To celebrate the end of the semester, I trunked every port on one of my switches, set it to every vlan, and sat ti see what happened. I probably should have turned off the intervlan mDNS gateway first, but oh well. I set off an multicast storm the likes of which may be my greatest.

Grades received: 1.) Dance Appreciation: Final Paper: 100 Group Video Project: 99 Critical Review: 96 Final Grade: A!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential

ViP is up and running. Basically ten minutes work to set up basic failover with three piholes instances. Have not gotten grades yet so next is load balancing, and if still in suspense, we are going to spin-ups of new instances from the templates I made while testing failover. I should sleep soon

Note: part of the reason I am starting my load-distribution journey is my pihole went down and--in case you didn't know this, a pihole crash that you don't notice early enough can end with network-wide dnshell and all your computers stubbornly refusing to update even after a forced reboot.

Honestly, the single best decision I ever made with my servers is turning them both into hypervisors with Proxmox. Being able to test out programs in a container and destroy without drama and purging packages three times is such a relief. Also, this: community-scripts.github.io/ProxmoxVE/sc...

alea iacta est. Now I wait for my final grades, because that's not stressful at all.

Note: Programming Languages is the first programming class I've taken where I wasn't either discourage or outright penalized for playing with the code and adding things once I'd met all requirements for the assignment. This still annoys me. Yes, professors can be arbitrary, but I'd accept that..

Finals Week: I have... 1.) turned in a video code review of my program for assignment 11. Unfortunately, it wasn't until after I turned it in that I found out most people's was under twenty minutes. Well. Okay. 2.) resubmitted assignment 11 with corrections to get my goddamn A. continuing....

1) legendary energy 2) you don't want to be passive aggressively chased through winter conditions by a Minnesotan, I hope they have nightmares 😂

The part that really keeps me up at night. The professor that is doing this to me? He teaches Machine Language I next semester. On campus. Once a week from 6:00-9:30 at night. On campus. I DO NOT DO ON CAMPUS. When I found out he was teaching it? I registered for it. Yeah.

TFW: ChatGPT makes you a polygon generator that takes like a lot of sides because you're now on thirteen sides and it can see wehre this is going.

Continuing: I have yet to build the equation that will generate satan's fractal leaf. Here is a close up of beelzeleaf:

To continue: generating a 2d fractal image based on satan's plant (maybe filaree?): I literally can't figure out if this is a super complex assignment or actually simple and I'm overthinking it. Is this like, make an equation to generate a leaf, then fractal it? Here is my inspiro!leaf to help

This week's assignment: a unique 2d fractal based on the picture you each were randomly assigned and in your program, use the new Racket language feature you each have been randomly assigned. There is a three page Word doc in addition to the 19 page powerpoint. I think he hates us?

My Prog Lang professor is the funniest, nicest, smartest guy I've ever had the pleasure of learning from. He compensates by grading our assigments like they're going to be responsible for saving dying children or stopping the Apocalypse. Nothing is safe. I appreciate it, I really do. Later.

I forgive Racket: I had a blast finally understanding how to tail-recursion and doing it to everything. I hate Racket because now I want to tail recursion everything and it's a lot of extra work.

If Racket gets any more counterintuitive, it's going to circle around to intuitive, right? Currently, I"m trying to figure out the rest of the equation to predict how many passes it takes to completely sort a list using only elbow grease, tail-recursion, threeSort function, and hope

Between the sheer weirdness of racket and my Professor's supervillian-level assignments in it (he cackles, people), I do not know if I will survive this. We are currently assigned to create a sort program for lists in racket, but cannot use any existing sort or filter functions, set!, or mean.

So BNF/EBNF is some sort of what, punishment for liking to code? This is hell. HELL. (Also, this refers to the class Programming Languages, not fandom)

My infatuation with Racket is really being tested by anonymous functions aka lambda. I am just not seeing the point, especially when it takes more lines of code to use an anonymous function than just defining the goddamn thing. Also, it's making my code look ridiculous.

So I think I'm falling in love with Racket. It is so fucking weird and really desperately needs someone to document it better (or like, at all, would examples kill them?) but here we are. I'm doing homework two assignments ahead because it's fun for me to feel like I'm coding with dream-logic.

