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• Post #4227431

  Because doing the easy stuff is a thing in opposite-land, my book has smoothly transitioned from a realistic depiction of the Victoria Era to hard sci-fi with a lot of particular constraints, and I've discovered that it's literally impossible to overthink world-building in that genre - except to the point that you only think and never write. #amwriting #books

• Post #4114367

  It's really irritating that now whenever I see an amusing cat video online the first thing I do is start looking for signs it was AI-generated. People who get that shit need to be wrapped in barbed wire and fired into the sun.

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• Post #3998779

  Ah, provisioning wifi routers is fun!

• Post #3978318

  Very very long #travel post from the way-off-the-beaten-path side of things. My own experiences of being 21-22. And yes, I love running my own instance because to hell with the default character limit haha. Even if it's still not long enough. Here goes: You know how, at the end of Good Will Hunting, he's off to "go see about a girl?" I love that, and think young people absolutely should head off on adventures to go see about a person they've taken a fancy to. If you make i...

• Post #3964241

  Thanks to DOGE cuts American vegetables can now be categorized into two taxa: skid marks versus blast damage.

• Post #3926969

  Started Abbott Elementary tonight, and the thing that just absolutely sent me (in a "you know somebody worked in schools" way) was when the lead character put "right-handed scissors" on her wish list. IYKYK #teachers

• Post #3903387

  It's funny how people in the thick of it don't see why there's so much overlap between incel losers and #redpill asshats. It's like my dudes, you are being the worst kind of people in the world. Stop acting surprised that no woman wants to fuck you. You can either figure your shit out or go back to wanking off to your Joe Rogan or Tim Pool bullshit and blaming everyone else for your own inadequacies.

• Post #3902682

  Beancounter: "We can save buckets of money by using AI to pick thumbnails for news headlines." Bari Weiss: "Ship it!"

• Post #3902334

  Your 40 seconds of wisdom for this Friday evening: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/lDDIYxF9g3g

• Post #3901366

  Three times a week I go to a place where I engage in pointless movements of various limbs and appendages, often with the forces of gravity or large objects impeding them. And I pay money for the experience. And afterwards, I'm tired as hell. The only hope here is that when it's time to engage in pointed movements of various limbs and appendages, they will be capable.

• Post #3872346

  RE: https://flipboard.com/@associatedpress/politics-h8vn14lnz/-/a-kwX3XAGkQy-Ne8SBfLkDDA%3Aa%3A3199720-%2F0 "Relatives of the ICE officer who shot a Colombian man in Maine this week told The Associated Press he struggled with serious mental health issues since early childhood and never should have been given a badge and gun to patrol American streets."

• Post #3823969

  It turns out that if it's hot at night and you just got a book you're excited for that turns out to be really good, you should under no circumstances do what I did last night and go to bed early so you can read more. There's an important difference between reading for fifteen minutes before you drift off and reading for a couple hours and when it's time to drift off your mind says "no, this is an important plot point, I have to read it" and then it's 5am and you&#3...

• Post #3791930

  Just in case anyone was unclear on the subject, the "no snitching" rule absolutely does have an exemption for arson. #cafire

• Post #3708980

  My daughter asked me if I was still at the gym. My reply:

• Post #3704055

  This felt really good to do, and I waited way too long to get around to it. Next up, flatpak. Quit with the fucking bogus packaging systems, #ubuntu - also while you're at it fuck AppArmor. What, selinux is too hard for your dumb ass devs? # systemctl stop snapd.* # apt purge snapd

• Post #3597348

  In honor of the 4th, a classic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62j2YQQ2BmA

• Post #3595005

  If I knew any religious Trump supporters I would be having so much fun razzing them about the weather in DC right now... "surely it's a sign from God, right?" :D

• Post #3571909

  For the first time in my life, I have a #dog who cares far less about fireworks than I do. Happy for him, truly. Also the people blowing off said #fireworks can go unfuck themselves, thanks.

• Post #3571784

  Wet bulb of around 33C (assuming the forecasted 40% humidity in the afternoon) and a heat index of around 160 degrees. I should hope they'd call off the parade! https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/dc/canceled-americas-national-independence-day-parade-called-extreme-heat/65-afcef538-20df-4224-9e14-78c47080422f

• Post #3569164

  I've found the one thing #Facebook is still useful for: reminding right-wing nutjobs in the comments section that "TDS" stands for "Trump's Dick-Suckers." It makes them very happy to learn that.

• Post #3483474

  Not bad for 4 people + luggage over numerous (and then some) mountain passes, much of it with the air conditioning cranked up. It's good to be home. #roadtrip

• Post #3462899

  What a show this must have been. $3 at the door. #Music

• Post #3440806

  Happy #pride

• Post #2400894

  The true joy of working on a California car: you get to the part where most #mechanic types say "you'll probably need to use your air hammer to get this part off" and you take the part out with zero effort.

• Post #2400893

  This afternoon I went to take the dog out in the yard and there was a big pizza crust in the small water feature we have back there. This puzzled me - it was really unlikely that anybody would be throwing pizza crusts into our back yard and even less likely that they'd manage to land it in the water feature - high fences and hedges all around. Took the dog back out a few minutes ago and half the pizza crust is gone. I now believe with some certainty that it was a #crow as, well, that&am...

• Post #2400892

  I figured this character dying a second time from a different perspective wouldn't be as emotionally taxing to write as the first time was. Wrong! 😢 On the other hand, finally able to explore some new parts of the story I've been thinking about for a while as I put off writing the part I just finished. 3500 words tonight. #amwriting

• Post #2251212

  RE: https://infosec.exchange/@SwiftOnSecurity/116503270288837300 1992 was optimistic. Trying to get that kind of image quality off an acoustic coupler at 300 baud (if you had a very quiet room) would have taken hours.

• Post #2251211

  Went over to the place where the skies are blue and my notification counter had gone to "oh, a bunch" and it turned out popehat had more or less randomly quote-posted something I wrote 12 days ago and... thanks?

• Post #2251210

  Coworker is building a system that sits in front of kexec/shutdown/reboot/halt/etc systemd targets which calls a series of scripts out of /etc/prereboot.d/ in numerical order, so stuff like 10-service-that-has-to-drain, 20-other-service, 30-wait-for-dracut-to-finish, and so on. I could swear I've seen a system like this somewhere before, but all these years of systemd must have erased it from my memory. #sysadmin