Michael Vilain

@fatsam@mstdn.social With regards to Oracle being leveraged with tons of debt, it would be a pity if Larry Ellison had to sell a couple cars from his collection. And the island of Lānaʻi.

@dillyd@turtleisland.social For every artichoke that blooms, melted butter cries.

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@LeviKornelsen@dice.camp @pluralistic@mamot.fr The real fun will begin when they finally settle on a distro. The Red Hat/IBM C-suite are probably already prepping lawyers who can practice law in Denmark. Some judge is gonna have to yell at all the companies "Shut up you guys. You're all pretty. Now stop it."

@elronxenu@mastodon.cloud @mclare@recurse.social @pluralistic@mamot.fr @altonbrown@bird.makeup As much as Alton Brown kvetches about unitaskers in the kitchen, I think he'd give a breast pump a pass. And maybe even a burr grinder for coffee.

@servelan@newsie.social CEO demands immediate release of all the Epstein files and calls for The Orange One's Impeachment. And imprisonment for all his kids.

@jerry@infosec.exchange Strange meetings at the Circle K.

@saltmyhash@infosec.exchange Elves are harder to track

@dgar@aus.social I saw my ileocecal valve. It was worth it to get do this procedure without anesthesia.

@annaleen@wandering.shop Once I realized they "owned" the network inside their faraday-caged theaters, I didn't trust anything my phone said. I'd never order food or buy anything but a ticket from them.

@PoliticalCartoon@mastodonapp.uk There should be a wilted head of lettuce on a seat a couple over from him.

@jerry@infosec.exchange My grandfather grew up in the 1910s and 1920s. I'm pretty sure he was out in the sun on Brighton Beach without sunscreen or a hat. He was always having stuff carved off his face by the demotologist. I took that has cue to stay out of the sun. I think I was 12 when I had a really bad sunburn that peels but after that, I always covered up. At 70, I wear a hat and sunglasses on my 40min daily walks but don't bother covering my arms. I still have sun damage. Just had a bit frozen off my forehead and a piece of my nose reconstructed from my neck. Don't skip the hat.

@fatsam@mstdn.social I was summoned for jury duty almost yearly but usually told not to show up most of the time. Twice I had to go in. Once for a 6 week trial which I told the clerk "nope" and got rescheduled. The second time I almost got selected but convinced the judge that I'd loose $1600 as a self-employed manual therapist if I sat for the week-long trial. I set aside 3 days for duty but her trial would have wiped out 7 days of sessions. Now at 70, I'm exempt in CA. I used to game voir dire selection questions with statements like "I'm a linux system administrator. I'm used to people lying to me." (stole that one from a former IRS auditor who retired to teach classes on "how to avoid tax audits on business returns."). Never had to use it. Good luck.

@eff@mastodon.social Sadly, fewer and fewer sites are implementing a RSS feed. I suspect this is because it allows people to bypass ads. For me, it just means I only visit a site occasionally to poke around then leave.

@annaleen@wandering.shop Renew the NEW YORKER or get a new STARLOG subscription (the old one lapsed decades ago)? Hmm.

@harrybo@gamerstavern.online On the other side of the see-saw, I tried going to two gas stations to put air in my tires. I couldn't read the display on the air dispenser as it charged me $1 to do nothing. The Attendants couldn't help. I'm used to doing the usual things like this with my car and even remember when getting air and water at my local 76 was free. I ended up going to the tire place where I bought them. For $10, they filled and tested all 4 and rotated them. They even told me the tie rod u joints were a mess but completely functional. I'm seriously considering getting one of those big air stations that AAA use to reinflate flats rather than the wimpy one I got on Amazon that did nothing. Youtube's Project Farm even did a review of which ones are worth it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwbQ8eEBn68

@artwaw@c.im @angusm@mastodon.social The one I remember besides the sex one was "don't wear plaid with stripes". It was the 70s and those bell bottoms didn't go with that shirt. Nowadays, kids wouldn't listen or care.

@jerry @hoakleytechbot @slashdot Consider moving guys. What you post is important.