TIL: creating an agnostic singleboard computer rack server that can take any* sbc is so much more ridiculously hard than I assumed, and I assumed it would be super ridiculous. Unless you want a Pi 5 Only or a Pi 4B/3 Only or a Pi 5 and 4B; then you're good to go. I love Pi's but THEY ARE NOT ALONE

I am having some complicated feelings about Racket. Like, I may love it BUT WHY ARE THERE NO VARIABLES? NO DEFINE AND LET DO NOT COUNT. And. It. Is. So. Linear. It's like a Mom who won't let you multitask. FUCK MY LIFE LAMBDA IS BACK There's something about it, though.

@mostlybree.kitrocha.com In case you're curious, we're going to be studying Racket, among others. Why is this significant? 1.4 of the Racket Guide: A Note to Readers With Lisp/Schema Experience. I know this is your fault, but I don't know how yet. Twenty-five years is a long game, but this is you.

This concept was introduced to me as "run the dishwasher twice" and was an important part of my executive functioning recovery as well as my path to self-acceptance.

Wise advice: if you are planning dental work, get a good size squishmallow. Your jaw will thank you sooooo much.

Truly, the internet is like an all-ages, all-gender dive bar bathroom 😌

Initial surgery for dental implants done, I survived, but apparently super stressed my surgeon and his people by waking up several times and then again at the end when they were sewing up things. Not fun. Now the six month clock of NO CHEWING has begun. Yay?

So for various reasons, after well over twenty years, I'm considering not buying a Dell for my next upgrade. This is at least partially due to browsing Framework and experiencing something like a revelation. See, a friend sent me the site about twoish years ago and I LOVED EVERYTHING.

I start my first ever upper level class in three weeks, and I just realized after skimming the book that it's the one where you learn a programming language every week and have to write a program in it (or so the exercises at the end of each chapter seem to imply).

tfw you win the preorder wars and get a switch 2.

Mitch…McConnell…went over to the Democrats to pass this. My bingo card has attained sentience and is curled in the corner, weeping.

Due to being reminded of my media server panel, I'm also now reminded I want to create media server software that is designed for vids. I am eh with UI but the backend I can do tho dear God the work.

Test driving Jellyfin (and Embry) to prep for my media server panel has had an unexpected side effect: I really really like it (jellyfin). Lets see what I can do with this.

Got me tearing up first thing in the morning.

Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet: www.404media.co/declassified...

books

Finally sat down to watch Dune Part II and dear God I wish I'd read spoilers first on how much it gutted the novel. I had no idea.

Happy new year!!!

most of the internet has concluded "bless your heart" is only ever sarcastic, but in its native/originating dialect it could not function as a condemnation without the genuine, sincere usage being common; it's only acceptable to condemn w/ in the native dialect because it HAS plausible deniability.

Occasionally the Bad Place still produces something good

Debate: should I watch Agatha All Along for the tenth time or Wolverine and Deadpool for the eighth? God, this is hard.

And I can't build myself a throne of skulls if I'm not allowed to commit murder and/or grave robbing. We all live with disappointment, you aren't special

After three months of my netgear router refusing to onboard to Insight (it was on it for over a year but started getting wonky, and two factory resets later, it refused), I got an all-dev Zoom debug session. My name was on a Jira ticket, even. It was pretty much identical to being at work.

Fall Semester OS Security (All Labs, All the Time) is done, grade A. My only real complaints are a.) I'd have loved either five or so more labs or deep-diving two, and b.) the Linux ones were incredibly easy. Which makes me suspect I may know Linux better than I thought.

It's one week until the end of the semester and time to procrastinate before tomorrow I work on studying for the stats final and finish my final project (group, thank God). I am rewatching Agatha All Along because that's what you do when you're stressed and feeling antisocial.

The Bear Conundrum (A Christmas Bear (and Assorted Christmas Mammal) Collective History) Part 1 It began with one bear: a gift from hwmitzy around 2003. He is The First Bear.

Unpacked the Christmas Bear (and Assorted Mammals) Collection for the first time since 2018. And..it's really a lot of bears (and assorted mammals). As in, we are at 95 Christmas Bears (and Assorted Mammals) and currently they are overrunning my living room and watching me.