evilstevie @evilstevie@mastod1.ddns.net
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Steve:
frequent overthinker, compulsive fixer, digester-then-explainer, "why?" question relishing father, minor-irritant partner, excessive disassembler, original-form hacker, high-efficiency googler, borderline-competent car-fixer, expert-level car-breaker, faster-by-qwerty communicator, indiscriminate photo-taker, Leatherman owner.
Joined Nov 2022
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@35millimetre yay!
(I forgot birthday, knew it was one of 2, other half had told them both dates I'd say it was)
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Remember that dude with the Plasticine Action tshirt, with the pic of Morph on it, who got arrested for wearing it in London? He has set up a site selling the tshirts with all proceeds going to the charity Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP). You know what to do! ⬇️ plasticineaction.com
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I tried a GitHub Copilot PR review as it's been ages since I last did.
It was wrong on 3 out of 3 suggestions it made:
1. It suggested inverting the IP ACL and API key check such that it'd have allowed anyone to purge anything from our CDN cache
2. It said I'd got some basic logic wrong (I hadn't) on 1 of ~20 changes of the same type (var not set or var == "" -> strlen(var) == 0)
3. It made up a service name and wanted me to use that
What a pile of shit.
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(Good work sign)
You don’t have to be crazy to be employed here. We’ll train you.
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No, I didn't "forget your name", I didn't store it in the first place, it's called being GDPR compliant.
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the heroes we need
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Am I too early for #Caturday? Fennel looking innocent and adorable (in-between meeps for dinner) #CatsOfMastodon
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Happy National Relaxation Day to all those who celebrate.
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p-n junctions per cryptographic signature
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The goal of the companies who run AIs is to
1. get us all to use AI until the point where
2. we're dependent on AI, then
3. remove all access to AI and
4. grant the privilege of use only to those who pay a monthly fee,
5. which will periodically rise
6. while the service becomes worse and worse.
It'll be enshittification of enshittification.
enshittiception
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these 24TB drives are *insanely* cheap (£10.83/TB)
they're only rated for 2400h/yr operation (so 27% uptime) and 120TB/yr (which is only 0.137DWPD, aka 5DWPY) but they're CMR. not bad as an infrequent secondary or tertiary backup solution.
quite tempted to get one as a cheap temporary backup store for the NAS. plug it in once every 4-6 months and save a copy of the pool to it.
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The seven deadly sins of tech (as a service)
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rubendominguezibar_tech-didnt-kill-the-seven-deadly-sins-activity-7357674090750447616-6GT_/
@anon_opin because of Nether Thong and Upper Thong.
also a motorbike bits shop local to you. reminds me, I need to go there soon, thanks :)
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moths per multicast packet
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We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us.
☐ Accept
☐ Maybe later
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Steve:
frequent overthinker, compulsive fixer, digester-then-explainer, "why?" question relishing father, minor-irritant partner, excessive disassembler, original-form hacker, high-efficiency googler, borderline-competent car-fixer, expert-level car-breaker, faster-by-qwerty communicator, indiscriminate photo-taker, Leatherman owner.
Joined Nov 2022
