of what is typically associated with the mindfulness buzzword in the US

For example, I've found dance to be great

Even weight lifting

If you are hunching your shoulders forward, that may be caused by weak upper back. You could do rows to build strength and muscle memory there

A PT recommended I do a few sets of resistance band rows every day to strengthen my back muscles and hunch forward less

The above are some (very) non-expert suggestions for posture building. For pain relief, I agree with everything @late fulcrum said

[late fulcrum]

The scapula is a bone, it doesn't have muscle memory

[lusty fossil]

I gotcha thanks friends

[wooden schooner]

What did I mean

[lusty fossil]

I've had back pain since I was a teenager and was in a sling for 12 months

Don't shatter your collarbone, kiddos

[late fulcrum]

There's a thicket of muscles in the upper back and neck that are responsible for posture, keeping your head aloft, and moving your arms.

I didn't shatter my collarbone, but I did inadvertently shatter someone else's.

I'm guessing deltoids or trapezius, but there's a bunch of muscle groups to choose from

[fading hare]

OK, I must admit, I have eyed that "posture correcting" device that vibrates. I wonder if it's the same as the one that shocks you? But, I have scoliosis, so my upper back is basically... a bendy straw in a really pretty margarita.

Also, running Parallel mksquashfs: Using 12 processors has me worried about this Noctua CPU fan cooler. So, I ordered an AIO. Hopefully that'll help.

And I think I finally figured out how to properly pin a NixOS ISO build to a specific NixOS version. Finally.

[fading hare]

did you know that you can copy an ISO image with sudo cp -v image.iso /dev/sdb to automagically make a bootable USB? Blew my mind.

[late fulcrum]

Wow, I thought that was the province of dd, cool!

[crystal ore]

That's moderately frightening, since now I need to worry about some malicious script sneaking /dev/sda into a copy command path and destroying my hard drive's boot sector.

[fading hare]

Mind blown.

[fading hare]

I wonder if that could be mitigated with something like Puppet? Not sure how well that works locally, or if there are any alternatives. I tend to use chezmoi to manage my configuration across multiple machines and operating systems.

Basically, detect that the config is "dirty" and avoid executing anything that's been added to the config. Generally, if you really wanted to be extremely sure that nothing could use sudo against your explicit will, get a YubiKey, add it to PAM, and force a physical touch for all sudo interactions. Script could then try to trick you into touching that key, but, you'd at least have one more line of defense.

[fading hare]

You know when your coworkers say that they have great internet connection and don't know why their video feeds are crap? Yeah, those guys won't post their speed tests or fast tests. I, however, will have you know that I am greased lightning. Streaking through cyberspace like a Nyancat on crack.

and, why yes, I am using dark mode with lots of sepia, just blends in with my gruvbox

(and keeps the ocular migraines away)

[lusty fossil]

My complex HOA voted DOWN gigabit internet. The HOA is generally hands off and just handles the basics of keeping the complex clean, so I didn't have an opinion on them before. Now I hate them.

60 bucks a month for fiber

[fading hare]

So, what was their "motivation" for striking down the gigabit internet?

[lusty fossil]

I'm stuck with 30 Mb on an avg day

[lusty fossil]

It barely got voted down. A few of the nay sayers rent out to older folks who don't need it.

I'm going to the next meeting to argue in favor of it.

[fading hare]

They just don't know they need it.

[lusty fossil]

This was early in the pandemic, so now I can bring up zoom with grandkids being buttery smooth as a feature.

[fading hare]

This is precisely why I refuse to live anywhere that has an HOA. I think we've touched on this before in the #help-with-radio channel...

People trying to play politicians, but can't quite make it in the real world, so they get on the HOA board. They're like the saddest mall cops of all time.

[lusty fossil]

Honestly I don't mind this HoA except for this one thing. Admittedly it's a big thing. But other than this they just do what they're supposed to and I literally have had no contact with them.

They handle the garbage pickup, the leaf blowing, etc. That's about it. Some rules about painting your apartment outside but thats not relevant to me

[fading hare]

That's great. I've never had that experience since moving to this country. Just a bunch of meddlesome people that won't leave you well enough alone.

[lusty fossil]

Oh yeah I got super lucky.

Basically most of them illustrate why people who want power shouldn't have power.

[fading hare]

Or... why people that have power definitely shouldn't have power, either

[lusty fossil]

Agreed

[fading hare]

But yeah. I actively avoid that kind of drama. Because I will show up at those meetings, with facts, and essays, and lawyers, and I will destroy those Karens with cold, hard truth and furious science.

But, that would take up valuable time, which I do not have an amplitude of, so... No HOAs.

[lusty fossil]

Unrelated but I have both John Brown's Body and The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down stuck in my head.

It's quite a conflict

[fading hare]

hahahahah

yes, it is

juxtaposed, if you will

[lusty fossil]

I prefer the former.

So I'm gonna go listen to it to drown out the latter

[fading hare]

This is probably the best explanation as to why Drake is weird, of all time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rqa8p1xbjds

[dusk oracle]

https://youtu.be/9hESdc3fC5c

😮

[wooden schooner]

I know this was partly a joke, but, as they say,

if you're running a script that has any chance of being malicious as root, it be dangerous to think you can safely "vet" the script

and if you're running it as non-root, it shouldn't have access to the raw device

[wooden schooner]

@late fulcrum I think the idea of "bone memory" might have entered my dream last night

[sick adder]

Last adafruit delivery of the year to me. Happy new year, I'm looking forward to the first 2022 project, which I'll make with some of these parts

[harsh goblet]

Big order! All mine have arrived in bubble mailers so far. What's the project 😁

[sick adder]

@harsh goblet a digital clock, either set by GPS or WWVB (radio time signal), not sure yet.

it'll have 4 LED featherwings, some combination of 7-segment and 14-segment https://learn.adafruit.com/14-segment-alpha-numeric-led-featherwing

https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-7-segment-led-featherwings/downloads

so maybe it'll say 14:05. 37 in one row of 7-segments and Dec 29 in a row of 14-segments

[harsh goblet]

Nice! Sounds like an awesome project

[tardy badger]

Flight cancellations are atrocious right now

I’ve been trying to cancel a delta flight for my mother in law that I paid for since last night

The flight is boarded right now

Takes off in like 3 minutes

[blissful roost]

Too late now..

[tardy badger]

Well, we asked for a callback after waiting on the phone for almost an hour. And this was when it said wait times were 3hrs. This was 6hrs ago

I couldn’t get anyone last night when I sat on the phone for hours waiting

It’s just ridiculous. We’re trying to get a refund because my MIL is currently at the hospital

For legitimate reasons she wouldn’t make the flight but because delta has been canceling hundreds of flights the last few days

Their phones have been slammed

We bought a refundable ticket if you’re wondering

[wooden schooner]

that is really annoying. Fwiw, for a covered cancellation reason, I think there's no particular need to finish the refund before the flight departs?

could very well be wrong but that was my understanding. As in you don't have to call them from your hospital bed

[fair summit]

was it hopeless to do online?

[tardy badger]

I tried

But because she had checked in for her flight before the events that led her to the hospital, we have to call

[fair summit]

arrghh, sorry to hear that

[tardy badger]

Yes, my wife got through. Finally

They voided the ticket because we fell within the risk free window. Thank goodness

[real falcon]

whew

[lusty fossil]

I wonder how happy Delta is about Omicron

[late fulcrum]

Nah, the block device doesn't show the boot sector, you'd need raw device access for that trick.

[lusty fossil]

Are folks canceling their new year plans?

[blissful roost]

Not me

[fading hare]

Never had any to begin with. 😄

[blissful roost]

That^ lol

Nah.. my dad is coming round.
We'll probably get drunk AF.

[lusty fossil]

I have a weekly dinner with friends I'm thinking it might be safe to suspend

But I'm most likely to be exposed at work, not there. But then that means I'm likely to expose them.

[fading hare]

Yeah, I'd probably postpone that then.

[lusty fossil]

We're all boosted and such but some of my friends have comorbidities

[crystal ore]

Next week I'm headed to CES, the Consumer Electronics Show Superspreader... 😅

[lusty fossil]

Oh gosh

Yeah see if you can get an N95

[fading hare]

Main issue with an N95 is that it doesn't protect others due to the exhalation ports.

[lusty fossil]

My n95s don't have exhale ports

You can always put a surgical mask over it. That's what I did pre vaccines.

[stoic mesa]

this summer my wife and me got stuck in Caribbean because our flight was cancelled because of a hurricane.
We tried calling the airline and were hit with "please stay on the line, expected wait time is 3 hours".
And out cell connection was poor enough that the phone would disconnect after 20 minutes.

