Instance defederation drama retold through half-remembered hearsay? Surely we can do better.

Fun language fact:

BRB, putting my bed in orbit around the black hole from TNG “Night Terror”. Can’t have bad dreams if an alien ship from a parallel dimension is blocking REM sleep.

Neither Napoleon’s consulate nor his empire were democratic. Even the directory that he overthrew only stayed in power by nullifying electoral results that they didn’t like.

Summary:

Street = Has businesses, houses, shops and sidewalks. Designed for humans.

Road = Higher speed limit than streets, generally no businesses or sidewalks, as it’s just there to connect areas. Designed for cars.

Stroad = A connection between areas that also has businesses. You have higher speed limits, minimal sidewalks and it’s dangerous/impossible to cross on foot. The only way to get around to different businesses along a stroad is by car.

The server code could also be released as a binary blob under a proprietary license. No different from distributing any other piece of software.

It was a giant open-plan office and there were only 1-2 people constantly vaping, so I didn’t smell much. It was quiet though, so it could be easily heard.

Everyone else did the right thing and smoked/vaped on the roof every hour. Any why wouldn’t you? It’s a guaranteed break away from your crummy desk.

In my anecdotal experience, French people vape a shitload.

I had French coworkers who vaped nonstop in the Paris office. You could hear the click of the heating element every few minutes. I’ve also seen old French ladies ripping from huge tricked out vapes.

At my last job, there was no planning of work/projects. Like, there was a general plan of “We need feature X by Q3 and here’s what it should do”, but nothing about breaking work down into smaller units or prioritizing different tasks.

The manager would drop an email: “Hey, can you do …” and that was it. Now it’s another thing to throw down the waterfall. Big surprise, the same bastard would harp about how the project was underperforming!

ARR I think is Annual Recurring Revenue

It’s probably using WebView, or whatever it’s called where an android app brings up a browser window. If you have Firefox as your default web browser, apps will use it instead of chrome. It’s usually pretty nice, because if you have adblock in Firefox you also get adblock in the app.

It’s possible that the sign-in webpage wants to talk to the camera before returning control to the app.

If it’s trying to talk to a device over Bluetooth or USB, it’s not supported in Firefox. Mozilla refuses to implement WebUSB because they think the danger of letting people accidentally flash malware onto a physical device outweighs the benefits.

Pretty sure that “Bruh” was on every European monarch’s lips in 1848

https://medievalbritain.com/type/medieval-life/clothing/medieval-trousers/

This could almost be funny if the reverse side said something like “He’s too heavy for me”. Even then, it would only work because you’re expecting a “haha marriage bad” reference.

They aren’t the cheapest, but I really like using GripStics to reseal bags. As long as the bag is not made of a very thick material, you can get an airtight seal (Eg, good for plastic-y foiled bags, not so good for a bag of flour made out of paper). There’s no mechanical movement at all, so they’ll never break.

I don’t eat at many expensive restaurants, but that plating reminds me of watching the old Japanese Iron Chef episodes, and how 90’s the food presentation is. Sometimes I look at the (probably delicious) dishes made on that show, and the presentation looks as unappetizing as a 1960’s salad jello. I lack the right words as a culinary critic, but this style seems like “what people 30-40 years ago expected fancy food to look like”.

The episode where Neelix dies and gets ressurrected by Borg technology is up there as one of the best Voyager episodes. I’m just annoyed that Neelix’s new relationship with religion and death never comes up again in later episodes.

want to get away from big tech

uses a filesystem that’s patent encumbered by Oracle

/s (ZFS is fine, not here to argue about license compatibility)

This is what the bathroom from the house on Blue Lick Road looks like after renovation.