Likes from 11 September 2023

Sufficiently burned by bad interview experiences this year that my brain refuses to get excited about a potential interview. "Let's wait to see if they want a code test, or maybe never call back, or whatever." But still. Getting a call is better than not getting a call.

Getting daily notifications my parent is okay

headline: Has Betteridge's Law Gone Too Far?

The power of seeing just one or two other people wearing a mask while I am wearing a mask in a big public space is something I think we don't talk about enough. Maybe we can't fix each other's risk overall but you decrease my isolation and the potential negative attention of other people on me and as a covid disabled person in this terrible world, that really matters

What the hell are Slack playing at? Do they not use their own product?

The reason we're still talking about 9/11 and ignoring COVID is because 9/11 served as a pretext and COVID was seen as an inconvenience by the ruling elite. And even they seem bored with it, to be honest.

Content warning: 9/11 curmudgeonry

Content warning: Clinical/non-gory description of successful tooth extraction

@fluffy@plush.city Confidence interval: the amount of time between absolute certainty in your assertions and the first niggling doubt

Oh no I documented how to restart the service on the service that is down and needs restarting

Attached: 2 images This is still the pinnacle of graphic design

I really do need to update my blogroll. Yeah maybe only 3 people will be on it, but I need to start there, sigh.

After *years* of mild bemusement about why an adult would enjoy building Lego, my wife has suddenly become obsessed with building Lego, and has decided she needs to buy ’the biggest ever Lego set’. Although she does still insist on calling it Legos because she knows how much it infuriates me.

cool fact: the original luddites didn’t oppose technology but rather the bosses using new tech to disenfranchise workers! the bosses then had the luddites murdered in the streets and their arguments were replaced with “tech bad 🤢” to prevent others from carrying on their challenge to industrial authorities

It's important you run three antivirus. 1 from USA to detect FSB, 1 from Russia to detect NSA, and 1 from Finland to detect Sweden.