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Daughter: Can I keep the night light on? Me: and provide the monsters with a beacon to your precise location? Use your head, sweetie.

Attached: 2 images Met with two more Mastodon buddies. Great to see both @Marcus@k8s.social and @ringods at #KubeCon! And I got some awesome Giant Swarm t-shirts for the kids from Marcus ❤️

For fun I recently pimped out a ruby script that I had written for some testing with a little color and a spinner. If you have never used ANSI escape codes before I've put together a simple script that shows how easy it is. First let me say that if you are using ruby and

@simon@simonwillison.net ironic that redis the color of deletion.

As Threads rolls out support for ActivityPub, Meta’s approach is to require each Threads user to manually enable fediverse integration. This was demoed yesterday at FediForum. It’s a perfectly …

@manton But imagine the outrage if they automatically opted everyone in? 😬

There's been a thread about dependencies lately and the challenge of convincing developers to look at the full dependency chain. I once maintained a C++ binary that included a PostScript interpreter, a JPEG decoder, a JavaScript interpreter, and a number of other utterly irrelevant pieces causing a huge factor increase in the size of the binary. The culprit: A single logging statement that invoked a general-purpose printer that could print web stuff. Switching to sprintf fixed it.

me, sexy voice: baby im gonna take you to pound land her: do you mean pound town? me, holding a bag of off-brand wine gums, a wireless phone charger, and a tin of pedigree chum: nope

Thought for the day: Billionaires are a symptom of poverty. (Paraphrasing Iain Banks on money, but more specific to our times because we still need some way to allocate scarce resources, just: not like that.)

"Billionaires are a symptom of poverty." Every once in a while I'm reminded that my "wasting time" on this site is not wasting time, because it's how I can incredible ideas or articulations like this.

Attached: 1 image PUT MY THINGS INTO POCKETS THESE ARE MY CARGO SHORTS LIBERATION NO THIEVING DONT GIVE A FUCK IF MY WIFE IS LEAVING

Seems to be massive disconnect between the #AI hype pushed in the #KubeCon key notes vs. what the audience actually cares about. I don’t think I ever heard this many people complaining about them in the past.

Attached: 1 image Unrelated to anything else going on today, but this was a rather nice feature in #DuckDuckGo I wasn't aware of before.

I love RSS, but one thing I don't like is that readers typically homogenize the appearance of posts from different sources, which is fine that's how aggregators work. But I miss seeing the flair of individual websites so I often find myself clicking thru entries to see their site designs. I kind of want a stylesheet element in the RSS feeds and feed readers could have a toggle where you can view each feed's entries with their custom styles. I understand how that could break things though.

I’m a strong believer in automated tests - and a moderately disciplined author of them. Software engineering is exceptionally hard to get functionally correct, and even harder to avoid regressing later. As my wise teammate Dave says, “Legacy code is any code that doesn’t have a test.”

Exciting times as we hike the W, and visit Torres del Paine.

Management's role isn't necessarily to break unions but to keep workers compliant with company objectives. If the company is open to a union, they'll only impede it (and keep lower management out of the loop) so much so to make it a burden for workers to manage. If they're more offensive, they'll do what Apple, Trader Joe's, GM, Microsoft, Walmart and other conventional businesses do: take a complete about-face from whatever purported values the company is about and use their own legal prowess to weaken the constitutional rights workers have (it's only a crime if you're tried and sentenced when it comes to companies weakening unions).

the small child in front of me peeked through the chairs and asked me why I was wearing a mask, has this kid never seen a mask before on a plane?

me: i'll have the house wine please waiter: sorry we've only got techno wine *techno wine marches in coked off its face* techno wine: WHISTLE CREW MAKE SOME NOOOOIIIIISE

I'm sorry I referred to my jizz as 'streaming content'

Ran past a man walking 3 pugs today. As I overtook, the pugs thought I was racing them and ran after me, which made me think I was being chased by angry pugs. It was an arms race in which everyone involved was stupid

The greatest lie ever told in work: “I just have a quick question”

How it often works is DevEx & Marketing push out some half-baked thing as a free service driving to drive adoption and generate interest. Generally there aren't many Engineering or Ops resources assigned to these things. Monitoring is next to nothing. No one even thought to consider fraud prevention measures. Many times InfoSec isn't informed at all. When a free service that allows arbitrary hosting, or arbitrary email/SMS content goes out, the first ones to adopt it are often criminals. The end result is you're playing catch-up for months to years to get the proper level of resourcing dedicated to closing the exploitable holes. No one wants to do that for a product that isn't directly generating revenue. The thing is, if you can't afford to assign resources, you should never deploy it. If it's connected to the Internet and connected to your brand, you're going to suffer reputation loss when it's abused, and it WILL be abused. Once I got a free service (temporarily) shut down because I showed our CMO how many complaints we were getting about it from people targeted by abuse. You'll have a hard time convincing random PMs or DevEx folks to limit the project they're working on for their quarterly goals/promotion opportunity. Marketing and Legal leaders will definitely care about reputation damage if you can make a strong, evidence-backed case.

