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  there is no end to the annoying shit powershell will do. what do you mean decimal IP addresses are acceptable arguments for URIs passed to invoke-webrequest. why.

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  @FrankEndrullat@mastodon.social @Viss@mastodon.social Thank you! I wasn't on the product end of the shop / didn't see every piece of gear at the time really, but the name switch makes sense with your explanation.

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  People would normally excoriate the median voter for thinking the President has a lever labeled "GAS PRICES" and all he has to do is pull it one way or the other, but the current guy has basically done exactly that. Except, y'know, lever's been set the wrong way.

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  40 minutes of cardio and I'm normal again. waow

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  right after we bested the constraints of local applications hogging resources by optimizing everything to run in the browser, storage was cheap and memory was cheap and compute was comparatively cheap, and instead of making applications that utilized local resources effectively again, the software industry decided that was far too difficult so they wrote all their applications in a web browser container

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  sometimes the hammer is easy to swing, and then you realize how tough the nails are to pull back out.

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  still one of my most "what the fuck" experiences in life is: the last time I was in Dublin (2024 or so) I was sick with covid, didn't know I had covid, assumed I had a sinus infection. had a 5 day vacation planned, enjoyed basically none of it. but I ended up in a pub one night, 5 pints deep, talking to a guy from the UK who claimed to love raving and Glastonbury and at the same time thought Trump and Farage were saving the world.

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  soc-as-a-service talks to helpdesk-as-a-service and, uh, wait, why is no one from the actual org affected by the security incident in this conversation yet?

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  the playlist I made when I was working night shifts in a grocery store still absolutely slaps after all these years

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  charged my pixel watch (yeah I know) before bed and the splash screen said "ready to go!" uh huh. ready to go night-night. ready to go beddy-bye. :neobot_flop:

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  bgp stands for bondage gateway protocol

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  just had to explain what Homestar Runner was to a younger coworker and I am feeling the creeping shadows enter the room

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  RIP Kavinsky. Dammit. https://www.france24.com/en/france/20260729-french-dj-kavinsky-found-dead-in-paris-home

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  LLM trained only on US democratic party fundraising text messages

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  new york is this cosmic torture where there are absolutely wonderful things to witness and experience and everything within a five block radius of those things is swearing and diesel engine exhaust and raw human stupidity

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  The NTFS epoch is just fucking weird and I will happily pay anyone to explain the reasons behind it to me.

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  i've heard a lot of "oh, I'm from the era when the PLA left their webshells wide open" and i can't wait to say "i'm from the era after SolarWinds and the ClickFix heyday". assuming we ever find a way past ClickFix.

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  every UI designer should take steel toe boots to the nose for this cutesy rotating glowing highlight bullshit around the AI tool icons. bring back the tag you fucking dorks

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  anyone know what actually backs that whole guaranteed 3% return on a high yield savings account

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  agents generate the hackiest most never-send-this in prod solutions to a developer's problems and the second someone pops 1 of the 75000 NPM packages in your dev team's dependency chain, they now get said agent and you aren't auditing what it does

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  to the tune of "Kokomo": tequila, corona, oooh I wanna sip ya

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  undisciplined engineering is just figuring out different ways to set stuff on fire and vibe coding is undisciplined engineering at scale

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  script dorks can't even hand write their own batch scripts anymore. this one clearly has LLM comments sprinkled in it. truly a sad state of affairs

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  What is a CI/CD pipeline? A miserable little pile of secrets.

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  So many years after it was said and Dan Kaminsky's brilliant simplicity in "We're gonna build a stateless TCP stack. It just sends data, it doesn't know to who, and the other guy remembers he's talking to me." is still so wonderful.

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  the medley for the DC fireworks show using both "don't stop believin'" and "livin' on a prayer" certainly was a choice

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  happy american holiday weekend, bsky's cdn is eating shit

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  duuuuuumb question but does anyone have any empirical evidence that tools like ublock origin will mitigate/kill/prevent clickfix pop ups? pretty sure I saw a blog about this but I cannot find it

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  subagent this subagent that no one ever hears about dom agents

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  all things being equal I'm pretty sure AO3 has better uptime metrics than AWS or Azure