Blaise

blaise@friendica.rogueproject.org

Engineer, Dad, Maker, Artist, Ballroom Dancer, Entrepreneur, Axe-flinger, Pain-In-The-AssI make chainmaille and wire sculpture, 3d print toys my kids love to lose, teach and adore ballroom dancing, profile my own throwing axes (and fling them!), rebuild bits of my moldering Victorian home, and generally tinker with everything from computers to woodworking to gmrs radio(WRON559).I owned and ran an industrial automation consulting firm for 20 years, and helped found the amazing Tech Valley Center of Gravity, makerspace and home away from home to my tribe...

Posts

Post #4320366
Brought to you by Brawndo! Mark Hamill (@markhamillofficial.bsky.social)
Post #4320365
Listen, left-folk. I know you don't like guns. I know you think banning things works, despite the results of Prohibition and the "Drug War".. I know you think it is better to trade essential freedoms for a little bit of perceived safety. But christ, for the bajillionth time, look where your authoritarian attitudes will lead!
Post #4320364
"You did that on purpose!" "What did I do?" "You named that table!" "It's a perfectly fine name!" "You didn't have to suggest that name. You know Jim is a religious nut!" "Look, 'Boolean Flag Translation Table' was just unwieldy. It had to be shortened." "You named it '[B-Trans]' on purpose to cause trouble. Then you started using it like a verb, and telling Jim he 'should B-Trans... that data'!&quot...
Post #4320363
Per the HR employee evaluation website, on average I spend 25% of my week in technical or project management meetings. I spend another 20% trying to translate waterfall designs and deadlines provided by customers into tiny chunk tasks, each representing "a day's work", while I have to learn a new project management tool (or new interface to an old tool) every six months. I actually accomplish something productive for about 20 hours a week, all said and done. Because we're &quo...
Post #4320362
Evil Empire: Check! Disatrously maintained scummy pool of water infested with invasive life forms beneath headquarters: Check!
Post #4320361
Every single time I see a "Spiderman" publication/movie, I read the UI word "Twip" as "Thwip" for weeks afterward. Once I even accidentally said it in a meeting!
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Post #4320359
It sure is a good thing the left spent the last 20 years building this "hate speech" catch-all legal framework that the right is now using to extort people who say mean things about them! syracuse.com/news/2026/06/fede…
Post #4320358
Do you think that when the Project management cult powers-that-be changed "Risk/Benefit Analysis" to "SWOT Analysis" (SWOT = Strength, Weakness, Opportunities, Threats), do you think that they were only looking for a way to repackage what everyone's been doing for a century as a new concept, or do you think that they were simply so poorly educated that they had never heard of "Risk/Benefit Analysis", so they just reinvented it?
Post #4320357
The party of stupid wants to start giving hormones to military members who need them to stay healthy. One year after banning trans people from service because they need hormones to stay healthy.....
Post #4320356
What the hell god of picayune minutiae did I offend that the HR robots insist I take sexual harassment training for the second time in three months? I. WORK. FROM. HOME! Maybe they think I've got my eye on the printer?
Post #4065549
I feel this... [!upload-image.png]
Post #4015827
OK, knowers of arcane and esoteric stuffs, here's your challenge: I have a presentation framework data grid, and I'm trying to make an ancient ADO recordset it's datasource. I'm trying now, because after months of working, it magically stopped working after somebody fiddled with the code, but I can't for the life of me figure out what they set wrong. I've checked the structure and contents of the recordset 6 ways from Sunday, and I'm absolutely certain it contains a...
Post #3793166
Apparently, Amazon's AI has decided that I need a 200-ton press... Now mind you, it may be right, but I've just gotta know what I bought that told it I'd want that, of all things...
Post #3470718
After deep soul-searching, I confess that I cannot choose a favorite between Classic Spam and Turkey Spam. I'm officially polyspamorous!
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Post #2977409
I have two children, and I haven't needed to turn a light on in 10 years.
Post #2977408
Watching my 8-yr-old girl flip her hair and giggle while hitting on the pretty 5th grade boy she likes is simultaneously cute and terrifying... Especially since it's working!
Post #2977407
In a fit of desperation and creativity I "invented" sausage and peppers soup. Pictured, the last dregs my kids were fighting over because it was "too good". I think that that is a good thing...
Post #2977406
It's probably true for most services today, but if you want to see the ultimate evidence that Meta is dangerous, check out what happens if you use their products! bbc.com/news/articles/c5y7yvgy…
Post #2977405
I'd love to know what it is about being ultra-rich that makes people lose every last marble, then borrow more, and lose those too?
Post #2977404
Wayback is vital to preserving our culture and history. It needs to collect current events to work. Now, the big news outlets are specifically blocking the archive, crippling the archive's ability to preserve data. This has to stop. We're losing big chunks of our history... savethearchive.com/newsleaders…
Post #2977403
We need a new internet. This one has been taken over by fascists! tomshardware.com/software/vpn/…
Post #2977402
This isn't probably going to reach the right audience here, but seriously, if you are still paying to be productized by Windows, just stop. ZorinOS , which more or less looks and feels just like Windows from an interface and organization perspective, runs wildly faster on my four year old laptop than Windows 11. I didn't have to install a single driver (exception: I needed to get my browser to control my USB ports, which is a weird, uncommon requirement, but I did have to install a driv...
Post #2977401
The worst thing you can do under a dictator is point out corruption...
Post #2977400
Oh look, the Republicans want a billion dollars to pay for the ballroom that isn't going to cost the taxpayers anything! pbs.org/newshour/politics/sena…
Post #2977399
Secretary of Forever War and barely closeted Neo NAZI, Pete Hegseth, has been recruiting his own pernicious kind into the military. #ShockedITellYouShocked Xeltuwas (@illcitvirus115.bsky.social)
Post #2977398
We no longer have the ability to govern ourselves, and the people who do have the ability are using it to destroy our civilization. This all ends in technofascism or luddite terrorism (or a mix of both). I can't see any other outcomes... " The $16 billion data center... was flat-out rejected by both the town’s board and its planning commission in September. But those votes turned out to be only minor bumps on the project’s path: The developer quickly sued, the town settled, and the con...
Post #2977397
I CANNOT BELIEVE I have to keep saying this: Age-verification is universal surveillance. Age-verification is universal surveillance. Age-verification is universal surveillance. Age. Verification. Is. Universal. Surveillance. How is this possibly being allowed to go unchallenged?!?!?!?
Post #2977396
Let me ask you a question. Using your personal, for real situation right now: If Cloudflare decided to ban all the IP's from VPNs and flagged your home and work IPs as bots, along with all the devices you personally own, identified by device fingerprinting, what would your life be like? Could you really get on with any kind of normal life? Well, governments just started talking about banning VPNs in service to "Know Your Customer" and "Child safety". Do you think they&#3...