Did you know that it's illegal to say "I want to kill The Presidents of the United States of America"? It's illegal, it's a federal offense. It's one of the only sentences that you're not allowed to say. Now it was okay for me to say it right then because I was just telling you that it's illegal to

Google Takeout was designed to keep you from saving things outside of Google's walled garden. Usability wise it's on par with tools like CA/Broadcom Rally and Workday, clearly designed for someone entirely other than the person who needs to use it most. Dark Pattern BS. I absolutely hate it.

whoever came up with the name of the ipv6 address record type was firing on all cylinders that day it's perfect Thomson, Huitema, Ksinant, Souissi, my proverbial hat is off to you

what's presented as an either/or here has more options, among them: the AI which Nadella gets to research & read for him doesn't have the advertised ability to research or read with discernment. it's a program, not a person. www.404media.co/satya-nadell...

i usually don't reskoot to show animus (1. a usually prejudiced and often spiteful or malevolent ill will) unless i'm specifically snarking on a thing, is this the usual connotation?

isn't loinkdoing a microsoftian property why so hostile to user who already has account whatever happened to microstuft passport, huh? also wasn't i just signed in? why'd you give me this when i clicked a loinkdanged link if i am already signed in?

Yet another precise measurement of how bad everyone’s CI/CD infrastructure is

the internet got a lot more tolerable when i started adding domains like substack to a dns blackhole along with other stuff i don't need (eg zuck & musk properties, dickover sites) turns out when you can't go there you stop what you were doing and continue with your day and it's fine, no blood shed

after a long and hard campaign we've done it.. bless us all. thank you all for your support, I look forward to serving you all as the next president of the united states of america. why did I decide to run you ask? no, it's a fair question, i'll answer. mostly i like the idea of televised naptime.

"she said there's synthetic data showing up in prod traces." "shewhart now?" pdca yourself before you wreck yourself

The poster art for Transylvania 6-5000 makes Ed Begley, Jr. look like Robert Redford. Happy International PMO Day!

I was told that eventually it would be Morbin' time, did I miss that or is it still happening eventually?

I made myself a cup of decaf black tea just now and I wonder if this is what it feels like to order a non-alcoholic beer for reasons other than "huh, I wonder what that tastes like"

youtube is amazing in the past year they've gone from "bad, but this is where the content is" to "is there anything here worth my time? how could i possibly find it, even if there were something i want to watch here"

bless you, Katie

It's more than a bit frustrating that we don't have the ability to monitor attention patterns, chain-of-thought reasoning, etc in API offered LLMs I get that they don't want folks to slurp up the sauce but as someone implementing software in software it's a massive step backwards reliability-wise

I know this is probably not a great solution for anything, but it'd be nice if the AI companies kept grounded brag docs because it's pretty easy to build up a list of ways in which clod or chajippity has failed, and harder to say "ok yeah this is a substantial win"

good on hungary and all. seriously. orban, good riddance one question is the other guy a lovely duck that drinks milkshakes sorry bye

Count Chocula is WEAK on craisins

the thin man bites dog

3 Body Problems

for the first time in over a decade i have purchased fireworks i will be pulling the ptsd triggers this time around

Today I was describing something difficult and I wrote "swimming uphill" which has now become firmly stuck in my head. Sisyphus wept.

just picked up new glasses and said to the fella at the optometrist "i think this is too fancy a case for me" when i was having trouble getting it closed he struggled with it himself and said "it might be too can't see a face for me too" and we both burst out laughing good slip-up, optometrist

I'm pretty sure this means I've "added" this same device to my account at least 81 times... I don't remember ever removing it though. Is everything OK over there, Tim Apple?

Mary J said it doesn't matter if you're black or white I can't help but think that this is one of the whitest stickers I have ever seen on a car

Kiddo discovered Toto's Africa Is so taken by it that we had to go out in the field after dark, where I was asked to sing the whole song So that they could howl when "The wild dogs cry out in the night" line hits

Men I Trust put on a fantastic performance the other night here in ATX. The medley of snippets from Untourable &c. was a challenging tease but they're such a wonderful band. TOPS was a fun opener, too. You should see them both live!

seeing this new slack UI roll out to my workspaces i am reminded of how often I've seen monthslong projects to revamp a UI which don't improve the user experience for the folks using the app, and also don't improve the user experience for the folks writing the software behind it. sad.

This is a weird first post but yesterday someone sat across a table from me in a room where we were not alone and angrily mouthed "why don't you go hang yourself already" while making a noose gesture. After consideration I think the answer is about 70% therapy and 30% the desire to spite a bully.