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zalasur

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I play strategy games, write software, and stream on Peertube (not necessarily in that order). Also, sock monkeys! Preferred pronouns: he/him/his.

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zalasur, to random
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My observations of a certain segment of IT:

Infosec Professional, 2023: I am an expert with years of experience who understands best security practices and the most urgent vulnerabilities plaguing the Internet in the modern day and age

Infosec Professional, 2024: This is my farm. I grow potato. I do not live within a five mile radius of a power line or any other functioning electronics.

zalasur,
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@ai6yr A little of column A, a little of column B 😉

zalasur, to random
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It's impossible to sing along to a Pearl Jam song without sounding like Adam Sandler impersonating Eddie Vedder on SNL. This is known fact.

HCBunny, to random
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Posting to the wind

zalasur,
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@HCBunny Remember to post downwind, not upwind, or else you'll get post blown back into your face.

RickiTarr, to random
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What cracks me up is when you go to a restaurant, and they ask if you've been there before, and then they say, "Well, we do things a little different here", and then it's exactly like every other restaurant, but more expensive.

zalasur,
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@RickiTarr "Our chefs do this amazing thing where they make the portions smaller!"

"Does this save us money?"

"Oh, no. No, no. Not even close."

zalasur, to random
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So did the brain worm starve to death? HEY-OOOOOOO

batkaren, to random
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Great day for an old-timey comeback of mercury poisoning and brain worms!

zalasur,
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@batkaren I read that and you'd think I'd be shocked. Shocked, I tell you!

Ok not all that shocked.

zalasur, to random
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If you think you're part of the problem, try setting your sights higher and become most of the problem.

zalasur, to random
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I have this urge to play Minecraft but I don't want to rejoin the multiplayer server. It's not that it's a bad server; quite the opposite. But being absent from an active server hosting a sandbox game means you join in and everything is unrecognizable and they've got this crazy economy system going and I'm like I just wanna play with silly blocks.

mudboot, to random
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I had a dream that someone took me to an octopus restaurant but didnt tell me until we walked into the dining area. And they said, "this is an octopus restaurant" and even in my shocked state, I immediately located the kitchen doors, ran in, found the octopus tank, stuck both my arms in, they latched on, rescued every octopus i could manage, and ran.
And i'd do it again too

zalasur,
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@mudboot Somewhere out there in the indescribable aether there are a bunch of dream octopodes who owe you their lives.

RobSF, to random
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One thing they don’t tell you is that when you’re in your mid-60s reading a novel about characters in their late 40s, you still imagine them as older than you.

zalasur,
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@RobSF I once described this guy I saw as "an older gentleman". I was asked how old, and I replied, "he seemed to be in his late forties or early fifties."

It slowly dawned on me. That's me. I just described me.

zalasur, to random
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"We have updated your estimated delivery time. Pray we do not update it any further."

andrewdessler, to random
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typing planet "Jupiter" and almost — almost! — typed it Jupyter

zalasur,
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@andrewdessler Still mad at myself that I keep typing "google" when referring to the number.

mcc, to random
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I love Nine Inch Nails, and I love the Revolting Cocks, but I've never listened to, like, any Ministry. I wonder if I should. One problem is it's hard to know where to get started, there is a lot of it

zalasur,
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@mcc Ministry is one of those bands where if you start with a random album it will be a solid choice no matter what.

My personal favorite is Filth Pig.

Mrfunkedude, to random
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My daughter just quit her job that reduced her hours down to 8 a week.

Good for her.

I'm sure she'll find something else soon, or start selling her paintings. Either way, I'm glad she's done with that place.

If I was a bitter father, I'd wait two months, create an alias, and start a complaint campaign to corporate about their managers lack of any real managerial skills.