[tardy badger]

Oh yikes

[stoic mesa]

In the end, we called our son back in the US and asked him to spend 3 hours on the phone and sort things for us

[tardy badger]

I’m glad it worked out for you to get home

In other news: I’m making broccoli and cauliflower soup

[lusty fossil]

I'm eating chicken soup. That and obscene amounts of Tylenol is how I handle migraines

[tardy badger]

Making a quick veggie stock

[silver shale]

today was the last day of work for break

[tardy badger]

I’ve been off work since 2:30pm on the 21st 😜

[lusty fossil]

I'm off work with a minor non communicable illness. But I'm glad it struck now because my sick days reset on the 1st

Back to work tomorrow tho

[tardy badger]

I go back Monday the 3rd

[lusty fossil]

Nice

My PTO accrual leaves a lot to be desired, unfortunately

[tardy badger]

I took.. 177hrs this year

[lusty fossil]

Wow do you have unlimited?

[tardy badger]

Really pushing the definition of unlimited PTO

[lusty fossil]

Nice.

[tardy badger]

Though technically it’s discretionary

[lusty fossil]

I get 40 hours per year.

[tardy badger]

We have 160hrs of essentially no questions asked PTO

[lusty fossil]

Rolls over year by year to a max of 120

[tardy badger]

Anything above that is second level manager approval

But most experienced and productive engineers in the company rarely ever got their 160hr point

So they expect most stay under 160

[lusty fossil]

160 is pretty darn generous

I'm a little envious

Just a little though

Envy is bad for you

[tardy badger]

Yeah, we have 40hrs of sick leave though technically it’s also considered unlimited

But pay is about $10-20k below market

Work life balance is pretty nice too

[lusty fossil]

Ah yeah. My pay isn't that great either. But working on changing that

[tardy badger]

I should get 3 raises this year, two part of a new college grad program I joined under and another as part of a promotion

If I’m lucky it will be 9-11% increase between all three.

[lusty fossil]

Nice

[tardy badger]

Average raises are 2-3%

[lusty fossil]

I'm shooting for a min five figure raise at the end of next year.

[tardy badger]

Promotions are 4-6% on average

[lusty fossil]

I will have more than earned it

[tardy badger]

I hope you get it

Getting a good pay raise anywhere without changing companies is hard

My first raise back in august was 1.9% or $1500

Went from $79k —> $80.5k

Hoping to get close to $90k this year

Also looking forward to finally getting 6% match on my 401k

Lots of companies are pushing back 401k match till after the first year

I guess to try an incentivize people to stay longer. Who knows

Overall though, I do like my job. I just can’t afford to live near work so my wife also has to work

Lol

I read an article that mentioned that wages largely have been stagnant over the last 20-30 years even in higher earning jobs. Like people making $100-110k a year struggling to pay bills because costs of everything is rising and wages just don’t grow as fast

[lusty fossil]

Yup

I make peanuts. Hoping to make pecans

Allergic to both, but that's life

[blissful roost]

expired

[tardy badger]

This is sad to read. I love Kung po chicken and pecan pie

[lusty fossil]

Yeah it's a whole thing

[tardy badger]

Are you allergic to other tree nuts?

[lusty fossil]

Yup

I avoid them all but I'm only officially allergic to a few.

[tardy badger]

Do you have any issues with like some gluten free flours that use Xanthum gum?

[lusty fossil]

No

[tardy badger]

Some people with ground nut allergies have issues with Xanthum gum

[lusty fossil]

Immune systems are strange. I need to get tested again, it's been 10+ years since my last eval

[tardy badger]

I’m spelling it wrong, let me find the real spelling

[lusty fossil]

Xanthan

[tardy badger]

Yeah that

[lusty fossil]

I only know it because I read ingredients lists every day

[tardy badger]

I just googled it 😜

I worked in a country club doing banquets and they drilled us on food allergies

Which fun fact, if someone has a fish allergy, they probably can’t have Cesar dressing

Because Cesar is made with anchovy paste 😬

I should say good cesar dressing is

[lusty fossil]

Yuuup

Lots of Asian foods have fish sauce in them too

[silver shale]

Came in for the christmas break since I had the time. Needed extra money and did help them out a bit.

[burnt tendon]

I am really happy that I found in one of the local grocery stores little tiny bottles of anchovies that are basically the perfect size to open up and dump into a sauce for a bit of a umami kick.

With discretion, of course. My spouse has religious dietary restrictions and I can't just throw anchovies in all of the things.

I'm really quite educumated at this point on a buncha escoteric food allergen / religious restriction things because of family stuffs these days.

[lusty fossil]

Yeah it's definitely gotten better than it was when I was a kid. Other kids (and their parents) would make jokes about sneaking peanuts into my food.

Nowadays that could be considered an arrest worthy threat

Not that arrest is the best way to solve that problem

[crystal ore]

"Just out of curiosity, do you have a cyanide allergy? If so, you should be sure to let me know before lunch, just in case..."

[lusty fossil]

Lol

[fading hare]

wow, I have so many things that I cannot say on this channel to say about those people, but let's leave it at: may they forever trip on that Pirate LEGO at the top of their stairs.

[lusty fossil]

Yeah kids I can forgive, they're literally incapable of empathy. The parents I think stink.

[fading hare]

People always get mad at me when I respond to that kind of talk with threats of extreme violence. I'm like, so, if I kill you all calmly and quietly, like polite you say, it's more acceptable?

[lusty fossil]

Yeah hopefully they just didn't realize how serious anaphylaxis really is. It's very scary

[fading hare]

"Well. Bless your little heart." as they say in the south

oh yeah, suffocating is terrifying

it's probably one of the scariest ways to go, other than maybe falling

[lusty fossil]

If someone has never had their throat close up, they have no idea. But that's where empathy and putting yourself in another's shoes is supposed to come. But some adults never learn that.

Heck 50% of adults can't read at a HS level.

[fading hare]

[insert animation of the evolution of the Fuddruckers signage over 500 years]

[lusty fossil]

Lol I'll have to Google that. I assume it's gotten simpler over the years? I've never been to one.

[fading hare]

It's an Idiocracy reference.

[lusty fossil]

Ahhh been too long since I've seen it.

I just remember "Welcome to Costco. I love you"

[fading hare]

Yeah, it hits too close to home these days.

[lusty fossil]

Lol

[fading hare]

"Welcome to Costco, I love you" is probably my favorite scene in the entire movie

[lusty fossil]

Those folks have always existed. It's just FB has brought them together.

You usually only saw them at Thanksgiving and Christmas.

[fading hare]

OK. So, been having temperature issues with my workstation with a Noctua heatsink/fan cooler and a case fan. I mean, I'm building ISO images and temps are just below 80'C. That's pretty dang hot.

Just installed a Corsair 120mm AIO and the highest my CPU went was like 62'C. WINNING.

And, I tell you what. It's actually quieter because it doesn't need to run as hard.

Well. I should have probably gone this route to begin with, but I am a hardcore Noctua fan (so much pun intended) that I just wanted my desktop to be a ninja.

[dusk oracle]

My aio litterally has a panic attack above 55*C

considering the amb is 35 to 40

some people say the hoses begin to melt

how true that is i dont know

[fading hare]

your ambient temperature, in your room, is 35'C?!

[dusk oracle]

yes

[fading hare]

well F that

if my house goes above 20'C I start dying, rapidly

[dusk oracle]

tell me about it

hectic

[fading hare]

I can't even imagine what it would be like to try to persist in 35-40'C daily. My house reaches into the lower 20s and I am turning my fan on, checking the AC and am getting ready to call the HVAC people. 😄

Then again, I am Swedish, and I basically do not regulate temperature. At all.

Give me frigid winter and harsh headwind. I'll hike 15 kilometers with a smile on my face. Sure, it'll take me a day or two to thaw that joker smile off of my face, but at least I am alive. I try to walk from my house to uptown Charlotte, NC in the summer, which is like 2 kilometers, and I am about done with life.

[dusk oracle]

Can't beat winter for those high clocks

winter my room can reach -5*c

[fading hare]

Brr. OK, that's too cold. 😄

[dusk oracle]

it's wierd all we need is some clouds

and it goes from summer to winter here

[fading hare]

Where do you live? Like, what part of the earth do you call home for it to be -5'C and 40'C in your home?

[dusk oracle]

South Africa

[fading hare]

That's wild.

[dusk oracle]

were just like everyone else

honestly

We have food deliveryies

fibre

ect ect

[fading hare]

I know. I haven't been, but my wife's been to Africa, and SA a bunch of times.

[spice moss]

when its inside the house +18C and outside -18C

[fading hare]

I meant it's wild as far as temperatures go.

[fading hare]

I wish.

[dusk oracle]

but as a challenge for engineers i would like to see what they can do about moist salty environments and computers in a hot climate like mozambique

if you turn any electronics off, condensation in seconds

[spice moss]

Sauna you could test some of it

[fading hare]

Here it's like, if you are lucky you get 5-10'C weather for like a month in the winter, then summer resumes (they call it "spring" but they are liars) at like 30+'C until November or so where it finally starts cooling off again.

[dusk oracle]

ahhh

honestly to keep a pc going in mozambique

i had to bathe my pc parts of salt monthly

[spice moss]

here in Finland some engineers have build SaunaPC

[dusk oracle]

O_o

[fading hare]

The finns. Always doing odd things in the cold, vast reaches of Niflheim.