@nixCraft@mastodon.social Actually, for me, the choice of Linux distro is more a "what do I want to use every day?" Since I only have 1 laptop rather than a stack of old ones, it's harder to change the OS and configure a new system. I found Zorin and quite like it. When MacOS becomes unsupported on my laptop, I'll upgrade to it.

@cpi@mastodon.social Compairing my memory of the DeLaurentis version of this box (very heavy metal like the entire design aesthetic of that universe) vs. Villeneuve's version. It looks old and well used, making me wonder when the Bene Gessert started the screening process (10,000 years ago at it's inception?). And is the Gom Jabbar a single use poisoned needle? How is it transported so that some acolyte doesn't accidentally stick herself while schelping a Reverend Mother's luggage? DUNE: Prophesy has given us an early look into that universe. It was quite interesting and I'm hoping there's more to come. Not really interested in any of the Kevin Anderson/Brian Herbert stuff. It wasn't very well written and thought out, kinda like week-old left overs that haven't gone bad yet, but you know you'd better eat before they do.

@DeborahLeagueFineArt@socel.net On the plus side, it sparked a discussion paint finish from a number of friends. A neighbor is just gaga for "matte" finish. Another told me that satin for walls wears better and gives more depth. I thought my contractor would just be buying the same white paint for everything, but nope. Multiple finishes. Last time I painted was 30 years ago, so this is all new to me.

@DeborahLeagueFineArt@socel.net When I saw it, I told the designer "Yeah, I like cats. But that's way more than a "pop" of color."

@ai6yr @rombat I guess going all "Let me speak to your fucking supervisor NOW" Karenzilla doesn't work on game wardens. Maybe feeding one to a velocoraptor would help.

@allrite all those job listings that recruiters send me now have AI and Java as base requirements in addition to system administration (my main focus). I just toss those in the "don't bother replying" folder and know I'll hear from them again in 3 months.

@Guillotine_Jones @pluralistic If those are Reflecticles, that would work. If only you could get Google or Meta glasses with Reflecticle frames instead of Raybans. https://www.reflectacles.com/

@dillyd@turtleisland.social I guess it's all in how you look at it.

@paul_ipv6 @sysop408 In contrast, MAE-WEST is in the basement of a former school building on Bryant Street in Palo Alto. People walk by not knowing that a lot of the west coast Internet traffic goes through there. Google Maps says it's an Equinix Data Center currently. Don't know if it's still MAE-WEST.

@jerry@infosec.exchange mazel tov

@aral@mastodon.ar.al As soon as the Github CEO left and M$ took over, I moved EVERYTHING to codeberg.org. I didn't want M$ AI slop enshitified LLM pawing over my stuff. Now I only visit. And wash my hands with soap and hot water afterwards.

@bsdphk@fosstodon.org @LeviKornelsen@dice.camp @pluralistic@mamot.fr My heart is warmed by this fact and my day made brighter. Thank you.

@jerry@infosec.exchange I haven't had TV or cable since before the pandemic lockdown. Just me and my streaming device. Anything that was on broadcast TV I get from "sources". Since that doctor show where Zachary Quinto plays an Oliver Sachs like character when off the deep end in season 2, I haven't bothered. I'm not missing anything. It's taken you this long to figure out that besides sex, crime sells? They might as well post this every night.

@MartinTaudio@mastodon.scot Daddy and the kids will take a nap while Momma is out on the lake having fun.

@Ulrich_the_elder@thecanadian.social @DGI@graeber.social Michael Chabon used this exact question as a plot element in THE YIDDISH POLICEMAN'S UNION. Only some flunky in the FDR admin allowed that ship filled with Jewish refugees to land in Sitka Alaska and BANG!, it's the land of the Frozen Chosen.

@slashdot@mastodon.cloud Well, that's good, sort of. I can't get fibre where I live because AT&T and Sonic deem the neighborhood below a certain economic threshold. Must be because of all the Section 8 housing and rental units.

@artbysarahsammis@socialbc.ca sent a $20 tip on Ko-fi to https://ko-fi.com/M4M5GAU3Z rather than your art shop. I'm sure Kelly could care less. What about you? Do you prefer that link or something else?

