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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • This is the most tech I want to see at the table:

    1. Call waiter - because if you snap your fingers I’m throwing something at you.
    2. I need the bill - because etiquette is different the world over
    3. Cancel request because buddy was being a dink and hit the button.

    As a patron and as a former waiter, this is both the minimum and the maximum tech I want.






  • I go to pixelfed to post my art and view other peoples art. that’s it. I don’t go there to read posts or what’s going on in peoples lives.

    Yes but being able to do that is a design goal of the fediverse

    Is it? Beause that seems really dumb.

    Here’s a radical idea: sometimes, web services are built with features you don’t use. Sometimes you don’t even *value *those features. But, in cases where your preference isn’t in the majority, the decision to include those features won’t match your personal preference.

    Sometimes, the ability to share and see content between different sites is even a core value.

    Weird.

    For more information, search “false consensus”.

    You may want to learn how you can configure your own accounts on various services to manage what you see on each one. Because, to some extent, that’s a configuration option.



  • Well it’s going to put a damper on my Ansible “coding”.

    You think I want to properly learn that piece of junk? It was obsolete and archaic before it was released, and it survives on naivete and churn cost and nothing else. There is no part of my time doing yaml for Ansible that I want to actually retain or build on, and without chatGPT to slop-in the changes I need to make, I may be forced to do it myself. And I lack the crayons now and alcohol for after.

    Actually subjecting my brain to Ansible directly in real-time is a horror. It is just so fucking lame compared to everything else – it even pales compared to the DevOps we were doing in 2002 before it was even called that. Let my have my robots to slop the Ansible and save my sanity !



  • IT.

    Injured out of infantry and poored out of college but landed a shitty little ISP job. Started one to beat that one, because they were sleazy like used-car salesmen. Left embezzling biz-partner to do coding-adjacent job in NJ and stop being startup-poor. Kept working. Fast forward.

    I only regret I was unable to use my skills to relo for new jobs farther away like some of my peers.