[dusk oracle]

well in my book i don't care were you come from as long as you like electronics and want to learn, i got time for you

[fading hare]

(I am Swedish, btw, living in the US since 2006)

[dusk oracle]

aahh

usa "aka you dont know how good you have it"

[fading hare]

Unless you need to go to the hospital?

$1,500 for an ambulance. $300 for a tylenol in the hospital.

[dusk oracle]

ohh here they allowed a student to opperate on me costing 4 years of my life and the loss of a shoulder

XD

compensated by ignoring what they did

[fading hare]

I mean, yeah, that happens. Some student actually punctured my wife's kidney when she was in for kidney stone removal. She ended up having to keep the kidney stones and have a catheter installed for like 3 months to let her kidney heal before they could remove the stones. She didn't even want to sue them. I was like, why? That's like the easiest paycheck you've gotten in your life.

[dusk oracle]

we have a free medical system but you are basically practice for students

[fading hare]

😄

[dusk oracle]

now consider most of the people in gov are basically not qualified.

[spice moss]

it have it pros and cons

[fading hare]

So, before I left Sweden, the one thing that was horrible was dental care. Not sure if that's improved at all. People used to do charter bus trips to other EU countries to get their teeth fixed. Realtalk.

[spice moss]

like queues what is like months long sometimes

[dusk oracle]

well consider this 4 years later, 6 operations to fix the 1st one and they send me home with the prosthetic dislocated

https://tenor.com/view/why-whatever-gif-23592041

[fading hare]

Yeah, @spice moss. I definitely can relate. Anything that isn't "life-threatening" basically gets to wait for like 18 months.

Same thing in Sweden before I left. That's the one thing about the US, though, if you have insurance, and you can pay, they'll get you in right away for surgery. If you can't pay. Well. Let's just say you should have stayed in Sweden.

[dusk oracle]

ooof

[fading hare]

So, just some weird things I have observed about the US since I moved here:

• people's personal space bubbles are like 6 meters in diameter
• if you walk along a highway in the rain the sheriff will stop you and ask you if you need help (because why else would somebody voluntarily walk anywhere, let alone in the rain?)
• no, you don't have bad breath, you don't smell, those people are legit backing up because you have invaded their personal space. Go ahead, yell at them so they can hear you all the way over there.
• in the south, everybody greets you, and you know, that's really, really weird the first few months because the only people that talk to you randomly in the street in Sweden are the crazy ones.
• as soon as you have a negative opinion about anything American, you are asked to go back to wherever you came from
• food portions at restaurants are like 4 times what you should eat
• people drive everywhere, I mean, they drive from one store at the mall to the other even though the stores are like a few hundred meters apart
• gas is so cheap that you can drive across the country (over 4,300 kilometers) for about $300.
• you cannot, I repeat, you cannot opt out of receiving junk mail, because American people hate trees, and they love destroying cellulose things
• god bless your little heart doesn't mean what you think it does
• your privacy is for sale
• summer vacation month is not a thing (count yourself lucky if you get like 2 weeks, total)
• upper middle-class people have super fancy cars but they still eat at McDonalds 50% of the time
• doesn't matter how much you're getting back on your federal taxes, your state will still somehow make sure you owe them something
• trains and buses are absolutely horrible (compared to European standards)
• if you hear banjos, don't run, because those people have amazing moonshine
• if you hear banjos, run
• literacy isn't 100% (seriously, the US considers itself to be a world leader)
• everybody pretends that Jesus was white and didn't actually hang out with moneylenders, lepers, and women of the oldest profession on the planet
• screen doors, what is that even about?

[dusk oracle]

i tend to greet everyone and talk to anyone

[tardy badger]

So satisfying

[tardy badger]

I really dislike how wishy-washy the media around Covid is

I’m vaxxed, my wife is vaxxed, and obviously we will get the boosters at the 5-6 month mark. But it feels like Covid is just being peddled for fear and revenue anymore. Even as research is showing that each variant is less and less severe.

Not saying people shouldn’t be careful because sickness is bad regardless

Each article just feels like whiplash

Like “don’t panic it’s not as bad as the previous variant” and then the next is “hospitals panicking with new Covid surge”

[crystal ore]

Some of that is because people have bad intuitions for exponential processes with delayed response. Whenever a new variant is in its rapid-growth phase, it seems milder because hospitalizations and deaths lag infections by weeks or months. So you see a big uptick in positive tests, but the severe cases are still developing, so it seems milder. Then it catches up.

[tardy badger]

I really just wished the messaging was more clear and coordinated because it’s easy to see why people just don’t want to take it seriously anymore

In South Africa where omnicron started, it crested and declined almost as fast as it started

Or where it was first detected is the better phrase here

[dusk oracle]

looking good, i love small lcd's

too bad everything waveshare sells cracks or breaks from the smallest bump or just enough heat

better to buy from arduino i think

[shadow siren]

those small displays are fragile period, I broke a oled from adafruit, chipped the corner.

[tardy badger]

I dropped my TFT and it survived.. 😅

[shadow siren]

have you been following Lady Ada work on adding floppy drive support to circuit python

[tardy badger]

I have, brings back memories

Of saving 5th grade writing assignments on floppies to bring home

[shadow siren]

I did not realize that reading a floppy can be broken down so easily

[umbral phoenix]

you can opt out of receiving junk mail (not all, but a lot of it)

https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/how-stop-junk-mail

there's also this: #12 Return to Sender https://www.consumerreports.org/privacy/66-ways-to-protect-your-privacy-right-now-a7383217267/

[fading hare]

As far as I know you cannot opt out of receiving the weekly USPS bundle of coupons or whatever. There's a lot of pages there. Not to mention the weight for the postman.

[umbral phoenix]

that Money Mailer thing? I think that's monthly here, didn't know it was USPS run

[tardy badger]

Looking at a PWM signal on my handheld oscilloscope is fascinating

It’s just moving back and forth

It’s fun trying to fit the movement into what that PWM signal translates to

[silver shale]

WD Reds worked out

[tardy badger]

Nice

[blissful roost]

Got any spare 3.5" SAS ?? 😄

[lusty fossil]

I think I'll be able to get a PS5 right around the time we wrap around the variant naming convention alphabet for the 3rd time. Maybe the 4th.

Sigh

[wooden schooner]

I'm unfortunately going to have to align my hopes against your gaming prospects and say I hope that is a long time from now

[silver shale]

My hair would be long enough to reach the floor by the time I hear someone I know getting a PS5 lol.

just dropped another 100 on server parts💸

[lusty fossil]

I just want to play the new ratchet and clank 😫

Literally that's it.

[blissful roost]

I think it would cost me around £100-200 just to get 128GB RAM into my server. ¬_¬

[spice moss]

there is some cool demo what was supposed to be in CES 2022 but intel drop out from it https://twitter.com/ryanshrout/status/1476609814402945029

Ryan Shrout (@ryanshrout)

Perks of the job! Was going to save this demo for #CES2022 but with that off the table, why not just share it with everyone right now?! Here’s a 12th Gen ⁦@intel⁩ Core i9-12900K system paired with a new ⁦@Samsung⁩ PM1743 PCIe 5.0 SSD getting over 13GB/s!! https://t.co/oyL08KzDtV

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[lusty fossil]

Dropped out because of covid?

13 GB/s is nuts!

[blissful roost]

Covid Experiment Super-spreader?

.... sorry, had to. 😛

Just reading through Auntie's obituary from last year.
Without shame, I will admit that I cried.

I really miss her. 😦

[lusty fossil]

Auntie? Your auntie? Sorry for your loss

[blissful roost]

My wife's aunt.

[lusty fossil]

Rough

[blissful roost]

She passed away Dec 30th 2020, post-op complications.

Like.... 2020 just HAD TO get one kick in before the end.

I'm still upset and angry about it...
She went in for a routine/elective procedure.. and we still suspect the medical team screwed up.

[lusty fossil]

Surgery is no joke. Kanye's mom died getting a face lift

[blissful roost]

Yeah, I know.. People have died through far less.

And yet, here's me.. survived horrendous blood loss, when I "should have" died.

[lusty fossil]

People don't think about the anesthesia but it's every bit as dangerous as getting cut open. I avoid anesthesia beyond the lidocaine shot at the dentist for that reason.

[blissful roost]

A lot of my recovery time was spent with doctors, prodding and probing.. trying to figure out HOW. lol

[lusty fossil]

Dentist don't get nearly the training that an anesthesiologist gets.

[blissful roost]

I had ELEVEN shots of lidocaine to get one tooth pulled.

[lusty fossil]

Ouuuch

[blissful roost]

.... and I hate needles. lol

To add to that.. My father-in-law passed in September.

I'm just glad that my wife could be there for him.

But, yeah... I'm SO DONE with this year.

[silver shale]

same, $65 for 48GB

[blissful roost]

I'm lucky that mine came with 48GB...
The other server only has 4GB. lol

[fading hare]

I feel old. But, the post in #adafruit-blog-feed made me go huh, and, "y'all are just young, you have no idea" and this is the image that came to mind...