@DGI@graeber.social It's at this point, I'd offer to lend someone my mother's black whip, but I don't think it will help.

@chockenberry @jonathanreed Tustin? Didn't Richard and Karen Carpenter go there? Yes, that was over 50 years ago, so I doubt you met them. But wouldn't they be semi-quasi-pseudo-famous back in the 70s?

@arstechnica@mastodon.social I'm so glad people have stopped using VT100s for terminals in pics. It was bad enough when they still used modems and teletypes.

@artbysarahsammis@socialbc.ca Or better yet, send you $$ for wet food for Kelly.

@Ulrich_the_elder@thecanadian.social @DGI@graeber.social Biden woulda done it in a heartbeat and somehow gotten the Repuglicans to accept it. The Cheetoh In Chief won't even think about it as it would anger his base.

@delta@chaos.social Luckily the only thing I used Telegram for was to send me a link to download F-Droid.

@ben@werd.social Clarke's 3rd Law: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

@chockenberry @jonathanreed Around the time you were faffing around with Basic on a tty, I was playing with APL at Valley Jr College's computer lab. Fun, huh?

@jerry@infosec.exchange Tried to access fedia.io and brave complained about the certificate. I've never seen this error. Maybe brave is getting extra picky about certs or maybe the server needs some attention. Anyway, I hope you don't spend a long time on this. Or it's just a random "Schpilkis in the Genekticazoink" error (that's my Default Answer™)

@rocketsoup@mastodon.social Sometimes, managers forget to coordinate people's vacations. All the senior SREs are having fun somewhere else while the junior SREs and interns are running things. Then an intern points out that support for AWS' Postgres 8 is ending on Friday and BANG, major database upgrade project in 2 days is born. Yes, this really happened to me. I sent out a company-wide email that a major customer's Postgres HAD to be upgraded. No objections for 2 days. 30 minutes into the 5pm upgrade, the sales manager calls to postpone it. Bzzzzt. Happened anyway as AWS' automated upgrades can't be stopped. Yes, I backed up everything beforehand.

@artbysarahsammis@socialbc.ca Those tea caddies remind me of the fancy smorgasbord appetizer my lady friend and I ordered at SCANDIA, an upscale restaurant in LA after she was accepted to grad school. There were very fancy canapés and other nascherei. I tasted one which turned out to be a very rich pate. "Here taste this!" I said to her and offered her a bite. She tasted it. "Did you just put liver in my mouth?" she said as her eyes narrowed. I guess not everyone grew up casually noshing on their Nana's chopped liver on matzie before Sunday dinner.

@irene@discuss.systems I've grown up with cats and am used to them sitting on my lap. Less so on my chest. I have a colleague who's a DD cup size and it never occurred to me that it might be painful for a 15lb cat to stand on my chest and kneed before plotzing down until she mentioned it. I can't imagine what she thought of the prospect of my 20lb black cat making himself at home on her chest.

@georgetakei@universeodon.com What would happen if a bunch of Feds show up at her door with an arrest AND an search warrant? Would her security team let them take her away? What if they call the Secret Service and are told to stop it? "But they have a full tac team, sir." Silence on the line. "OK, stand down. Cooperate." Meanwhile Bondi learns about a special holding cell in the Capital she didn't know about prior to that day. Her attorney meets with her and doesn't look happy. Certain files have been found in her home.

@artbysarahsammis@socialbc.ca I'm sure Kelly and any 4-legged inhabitants of your household will gladly help you. Nana's been gone over 40 years, but I still keep TJ's Chicken Liver Pate in the fridge. Not enough hardboiled egg, but I cope somehow. https://www.becomebetty.com/trader-joes-truffle-mousse-pate/

@jerry@infosec.exchange It could be worse. You could be maintaining a sendmail based email system. @cstross@wandering.shop put that punishment into a Laundry novel requiring an assnozzle non-technical manager attend a weeklong class on it. She came back and would cringe anytime anyone said "rules" in meetings.