Nerd bars always have the best stickers.
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keirFox
@keirFox@tiggi.es
mastodon 4.7.3Red fox with gray fur (and totally not a wolf) that tinkers with broken projects sometimes. Oregon Trail generation. Still watches cartoons. He/him.
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Joined May 25, 2024
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Chicago
Neuroses:
Anxiety, depression. Fox things.
Hobbies:
Photography, radio, smal electronics projects, being a sneak.
Doo doo do doo doo doo doo do doo do the interest is down the interest is down
Pretty sure this has been making the rounds but…I have so, so many questions.
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This shit is the new common curse - third party sellers not using tracking at all or just…not shipping anything. The date just keeps updating, forever.
Bonus: the support to get this resolved is all AI agents, now.
There are a lot of things I want to say about this. …but I have concerns.
New fungusonas just dropped.
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My Linux distro: You all good on how to browse files? Got favorite folders set/bookmarked, everything in the display in order? Good, I'll remember all of that.
Multiple apps in my Linux distro: Favorites? Bookmarks? lol you're so uncertain about your actions that you expect to *double* click on files/folders? Sir - we only take actions we are *sure* of, here. Single click or die.
I am within millimeters of this.
Felt like taking a gamble, tonight.
The exasperated sigh on opening documentation at work and seeing the start of all the paragraphs and every line of the table of contents start with emojis.
It's the Mark of Shit.
Soulless, ruthless, emotionless, merciless AI. In the form of an LAPD officer.
We knew decades ago what constituted a terrorizing threat.
We should stop giving money and power to people who had really fucked up childhoods and never sought resolution through therapy.
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So, found a simple regex to find all files that have been NUL'd out and ran it across all my stuff:
find . -type f -size +1c -exec grep -m 1 -PL "[^\0]" {} \;
And it works! And... it's found a handful of images. No documents, no videos, no project files, no python code, no audio, no spreadsheets. No other data. Just images.
And not just any images, but only in two folders -- ones that I tend to browse quite frequently as thumbnails. And only recent images. I don't think this is random.
I have a very strong suspicion that this is from me forcing the laptop to power down when I've locked it up hard while the file browser was open. I've had an issue, lately, in which Mint has been really unhappy with me disconnecting my laptop from my monitors and I've had to be very careful to not just pull the USB cable and walking away with it as I used to -- a recent update janked how KDE deals with the my monitors and I've not yet figured it out and so it's been a little rough.
The good news is that now I can check regularly for these files prior to backup to ensure I don't clobber them while also seeing if I can establish a pattern. I don't think I suspect hardware or malware, though -- I think the thumbnail viewer has been very unhappy with me force-killing my computer when it gets really cranky.
*video clips where the person getting severely injured or experiencing intense misfortune yells over and over for the person with the camera to keep recording*
This. This is why living in a remote cabin sounds amazing.
Do...do companies using AI not understand the insane amount of corporate espionage happening through it? They...they do know that all their code and documents and prompts are being ingested, processed, and analyzed against them, right?
Telegram has me cranky, but... stickers.
There's a lot of unmaintained repos of sticker converter bots that will convert Telegram packs to Signal out there. Anyone use one or can suggest a current one?
Do you use Teams and Outlook at work? Does your Outlook show a "Viva Insights" button on the toolbar? For fun, go to the following and browse around:
https://insights.cloud.microsoft.com/#/PersonalApp/Home/
They're tracking:
-How many minutes you spend reading email
-How many minutes you spend composing emails
-Who you talk to most and least frequently in terms of email and meetings
-How many meetings you organize
-How many of those meetings have a high attendance
-How many meetings overlap with others
-How many meetings you actually focused and do not multitask doing other things
-What percentage of meetings you join on time
-How many meetings are of a short duration
-How many minutes you spend chatting with others
-When your core work hours are based on when you are active, when your lunch is, etc
Now, consider how many meetings you are in where CoPilot is turned on and the data it is gathering.
Your employer now has a full profile of what hours you work, what you do, who you talk to, what you talk about, how much you participate, and how "efficient" you are being down to the minute.
The number of times I have to enter my password/2FA to execute a SQL query in production at work has increased today to *six*. To change an env var it can be up to eight. I feel very secure now.
Ah, yes, tree cover. We need to shovel more coal into the machine to figure out where to plant trees to solve these mysterious extreme heat events.
Scorch marks from a lighter on heat shrink is a sign of quality.
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This is, by the way, my "HELLO WORLD" phrase. An LCD display was being cranky with me and I got so frustrated with it that I sent it this string instead and...it magically began working.
Since then, it's been my opener.
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These trees are super gross and terribly popular with developers. Nasty.
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A proper use of technology.
The realization that I can just answer the question of “what kind of music do you like?” with “whatever excited Beavis and Butt-Head” is somewhat liberating.
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@tilton It's been weird to watch online commentary on this -- lots of "this is because permits are getting cancelled due to public outcry" and "this is all expected - companies are putting out more plans than required in this race", etc, all to say that AI isn't a bubble.
...and I keep wondering who these commenters are.
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@basil_hare What, you don’t like brittle connections that are partially melted?
By the way thank you for the use of your heat gun!
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@tilton I hope the encrypted fax prints out on paper and an office admin has to bust out the secret decoder ring.
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@baralheia@dragonchat.org Sad that the state’s edict doesn’t involve removing existing. These things took over in FL forests and became really problematic there.
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@leaf Oh wow -- don't have the face scan thing here. That's not cool.
My process is:
- Log into laptop
- Log into VPN
- Log into password vault to get an admin password
- Use my password and provide a use reason to unlock Ditto (copy-paste tool)
- Log into a VM that is whitelisted
- Log into a SQL instance
If I need to change a setting then I also need to log into the change request tool, open one, then use that to unlock elevated privs in Azure.
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@ZachWeinersmith Depends on the location, I think. Using it in the Chicago area will get you looks.
It will eventually be more accepted as spoken, regular English over time, though, because no phrase is more satisfying to say than "fuck all y'all".
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@djlink@mastodon.gamedev.place
git blame
^e1fb2d7 (Jackson Pollock 2026-02-03 06:30:25 -0300
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@yakkoj Yep yep -- ext4 here.
I very much need to start syncing somewhere besides just this USB drive.
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@tilton Have been trying to figure this out for myself! Please yell if you find anything!
Everyone under 40: I can't believe Bill Gates is actually a terrible person! He was so kind and good for so many years!
Everyone who experienced the 90s: Ha. Hahahahaha.
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@baralheia Thankfully no -- I had a similar experience back when I was on OS X and kept both an Time Machine backup on a disk as well as my files sync'd to the cloud. This combination is incredibly hazardous if you have a large number of files and one day when US East 2 decided to go offline everything got confused and I nearly lost all my data in all three places.
Not doing that again. Or, at least, not with something I can't directly control.
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@forst This is why I'm confused -- at no point were these files open for write. Well, not that I know of -- maybe the thumbnailer I have is very badly written.
I've experienced expected corruption with files I had open for write on forced shutdowns which doesn't surprise me at all but I'm a little spooked by this.
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@kzorrofuego@pawb.fun I'm certain this is a service that your employer must be subscribed to and likely isn't included in Office365 or whatever by default. It's showing up on my laptop client and I clicked on it because there was a very smart feature which would ask me if I wanted to have my email automatically sent during someone's core working hours.
...the problem is that we were never asked what our core hours are -- it is simply figuring them out based on when we are logged in and active.