A "portable" C64.

By portable I mean, if you had a palanquin and a retinue of strong, able-bodied servants you could transport it from one physical location to the next.

I was there, that day, when Kingfisher walked up the stairs to my friend's condo in Sweden. This is the beast he carried, that he proceeded to use Assembly to hack Bubble Bobble with. He didn't even bother looking at the screen as he fielded my inane questions simultaneously as his brain juggled several thousand lines of machine code as if my interruption meant nothing. Then business was done with, and we proceeded to watch the creation of one of the most epic C64 demos of all time: Hunt For Red October.

[blissful roost]

I really want to build something like that.

[fading hare]

Last time I saw him was in Malmö, Sweden some time around the turn of the millennium. He was carrying a Sony-Ericsson phone that wouldn't be on the market for another 5 years. Worked in some think tank. Seemed happy. Still the smartest, most sacrilegious human being I have ever had the pleasure of knowing. He wrote a book, once. "Copyright Does Not Exist." It was, in and of itself, a manifestation of the hacker/cracker culture that rose in northern Europe in the mid 90s.

[blissful roost]

Not as heavy or bulky as those old models.

[fading hare]

I wasn't one of the cool kids. I did graphics. Logos. Art for demos. Sure, I had leach accounts on basically every important BBS in the northern hemisphere, but I didn't code back then.

[fading hare]

Yeah, that one will break your back. Let me know what you come up with, and if you need an invite to the cyberdeck discord hahaha

[blissful roost]

👍

[fading hare]

So, that SX-64. Price: US $995.

[blissful roost]

Is that really in Noctua colours? Lol

[fading hare]

Noctua didn't even exist then.

[blissful roost]

I know. 😂

[fading hare]

I think I just got myself kick-banned. 😄

I wrote a long story about how the brown-beige colors are just an excuse for your relatives smoking a lot of cigarettes in your home

[blissful roost]

Hahaha

[fading hare]

Bot murdered me, and my Discord app.

In Sweden, in the early 90s, $995 was a lot of money. In fact, that was about 6,000 SEK, which at that time was a lot of money. How this guy came to own one of them, I am not sure. Rich parents maybe?

[blissful roost]

I think my former colleague has one, but it has PSU problems.

[fading hare]

also, the demo in question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-UV08srrD4

[blissful roost]

Oohhh! Maybe I could build it for the Russian 8086?

[fading hare]

Oh, maybe?

[blissful roost]

I need a lot of parts for that ... Lol

[fading hare]

You'll see name-drops like Fairlight, Horizon, Logic, and others, in that demo.

[blissful roost]

👍

[fading hare]

Then again, the "boss" of Fairlight was about as smart as a box of rocks. She kept everybody's name and handle in a notebook. That brought down about 30-40% of the serious hacker groups in Europe at the time.

[blissful roost]

🤪

[fading hare]

Not to mention a few "intrepid" side-hustles of several FAMOUS biker clubs.

I can't even write their name in here, because the bot strikes me down.

[blissful roost]

😄

[fading hare]

They be them angels. Yeah?

[blissful roost]

Ohh, they certainly weren't. Lol

[fading hare]

still aren't, but yeah lol

[chrome kite]

I'm guessing the book itself is also free to find online or something?

[fading hare]

Yes, lemme get you a link...

@chrome kite http://svenskefaen.no/cdne/

here's the original: https://dflund.se/~triad/book/index.html

[chrome kite]

the archaic relic called "c64" also has me thinking, back in ye olde days people could usually understand most of the devices they used

[fading hare]

I, of course, had the Palm Pilot DOC version. It was the rave back then.

[fading hare]

Nah, that's not true at all. They were as clueless as we are today. Only a few truly understood, and utilized these magical things to their full potential.

[chrome kite]

oh, I meant the before the modern era

[fading hare]

Like... the 80s?

[chrome kite]

1500s

lol

nowadays it's all you can do to gain a level of understanding that lets you use that device to its full potential, on a handful of devices i feel

and when I become old I'm afraid I'll start feeling like the humans in wall-e

[fading hare]

Interesting choice. Well after the 1400s, and into the decline of the high times of the renaissance, but not far enough away from the stain of "the dark ages" where Christianity basically spent 500 years destroying every culture around them...

[chrome kite]

I'm going to pretend that I deliberately chose that period for those reasons and not because my WHAP class only covered topics from 1500 onwards in "detail"

[fading hare]

Did you know that the vikings used forks about 500 years before the English adopted the habit?

[chrome kite]

I did not know actually

now that I think about it, I gave as much thought to the origin of forks until now as I did to the origin of babies in the 4th grade

[fading hare]

Well, they also replaced all our religious observances with crap from the bible.

[chrome kite]

they're there, but you don't question their existence

[chrome kite]

something something, saturnalia and christmas?

[fading hare]

Winter Solstice?

Midvinterblot.

[chrome kite]

I've heard that most christian festivities directly replaced pagan festivals

[fading hare]

In a way, yes. They turned fire-based fertility festivals into the burning of witches. Because, you know, women are dangerous...

[chrome kite]

don't know much beyond that, except that some thought that the christian versions were better and safer and others lamented the loss of culture

oh

[real falcon]

some of them its because day was sigificant anyway. like winter solicence

some im pretty sure yeah surrplanted

[fading hare]

no, not safer, just the erasure of cultures

[chrome kite]

what happened to easter

that's the only other holiday I know that used to have a pagan festival

[fading hare]

easter? It wasn't necessarily an observance, per se

the closest would be imbolc

which is in february

or, are you talking about the april/may festival?

[chrome kite]

april/may I think

[fading hare]

that's not easter, but yeah

[chrome kite]

oh

[fading hare]

well, it is, and isn't, I guess

[chrome kite]

I vaguely remember being taught that easter was a period that extended a few months and the april/may holiday was "easter sunday"

[fading hare]

yeah, so Easter is between late march and late april

so, the pagan ritual/festival that occurs on May Day was Beltaine. It was a fire festival. The Christians kept that part, they just made it all about burning women that were smarter than your average box of rocks.

Witches, you know.

That's technically towards the end of easter, I guess.

[chrome kite]

but... the bunnies that laid eggs? /s

[fading hare]

That's just something made up in the last 200 years.

[chrome kite]

oh

[fading hare]

So, we went from: chill holiday where everyone was blessed by the warmth of fire, where cattle was blessed by walking between the fires, where the old were granted health from the fires, where the young found partners and made life anew... to: smart women that know slightly more than the average priest are totally evil and should be burned at the stake, so let's make this holiday all about the burning of witches before they get to Blåkulla.

Blockula (Blåkulla in modern Swedish) was a legendary island where the Devil held his Earthly court during a witches' Sabbath. This island could only be reached by a magical flight. It was described as "a delicate large Meadow, whereof you can see no end".

If this offends you, I am sorry to have accidentally given you the red pill. This is where you come from, this what your ancestors did to mine.

[chrome kite]

i'm east asian lol

I want to say I'm agnostic, but that would imply that I think verifying the existence of a 3O god matters, which I don't really

[fading hare]

Well. Let's consider this.

Agnosticism does not actually imply the admittance of the existence of god(s).

It merely states: If god(s)'s real, then I will believe once they poke me in the belly.

[chrome kite]

Now that I think about it, how did christianity go from what Jesus and the disciples were doing to, well, kinda similar to the biblical portrayal of philistines?

[chrome kite]

well I guess I'm agnostic in the technical sense

[fading hare]

That's an interesting question that invites speculation, which is not something I will disgrace this channel with.

[chrome kite]

that is fair

[chrome kite]

I still see the matter the same way I would the "do we live in a simulation" stuff

[fading hare]

There's been a lot of comingling and pollution of agnosticism on Wikipedia and elsewhere in the past 20 years or so. Most of it went from "agnostics are just weak Christians" to "we're atheists that aren't atheists"

[chrome kite]

I think atheism has also become a more extreme term as well

[fading hare]

Less so, actually. It used to be about denying the existence of gods, until people tried to make it not so by being more liberal in their atheism. They included science. Like, proof. If that existed, of course they wouldn't be atheists. They'd actually believe, because, reality, is... real. So, they just called themselves agnosticists.

[chrome kite]

agnosticism, yes, but in my personal and definitely not universal experience "atheist" has sort of become a dogwhistle

used in innocent-seeming questions

eg: "so if you are an atheist, how do you stay moral/where do you derive morality"

[fading hare]

so, I think the best explanation for why one would be agnostic comes from this: "Dogmatic belief systems are philosophical and scientific dead ends."

[chrome kite]

I definitely agree with that

but then again, one can be religious/spiritual without the institutions or dogmatic teachings

[fading hare]

As in, I help the homeless? Because, Jesus' best friends were vagrants, prostitutes, and moneylenders?

Well. The mere concept of dogma is antithetic to science. It requires you to believe that something is true, with, or without, evidence.

That's why it eventually is a dead end.

