When they run out of Toy Story characters will Debian switch to a rolling release model?
Hiring a software engineer in their late 40s:
Pros:
* Understands your stack better than you do after glancing through the repo for five minutes.
* Will rewrite said stack 2x as fast, and half as buggy if you let them.
Cons:
* Gives zero fucks.
* Knows we're not *really* like family here.
* No, seriously, absolutely zero fucks given.
Do not cite the deep magic to me, product manager, I was there when it was written.
“They’re a hybrid organism, biological and cyber” is a line someone actually had to deliver in War of the Worlds (2025). I think it could be very funny if drunk enough, and with enough nerds also heckling every other line. Alone, save yourself the pain. @emffilms - you know what to do.
Anyone can break up a showing of an enemy propaganda film by putting two or three dozen large moths in a paper bag. Take the bag to the movies with you, put it on the floor in an empty section of the theater as you go in and leave it open. The moths will fly out and climb into the projector beam, so that the film will be obscured by fluttering shadows.
Making a great first impression on the new guy at work by sending an email saying “call me on [number] when you get there and I’ll let you in”.
Reader, it was not my phone number. It was a different, much more memorable number, which leapt to front of mind. Thankfully I realised and sent a follow up otherwise there’d have been a very confused phone call tomorrow morning.
I used Twitch briefly a month or so ago to vet someone the boy wanted to watch, they’ve just sent me an email saying I’ll love these categories, containing what I assume is just a list of popular categories in order because they have ~no data on me. No, Twitch, I won’t be logging on to watch some Fortnite streams.
It's very simple really. There are Drives and Sites. You can find your Sites in Teams where they are called Channels. Or Files in Channels. Sites are also in SharePoint. Drives are also in SharePoint but you can't access them that way except by accident. Libraries are Groups that are also Files (but Teams calls these Knowledge Bases). You can save things in Notebooks which are saved in a Drive but can also contain Drives or Sites (but not Teams, which are what Teams calls Teams and where Channels are stored, which SharePoint and OneDrive call Sites). Copilot is both a way to access Sites and Drives, and a way to produce lies. Nobody knows what 365 means. If all of this is overwhelming, consider speaking to your administrator about whether Microsoft Death is right for you.
@JulietEMcKenna @pikesley this isn’t even conspiracy, it’s OpenAI’s business plan. Initial investors don’t get any money back until they develop AGI, which they will then task to making as much money as possible.
Someone I know got caught up in the Unbound mess, and this LLM generated summary of the email by Google is the most soulless shit ever. Yes, it accurately summarises the key points. No, it doesn’t in any way encapsulate the hurt, and the guilt at people having trusted her with their money and it being lost without any books being delivered.
I need to cook dinner for the boy but Tolly is having none of it.
Lesson learned today: don’t think “hey, I’ll just eat when I get back from the gym”, because that results in eating a huge meal at 10pm, and then I’m not at all tired at half midnight despite needing to be up in the morning.
TWICE. Twice in one fucking day.
https://activitypub.blankpad.net/@jon/posts/473715778244363440/
Another day, another minor crisis caused by me not putting something in my calendar.
@tommorris @jackeric unfortunately all coverage of laws is played as a Westminster soap opera because it gets covered by the political reporters, who don’t really have any in-depth knowledge of anything other than the Westminster social scene.
Seeing the British political media turn the debate about #OnlineSafetyAct into a catty fight between Peter Kyle and Farage without looking at the underlying problem—namely, the legislation being an overly complicated dogs dinner—is sadly predictable.
Nor is anyone talking about how it’s a regulatory moat that protects the big players like Facebook rather than holding them to a much higher standard.
What is with all the Sendgrid spam? I swear every other email I get is someone trying to steal some Sendgrid credentials.
- Hey, you know how salmon jump up waterfalls on their way to spawn? I managed to catch one on video.
- Nice. You haven't done anything stupid to this amazing, strong, determined, creature have you?
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- I said...
- I heard what you said.
All search boxes ever: if there are results for what I typed in but none for what your autocorrection thinks I meant to type it’s safe to assume I knew what I was doing.
@eskibrew @jmacarthur I find that promotional photo very amusing. Traditional TV person: smiling, but looking casual and approachable. YouTuber: Grinning like a loon and pointing at something.
My phone just asked me whether [number] is still my phone number to make sure I can recover access. Surely it can just ask the SIM card?
@andypiper @skylar the curse of the Net Promoter Score, somehow considered to be a valid substitute for managers going out into the world and seeing what the service their responsible for is like.
I’ve recently been paying attention to what I eat, and exercising regularly. I was going to make some snide remark about that because it’s quite out of character for me but you know what? All those people who say it makes you feel better know what they’re talking about, I feel better than I have done in quite a long time.
Report imaginary spies or danger to the Gestapo or police.
