Toots are ephemeral, subject to deletion on a whim.
Born at 323 ppm. Living at the crossroads of the Butlerian Jihad and Idiocracy.
I've been terminally online for ~40 years, long before the big endless scroll. I've seen things some people wouldn't believe. 1200 baud modems on fire from Usenet flame wars. I watched c-news servers stutter at the mere mention of Kibo. All those moments will be lost in AI slop, like tears in rain. Time to deshittify.
Told the financial advisors the other day to sell off positions in a few tech companies and to never buy into any of the big ai promoters. (Gave a them the list of ai brain rot companies, in case it wasn’t clear to them)
These weren’t a significant portion of our retirement egg but it matters.
I’m beginning to suspect all slick looking websites as being AI generated and more likely being used for nefarious purposes. Hand crafted 90s style would be less suspicious :p
First round of geotagging and general meta tagging on the vacation photos done.
Sure didn't want to be doing this while sick, but we caught a bug on the last part of the time away and oh boy. Doesn't feel like covid but on top of jet lag it's ick.
Plan is to merge in iPhone captures tomorrow, then ranking and winnowing down to candidates for processing into a trip album. Parents visiting in a couple weeks gives some urgency to finishing this off sooner rather than later.
Current Status: Jetlagged at home in Canada, sending backups of photos I took in EU, to offsite cloud backup site in EU. As one does. #sysadmin#OldHabitsDieHard
Bathroom law makers would be clutching their pearls if they visit Europe. Coffee shop I was in earlier today had sinks then three full height unmarked stalls with no gaps anywhere, and urinals around the corner past that.
Civilized.
Except for inaccessibility due to steep flight of stairs down.
Traveling, picked up a cough which I hope is just related to all the pollen at Keukenhof gardens.
Popped into a drug store and navigated the Dutch-only packaging and self serve point of sale to get some cough syrup. Built in translate on iPhone camera mostly works.
Still, even something as straight forward as that has some WTF moments. According to the translation, this cough syrup will improve my driving.
I haven't looked at u toob in a while for anything beyond some street photography interviews and omg is there ever a lot of ai generated garbage. I thought the fake happy-go-lucky influencers were bad before but this just takes the cake. Blargh.
Photos or it didn't happen. It's very very very slow to boot, I'm not holding out much hope it will complete. Best I plan on extracting the hard disk data to an image tomorrow and see what I can do with that.
I thought the loud noises from this little server were from the power supply fan, chassis fan, or maybe the hard disk. Nope, it's the cpu cooler. Sounds a bit like a two stroke chain saw.
Shuffled ram around, no joy. There are a bunch of caps nearby that look like they're leaking a bit. Hmm. Diagnostics sometimes pass, sometimes not.
Maybe I'll just pop the ide drive out and find my ide-to-usb thing, copy to an image and see if a vm can deal with the zfs inside that. Might have to install a Solaris x86 vm.
I haven't worked with solaris or physical sun hardware in a looooong time, but I do have Solaris 10 optical media for sparc and intel here somewhere, and I know I used it to create a vm in the past.
Trying to boot up a Sun V100 that’s sat disconnected in the basement since we moved 12 years ago.
First I had to find where packrat me stored the sun rj45 to db9 console dongles, and then the old ibm 3151 terminal and its null modem cable and some gender benders and… I can see the LOM. (lights out management)
No go for boot. Diags say bad dimm0. I think there’s more than one dimm though, as it shows 1500 mb total.
So, for reasons, I am still using discord on a fairly frequent basis. Why does it need to install updates nearly every day upon starting it up? Same goes for Firefox and Chrome.
Let's go back to having stable releases with security fixes only. Feature updates or whatever can wait for quarterly updates.
Unless of course, those daily updates are mostly security updates, in which case burn it all down and start over.