That said, I believe in things, you know. As do most of us, and I think that those things are ultimately personal and unique for each person, and they should not be made fun of, explained away, or diminished.

[chrome kite]

that would be another little contradiction within a lot of churches lol

[fading hare]

Well. Yes, it is.

[chrome kite]

just a tiny kink

[fading hare]

We literally had a bunch of bougie people call the cops on a Jesus statue not far from where I live. It was a bronze of Jesus sleeping on a park bench commissioned by the local minister.

"There's a homeless person sleeping on this park bench!" ... Wait, are you Romans?

They're probably the same people that hang out on Nextdoor, complaining about the "Black man walking past their house every day" as if it wasn't their next door neighbor just going to work. Like he's done for two decades before this person deemed it safe enough to move in.

America is a weird place. With a lot of really weird people.

[chrome kite]

you can say that again

[fading hare]

That said, at least they're not a communist regime. Yet.

(obligatory rebuff to anybody who thinks I should eat bark bread when I deserve that tasty cake)

[chrome kite]

I've also heard from an alarming amount of people I know that if it weren't for some outside authority/source of morality (eg christianity) they'd be doing bad things

[fading hare]

Nah. That's not a thing.

[chrome kite]

whataboutisms galore?

[fading hare]

no, I am referring to an actual event in my life as I joined my father in Sweden and his Communist friends in the teachings of what you should, and shouldn't have. I punched that girl in the face and ate that cake.

[chrome kite]

oh

ah shoot

[fading hare]

The "alarming amount of people" you are referring to are just whatever echo chamber you are stuck in. See, here's the thing, nobody here is smart enough, or ruthless enough, to actually pull of a completely under-the-radar plot at the level anybody suggests. You have whistleblowers everywhere, but, they're somehow not present in these circles? Please. People do not do bad things because they have, or lack, religion. They do bad things because they are misled, or crazy.

[chrome kite]

oh, I think they meant they'd be worse people overall

[fading hare]

that's debatable

[chrome kite]

not the fly-off-the-handle

I think it's actually similar to the way a government works, except the justice comes after death

[fading hare]

not as much, really...

[chrome kite]

"I do bad thing and authority punishes me" was the gist of it

[fading hare]

Well, that is true for any part of the world, any level of culture, any level of society or civilization.

[chrome kite]

whelp, I'm really sorry about abruptly having to leave, but I think the next hour or so for me will involve much Advil and groaning

courtesy of the missing wisdom teeth I used to have

[fading hare]

I mean, China. Ha. Public executions?

But, yeah. Authority will punish you.

Just depends on what flavor of authority you are OK with.

Sure, some may not have the option of leaving, and I think it's our duty to help them be free. If they want to be.

Some may choose the proverbial blue pill. Because that fake steak is good enough.

[chrome kite]

agreed

ignorance is bliss and all that

[fading hare]

I'd rather eat dirt than your fake steak, though. Besides, I know how to make bread from bark. 😉

[chrome kite]

good night

[fading hare]

👋

[chrome kite]

off I go to suffer

[fading hare]

peace, homie

[spice moss]

MSI did too yeah Omikron variant

[dusk oracle]

and yet this variant was less problematic but set me back another 3 months.

Since the hospital said... 3 months then check in.

[wanton thistle]

pretty much

Dude must be playing stellaris or something with that serious of a face lol

[blissful roost]

Me playing any Total War. 😁

[tardy badger]

I watched the movie Ron’s Gone Wrong with my kids

There is a very good messaging about corporatism and the pushes to engage people more with technology in the efforts to sell them more. And also the dangers of letting algorithms dictate our lives vs legitimate human interactions

Which is funny for a movie found on Disney+

[wanton thistle]

leopards eating our faces type thing

[tardy badger]

Basically

Also, the movie Encanto is pretty sweet of a movie

For me it really highlights that these pushes for people to be special and unique often destroy relationships, families, and whatnot

[blissful roost]

The bunnies watched it the other day.. I couldn't give it any attention myself.

[tardy badger]

Because that specialness/uniqueness ends up being the highlight and focus of the relationship. Rather than balancing uniqueness with similarities.

Kind of showing how everyone wants to stand out, and how people simply go out looking for how people are different from them rather than looking for the things that bring us together

[blissful roost]

Like how hipsters think that looking the same as every other hipster is "unique"... ?

[tardy badger]

Not necessarily, but yes in a round about way. I was thinking more broadly as some people tend to focus so much on identity and who they are as an individual and lose who they are with humans collectively. Sort of segregating ourselves because of an individual identity rather than using it to enhance what we share with others.

[fading hare]

Hipsters do not recognize that they look the same as other hipsters, that's the irony. Or like I once said: when it's popular to be different, you're the most different if you're just like everyone else.

[blissful roost]

"We're all as unique as grains of sand on a beach".

[tardy badger]

And simply, you don’t have to have amazing skills, gifts, or a unique identity to contribute meaningfully to society

[fading hare]

Wait. So I could have been contributing to society this whole time?

[blissful roost]

checks torgny's tax returns...

https://tenor.com/view/of-to-gulag-gif-19230867

"of"?? Dangit

[tardy badger]

Lol

[fading hare]

I am triggered, badly written memes cause me physical harm

[blissful roost]

😈

[fading hare]

😄

[blissful roost]

https://c.tenor.com/hnZbUBSrOT0AAAAM/triggered-dave.gif

[fading hare]

Also, Stalin can eat a bag of rocks.

[blissful roost]

Just for the record, that's Trigger.. from Only Fools and Horses.

[blissful roost]

I'm pretty sure he can't, because he ded.

[fading hare]

yet there he is, waving at me with his pope wave (it's how you wave when you don't want your arm to be a blur on camera)

[fading hare]

who, what?

[blissful roost]

Lol

Old TV show in the UK.

[fading hare]

Couldn't have been that good because it never made it to Sweden.

[blissful roost]

The actor was Roger Lloyd-Pack.. great guy.

[fading hare]

nice

[blissful roost]

I can think of many things that never made it to Sweden.... But let's not talk about the war..

[fading hare]

https://tenor.com/view/hahaha-gif-18595385

[blissful roost]

Qué?

[fading hare]

wait... you know of this other obscure British TV show but you don't get the Fawlty Towers reference?

[blissful roost]

"Don't mention the war....."

[fading hare]

yeah, that's it

[blissful roost]

When told by either Basil, Sybil or Polly what to do, he frequently answers "Sí" ("Yes"), or "¿Qué?" ("What?") or "¿Cómo?" (a more polite way of "What?"), which once led to a particularly harebrained guest (Mrs. Richards) believing Basil's name to be "C. K. Watt". By the time of the second series, Manuel's English is shown to have improved, while still limited.

[fading hare]

lol

[blissful roost]

Only Fools and Horses was certainly very popular here.

Not saying either one was good..... But it's what I grew up with.

[fading hare]

I don't think it ever made it to Sweden, unless I completely missed it.

[blissful roost]

That's somewhat outside my sphere of knowledge. Lol

[fading hare]

we had a bunch of British television shows

like that show about the people working on that farm, I don't even remember the English name, but in Swedish it was called "Hem Till Gården"

it was like a British version of Falcon Crest or Dallas, only with less drama and more tractors

[blissful roost]

"Home to the farm"

[fading hare]

lol yup that's it

[blissful roost]

Ahh!

Emmerdale

[fading hare]

YES

[blissful roost]

Yeah... We class that as a show for middle-aged housewives. Lol

[fading hare]

we had like 2 channels in Sweden at the time... so it was basically that or nothing...

[blissful roost]

Big OOF

[fading hare]

😄

[wooden schooner]

That is such a well-composed joke

Instant fave

[blissful roost]

😄

[wooden schooner]

@blissful roost For some reason I feel like you might like this https://youtu.be/_52zdiltkRM

[blissful roost]

Yep. 😁

[lusty fossil]

Uh oh
Woke up with sore muscles and inflamed lymph nodes

Hopefully just a short virus

[tardy badger]

Wow.. 2021 made sure it took so many good things

Betty White died

Just 17 days before her 100th birthday

[blissful roost]

Disappointing.. she won't get a letter from the Queen.

[tardy badger]

RIP to a pioneer for women in comedy and acting.

She did a lot of great things on the silver screen

And for TV

[lusty fossil]

99 is a good age, she did a ton with her time

Loved her in Community

Question: can my innocent pooch get covid from me? I think not but I'd hate for her to get sick.

Actually given that she got into the trash yesterday she's not exactly an innocent pooch.

[blissful roost]

No.

At least, I'm reasonably sure they can't.

"Not known to be a threat, but positive cases has been found".

Have*

[lusty fossil]

Hopefully little bean is fine.

Thx

[wooden schooner]

Afaik, it's much more a thing for cats. Similar to FIP

My ex gf adopted a foster cat, and while it was on the way to her it died of what was likely covid 😢

[lusty fossil]

Oh poor baby

[cursive mural]

Does anyone know of any YouTube 360* live streams for the ball drop at time square tonight?