Attached: 1 image My wife sent me this screenshot today from her Facebook feed. It depicts a "remember 17 years ago" flashback featuring a friend of hers. The "then" image shows his face while the "now" side is blank... Because he died a decade ago. "Technically Wrong" came out in 2017, filled with numerous accounts of similar situations. This isn't new, but tech giants still continue to roll out this kind of half baked crap with no care for how it might impact the people using their products.

nasa employee: oh hey u guys are back early astronaut: moon's horny nasa employee: what? astronaut: *grabbing condoms and getting back on the rocket-ship* moon's horny

Content warning: uspol, if you wanna defend any politician in my mentions then how the hell did you even see this post

@www.jvt.me@www.jvt.me I described that in my thread? blocks of contrasting colours to break up the flat plain. not just white text on a very dark background

I have a picture of @Quinnypig@awscommunity.social giving bedroom eyes and it is too powerful to release to the masses

My parents cut part of my dick off when I was a baby and now I tuck it between my legs voluntarily to wear certain pants and that’s a HUGE issue for them. Very normal

Datasette authentication using IndieAuth and RelMeAuth - simonw/datasette-indieauth

Everything you need to know about securing the software supply chain.

you can replace all the syllables in Timothee Chalamet with different ones and you still know exactly who i'm talking about. Watch this: Fidgety Chevrolet Jiminy Creme-Brulee Lemony Lingerie

Radical salary transparency FTW? https://youtu.be/Bzmu5bcR3HQ?si=xcfkyVopAxahSMdh via @changelog@changelog.social @www.jvt.me@www.jvt.me

Whoops. Got so excited about my projects today that I forgot to eat. Just ADHD things 😅

Its Friday at just past 6pm which means it’s time for your next episode of “jokes I make to my therapist to assert control over the situation in order to avoid being emotionally vulnerable to the person I have paid for the last three and a half years of my own free will specifically to facilitate emotional vulnerability but fuck you im built different” 👩🏻‍🦰: hi James :) 👨🏻: hi [redacted] :) 👩🏻‍🦰: how are you doing today? 👨🏻: well that’s an awfully loaded question, isn’t it 🙄 👩🏻‍🦰: :) how about my other opener then? what’s on your mind for today? 👨🏻: 🙄 👩🏻‍🦰: 🤭 👨🏻: so anyway I think I’m dying

maybe if we renamed the abortion pill to AR-15 then they would stop trying to ban it

I will say she knows how to keep the spice in our relationship, she did a 180 on me today and refused to let me get away with it 👨🏻: kdndhdiejebe 👨🏻: skslsnsjslskjsk 🤭 👩🏻‍🦰: 👩🏻‍🦰: so, I have a duty of care and I’m actually a little worried today 👨🏻: oh don’t worry I’m not ACTUALLY dying lmao and lol 👩🏻‍🦰: 👨🏻: :blobcatsip: 👩🏻‍🦰: 👨🏻: :blobCat_sunglasses_blanket: 👩🏻‍🦰: 👨🏻: fine. yes I’ll seriously consider taking your advice and understand why you are unusually concerned. I will act appropriately based on this information in the continuous strive for mental health and respect toward myself 👩🏻‍🦰: :blobcatthumbsup: 👨🏻: 🙄 honestly tho

Attached: 1 image going for a stupid mental health walk in the stupid ridiculous weather under this stupid clear sky with the stupid shining sun for my stupid mental health and you know what it's stupid working arghfjsjdkkk

If the Twitter/X thing teaches you one thing, let it be this: Twitter was a neoliberal place. Then Elon Musk made it into X, a fascist place. Once again, neoliberalism laid the foundations of fascism. But that’s not the (whole) lesson… Neoliberal folks are still using X, calling it Twitter to make themselves feel better, and pining for the good old days. And there’s the real lesson: When neoliberalism turns into fascism, neoliberals will adapt to life under fascism. Right, class dismissed.