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Columbia University’s student newspaper has an editorial about what transpired.

I had to test/fix something at work and I set up a Windows VM because it was a bug specific to Windows users. Once I was done, I thought, “Maybe I should keep this VM for something.” but I couldn’t think of anything that wasn’t a game (which probably wouldn’t work well in a VM anyway) or some super specific enterprise...

Waitress: You folks ready?...

Lots of people were way more important than history books give them credit for. Do you have a favorite?...

I remember Funk and Wagnall’s at A&P but was that universal before we got computers?

I’ve never worked with major enterprise or government systems where there’s aging mainframes — the type that get parodied for running COBOL. So, I’m completely ignorant, although fascinated. Are they power hogs? Are they wildly cheap to run? Are they even run as they were back in the day?

I had Midjourney make Stalin the Tankie Engine.

I’ll be named THIEF soon enough.

A worthy fucking adversary.

I found the least efficient way to get to the Linux CLI.

I ordered a Raspberry Pi 5 so I have a Pi 3 that’s about to be redundant. I haven’t used Pi-Hole so I was thinking it’d be good for that but I’m curious if there’s any downsides for users. Are sites blocked if you dont whitelist them? That sort of thing....

I setup my iPhone 15 Pro today and it sounds noticeably better than the 14 Pro. I’m curious if they upgraded the speakers or if there’s something off with my older phone (like pocket lint accruing or something like that).

Let the OPECs keep their gasoline.

This weekend, I watched a 13 year-old play Far Cry 5 and the game just seemed like wave after wave of enemies to shoot or blow up (or hit with a shovel). But he also has the patience of a 13 year-old and has no concept of beating a stealth mission by throwing a rock or waiting for a guard to turn around....

The Federal Reserve has already launched a small test of near-instantaneous financial transactions. Every time they talk about payments as a future feature of X/Twitter, I wonder if they know that’s getting Sherlocked.