I can’t find any

Something like what they did for the Macy’s thanksgiving day parade 2 years ago

[velvet pelican]

One of the greats. Golden girls was an excellent show... now i am gonna have to rewatch it

[burnt tendon]

Thirty years from now, when Keith Richards and Queen Elizabeth II are mysteriously still alive, it'll make sense.

[lusty fossil]

Woooo. Rapid test was negative for covid. I'm definitely sick with something but it probably isn't covid

[tardy badger]

RSV and the Flu are hitting hard

[lusty fossil]

I'm wishing I'd gotten my flu shot earlier. I may get it tomorrow. Was planning on today. We'll see how I feel tomorrow.

Your wife had RSV right? Was there a test for it.

[tardy badger]

They test for it yeah

Similar to flu tests

[lusty fossil]

Mk if I get worse I'll go back to the doc

[tardy badger]

Most urgent care can screen for it

RSV revealed my wife has Asthma because it hit her so hard

She’s much better now but it was rough

[lusty fossil]

Good to hear.

[fading hare]

what's RSV?

[tardy badger]

A respiratory virus that has no vaccine or formal course of treatment

Deadly in young children and pregnant women

[fading hare]

yikes

[tardy badger]

And older people too

[fading hare]

that sounds horrible

[tardy badger]

Yeah

It’s particularly bad because it can cause pneumonia to develop rapidly

[chrome kite]

I really liked the movie for that theme too, and there were parts that made me smile, but... the actual meat of the movie I did not like too much

[tardy badger]

I feel overall it was pretty solid. I wish there was more story telling though. In that regard it was a bit flat

[chrome kite]

might be the wisdom teeth, but some plot points and emotional beats came out of nowhere for me

there's also the disney aesthetic (how they animate characters, the way they do dialogue, etc) that I'm already a bit biased against

[tardy badger]

Sure, that’s valid

[chrome kite]

if it were only that though I'd say it's a pretty good feel-good movie, since the above complaints are all personal and not reflective of the movie itself

but the ending ||gave me sort of book of job vibes||

[tardy badger]

The overall theme of the movie did feel not very Disney which was very nice

[chrome kite]

oh for sure

[tardy badger]

Same with Ron’s Gone Wrong

Refreshing compared to the typical theme of Disney content

[chrome kite]

Disney? America? Not-Individualism-As-Theme? impossible

[tardy badger]

Lol

[wooden schooner]

American culture is individualistic enough to kind of deserve that persistent corrective

[honest moth]

...guess who just bricked their first rooted android device

[lusty fossil]

Ouch

[fading hare]

I never bricked an Android device, but it was close a couple of times. Always found ways to rescue them, which is good, because my first Android (the G1) was not cheap.

[blissful roost]

Oof

Never done anything root/custom on an Android device since.... LG P970. (2011)

[lusty fossil]

Anyone ever try Daiya vegan mac?

[real falcon]

isnt there jit to force phone to boot into download mode for bricked debioce

[fading hare]

I have. Do you want my honest opinion as a meat-eating human? It's OK. I've definitely had worse tasting stuff from a vegan perspective.

[lusty fossil]

I'm not avoiding animal products specifically just dairy.

[fading hare]

Well. Most of the Dayia products are a bit of an acquired taste. But, I would definitely recommend trying it a few times and see how you feel about it.

My wife's vegetarian, so we eat a lot of different protein-enriched stuff. Like Morningstar Farms (I know, Monsanto will reprogram our brains with genetically manipulated bean sprouts) and Smart Dogs.

Why a few times? Well. Like I said, it's an acquired taste. It's not cheese. Just some kind of thing made to behave sort of like cheese when heated.

[honest moth]

sad news.

[fading hare]

What happened?

[honest moth]

the brick is irrecoverable.

she's gone.

[fading hare]

good thing it was only an Amazon tab

[honest moth]

...only?

[fading hare]

https://tenor.com/view/dancing-coffin-coffin-dance-funeral-funny-farewell-gif-16737844

yeah, only... compared to a lot of other tablets, the Amazon ones are cheapo

[honest moth]

i can't even afford anything close to a replacement, what I have is what I got.

[fading hare]

that's obviously a different problem, but yeah, I totally feel you

which tablet was it?

[honest moth]

fire hd 7, 2014 version

not the oldest, not the newest either.

[fading hare]

sucks, I am sorry... they aren't even called HD anymore from what I can tell, the HD starts at 8"

[honest moth]

they stopped production I'm guessing?

[fading hare]

no, they still make them

https://smile.amazon.com/Fire-Tablet-7/dp/B07FKR6KXF/

they're $49.99 for the 16 GB version

so yeah, like I said... only an Amazon tab... could have been anything Samsung for like $250+ and that would have been a travesty.

[real falcon]

maybe used one on ebay?

[fading hare]

dunno if that's even worth it, since there'll be no warranty

[honest moth]

...are you joking

[real falcon]

not at all. if your budget is very tight, it may be an option

[fading hare]

I'd say the warranty is probably worth whatever the diff is between $49.99 and $20.

[honest moth]

17

woops

all of that hardware and software

for 17 dollars

[fading hare]

but yeah, no warranty

[honest moth]

no warranty? pfffft

[fading hare]

well... if you brick it, you can probably send it back to Amazon and be like... I dunno, I am just a user...

probably worth $30.

😉

[honest moth]

woops

welp, this just brought my smile back

thanks y'all, really 💚

[fading hare]

any time

[honest moth]

one thing's for certain though

I think I'll stick with using the Fire Toolbox from now on 😅

[fading hare]

where were the instructions you followed to root it in the first place?

if it wasn't xda-developers I probably wouldn't trust it

[honest moth]

yeeeeaaaaahhhhhh...

facepalm

[silver shale]

Also the advertising and telemetry that those tablets have (retaliative to plain Android) make up the cost for Amazon.

[honest moth]

what trips me up is that the guide directed me to xda-distributed software tools

oh for crying out loud

last edited: 2014

||also, mega whoops on the language. SORRY!!||

[fading hare]

For sure, but, is that really any concern?

[honest moth]

this is what i get for using outdated software.

[fading hare]

hey, like I said, at least it was just an Amazon tab. 😉

You could have been out $200+ if it was something different

Silver lining and all that.

[honest moth]

i see what you meant by that now

[fading hare]

If you're in the US and you have concerns over your privacy, just know this, you never had any to begin with. Is that a justification for what Google and Facebook has been doing for the past decade? No. But your Kindle or Amazon tab showing ads on the lock screen is probably the most benign thing you're going to come across, honestly.

There are no protections for people in this country. For instance, if you are found guilty of a crime (let's just pretend you didn't do anything nefarious, but you were at a protest, and you got tagged, or in my case, a DUI in 2007 at 0.09, which was 0.01 over the legal limit) there's nothing preventing anyone from blasting your face and crime all over the Internet. The upside, or downside, of that is that this opens that entity up to a lawsuit. If you had money, you could sue them. But, most likely the site just gamed the system by making sure that the back links of their site heavily outweigh anything positive about you on the Internet. The result? Depending on how unique your name is, maybe nothing.

[umbral phoenix]

privacy isn't a boolean though, there are infinite shades, and you can keep (or take back) some of it but it takes some diligence

[fading hare]

In the US? Tell me how you do that.

Specifically if you do not live in CA.

[umbral phoenix]

do you have a few hours?

lol

[fading hare]

Yes, as a matter of fact, I do.

😄

[umbral phoenix]

I think I've done a pretty good job of it

[fading hare]

Don't threaten me with a good time.

[umbral phoenix]

hahaa

[fading hare]

we can take this off-server, but yeah, what did you do to regain privacy?

[umbral phoenix]

I just think there's an alternative to privacy nihilism

I did less of "regain" and more of "retain" as the internet developed

[fading hare]

Was your name entirely unique? Like, if you googled yourself, would any result show up that was about anybody else?

[umbral phoenix]

<redactd> 😉

[fading hare]

😄

[umbral phoenix]

I don't have a common name, which does increase the difficulty

[fading hare]

my name, as you all know already by a cursory google search, is entirely unique, nobody else has it, and I am as they say, screwed.

[umbral phoenix]

you need to make some new people of your name 😉

...and make some alternate names for yourself

[fading hare]

I am pretty sure that's highly illegal. So, let's skip that part.

Or did you mean online? As in, alternate names?

[umbral phoenix]

it's generally not, as long as the intent isn't fraud and you don't lie to the government

IANAL, but there is a lot you can do with pseudos online, and alternate names for many unofficial purposes offline

[fading hare]

Well, in several cases, the government (local) was at fault and they released my information to anybody who cared to make a profit out of it.

So, if you don't mind me saying it, the government should be trusted about as far as you can throw a ball in the direction of the Facebook headquarters.

[umbral phoenix]

for example, ever notice in credit card commercials how the card just has first initial and last name? get your cards issued that way... stores are allowed to scrape that name, so decrease the entropy

yeah, but I'm trying to keep it legal

[fading hare]

True.

