@Myunfocusedlife@mastodon.social It’s very hard to be sure, even in hindsight, what would go differently. An amazing opportunity could backfire and send you into a worse outcome. There’s really no way to be sure. Sometimes making a mistake actually leads you to dodge a bullet you never knew was coming your way.

I know it’s no longer a point of pride for a server to have a long uptime… so I’ll say I shamefully admit that I just sent the reboot command to a server with an uptime of 1767 days. I shan’t let one go that long again.

@mpirnat@mas.to@onelson@mastodon.social Oddly enough, I actually *like* Secret Life of Pets.

@onelson@mastodon.social Haven’t seen this yet, but Despicable Me/Minions is Illumination’s most famous franchise, and I find it absolutely awful to watch.

@onelson@mastodon.social Haven’t seen this yet, but Despicable Me/Minions is Illumination’s most famous franchise, and I find it absolutely awful to watch.

So BJ’s Wholesale Club… which I purchased a single thing from in like 2020 which included a one-time membership charge, just decided to notify me that it was “upgrading” me to a subscription membership and would begin billing me.

@teleclimber@social.tchncs.de I like it! Though I generally want apps to have less personality so they feel more interchangeable: I kinda would love to make it easy for more apps to use Sandstorm-style UI elements so they look more uniform.

@LunaBell@mastodon.social Yeah I am not sure it is even available in the mobile app. But when you follow people you should just see them on your home timeline, not get notifications.

@simon@fedi.simonwillison.net I mean considering the B-plot of an entire episode was someone hiring Quark to get a holo-scan of Major Kira for use in an adult holo… clearly unauthorized deepfaking has not been solved yet.

Firefox: The browser I solely tolerate because all the others are even worse. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36077360

@nolan@venera.social I mean, the only people who suffer worse weather than us is Minnesotans, in my opinion. But if ice, snow, and occasional -20 below zero windchills are okay, Chicago is decent. 😃

@LunaBell@mastodon.social Following should only put them in your feed, not generate notifications, unless you’ve clicked the bell in addition to following those accounts.

@nolan@venera.social Wow! fly.io is right in my backyard! I’ve heard nothing but good things about them.

@captaincalliope@indieweb.social@owncast@fosstodon.org The biggest sticking point besides auth integration is usually the fact that applications operate in a read-only file system and have to store data in a separate location.

@AbandonedAmerica@mastodon.social You can have the job. It’s clear you’re more committed to it than I would be.

@deirdrebeth@mas.to@AbandonedAmerica@mastodon.social On which platform? I think smart TVs tend to be stingier, but I know on iOS it’s a separate app.

@AbandonedAmerica@mastodon.social I think you, me, and 37 of our closest friends could probably do a meaningful impersonation of David Zaslav for a million a year each, don’t you think?

@AbandonedAmerica@mastodon.social I think you, and, and 37 of our closest friends could probably do a meaningful impersonation of David Zaslav for a million a year each, don’t you think?

@AbandonedAmerica@mastodon.social The fact you have to install Max and unstill HBO Max is wild. And the fact that I had to install HBO Max and uninstall HBO GO like two years ago is also wild.

@AbandonedAmerica@mastodon.social The fact you have to install Max and uninstall HBO Max is wild. And the fact that I had to install HBO Max and uninstall HBO GO like two years ago is also wild.

@aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place I’m a little bummed this toot is followers only because it’s hilarious and I was gonna boost it.

This is shockingly on-brand for both Musk and DeSantis. https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/24/ron-desantis-elon-musk-twitter-spaces-crashed/

@ruhrscholz@toot.kif.rocks I can’t wait to see them decide how to handle how to limit usage to a “household” while allowing the users of that household to use it while on the go, and somehow handling people who live in a given household 50% of the time or less but having legal residence there.

@Bluedepth@mastodon.social Don’t get me wrong, it’s frustrating that I come across IT people whose competency *ends* there. But to treat each issue as a problem that you need to independently analyze means you are assuming every bug you face has never been reported by anyone else before, and in many cases, patched already.

@Bluedepth@mastodon.social On the other hand, I can do an in-depth investigation of the issue, research the bugs, etc. for hours only to discover it was already fixed in an update which I can let run while working on another problem.

@nolan@venera.social Congratulations! Definitely hope you can land somewhere a little safer.

@briankrebs@infosec.exchange@renchap@oisaur.com I dunno why I was hoping for something more interesting than “it’s worth the money because pay for legit work in Russia is garbage”, but I suppose it tracks.

