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c0dec0dec0de, 10 days ago to random

Doing yard work with kiddo yesterday, he hopped into the wheelbarrow. So, obviously, it becomes a joke and not just a ride.
“Welcome to Wheelbarrow Airlines, where we have a better safety record than Boeing.”
#DadJoke #joke

c0dec0dec0de, 16 days ago to random

I'm learning LaTeX, because it's more fun than actually looking for a job.

c0dec0dec0de, 17 days ago to random

Finally listening to Deb Chachra's How Infrastructure Works and it is just wonderful. I wanted to squee when she described Boston's Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Memorial Bridge as a "charismatic megastructure". It's just a great book.
Recommended to me (not personally) by @pluralistic
https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/17/care-work/

c0dec0dec0de, 20 days ago to 13thFloor

This was linked by @pluralistic last week(?) and it’s a good read about the (messed up) morality of Ender’s Game. Finally read it today.
https://johnjosephkessel.wixsite.com/kessel-website/creating-the-innocent-killer
#fiction #literature

c0dec0dec0de, 23 days ago to random

Alright, where on fedi is the nerd who uses a #YubiKey to unlock and start their car? (And do they have a sweet blog about their nerd-mobile?)

c0dec0dec0de, 24 days ago to random

Idle, delayed realization: transitioning to thinking of energy as unlimited/renewable and material as the limiting factor will require a serious change for petroleum refineries. Like, their whole operation uses material (crude oil) as both energy source and raw material for product. From the economic of a refinery owner, buying a whole lot of electricity to heat the fractionating column and cracking and reforming reactors instead of burning crude is just not going to be attractive.

c0dec0dec0de, 28 days ago to random

Keanu Reeves - yes, that Keanu Reeves- cowrote a book with China Miéville?!
https://thebookofelsewhere.com/

c0dec0dec0de, 29 days ago to Blog

I posted a web log thing!
It's niche and stupid. If you use JFrog Artifactory and a Red Hat-based Linux and want user-specific credentials for use with dnf, I know how to do that and you can too:

#dnf #artifactory #blog

https://0xc0dec0dec0de.github.io/2024/04/16/using-user-specific-credentials-with-dnf.html

c0dec0dec0de, 1 month ago to random

I hate working with Ansible and Jinja. Is there some set of filters that will take a list of dictionaries like this and work without making Ansible loop and do multiple transactions per host?

- ansible.builtin.package:  
 name: "{{ packages | ??? }}"  
 state: present  
 become: true  
 vars:  
 packages:  
- name:  
- gcc  
- gcc-c++  
 version: "13.2.1"  
- name:  
- libxml2  
- libxml2-devel  
 version: "2.10.4-3"  

#ansible #jinja2

c0dec0dec0de, 1 month ago to random

Mid-life “crisis”: as emphatically not-a-car-guy, I am possessed of a desire to build a car. This is facially absurd. I don’t possess the necessary skills, don’t have a garage to store a partially-constructed vehicle, and definitely don’t have the time or funds to spend on such a venture.
I’m not building a fiberglass facsimile of an ‘89 MR2. But I kinda want to. Maybe make the lines just a touch sharper - and the cabin a touch bigger to accommodate my height better…
No. Silly. Frivolous. Nope.

c0dec0dec0de, 1 month ago to random

Ugh. I want to write a blog post to share something but I don't have a blog and I don't really feel like I have enough things to say often enough to warrant really starting one.

c0dec0dec0de, 1 month ago to ADHD

Extremely #ADHD feels in the back half of the first verse of Bad Seed Rising’s 30 (for which I have to mumble the ages because I’m well north of 30):
My world turns too slowly
It's like a blur and it's passing by
Come Monday, come Tuesday
(I don't know, I don't know)
It's my life and I'm losing

c0dec0dec0de, 1 month ago to random

Reminiscing about the two computers of mine that literally caught fire - one twice!

c0dec0dec0de, 2 months ago to ADHD

It is really perverse the hoops they make you jump through to get #ADHD medications refilled when they absolutely know that you have issues with both focus and memory.

c0dec0dec0de, 2 months ago to programming

Interviewer: So, tell us about your approach to problems with software distribution.
Candidate: hefts bolt-cutters and a sledge well, first off, I’m trying to solve the issue OF software distribution, not problems WITH it.
#programming #software #SoftwareEngineering

c0dec0dec0de, 2 months ago to random

Might be absent for a bit. Deleting most of the apps on my phone in an attempt to reduce readily-available distractions.
This is going to suck.

c0dec0dec0de, 2 months ago to scifi

“Something shared,
Something due,
Something secret,
Something you”
authenticator rhyme, Glasshouse, @cstross
#SciFi #InfoSec

c0dec0dec0de, 2 months ago to ADHD

#ADHD parent: In this (attention) economy?!

c0dec0dec0de, 2 months ago to random

My kingdom* for a damned wire coat hanger. How the hell am I supposed to McGuyver this stupid drain plug out around a 90° elbow and down 6-12 inches of pipe without a wire coat hanger?
*not really, I just why did we stop using wire coat hangers? Plastic ones suck and aren’t strong enough, but at least they aren’t properly being recycled anywhere in this county, so I guess everything’s great.

c0dec0dec0de, 2 months ago to random

Unfortunate, but entirely expected:
NH Republicans defeat all gun control bills in party-line vote. At least one of them complains about not helping suicidal people, but I can practically guarantee that person’s voting record includes defunding or rejecting money to increase outreach or assistance of any kind for people in mental health crisis.
https://www.wmur.com/article/new-hampshire-state-senate-defeats-gun-control-bills/46808201

#NHPolitics

c0dec0dec0de, 3 months ago to random

Tell me you didn't store the timestamp for a file without telling me...

c0dec0dec0de, 3 months ago to programming

Apropos of nothing at all, if someone tells you that you have to do something nonsensical to your code base at work because some other group/team/internal org requires it, speak directly to that other entity about it!
Don’t remove your unit tests or all links to documentation based on a game of Telephone.
#programming #advice

c0dec0dec0de, 3 months ago to Cats

⚠️Hugs considered harmful⚠️
Local man endangers resident feline by removing him from the ground and brutally snuggling his little face. Reports indicate that the same man traumatized a resident canine by savagely putting his arms around the dog and calling him “A good, handsome boy.”
#cats #dogs

c0dec0dec0de, 3 months ago to programming

I have used a git subtree, and while I kinda hate it. I still think it was the right call given the constraints.
This is not a reply because I don’t want to argue with the take that brought it to mind.

If, for some reason, you want to use git subtree, think very carefully about doing so. Reasons follow.

1/5
#git #GitSubTree #programming #scm

c0dec0dec0de, 3 months ago to Software

SBOM: The origins of our disc contents
#Software #SBOM