[umbral phoenix]

there are a lot of ways to minimize information disclosure

[fading hare]

I use Privacy.com to at least get card numbers that I can close down if there's a data breach of whatever site I am ordering from.

[umbral phoenix]

...and increase the misinfo where legal

[fading hare]

interesting

how would I apply that, considering my legal name is completely unique?

[umbral phoenix]

like, all kinds of places ask for your birthdate, but to whom are you legally required to give an accurate one? very few

is your first initial + last name unique? if not, there's a decrease in entropy

[fading hare]

completely unique

like I said, I am hosed

[umbral phoenix]

even if it is, there are many circumstances where you could just use Z. Torgny or some other variation (use many variations even)

Q. Torgniy

mail will still get to you

I have a sibling who mails me stuff to totally preposterous names, no problem

[fading hare]

So, my name is Torgny Bjers. Which you could easily get by just using a reverse image search on anything I have posted, my github, or anything else, and unfortunately that name combo is completely unique.

sure, mail gets to me whether I want to or not, that's true

[umbral phoenix]

right, so mix it up with initials and spelling variations, when exact isn't absolutely required

[fading hare]

like, why can't I opt out of getting the weekly spam from the USPS?

[umbral phoenix]

lol, I wish I knew

weekly really? I think I only get those Money Mailers monthly

[fading hare]

nah, I get a giant wad of paper every week

I think it's like Wednesdays, perhaps?

[umbral phoenix]

start with that FTC link I posted

[fading hare]

wait, what link?

[real falcon]

competely unique names is fun. I know, because mine is too

[fading hare]

all I do with that giant wad of paper is stick it in my recycling bin

[umbral phoenix]

way up the thread somewhere when you were talking about junk mail before

our Post Ofice has a big reycling bin, I just dump stuff there when I pick up my mail

[fading hare]

found it

and, yeah, I've used some of those methods before, and I also use the National Do Not Call registry, but, that doesn't prevent the actual government from sending you spam whenever they feel like it.

As is the case with the mandatory weekly dump of paper in my mailbox.

[umbral phoenix]

true, you can't block or make everything private, but everything you can is a win

[wooden schooner]

yes. yes it is.

[umbral phoenix]

it's not the ads per se, it's the data collection behemoths behind them

[fading hare]

I am sure it's a deep, deep hole of rackets and money laundering that fuels that particular loophole in the USPS... someone's paying someone millions of dollars to do this, but, somehow they're not even concerned about the wasted paper among the households that just throw that paper away? And, we're trying to be mindful of the environment? Yeah.

[silver shale]

data collection can be harmful in cases where the data is leaked

[umbral phoenix]

or abused

[silver shale]

and the general surveillance of course

[fading hare]

Which the government has proven to be especially susceptible to.

[wooden schooner]

https://www.theonion.com/new-pre-sauced-napkins-can-be-thrown-away-straight-from-1819578124

[crude folio]

the postal service itself actually spams you?

[fading hare]

yup

[crude folio]

what do they send?

[fading hare]

ads and coupons for Food Lion, Papa John's, and whatever other entity has deigned to hand over their money

I can't opt out of it. I have tried. There's no way they will stop delivering that crap to my house.

[silver shale]

you are still in sweden?

[fading hare]

I am in the US. NC.

[crude folio]

the "junk mail", as we call it here, isn't delivered by the postal service

[fading hare]

USPS.

United States Postal Service.

Yes, it is in NC.

[crude folio]

and if you put a no junk mail sign on your box they dont deliver it

[fading hare]

My mail person delivers that crap.

They still deliver it.

[crude folio]

(here==australia)

[fading hare]

Like, you're acting as if I never tried these things. Sure, in Sweden, they won't deliver the crap if you put up a sign. In the US, no such luck.

[umbral phoenix]

in the US, no one but the USPS is allowed to put things in your box

[crude folio]

no i'm just sharing anecdotes for comparison, sorry if i came across wrong

[fading hare]

Exactly, and the USPS are the ones responsible for destroying the environment, and not to mention harass me on a weekly basis. They even go as far as mark mail delivered that has never been delivered. That, as far as I know, is a federal offense punishable by up to 10 years in prison.

Sure, the mail shows up the next day, but, it's still a lie, and abuse of power.

[umbral phoenix]

sounds like you have issues with your PO that I don't have here, I love my post office

[fading hare]

I don't mind my local PO. They're good. Just some employees get away with that stuff. They have quotas and whatever, and I think it gets overwhelming at times, but I also am pointing out the hypocrisy of a lot of the laws surrounding mail in the US.

I'm not even at the level of data collection with this argument. How can someone be allowed to defame you, online, without repercussion? What enabled them to get that data to begin with? What kind of broken system prioritizes the ridicule and denigration of criminal behavior (of any kind, yeah, I am looking at you, pot smokers in states that haven't legalized it) yet it does nothing to protect its citizens? Well. The US does. The same kind of country where the police was established to hunt down slaves in the first place.

Maybe that was too political, or real, or whatever, if so, please let me know and I'll delete it. We were on the topic of why we should trust Amazon less than the government, or why data collection is happening whether or not you approve of it, and there's nothing at all you can do about it. You have no recourse. You have no rights. The US government pays these corporations billions of tax payer dollars to monitor us.

All in the hopes of catching that one elusive 9-11 pilot. You know, the guy that clearly stated in his flying lessons that he didn't need to know how to land. Like, that never even made a blip in their algorithmic reality.

I have a feeling that Dan is going to either:
A) Have a stern talking to me in the morning, or
B) Kickban me

I mean, why is the PATRIOT act still in effect? Like, seriously?

[umbral phoenix]

my point earlier is that there are things you can do about (some of) it, some things are unavoidable if you want to, for example, fly or drive

[fading hare]

I have had friends that look middle eastern get pulled over by cops for taking pictures of bridges. As if they were here to destroy infrastructure.

[umbral phoenix]

but on the commercial side, there's a lot more leeway in what you can do because there are few laws that govern how an individual has to interact with a company

[fading hare]

this is a good recommendation, while I prefer to drive cross-country, I am still apprehensive about how many traffic cameras will pick up my movement versus me getting scanned on boarding and deplaning...

[umbral phoenix]

I get new license plates regularly, to reduce the dossier associated with any one plate number 😉

[fading hare]

but, yeah, these are all band-aids on top of a seeping, rancid wound...

[umbral phoenix]

they are band-aids with anti-inflammatory and pain relief cream embedded

[fading hare]

Like, the only thing we've encountered in the US as tech people have been the annoyance of having to respect the GDPA. 😄

Like, wait, I actually have to let these people double-opt-in?

Like, wait, I can't just ask them for their social and whatever else for no reason?

Here, there's nothing preventing an org from requesting that information as long as they meet standards. Sure, they can be expensive to pass, but the general audit of how/why you collect PII in the US is a joke.

[umbral phoenix]

right, so as an individual, I try not to disclose anything not legally required, and provide misinfo wherever practical

[fading hare]

I just feel sad that that's what I have to do.

[umbral phoenix]

yes, but I like to focus on what I can do

though I have my rants and peeves

[fading hare]

And that same government has been trying to disarm us for centuries to correct their original mistake of allowing people to counter their machinations. Like, do we even exist in the same reality?

So, here's the lessons learned in this conversation:

• unless legally required (at a federal/state level) obscure your identity
• do not use your name or identifying data points in emails or user names
• the government is not out to get you, specifically, right now
• do not use your real birth date on any site, regardless of what they offer you as a birthday gift, you can always just celebrate your AliExpress birthday on April 1
• if the government tries to spam you, you have no recourse
• the postal service is not bound by the same laws as the rest of us
• lies are not lies if you are a government entity
• I should have stayed in Sweden if I thought I could change anything
• I am voting Donald Duck for president

That said. I absolutely love the US. I paid my dues, legally immigrating into this country, and I wouldn't change it for the world. I think a lot of people get really upset when non-citizens voice concerns.

And, I tend to be slightly irreverent at times, which probably triggers some people that would have preferred it if I was more subtle in my "attacks" on their favorite nation state.

But, yeah, god bless their little hearts. As they say in the south.

[umbral phoenix]

some people are gonna get upset about voiced concerns by anyone, but the first amendment applies to everyone living here, not just citizens

but of course in non-gov't contexts, it doesn't apply and the private powers-that-be can make their own rules

[fading hare]

True. It's weird though. Like, a lot of people in the US take that for granted. Say you read Noam Chomsky, or whatever, and you just assumed that to be something you can do, sure, as a citizen, that's true. As an immigrant, not so much. You admit you touched anything communist on your green slip and that's grounds for deportation.

I don't think there's any green slips these days, but, pre 9-11, that was definitely a thing.

That said, I think that there's a lot we can do to improve privacy for average people in this country. Like, why do you have to register as a voter? Why do you have to tell the government about your opinion?

What about the census? Random strangers coming to my house and asking me about my genetic heritage?

[umbral phoenix]

registering varies by state. in my state, you don't register as a party (that seems really weird to me, espceially since we have a party dupoly), you are free to vote in any primary and all regular elections

[fading hare]

it's still only something done by a state that is more concerned about the number of minorities voting than anything else...

