Living his best life 🎉🎈 TT: finn_e_bear

Before & after. Basement stairs are much lies likely to kill, even if they look like a murder scene. Alas, yellow/black caution stripes don’t come in a rattle can, and my paint skills are meager. Thanks to @inquisitiveelle.bsky.social for the disassembly and clean out service.

I love that feeling when a specialized tool pays for itself in one repair.

Height-adjustable desks are so ergonomic. You can just raise the surface and comfortably bang your head against it repeatedly with little to no back strain.

I love having to explain to a highly paid security consultant that no, you can’t just reuse your predecessor’s GitHub SSH key. You’ll have to figure out how to generate your own. No, I won’t generate it for you and email you the private.

Always.

Is leaving the default random pixel GitHub avatar this epoch’s equivalent of blinking-12’s on the VCR?

It’s starting to look like a tool changer.

I don’t love being in a society where you can sell enough pillows to do meaningful damage to democracy or sell enough children’s books to do a genocide or sell enough chicken sandwiches to abolish gay marriage That all seems like a ridiculous way to do society to me

On the upside for current energy prices? Break even for my solar project is down to 10 years, and that’s based only on winter numbers.

After a weekend’s hacking, a tiny e-paper readout of how my solar’s doing. I’m 49¢ in the black for the day. 🤓

Spring cleaning… Not a bad haul.

Running the dryer off solar panels is basically just a Rube Goldberg clothesline, isn't it?

Bless me, Father for I have sinned...

I burned my nuts! (Well, they’re gifts actually, so I suppose I burned a friend’s nuts…)

It’s only a little bit smaller… Just four more to build. And wire. And calibrate……. Decided to try a Tapchanger setup on my pan Trident. The original tool changer effort never really panned out.

"I can't figure out why the app I manage isn't building so I'll open a ticket to enterprise-wide architecture group with, 'It doesn't work here's my entire build log'" is an interesting look...

It’s very “me” that while completely entombed in blankets, I pull up my solar panel monitoring app to see how bright it is out there. Only 268 watts. I can brave this Day Star without fear.

Seeing a lot of angry unicorns this morning... @github.com

I just saw someone walk past my office pushing a huge 1000+ pound rolling equipment dolly intended for moving datacenter equipment (scissor lifting platform, the whole #!…) carrying one single Dell laptop, screen open, power on. I get safety first, but at least lock the screen!

people gotta treat this behavior the same as we treat shitting on the floor

Well shit…. That was my last one…

I need to figure out how to inform iOS that frost does not qualify as a “severe weather warning” in upstate New York.

I think I've found a new favorite ultra-specific subgenre of YouTube video: Musician reacts to hearing Tank! from the Cowboy Bebop sound track for the first time.

EVIL in big, blood red, all caps...evil as a force that is seperate from humanity doesn't exist. There is no devil or Cthulu or Darkness. There's just people. Evil and the horrors that we use that word to describe, are a product of human beings. Pretending otherwise abdicates responsibility.

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I wonder if somewhere at 1 Infinite Loop there's a very slow moving clock that tells them how round the window corners and buttons should be in a new macOS release. We've come around to very round again, I see.

Ahhh, the age old question: New adjustable height desk — cable chains or nah?

Need to start getting up 30 minutes earlier? Just let anxiety brain wake you up four hours early the first day, and the second day will feel like you’re getting to sleep in! For more shitty life pro tips….

Disney/ABC have a responsibility to refuse to participate in corruption. Kimmel must be reinstated. If Disney/ABC agree to this extortion then perhaps creatives + workers should consider collective action to push back. Same w/buying park + cruise tickets if they bow. People have power. Ask Target

what he said.

I’m sure this is because I’m not well read enough, but I continue to wonder if any futurists more correctly predicted that computing power was dangerous not because it would become an uncontrollable superintelligence but because zero cost rapid bullshit generation is destabilizing to society.

The worst part of adding new monitoring to a troubled system is that with no baseline, you almost certainly cannot draw meaningful conclusions from the data.

The greatest weakness of good people is their inability to appreciate just how many people are truly evil.

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Looks like Google finally decided they didn't want Chrome on my machines anymore. Buh-bye... Manifest V2 or GTFO.

Funny how when it comes to AI people are all "adapt or be left behind" but when it comes to remote work the same people insist that things must go back to how they were at all cost.

If Trump came for their guns they’d lay them down for him.

So much of this feels like desecrating the temple. The barbarians come in and set up a mockery of civilization, aimed not at capturing its benefits for themselves but at debasing it so much that no one will ever be able to claim the civilized are better than they are.

One of the things that has pretty annoying is that if you have any kind of bullshit meter, if you have anything inside of yourself that doesn’t enjoy being lied to, the last couple of years of almost every area of public life have been driving you up a fucking wall

It feels like we should be making a bigger deal of “we actually did in fact find a cure for AIDS”

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Das Boot?

Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

I feel like TANSTAAFL applies double when it’s a bank involved.

t's amazing how this is from more than 20 years ago but very well could have been from today.

It’s finally Close a Bunch of Tabs Day. So satisfying! ✅

F🔴🟡K OFF. #ItsMyMoney

It's sad to see the, "But they're using our Free software for FREE!@!!!@!" mentality killing another good project. pfSense developers have really gone off the deep end.