@gsuberland they’ve got to notify their 2,187 close partners of the update as well, and they’ve not been talking to a few of them for a while so they’ll have to find the right moment.
@akareilly 100% this. Yours, the person who caused catastrophic data loss by rebooting both Redis nodes in quick succession during an outage, which unexpectedly resulted in them both coming back up empty.
Should I have known that would happen? Probably. Should there have been some sort of warning anyway? Absolutely.
The bad news, it’ll cost £1,200 to repair. The good news, it’s entirely cosmetic damage and so doesn’t actually need repairing.
Things that weren’t on my todo list for today when I got up this morning: going to the Apple Store so they can make my work laptop less of a fire hazard.
To Apple’s credit this is the only damage I can detect from it being dropped on a concrete floor from about 4 feet up.
@rachel oh, where’s the desk? I should be in the office which is right by Aldgate East station at some point within the next two months.
Are you trans / gender-fun, an Engineering Manager (or Director, etc), in or around London, UK, and would like to attend LeadDev.com this year in early June?
If so, I have 1 free ticket to allocate to someone and I would really like to support other trans people managers in tech to be there.
It's a good conference, and will help you in your role, and yes I'm going too but I would like to help other trans eng leaders to be there.
Feel free to boost if this is not you, DM if it is you. 
I'm VERY anti "Remote Learning" on snow days. Snow days are magical and young people should play video games and have snowball fights.
Or go sledding.
And pester their parents who are doing remote office work to make hot chocolate.
Hmph.
@alice @alice_watson I genuinely believe this is a big part of why LLMs are being heralded so much by people. The internet has become an unusable maze of ads and misdirection for anyone who doesn’t know how to install ad blocking.
Today in things The Orange Site found controversial: Stalking and harassment are worse than property theft, and given a choice the former should be prioritised over the latter.
I am once again pleading with music streaming services to provide the non-deluxe versions of albums.
An album is (or should be) a coherent authored experience with a beginning, middle, and end. It is not enhanced by slapping a few half arsed remixes and acoustic versions on the end.
@rachel I’m playing on basically the easiest mode available, almost all PAYE but because of some slightly annoying circumstances I still have to do self assessment.
My most hated chore of the year, filing my tax return, is done. It’s always fine, and I always find it incredibly tense in the lead up because no other chore comes with the threat of criminal prosecution if I get it wrong.
@pikesley I tried a few earlier in the year and decided I don’t have the patience for it.
@an0key god, what a loser. Why would you spend your Friday evening doing such a thing?
(Note, this is sarcasm, please see the post I made at almost the same time: https://activitypub.blankpad.net/@jon/posts/537658997830755400/)
I’ve made a very silly thing. My Home Assistant instance now has a button that will tell my Linux desktop to boot in Steam Big Picture mode, then turn on the TV on the correct input.
This is never in a million years going to save me more time than it took to build it, but I have learned a whole lot about how NixOS does things in the process.
@thoughtbot @csara they make the tests less noisy but I’ve never understood the value of what is effectively testing Rails works. I can safely assume that if I put validates_presence_of :foo in my model it’ll validate the presence of foo.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I *really* don't want European Hyperscalers to be a thing. Hyperscalers are at best a market/regulation failure and at worst a huge risk to create another one of these "too big to fail" scenarios.
I want a sane and healthy landscape of small- to midsize competitors in the hosting landscape.
It makes everything more robust and reliable.
Not sure why this is not a shared understanding anymore.
@jarkman you drastically overestimate my sewing skills but maybe it’s time to learn a new thing.
@herdingdata I genuinely don’t get how we’re meant to make things better when one side is trying and the other just makes up lies because they’re convenient.
The curse of knowing how things work is knowing that there’s no good reason for them to be subtly shit all the time.
This thought brought to you by a TV popping a needless notification in the corner whenever it’s turned on, and the response “oh, I just ignore it, it goes away”. If it were my TV I’d be hunting down the option to turn it off before anything else got watched.
@internetsdairy it’s infuriating but not unexpected, way easier for the government to ban something for a group of people that it is to properly regulate big social media providers, despite the latter actually improving the state of things for everyone by removing the worst excesses.