Jeff Bezos went on TV to whine about Zohran Mamdani to stop demonizing billionaires and the very next day Mayor Mamdani responded by forcing Amazon to pay $9M in fines accrued by Amazon delivery trucks for illegally idling and blocking NYC traffic.
This is what happens when you elect a mayor for the people, not the corporations. We need more of this.
I am moving to a usage-based billing
Dear employer, I will no longer charger a flat monthly salary, instead I will move to token based billing. Included will be every token I receive as input, including but not limited to emails, slack messages, spoken words and mandatory multi-modal meetings that could have been emails. Included will also be output tokens in the form of code, documentation and small talk. Tokens will also be consumed by my internal monolog as I reason about problems.
I have received what I hope is a very exciting email (I’m currently 80% sure it’s very exciting and would really like the follow up to be replied to l).
Just discovered the social engagement I thought was tonight isn’t and I’m inordinately relieved by that fact.
Just got notified of some deeply annoying news while halfway up a climbing wall, which has completely killed my mood, which had been quite good from smashing a few boulders I’d been struggling with for a while. Really need to remember to turn on do not disturb and leave my phone in my bag.
I’d once again like to lodge a complaint at the fact being an adult seems to be a never ending list of chores that get in the way of me fiddling with whatever hobby has taken my interest.
Maybe we are in the cyberpunk future. I just had an independent contractor in a hoodie show up in the most battered van I’ve ever seen, hand over a parcel, vaguely wave their handheld terminal in my direction, and leave again.
@jezhiggins @Edent hey, it keeps my Dad out of trouble. If he’s checking how much power is being directed to his car for free he’s not being persuaded to vote for Nazis by an AI generated picture of the local high street in 1827 posted to Facebook.
The tech team at work going with an ambitious target for the day of “nobody dies”.
I find myself reading the TLS spec (because what else would a boy do at 11pm on a Thursday?) and this document is full of cursed phrase in the form “For reasons of backwards compatibility with middleboxes…”
So far my highlights are “all negotiations must claim version 1.2, we’ll stuff the real version in somewhere else later to stop traffic inspectors crashing”, and “this new message identifies as an older message but one of the values is the SHA256 of the name of the new one”.
Do not collect the data that you do not need.
Do not collect the data
that you do not need.
Do not collect
the data
that you
do not
need
.
Amazon want me to return the ear syringe that cracked after one ear. I’ve decided not to include the tip that’s been in my ear canal and included a small note for whichever unfortunate person gets tasked with unpacking the return so they’re not wondering.
Messaging apps should allow me to flag people as doing this. Anyone with that flag would get a cooldown placed on notifications so that I’m not left wondering what’s so urgent.
https://mastodon.social/users/fesshole/statuses/116563929033604800
@AoifeGreenhamIllustrations @nette this post has literally made me realise (at 1130pm as I go to bed) the reason I’ve been grumpy and dissatisfied with the world all day is that I forget to take my medication this morning, so, uhh, yeah.
How is Apple Podcasts so catastrophically unable to reliably sync the point I stopped playing on my Apple HomePod? The whole sales point on those things is “just tap your phone on it and what you’re playing will transfer over”, what’s unwritten there is “but we’ll be fucked if it resumes where you left off next time you pick your phone up”.
Today in ways my brain is broken: someone posting a map with one pin in entirely the wrong place and almost immediately going “lat/lon have been entered back to front”.
🇪🇺I’ve been writing C on and off since I was 12 and my approach to working out if I need `var`, `&var`, or `*var` is still mostly to try one and see if the compiler explodes, then keep going until it stops moaning at me.