But, that's not me. (this time) I'd rather focus on the future and helping her move forward.

zalasur,
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@HouseOfSten @Mrfunkedude They say that making good decisions is the result of wisdom. They also say that wisdom is the result of making bad decisions.

mudboot, to random
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working outside is rewarding but physically preparing for a forty degree difference from the start to the end of your day is exhausting

zalasur,
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@mudboot I remember those days. Having clothing options that were appropriate for each post of the day, allowing for weather changes, was always a challenge.

zalasur,
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@mudboot "I don't think I need a jacket today" always led to problems later that day. Every time.

zalasur, to random
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So, about the StackOverflow/openAI announcement:

I'll be honest: SO's utility has, along with a number of online resources for technical information, degraded considerably in recent years. It's hard to put my finger on when this started happening, but the days of "I just copied the code off of SO" are years behind us.

Partly this has to do with the proliferation of web platforms. When everyone was using jQuery it was easy to consolidate common questions and answers. Not so much anymore.

zalasur,
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But another aspect to the problem is that a lot of people who answer technical questions seem to have this habit of missing the point.

Instead if answering a question straight, they try to guess at the questioner's true intent and answer the question they think is being asked.

Or they berate them for asking and wasting everyone's time.

Or they just flat out answer incorrectly. And that one gets upvoted for some reason.

It's been a creeping problem for years.

zalasur,
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So the news about LLM integration is just the final layer of icing of the shit cake that SO has turned into in recent years. Basically it will accelerate what has been an ongoing entropy issue with the site.

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WARNING! This image may trigger PINSecurity.

From an analysis of 3.4m PIN code leaked from several data breaches https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/most-common-pin-codes/

A diagonal line of ‘heat’ from bottom left to top right reveals people choosing double digits (2323, 6868 etc). A strong horizontal line at the 19 point shows people using their birth year as a PIN code (1971, 1998 etc). And a large amount of heat in the bottom left shows how people commonly use their birthdate in a MM/DD or DD/MM format. The most common code in the set is 1234.
The Top 20 most common 4 digit PIN numbers, as revealed by an analysis of data breaches, constitute 27% of all PIN numbers. They are 1234, 1111, 0000, 1212, 7777, 1004, 2000, 4444, 2222, 6969, 9999, 3333, 5555, 6666, 1122, 1313,8888,4321,2001,1010

zalasur,
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@infobeautiful "That's amazing, I have the same combination on my luggage!" - Mel Brooks as President Scroob

AlarminglyBad, to Funny
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COMIC VIDEO: Quest

One does not simply blaze it.

Alarmingly Bad comic video where Gandalf and Frodo have a conversation

zalasur, (edited )
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@AlarminglyBad "Frodo! You've turned invisible!"

"Ok Gandalf you really need to lay off that pipe."

"...Pipe?"

zalasur, to fediverse
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One thing I wish #PeerTube did was post a federated announcement whenever I went live. Right now I have to post things manually just like I did on Twitch which sort of defeats the purpose.

"But you can just create a new live video every time you go live and it will federate that" Do you know what a pain in the ass that is?

zalasur,
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@Chocobozzz Ah, that does make sense.

Thanks for looking into this. I wasn't even expecting any sort of response to my venting yesterday. It's very much appreciated.

zalasur, to random
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I'm going to try to get that technical stream going today. One thing I need to be a bit careful about is hooking up my S3 bucket in the CMS config. I want to try to avoid exposing my credentials so I think I'll work on that before going live.

If it turns out I can't get around to it today, I'll do another Dwarf Fortress stream instead.

zalasur,
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Ah ha, so I think I found it. MobX. I've used it with React. In fact, it's what is being used by my current website. MobX has the benefit of not being opinionated and since I already have experience with it, I already have a head start on the learning curve.

I just need to figure out the integration piece with Lit.

Ok, so I think I'm set on the tech stack for my new web site.

Ironically the only major change after all that talk about refactoring was switching from React to Lit. 😅

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Help I cannot stop interpreting POS as Piece of Shit instead of Point of Sale

zalasur,
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@schratze I worked on a Point Of Sale software system for a big box retail chain (my first software gig writing PHP code interestingly enough) and yes we heard all the jokes. And we made plenty of them ourselves. 😂

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