2024-03-29

Activity Log

hackers.town: 2024-03-29 Fri 06:51

MTV special on young adults still living with their parents, coming of age in a recession, living in the boomer shadow, getting too much screen time.

Highlights include a persistent watermark, copyrighted music snippets that have not yet been muted by copyright strikes, and a neoliberal funk rock band.

1991 SPECIAL REPORT: “GENERATION X” - YouTube

hackers.town: 2024-03-29 Fri 07:46

At some point – I’ve noticed since 14.4, may’ve been earlier – my MBP has gotten much better about recognizing the presence of a DisplayPort connection on wake.

Haven’t had to disconnect and reconnect that monitor the last couple days.

hackers.town: 2024-03-29 Fri 09:30

Meanwhile @IamMrsGeek has been doing a giveaway on those nice notebooks she sells, and if you want to maybe get a free notebook with a lovely drawn tree cover go to the tikking tok place and leave a comment:

https://www.tiktok.com/@deedriano/video/7351223879039307050

Or if free is less of a concern – https://deejwi.me will always link out to whatever she’s got going on. BUY MORE NOTEBOOKS SO YOU CAN GO “I WILL NEVER TOUCH THESE NOTEBOOKS UNTIL I HAVE A PERFECT IDEA” AND KEEP DOING THAT WHILE THERE IS ROOM IN YOUR HOUSE GO ON IT’S WHAT YOU’RE DOING ANYWAYS

She has the only income in the house. I’m helping out where I can.

hackers.town: 2024-03-29 Fri 10:00

i was doing something

sort of on purpose

a couple hours ago

i forget what

lemme check the wreckage of browser tabs and tmux panes

hackers.town: 2024-03-29 Fri 10:05

their job description: “you love writing code”

my linkedin profile: “professional code hater”

Sure, it matches. It’s just more a tough love kinda thing.

hackers.town: 2024-03-29 Fri 10:16

Good Friday music

#NowPlaying

Ultraglide In Black by The Dirtbombs

hackers.town: 2024-03-29 Fri 10:34

“He was like that when I got here. Don’t look at me like that.”

hackers.town: 2024-03-29 Fri 10:43

I have to go slow and careful so I implement this terrible idea correctly. That’s why all the toots.

hackers.town: 2024-03-29 Fri 10:43

no no no if i explain it then it won’t come true

hackers.town: 2024-03-29 Fri 11:50

A security issue only in the latest releases of xz, so most folks on stable distro releases can rest easy?

Meanwhile I use Arch BTW so keeping an eye on the related issue:

https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/xz/-/issues/2

hackers.town: 2024-03-29 Fri 14:17

“She was like that when I got here.”

hackers.town: 2024-03-29 Fri 16:59

So many absolute tangents I have been able to authoritatively answer thanks to ADHD.

“Amazing! Now about your assigned work?”

what assigned work

hackers.town: 2024-03-29 Fri 17:10

Reading a data analysis book. There’s an exercise to make recommendations. Awkwardly realizing that one of my recommendations is basically industrial espionage.

Might tweak that one a bit.

hackers.town: 2024-03-29 Fri 17:36

@Quinnypig

4 things I learned in my first 30 days at Amazon

the box only holds pain

fear is the mind killer

hope clouds observability data

Only Jeff gets to laugh

hackers.town: 2024-03-29 Fri 21:11

xz just makes me sad. Tech and FOSS culture in its current form will always produce more burnout, more vulnerable people, and more software vulnerabilities that exist because “people are dicks” instead of because “software is hard.”

Both are true, but it’s the first one that’s gonna kick our ass.

No I don’t know how to fix this. It’s human nature, and the people who take advantage of it. None of those go away. Just do your bit to look out for each other. Even when you’re dealing with a P0 at work, have some empathy. That’s the best we can do.