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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.
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Re-reading the Berserker books from Saberhagen, for the first time in many years. Oh boy, they did not age well. Many jarring things that often knock me out of the story. I feel a much better editing job could have been done.

Something is explained a second time or third time in as many chapters and not from different character's points of view either. Sometimes these repeating bits contradict what came from before.

This happens in multiple novels.

Maybe, I have not looked it up, it is a byproduct of being serialized in a magazine before being turned into a book? Still, an editing pass would have been advisable.
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@n_dimension snort Related, I am currently re-reading Berserker Blue Death and the Carmpan just signed on as crew with the name "Fourth Adventurer".
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Wow, I can not recall ever seeing S.M.A.R.T. actually warning about a drive before it was too late to save the data on it. I guess my 8.5 year old drives in the external array on my desktop are finally starting to go.

I have younger and slightly bigger drives from my old NAS on hand to swap in one by one, and a good backup system so I'm not worried about data loss or ordering replacement hardware.
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@renardboy Lemonade Stand
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IT department didn’t just cut stuff off without warning though. Depending who it was and their role we gave varying (all short though) notice periods of the cutoff.

Also we let them know we would look for a safe way to enable whatever function they needed for their work.

Often it was engaging with the new to us vendor to see if their product had on prem version and/or they had (or could complete) various security audit things that met our requirements.

Anything that met the bar would be put into the self serve portal the end users could dip into to install approved things.

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Semi-related to basic literacy requirements for new hires, why not also require completion of a touch typing course within the first 6 months of onboarding at a position that involves typing anything at all? Even as low as 25-30 wpm?
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I remembered just now how upset certain people were at my last employer (in the finance industry) when we explicitly blocked Grammerly. Just use the built in stuff in Word and copy-paste the result into the customer support ticket or whatever. Or learn gud englysh.

Even back then it was so obvious you shouldn’t be sending confidential info to random third parties. Or hiring people without basic literacy.

That last bit is important even if you have tools to help oversights. The number of times I read about “The costumer ... "

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@paco

Jerry Kahn and The Cosmic Lugnutz
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@paco What about "Cosmic Lugnuts" for the band name?
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LMAO at people vibe coding to add things to a no longer supported FOSS project and asking for help debugging it.
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@n_dimension @0x00string@infosec.exchange 1-800-BUY-WEED
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You can tell when recycling has become worthwhile . . . people will start stealing your trash.
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No shit, Sherlock.
Speech patterns in hate group forums closely resemble those found in forums for personality disorders.
journals.plos.org/digitalhealth/article?id=10.1371/journal.pdig.0000935
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One of our dogs loves to snarf up toasty bugs, falling freshly cooked from the bug zapper. Difficult to call her inside without first turning off the zapper.
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@the5thColumnist typo spotted "last the coincidence"
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For whatever reason I just recalled memories of booting RS/6000 systems from tape.

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@RussSharek I have more good days than bad, but yes…. Accurate. :)
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<subtoot>When I get a new follower that has “god first” or other similar things at the top of their bio, I mute and block them. I don’t need that noise source. Let your actions speak, not your desperate need to identify as such.</subtoot>