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Only Sharts🇨🇦 @scuttlebutt@farticle.cloud

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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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8mo
Had a troubling dream last night.

There was a storm approaching and it was a super wide tornado. I was trying to text an alert about it but awtokorrupt plus clippy and several chat bots were getting in the way. Pop ups and cookie agreement banners overlapping everywhere, stealing keyboard focus.

The tornado came closer and closer, right at me, all while I was stuck trying to get the message out.

Woke up with my cpap hose wrapped around my throat three or four times. I must have been really tossing and turning.

No idea if it was the Brazilian BBQ meat overdose earlier that evening or what.

I’d rather take my usual but infrequent troubling dream of Charlie Brown chasing me with an axe.
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8mo
Our pedestrian crosswalk beg buttons say "WAIT!" in a semi-urgent male voice when you press them (or wave at them closely in some cases). Meaning, wait for the light to change and the walk sign to light up.

Tonight we encountered one that said "Change password" in a non-urgent female voice. Couldn't get it to repeat that, nor give any more audible output while we were there waiting for the light to change. Pushed it a zillion times. (Usually you can push them and get it to say WAIT! WAIT! WAIT!)

LMAO.
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9mo
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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9mo
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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Only Sharts🇨🇦 @scuttlebutt@farticle.cloud
9mo
@renardboy Lemonade Stand
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9mo
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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9mo
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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9mo
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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9mo
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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9mo
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9mo
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9mo
You can tell when recycling has become worthwhile . . . people will start stealing your trash.
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9mo
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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Only Sharts🇨🇦 @scuttlebutt@farticle.cloud
9mo
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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Only Sharts🇨🇦 @scuttlebutt@farticle.cloud
9mo
@the5thColumnist typo spotted "last the coincidence"
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9mo
For whatever reason I just recalled memories of booting RS/6000 systems from tape.

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9mo
@RussSharek I have more good days than bad, but yes…. Accurate. :)
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9mo
<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>
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Only Sharts🇨🇦 @scuttlebutt@farticle.cloud
9mo
@ghorwood methane gas powered contraption in basement goes whrrrrrrrrr
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10mo
aicodinghorrors.com is the new thedailywtf.com