“We walked to school and saved Prince Håkon from the Baglers up hill both ways in the snow.”

Trying to keep from rolling on my back so my obstructive sleep apnea doesn’t decide it’s time suffocate me awake at 2:00 AM.

No thanks. I prefer scotch.

“OMG. Our product is so ‘smart’ that it ‘escaped’ containment and hacked other orgs completely on its own.” – OpenAI

“We made version for your kids. It’s totally safe.” – Also OpenAI.

Hmmm…

“We’re concentrating our resources on the areas that will drive results for our most pressing needs, improving the core product, making Reddit a go-to search engine, and expanding internationally.” --Steve Huffman

“Wait. No! Not like that!” --Also Steve Huffman

And they’re expensive status symbols at that. I don’t own a pickup anymore but I’ve had a few and the total cost of ownership is quite a bit higher than for a relatively nice but economical passenger car.

Homelab Veteran ⚡

• Fleet: 4–5 devices · 11–20 TB
• Motivation: Privacy & data ownership, Cost savings, Customization & full control
• My MVPs: Proxmox VE, Paperless-ngx, Immich, Jellyfin

My class wanted to walk out to “Bittersweet Symphony” by The Verve.

The first couple of lines go, “It’s a bitter sweet symphony, this life. Tryin’ to make ends meet, you’re a slave to money, and then you die.”

The school did not go for that.

This is what meetings should actually be used for. Going through line by line and reading the document aloud to sanity check and discuss potential misses imo

That would actually make meetings a valuable use of our time which is exactly why it won’t happen.

We passed the “Holy fuck that’s expensive!” phase a few months ago and have moved on to the “Use AI for everything but don’t actually do that just use it for some things why [didn’t/did] you use AI for that we can’t afford the [additional time/Azure bill] hahahahahahahaha.” phase. Swap the values in brackets at random on any given day.

Literally a meeting at work today.

Director: “Why was this requirement missed?”

PM: “Well, my understanding is that AI was used to write the requirements and that AI was also used to generate the code and perform code reviews. …So there were no actual people who understood the requirements involved in the process. Also, this seems to be becoming more and more of a problem.”

Director: “Oh. Uh… Ok. Maybe don’t bring up “AI” whenever you discuss this with senior management because I’m not sure how well that will go over. Just say, ‘the requirements were missed.’”

PM: …

Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words.

Issa argued that online piracy helps fund terrorist groups and other criminal networks.

Gotta play the "Everything I don’t like is ‘terrrorism’. " card, naturally. I wonder if it hurts when you have the collective hand of media conglomerates shoved up your ass like a sock puppet.

“I stand for the flag, I kneel for the cross.” – Evangelicals who have never knelt in front of a cross

Same people who are painfully unaware that the “Black National Anthem” is actually a hymn.

It’s the sound of their dreams being crushed in the dream crushing machine. Millenials and Gen Xers used to make similar noises back when they still had dreams.

Some people never learn.

Streisand Effect

I don’t know. That’s a lot of nails for a DR Horton house. There should be like 4 for the entire wall.

But I like my neurotypical wife. She remembers where I put stuff and is somehow OK with the army of squirrels that I call a brain.

Only time I’ve ever been written up in my career, I told the CEO – very politely – that “cybersecurity is the boards responsibility, whether they want it to be or not.” He did not like hearing that.

If there’s a problem, they can count on me to tell them about it. Always in writing. If they don’t want to act, that’s on them.