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flyingsaceur

@flyingsaceur@ioc.exchange

Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon
(Brigadier Sicko)

“I’ve done… questionable things.”

Suburban crank. Deep space janitor. Miniboss / Agile bagman. Adjudicator. Python daily driver and hater. Secret Perl Sicko. Standard ML dilettante.

“First we shape our tools, then our tools shape us” —Marshall McLuhan

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Binder, to random
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Sincerely hoping that someone let Haddaway in on the definition of love by now.

flyingsaceur,
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@Binder who is baby and why do they keep hurting him?

aeva, to random
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I've been aware of the idea since my late teens or early twenties or so, but I've really come to appreciate in the last couple of years to what degree the information your senses tell you is subjective to the point of approaching total fiction.

flyingsaceur,
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@aeva when it comes to knowledge work, it gets weirder

A doctor, lawyer, or engineer has a separate brain that contains a nonverbal, unconscious model of a complex problem domain, thanks to intellectual training which approximates the “kinematic” training of driving a car

Think about how strange mental math is and how it got in there

Binder, to random
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Hey, did Huey Lewis ever score that new drug or

flyingsaceur,
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@Binder what if Nine Inch Nails “The Perfect Drug” was about the same guy, see he’s trying to get over her with a new drug but then he ends up finding out what she’s really into and he’s hooked. Maybe they’re a sandwich around “Escape (the Pina Colada Song)”

Binder, to random
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Knockin’ on Heaven’s Dior.

flyingsaceur,
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@Binder Louie Vui(tton), whoa-oh

Binder, to random
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I’ve a modest appetite for wealth. It would be enough for me to own 1-2 politicians.

flyingsaceur,
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@Binder Politicians are like party boats: pretty expensive, but still affordable if that’s your thing

Binder, to random
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Sitting across the Ouija board from Sam Altman. “Can my hands be on the planchette, too?”

“No! It’s not safe. The spirits only deign to respond if no one examines our input corpus!”

flyingsaceur,
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@Binder Cf. Rifftrax: Ouija Shark

mcc, to random
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On the way home I saw an ad for "Mom Puberty" and a second ad for the concept of not drowning

flyingsaceur,
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@mcc what about mom puberty, that’s a cognitive crash loop like “EAT RECYCLED FOOD”

flyingsaceur,
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@mcc be honest and open as long as you put a st*r in the dirty words

Except it isn’t consistent, t hey have both b*tch and bitch, is… is this an
ARG?

amoroso, to VintageOSes
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Confession of an Amiga enthusiast back in the day: I always liked the black and white hires mode of the Atari ST, which to me looked slicker than even the original Macintosh. And I still love that "printed page" experience of environments like Medley Interlisp.

flyingsaceur,
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@amoroso I remember the sight of a Macintosh II running a chess game at a computer dealership utterly transfixed me, it was the pages of Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess come to life.

The promise of a high refresh rate grayscale e-ink display is perpetually six months out. I would spend the rest of my life exiled to 4:5 at 200 dpi at 30 Hz or more, is there anyone else going in that direction?

flyingsaceur, to random
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Am I the only person who is seeing this play going down right now?

December 2023: Microsoft prices Windows 10 long term support

May 2024: Microsoft poison pills Windows 11 with spyware

The beauty of this is that Microsoft doesn’t even have to sell the new windows 10 pricing, infosec will

In chess, this is called a “discovered attack”. Check!

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/microsoft-to-offer-windows-10-subscription-plan-for-customers-who-want-to-keep-getting-updates-after-october-2025-for-both-businesses-and-individuals

calmeilles, to random
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flyingsaceur,
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@calmeilles out here there was this spasm to get something out the door before so one else did, actual user need be damned. Resume driven development

Binder, to random
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That doesn't really narrow it down, ya ding dongs

flyingsaceur,
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@Binder That Book You’ve Been Wanting, by Joanie Portcullis

“It’s a book.” —Orson Bean, Sky & Telescope

flyingsaceur, to random
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“Ghostbusters (Taylor’s Version)”

glyph, to random
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TIL the “what Bladerunner would have driven” tweet was real

flyingsaceur,
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@glyph “How do you do, fellow nerds?”

flyingsaceur,
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@glyph Lemme tell you something
🎶RUNNING MAKES ME BLAADE
GOOD

flyingsaceur,
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@glyph There’s electric sheep
In the neighborhood
Who ya gonna call?
BLADE RUNNER

There’s a replicant
Sleepin in your bed
Who ya gonna call?
BLADE RUNNER

I ain’t afraid of robots

I ain’t afraid of robots

mcc, to random
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So I spent a big chunk of my life living next door to Louisiana (Houston) and now I live next door to Quebec (Toronto) and it just this moment occurred to me to check if Quebec has beignets. Like, I'd simply assumed if I ever went liking for beignets I'd find them. So I asked a Quebecoise friend, and

Okay, so they do have them, but—

Quebec beignets have holes???

My world is (topologically speaking) rocked

flyingsaceur,
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@mcc Montreal has bagels and they are pretty good

sysop408, to random
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    flyingsaceur,
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    @sysop408 PRESBYTEROPIA

    flyingsaceur,
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    @sysop408 I felt called out by that

    sysop408, to sysadmin
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    DNS gurus, am I correct in believing that PTR records are primarily used for mail sending servers and servers that never send mail do not need one?

    flyingsaceur,
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    @sysop408 On the public internet, yes, but there is a lot of usefulness in internal networks having DNS and DHCP working together to get DHCP leases with co- termed A, AAAA, and PTR records. (Windows Server, Infoblox, Your Home Router). in-addr.arpa is the rabbit hole you (don’t) want to fall down, but I Am Not An IANA Lawyer

    flyingsaceur,
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    @sysop408 PS there is an unintended consequence: a lot of stuff does blocking reverse lookups on incoming connections so be on the lookout for weird lockups on the order of 1-60 seconds

    DeliaChristina, to random
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    Don't even get me started on that new Bumble ad.

    flyingsaceur,
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    @thepoliticalcat @DeliaChristina willing to bet that this campaign (which has been pulled) was done in house and not by an agency, same as the Crush iPad campaign.

    In both cases, they bought their own hype and mistook a VC hype reel for advertising

    flyingsaceur,
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    @thepoliticalcat @DeliaChristina Exactly. And if the campaign is a flop, the agency takes the force of the blow. Doing it in house means you literally have no one to blame but yourself

    NanoRaptor, to random
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    ADHD meds end of week 2 note.

    My whole sense of time is different.

    I don't come home from work, do a few amusing things then oh shit it's midnight, time to sleep. It's fit in a whole evening of visiting family, bun time, reading, catching up with folk online, and it's only 10:20pm and it feels like a normal whole weekend's already fit in. Free time used to fly by, now it's savoured fully.

    Also medicaiton still way variable and peaky, but may change Monday.

    flyingsaceur,
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    @NanoRaptor @domi its Conan (the Barbarian) growing up on the Wheel of Pain: once you are cut loose anything else you come across is easy peasy

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