Notices by Like Mucas :pumpkin_ugh: (mwl@io.mwl.io)

Today's status:

Fermi, taking a moment to bask in the glory of defeating the treat puzzle. #petRats #rats

Respect goes to people's labor, never their products. I like BSD, but I respect the developers because they have done the work to develop the expertise that merits the respect.

There is no reason to offer that respect to people who haven't done the work.

I have more respect for people who spent a Saturday evening failing to get code to compile, or trying to write a story that doesn't work, or struggling to get perspective right on a watercolor, than to anyone prompting an LLM.

holy crap, my Masto install just showed me "Who To Follow???!?" :flan_executioner:

Fortunately, it had a button to never see it again. :flan_molotov:

I follow people based on a history of positive mutual interaction, period.

When They say that the death of AI will "kill the Internet," they're wrong. It'll cut off the flow of algorithmic sewage. It'll cripple Meta, X, Google, and so on.

Those of us who have our own web sites, who communicate independently? We'll be fine.

Welcome to 1995. Here's your modem.

Can't wait!

@lmorchard

what possible advantage is there to having a smart fridge? Seriously.

A nice discussion of passkeys.

They're for the company's convenience. They don't protect the user.

https://hawksley.dev/blog/i-dont-like-passkeys

In case you didn't know: the Starbucks union is actively calling for a boycott.

Please respect the union. Get your coffee elsewhere.

https://www.boycottstarbucks.net/

Fermi outsmarted the thumb-beast and climbed the outside of the cage, where all the extra rat accoutrements hide. #petRats #rats

That dish is empty, my little man. Nothing there for you.

Email this morning: someone sent a wordpress password reset request for my admin account from IP 127.0.0.1.

I didn't need this today. #sysadmin

Apartment kitchen sink stopped up Tuesday. Checked the trap, it's clear: the clog is way down. Put in a request for help. Was told they'd see me by close of business Tuesday or maybe Wednesday morning.

Wednesday, was told it would be Thursday or, at worst, Friday.

Storm took the power out Thursday afternoon through Friday evening.

There's a maintenance guy on site today, but he's dealing with emergencies from the power outage.

Asked the complex manager. She said it'd be Tuesday at least, and I should buy some Drano.

Drano is a great way to alienate the maintenance people.

So I'm buying paper plates, plastic forks, and microwave meals.

Someone pointed me at https://www.harborfreight.com/25-ft-drill-powered-drain-auger-59721.html for fixing clogged drains. I'd spend the $30 to get my sink back.

Anyone use these before? am I likely to wreck my plumbing?

Working on next month's #FreeBSDJournal Letters column:

'Terry Pratchett famously said that “hope is the greatest gift.” I would never argue with Sir Terry. Rule of System Administration #20 reminds us that “hope prevents you from doing your job,” however, and that’s a good place to start.'

I'm looking for a very tall comic about creating art. At the top, where all these artists are creating happy fun stuff, this punk dude is making a death balloon on a chain. His friend is laughing at him for doing weird stuff that nobody likes. The punk kicks his death balloon off a cliff, where it plunges into a deep dark abyss, chain rattling behind it.

At the bottom, someone buried in muck grabs the chain and uses it to pulls himself up.

Anyone remember who did this or where it is?

For the record, I do not hand the guys treats on a golden platter.

It's a tiny white platter. #petRats #rats

When you choose human-created badness over anything AI-made.

Also, *why* you choose human-created badness over anything AI-made.

my instance is not allowing me to upload rat photos. Getting 503 errors. Guess it's trouble ticket time? :flan_disappointed:

I have a recurrent typo in #openzfsmastery: "snapshat."

Apparently my subconscious has opinions.

Dear Reaper Man: I appreciate your efforts to snag a particular 80-year-old --

Polishing the #openzfsmastery chapter on zvols and virtualization, and came across this:

"Windows in particular has low distress tolerance."

It's rare that I write a perfect sentence, but it does happen.