[umbral phoenix]

census I don't get too upset about, they are prohibited from releasing anything for 75 years I think

[fading hare]

they're like... so... 40% of these votes do not count, because...

[umbral phoenix]

maybe it's 72?

[fading hare]

yeah, something like that

[umbral phoenix]

1940 is the most recent census publicly available

[fading hare]

Census people got upset with me for checking the "other" box on the "race" list... I was like, so I can be one of these 20 different pacific islanders, but there's only white and black people? Just another example of how this government only cares about how much money they have to spend to hide their mistakes.

[umbral phoenix]

I've always done mine by mail

[fading hare]

Oh, they made sure to come to my abode. I ensured them that they were indeed in America and that they were surely trespassing. 😉

But yeah, after that it was by mail.

[umbral phoenix]

and now it's quite late, happy '22!

[fading hare]

Happy '22!

https://tenor.com/view/cat-gif-24243729

[real falcon]

https://tenor.com/view/cats-angry-cat-nope-funny-gif-15842401

[wanton thistle]

Happy new year all

[tardy badger]

Happy ‘22 everyone

[hasty wedge]

[silver shale]

Criticism is important to help improve something

[wooden schooner]

I recently told an organization I was born in 2024. This was a subtle logical contradiction, since that would mean I was born after my credit card expired, but they didn't have logic to check for that.

[blissful roost]

Lel

[silver shale]

moved all the servers down to the lab.

[dusk oracle]

Some people confuse the idea of you being critical as negative, Just watch the movie "don't look up" and you think... nah this is a movie.
But the reality is that intelligence is met with resistance every where from people with power and people with average IQ's often.

my teacher treated me like a moron i ended up being bullied, eventually i was the only guy to pass his class, he came to apologize to me, i told him.. "too late you made me into a fool, i hope you learned something"

[silver shale]

Put in a Creative CT5880 into a Linux machine earlier, worked out of box, heard it would do the same on Windows but have not tested that. Has a STAC codec which is nice.

[honest moth]

hi

update on the Kindle Fire HD 7 brick situation:

I gave it one more shot, and unfortunately, I don't believe there is any saving her. I can connect to the thing and perform the handshake from arch linux (./handshake.py), but when I try ./reader.sh, it times out.

I've looked from place to place for any information and to find other methods and try them, however, the most up-to-date versions of unbricking my kindle fire came out years ago, and the newest OS might not have been figured out yet.

I am not sure what to do.

and yes, I used XDA for all of my information this time.

it's more sentimental value at this point considering that I have backups of what mattered, but...

...it just sucks.

[tardy badger]

@honest moth have you added some echos to see where it’s hanging up in the shell

Seems odd that It’s hanging up. Might be good to do some printf debugging to see what’s happening at each step

If you’re not sure how to echo, I suggest looking up basic bash/shell scripting

[honest moth]

gotcha, thanks

[tardy badger]

This is a good reference https://www.guru99.com/linux-commands-cheat-sheet.html

[honest moth]

wait a minute

facepalm it's really that simple...ok, brb

...it's not that simple. holy cow i'm learning a whole new field of linux I have never needed to touch before.

welp, even if this fails, I'm learning so much.

[honest moth]

thanks by the way

[honest moth]

taking a break from all of this, I'm speculating that the main reason why the reader is failing is due to incompatible software. Not only that, but the method I have been trying and reading up on is a little old, and no longer being updated from what I can tell, however, Amazon still updates their Fires.

The only real issue I have with getting a replacement Kindle Fire is that I'm stingy with my money, and yet, I'm over here pouring a lot of time and resources into something that might not be worth the unbrick. I could go to eBay right now and get a more advanced version to modify, for cheap.

[spice moss]

github have skyline for 2021

[honest moth]

yeah...i'm beginning to think that the unbrick might not be worth it.

[honest moth]

i give.

time to upgrade.

[crystal ore]

Congrats! Spending money to gain time earns you an "adulting" credit. 😁

[wooden schooner]

There are so many levels to this statement.

[lusty fossil]

I'd rate s1 of Wheel of Time as 7/10. A decent start, good lead in to season 2 probably. Some major changes made to the plot that I didn't love but that's adaptations for you.

Not amazing but certainly not bad.

And mildly large changes to the magic system

[fading hare]

well, I think what they did to the magic system worked better on the big screen, so to speak...

[fading hare]

I still haven't watched the last episode. Just watched 7 today. And, I agree. It's a solid 7 out of 10. Feels a bit compressed compared to the books. My wife likes it, and she hasn't read the books, so I am probably just biased because I read the books first.

[wary herald]

I'd rate the Book of Boba Fett a solid 6/10.

Just not that exciting for me

yet

maybe next episode

However, I'd rate Hawkeye a 9/10

Very nice, even though I still have 1 to go

[wary herald]

Bruh

[blissful roost]

Hawkeye S1 as a whole.
Yes. 9/10.

Boba Fett episode 1... 7/10.

[fading hare]

I have yet to see Hawkeye, but it looks cool.

Boba Fett episode 1... Funny, I'll give them that. But, yeah, my hot-or-not meter is hovering around... tepid.

[blissful roost]

Yeah.. it's an interesting start, but.. ehh. It's alright.
Worth a chance.

[fading hare]

I am definitely giving it a chance.

But, yeah, "alright" sums it up. 😄

[dusk oracle]

my brain hurts i'm sitting on 20421 lines of code for a fpga

my brain

https://tenor.com/view/jays-brain-windows-shutdown-error-jays-brain-currently-overload-gif-17032889

[wanton thistle]

So Im on a machining adventure and Im finding out that I need tools. Well, luckily I have tools to make those tools. It feels like some kind of recursive thing, using tools to make more tools, which will make better tools, which...could be used to make more tools.

Its literally tools all the way down. 😂 In a modern sense, its like how 3D printers can be used to make other 3D printers. "Yo dawg, we heard you like 3D printers so we 3D printed a 3D printer"

[wooden schooner]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compiler-compiler

[wanton thistle]

so using a complier to make another complier? 😂

[wooden schooner]

yep

PL theorists love this stuff

[wanton thistle]

heck

I can see why some people may be afraid of AI

[late fulcrum]

Hence the yacc tool, for "Yet Another Compiler Compiler"

[wanton thistle]

AI creates it self basically, but then creates a better AI which creates a better AI

[wooden schooner]

the PL theory people are a different community from AI.

[wanton thistle]

and then we end up with Rouge Servitors or something where we are in a matrix of pleasure.

[wooden schooner]

for example, they care at all about correctness.

James Koppel describes his research as being about "programs that write programs that write programs" - https://www.jameskoppel.com/

[hasty wedge]

programs that write programs that write programs that write programs

[lusty fossil]

Get back to me when you watch the last episode. I thought that one was 4/10.

[lusty fossil]

You know there's a disconnect between engineering and HR when the job posting is for a "sequel" database project manager.

[wooden schooner]

If HR is writing the job descriptions, ... I don't know how to finish that sentence

Not good though

[lusty fossil]

It's not a tech company so I could see lots of people there making that mistake. If I were qualified enough to get into the first interview I'd apply and then let them know of their mistake.

[wooden schooner]

Hah

[lusty fossil]

It would be mildly rude but it's pretty embarrassing for them

I've only done a smidgen of SQL though

Some SOQL

[wooden schooner]

You needn't waste your energy helping a mismanaged company, they tend not to listen

[lusty fossil]

That's a good pt. They might only be technologically illiterate though

Which is also a bad sign in 2022

[wooden schooner]

my boss at my previous job had this ridiculously ineffective habit of trying to delegate work to me through a messenger who didn't have the technical background to convey the ask. When I wanted to not do it, I would simply press the messenger to answer my technical and project management level objections to the task as stated. It only took one or two rounds of back and forth for them to give up and force the boss to deign to talk directly to me

"previous job" as of today. Just wiped and returned my work laptop.

"Wiped" as in, cleaned it off with isopropyl alcohol.

[lusty fossil]

Lol

Nice. Congrats on moving on. That's too disrespectful to put up with.

To you and to the messenger

[wooden schooner]

on a scale of 1 to why I left, that was like a 0.01. There was some serious sh* going down.

[lusty fossil]

Oh there's a ton of illegal stuff at my work.

I've filed most of it away for a rainy day

[wooden schooner]

mine wasn't illegal, just toxic. I'll probably be processing this for a long while

[lusty fossil]

Best of luck.

[wooden schooner]

thanks! 🙂

[stoic mesa]

it does feel good to move away from toxic atmoshere

do you have a new job lined up yet?

[wooden schooner]

Nope. Fortunate to be able to take some time off.

[tame cypress]

OK youtube just said lady ada was a guardian

[hasty wedge]

[tardy badger]

Best way to start the year for your job? Can’t log in due to SSO issues

[wooden schooner]

Explaining to HR that no, you can't send me my W-2 in February

never too early to link to the IRS website