Ryan Finnie

To: Office Staff
Re: FF

Hi folks,

Just a reminder that today is Fracas Friday, so please be mindful of the people around you who are going hog wild, causing an uproar, or are just all up in a commotion.

Thank you.

I throw car batteries in the sea sometimes
Saying "Ayo, that's a good throw"
The eels appreciate the top-up charge
Saying "Ayo, safe and legal thrill"

[Sung to Taio Cruz - Dynamite]
Nothing but the finest memes from ten years ago

I want a key/value store with a REST API which is POST to set a key with a value and GET to get it.

I later realized I just described WebDAV, albeit with PUT instead of POST.

Have you tried turning it off and then tossing it into the woods?

I lived in Riverside, California for just under a year... and just realized I couldn't tell you the name of the eponymous river.

> Properly mixed mortar ready for use should have a consistency comparable to thick peanut butter. Test its thickness by

I was disappointed by how that sentence ended.

#TIL: `git add --intent-to-add`. Signals, well, an intent to add a file. Importantly, this means `git diff` will diff it against an empty file, allowing for a more complete working tree patch such as:

git add --intent-to-add .
(git status; echo; git diff) >../tree.patch

Keep in mind that this also means `git reset --hard` will remove the untracked files.

When .zip was added as a TLD a few years go, I registered badidea.zip, and set it up as a web site which immediately served you a file called badidea.zip which contained a QR code which sent you to badidea.zip. I think I made the first domain quine.

(I let it lapse last year because, amazingly, .zip TLD is a bad idea.)

Server manufacturers must have entire R&D teams dedicated to figuring out the longest time it can wait at various points in the POST process before you start to wonder if something has gone wrong.

28. A moose is not a beaver.
29. A moose is a different animal than a beaver.

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72296862/15/buc-ees-ltd-v-coles-ip-holdings-llc/

@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io Reminds me of the Geico advertising "You could save up to 15% or more by switching to Geico", which presents the following possibilities:

• You do save less than 15%
• You do save over 15%
• You don't save anything

There is no way you can save exactly 15% by switching to Geico.

The person who cleans up my front yard and trims the palm trees is listed in my phone as Kendra Landscaper. It feels a bit impersonal until you realize that's basically how most last names were invented.

Open source projects are now essentially forcing human visitors to run bitcoin miners on their web pages, to discourage the bots who are burning through datacenters to scrape the sites. I hate this timeline.

See my LinkedIn post about a new strategic partnership coming soon!

My house has a Chamberlain garage door opener, which has Security+ 2.0 DRM on both the wireless AND WIRED (i.e. the button you press which goes to the device a few feet away) sides... you know, for the children. And not for vendor lock-in.

That DRM has been defeated, and there's a local IoT device I have connected to my Home Assistant, called ratgdo (which I later learned stands for Rage Against the Garage Door Opener) with firmware to use MQTT or ESPHome. Today I switched it from the former to the latter and discovered the ESPHome firmware has a lot more functionality.

Turns out the GDO's firmware stores the number of times it has ever been operated, and for my opener, that's 8,850. That's 8,850 up and 8,850 down. Security+ 2.0 was introduced in 2011 but I suspect the current opener was installed in 2015 or so, so that's over twice per day for over a decade.

libera.chat's new LLM agent policy can be summarized as "Here's a list of straightforward rules any LLM agent must adhere to, such as not joining channels autonomously. Any LLM agent which can be trusted to follow the rules is welcome, but no LLM agent has ever been shown to actually follow the rules, so kindly fuck off."

https://libera.chat/news/bot-policy-update

"Yeah, that’s not very typical, I’d like to make that point."
"Well, how was it un-typical?"
"Well there are a lot of these Cybertrucks going to Trump rallies all the time, and very seldom do the wheels fall off. I just don’t want people thinking that Cybertrucks aren’t safe."
"Was this Cybertruck safe?"
"Well, I was thinking more about the other ones."
"The ones that are safe?"
"Yeah, the ones where the wheels don't fall off."

https://www.kbb.com/car-news/tesla-recalls-cybertruck-because-wheels-may-fall-off/

Me as I'm going through watching https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukK7lEWoQVA :

"Oh, maybe the QR standard actually has a multipart spec which is underutilized but would support both a URL and metadata? Ah no, it's just a URL with metadata jammed into the URL. So if the GS1 QR standard is new, I assume there's a starting sentinel so the web site has flexibility in how they can integrate the metadata into their existing URL constraints? Ah no, it's just grafted onto the top-level of the path part of the domain and the site operator will just need to work around it (or set up a different subdomain for the QR codes)."

Apropos of nothing, it's 25 years later and I'm still pissed at SPF for hijacking the domain's root TXT record rather than, you know, thinking ahead 5 seconds and using an underscore subdomain.

Tip of my tongue: the Strontium 5 processor. The reference is likely from a movie / show / game, probably not a book. Obviously a play on Pentium, so likely the media was from the 90s / 2000s. Google is no help.

Elder? Oh my no, I'm merely an Eld.

I hate having to click through all those cage-free egg popups.

There's something poetic about "wiping" a LUKS partition by removing all of its key slots. The encrypted data still exists, but it can never be unlocked.

I swear the furballs have tripled in size since the last time I checked, which was about two days ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4-L2nfGcuE