Okay. NEXT COUNTRY , you’re up. Levy those fines.

An interesting take on warlordism

I worked at a company run by a SWEngineer.

He was code-smart for code, but really bad for business.

You need to get a real CEO who does management, but keep that person in firm check by mandating half the board be stacked by engineers. Even as advisory roles, like if your company makes widgets you should have some Serious Fucking widget people dominating the board for big decisions.

“You make one thing” is like “you had one job.”

(And if you make two things so disparate, spin one off into a sub)

In addition to screening for BMI, yes.

There is – jabber and jingle. And for a ver-ry brief few weeks, Google’s jabber/jingle worked openly with Facebook’s, and everyone could message each other. And then BOTH arbitrarily broke it with some sparkle-junkie resume-bait software 'up’grade and neither worked with anything else after that.

It was glorious.

“explained” seems to be doing a lot of heavy lifting.

You papered something, but I didn’t see an explanation per se.

Try again? Start by pointing to where the Dems started their insurrection, so I can compare.

Here’s the weird thing.

I’ve been telecommuting for 23 years. I’ve never been able to just roll outta bed and put in a full day. If it’s scheduled then I’m showered and dressed and ready to go; just in shorts and a tee vs khakis and a fucking polo.

The only indulgence is on a o5oo wakeup I’m not shaving lest I lose an eyebrow or an ear. Even in our basic training it was o520.

But yeah, no smelly sweatpants for me.

to much authoritarianism

Cheers! Weirdest toast, though.

1. Trump wanted this for a decade
2. They put on this ridiculous thing
3. Trump isn’t pleased; obviously uncomfortable

Why the hell did they do this then?

When in office, you at least have the stress of many loud people around to distract you from that.

You hear yourself and you can spot the issue, right?

DGU. I didn’t know they invented an initialism at the rallies.

most mass shootings are stopped by

…the perp taking his own life.

Last stat I saw was 1in 7000, but that includes cases with collateral damage.

So, for America, that’s like once a year.

They have a really good racket going on and want to make sure people keep giving them way more money than is necessary. It’s simply not true that Infosec.Exchange requires $5000/month to operate unless they’re doing something very wrong or just straight up lying.

Yes, internet rando. I totally believe your solid calculations based on … vibe?

It’s the first time I hear systemd […] were spelling the death of […] linux

Where’ve you been? We’ve been expressing concern about its badly-built badly-architected metastatic creep for a decade of dwindling choice and competition as it slowly forced out dissent and clued concern.

Now it’s eaten autofs, DNS, cron, NTPd, and replaced them with shitty clones, and has carefully eroded our ability to recover from this mess.

Are we competing again?

I’m proud to be setting up a rhel10 desktop, as it’ll be the first time I ran Linux as a desktop in 30 years of a Linux/Unix career.

To rephrase: I ran XFree86 on a 4mb i386 machine 30 years ago.

What do I win?

How very American to claim all cops are like their cops.

System service managers like systemd, OpenRC, runit, or SysVinit often come down to user preference.

And coding best-practice. And a philosophy borne of bad luck and bad software that aims to resist monoculture.

But that lennart kid is cool for a Microsoft employee.

seeking for

1. Looking for
2. Seeking

You can choose only one lane.

If you want to sell 3D printed stuff, sell it on an appropriate platform and for fuck’s sake, sell things that you actually have the rights to print and sell.

I’m so relieved that there’s an appropriate platform!

I need some brackets to mount a gadget I ebayed as a spare. The vendor included tapped holes for mounting, but never sold the brackets. About 3 designs out there offer a solid and reliable mounting solution.

Each one a bit that would fit in a 1990 drugstore film cylinder, only 40c to print and us$71 shipping to the V3L, it seems.

There is no library in my area still maintaining a running 3d printer. I have no contacts nerdier than me who have a working printer.

Where is this place that I can get my brackets? I can’t justify a $250 printer just for 4 bracket pieces!

literally executes

Is there a non-literal way to do that?