@vmstan@vmst.io@intrepidhero@vmst.io Ungovernable from the start!

@Myunfocusedlife@mastodon.social I wish I could embrace the cultural phenomenon that is coffee. Unfortunately my nose and stomach is extremely averse to it, and so I am stuck with energy shots, soda, and caffeinated drink mixes. :/

@vmstan@vmst.io@intrepidhero@vmst.io I’m shocking with all of the API restrictions that any Nitter instances are still online.

@Myunfocusedlife@mastodon.social Unfortunately we don’t get out for walks often, but I will say when we did go out like a week or so ago, it was surprisingly relaxing.

@mikey@friendsofdesoto.social@doot@glitterkitten.co.uk It literally never gets old seeing someone’s first reaction to doot’s blog. Such high quality writing!

@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz Indeed, but if you’re paying those seats anyways, why spend the time/few dollars on hosting an alternative? Ultimately Teams succeeds solely because it’s an expense/burden people already paying Microsoft just… don’t have to worry about.

@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz As for why all the Microsoft-based tech stack companies use Teams… it’s free. Nobody in their right freaking mind would pay money for it.

@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz Windows’ fatal flaw has always been a deep commitment to backwards compatibility. It has a ton of 20 year old security flaws get discovered ultimately because someone was maintaining this or that solely for XP-era compat.

@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz I remember sitting at a presentation demonstrating what you could do with a Kali install, and he tried making fun of Windows security, and I had a Surface Pro 4 (which was modern at the time) on the same Wi-Fi network. I encouraged him to go ahead, and hack my basically stock Microsoft tablet.

@kkarhan@mstdn.social@jerry@infosec.exchange I’d like to think nobody would let that be built today in the US either, but I’m stuck with it for now.

@BetoOnSecurity@infosec.exchange Freaking TileDataLayer 455. Should get you to the right details. But basically PCs upgraded from early Windows 10 expect to have this stupid file pertaining to live tiles or some garbage, and Windows removed the directory in an upgrade but not everything that refers to it. And for a while any time I had tons of ESENT 455 errors in the event log I’d just have to create the two missing levels of file folders for this and the error would go away.

@kkarhan@mstdn.social@jerry@infosec.exchange Not only does my first floor bathroom have hardwood flooring, but it has a vent in the floor about a foot from the toilet.

@Fullnihilism@kolektiva.social I think a bunch of these people here have both insulated themselves on small servers and blocked all the big servers.

@Fullnihilism@kolektiva.social Heh, some Bluesky folks and Mastodon folks have the exact same feelings about growth.

@feditips@mstdn.social Clearly the official app setting a default server was a huge threat to the fediverse!

@hacks4pancakes@infosec.exchange Isn’t on here *yet*. We have a mission now.

@vmstan@vmst.io@oliphant@oliphant.social Absolutely. There’s an exponential cost every time you reuse the letter E in a single toot and it’s just unsustainable as a business if you don’t keep that in check somehow.

@mpusto@urbanists.social@BenRossTransit@mastodon.social Yeah I think it’s becoming a hard question if a second parent can make enough working to justify not staying home with a young child right now when all the expenses are added up.

@Myunfocusedlife@mastodon.social Apart from some very specific issues (racism, homophobia, and transphobia), I think that tends to be the case here as well, but it isn’t a perfect system. Federated networks do create unique problems.

@TheWerewolf@mastodon.social@AbandonedAmerica@mastodon.social I think it’s pretty attached to the Galaxy’s Edge park, right? I don’t know if changing the theme would make sense, but I presume the specific design for a very high cost hotel with “quarters” that aren’t very comfortable is maybe a miss on the actual product design.

@TheWerewolf@mastodon.social I’m really curious what they’ll do with the thing. Retool it as a better hotel? Retool it as a ride that you can just visit while at the park? Wait until the politics changes and reopen it as is? Leave it abandoned to rot until @AbandonedAmerica@mastodon.social finds a way to get in? So many options.

@ What is your company interested in it for? One of the things I’ve noticed is ChatGPT tends to look good on a first read, but reveals a lot of mistakes and logical errors when reviewed closely. Also, ChatGPT has a “voice” of sorts you start to pick up on eventually: I can generally tell when someone has used it to generate text.

@mpusto@urbanists.social@BenRossTransit@mastodon.social Yeah, childcare pretty much costs minimum wage in the Chicago area, if you’re working minimum wage, you are choosing between childcare and eating.