Keep me in your thoughts. My octogenarian father is about to buy a laptop that I’m paying for and I have no idea what he’s about to buy. I gave him hints and suggestions but the rest is all him. Please don’t let it be a Dell.

I’m going to try to find my 2006 Canon DSLR and see if it still works and maybe take some photos with it because I am just not finding the motivation to work today.

US federal government trying to kill as many children as possible. https://flipboard.com/@cbcnews/world-mu65cd2uz/-/a-sfGPlnSbSwmYjsXbLUvwCg%3Aa%3A107108217-%2F0

Remember a few weeks ago I made a Facebook account with the intent of only using it for Marketplace because there are no good options around here for selling stuff. I can happily report that zuck has not sucked me into his algorithm! But that doesn't […] [Original post on mstdn.chrisalemany.ca]

[Apple “Liquid Ass”] I hope Apple offer a toggle to switch off Liquid Ass completely otherwise I’m not sure I’m going to bother upgrading and will maybe run Asahi on my Apple silicon hardware, because for me an MBP is still superior to any Linux laptop out there, build quality-wise, trackpad […]

Malicious compliance: when they tell you that you can no longer code in the language you have spent over a decade getting to know (Scala), and they tell you that .NET is what they are standardizing on….code in F#

[Sweary T-shirt] Very tempted to wear this shirt for the video meeting tomorrow, but I probably shan't.

I should train as an electrician just so I can investigate my houses wiring and not have judgy contractors plague-ing up the place. Pretty sure the basement lights shouldn’t flicker when the laser printer turns on.

Would businesses blindly invest in anything else without any way of measuring its success? Probably not. But forget about it, it’s AI-town. https://fedi.aiga.rocks/@andymoose/statuses/01K5Q93FRPPTPFZ7QX8RGVKB4K

https://www.wsj.com/articles/stop-worrying-about-ais-return-on-investment-d5cbc822 Wow. It’s a cult. Apparently businesses shouldn’t worry about the ROI - just keep spending on AI and keep doubling down. There is no way to know if it’s improving things so don’t worry about it 🤪

If I take one more step this will be the farthest from home I’ve ever been Mr Frodo.

Good thing I have gps I have no idea where I am. Are there any satellites orbiting Middle Earth?

Poked through a break in some bushes on the side of the road and found myself in The Shire

Aye caramba why did I go up these.

Well, I’m committed now. I told my parents I was thinking of flying out to see them in May and they are so excited that there is no way I can back out. 20 hours of masked international air travel here I come. My health seems to be getting worse so I might be dead before then, so we’ll see.

Glad this exists so close by. I should do this walk daily from now on (as the weather allows). This year I’ve barely left the house. I am borderline agoraphobic. Just have to brush up on what to do if I’m being eaten by a bear.

Saw someone on my walk setting up an Oktoberfest tent and signs and other decorations on their driveway. Never stop being weird Maple Ridge.

Going out for a stupid walk for my stupid mental health. Got an N95 in my back pocket, for close encounters.

My impression of a certain DBA: “here are the details, I’ve not verified they work and I won’t hang around for 5 minutes to hear back from you. I’m now going to disappear for 3 hours. Every interaction with you plebs is draining my chakra”

Fridge digital thermometer says 2.5, physical thermometer placed in the same spot says 5. Who to believe.

I hate our fridge. I have to store my meds in there and they need to be in the 2-8°C range but the fridge is wildly fluctuating all the time. We set the temperature to 4°, it drops to near zero overnight. We boost it up to 5° for a bit to get the temperature up a little and it swings to 7°. I […]

DBAs across time and space: “no one else could possibly need access. I’ll just lock it down to me and the app servers and if anyone asks for access I’ll ignore them. I am a genius.”

I think the US will recover. The country is huge, and there are so many different ideas and groups and cultures, so many good people. Eventually they will do the right thing, after they’ve exhausted doing all the wrong things. But by then the rest of the world will have moved on and likely won’t […]

Teams - what are you doing. Do you really need that much memory to just sit there idle? And do you need 4 of those renderer processes? 11 processes in total, about 1.5Gig of ram use.

Headstone: “Over 1000 Favourites For Toot About Dusting On Mastodon, Father, Husband Blah Blah - The Toot Though AmIRight”

got some rather good stickers today from https://badtastegoodcause.com

A reporter just asked the U.S. president a perfectly legitimate question about his attorney general's vow to prosecute people for constitutionally protected speech. He responded by threatening to prosecute the reporter. The threat itself is an abuse of power. It ought to be an impeachable offense.

American children are being pushed to always be online so they can be more easily manipulated by disinformation and right wing conspiracies but Italian children are being pushed toward gelato because who doesn’t like gelato. This message brought to you by the Firenze Gelato Concern.

I’m glad I got to grow up with normal weather in the 80s. Little kids now think that these extreme weather events and everything on fire all the time is normal.

After being on social media since 2004 I finally went semi-viral about dusting of all things.

For reasons

Three things my socially anxious ass having to deal with today: - one on one “chat” with new CTO - delivery of meds that I have to sign for at the door with nonplussed at my mask UPS guy - appointment with rheumatologist One down, two to go.

Whole lot of people are going to Windows 10 the iOS 26 release by sitting on 18.7 for the next 9 years.

Updated my iPhone. iOS 26? Good god no. Could you imagine? No, 18.7.

I feel like I could make better sausage rolls than 90% of the frozen store-bought offerings out there. Some of them I feel have forgotten the whole “flavour” aspect and just use pink goo for the filling. Their pastry is alright.

Imagine Loki from the MCU movies. Imagine he’s 9. Imagine he’s autistic. Now give him a bath. I wish I could have a stiff scotch after that. He’s happy as a clam that he made my last hour “fun”.

Why is fish so expensive? You have to go live near the ocean. *moves to the pacific* Well fuck - it’s even more expensive now. Aaaaaaand scene.

It’s raining today and it’s very refreshing. Summers are too hot for me now. I’m ready for autumn.

OVH is 100% French right? And if they have a data centre on Canadian soil, it’s completely nothing to do with the US? Just asking for a me.

If I was an American politician and that way inclined I’d wear a Batleth pin and see if anyone noticed.

Me: why is everything so dusty? People who can adult: you have to dust. Me: what, like annually? Adults: no, more like weekly. Me: that can’t be right.

It was one of yours..😂🤣 AGAIN.

I've joked this before, but maybe it's time to think about bringing back the (really) old Democratic idea of "sortition," or choosing elected officials by some kind of lottery. The idea being that maybe the best candidate is someone who doesn't actually want the job. Considering how many people […]

Star Trek: Bognor Regis #boreamovieorshow #hashtaggames

Bruncher’s Paradox: medical professionals who believe COVID was over 3 years ago while they treat a steady stream of infected individuals.

Apropos of nothing… Source: http://listen-tome.com/gone-for-good/ #comics #humor

It’s going to be a shooting gallery in the US from now on. Sorry, MORE of a shooting gallery.

The soup was not entirely terrible. Quite edible. Needed some pasta though to bulk it out. We’re going to be peckish come 11pm.

Making “it’s probably fine” soup, which is where I go through every cupboard in the kitchen picking out anything that might be ok in a soup, because we seem to be out of everything I usually put in my vegetable soups.

I shouldn’t have been reading bob’s burgers posts on Reddit while waiting at the doctors. I think I upset people by shaking violently while laughing into my mask.