Notices by Jordan :ms_nonbinary_flag:​ (jordan@sometimes.social)

@eblu

Dishwasher caught fire. It wasn't even in the way that they usually do (i.e. piece of plastic falls on to the drying coil during drying cycle) - this time, the control board started burning during the wash cycle. Thankfully we noticed it before it really went up; wouldn't turn off, even after opening it, so I had to rush down to the basement and flip the breaker (since local building code oh-so-wisely dictates that they be hardwired to power and that the wiring be encased in a metal tube) - I have now disassembled the dishwasher's junction box and physically cut and taped off its connection to power, since it is on the same breaker as other things in the kitchen and I would like to turn that breaker back on.

There was a vacant lot by my kid's school that they recently started improving; put a fence around it, put a foundation in, etc. Assumed they were gonna build a house there.

Turns out the house was already built! They closed the road today and brought in a giant crane, trucked the house in in two pieces and plopped it on the foundation.

The house was actually built by students at the high school, as part of a geometry class(!), and will be sold at an affordable price to someone not making more than 120% of the median neighborhood income.

@NanoRaptor Seize them! implies that I have minions, that's the one for me

I've had the urge to buy/build a new computer lately, but absolutely not the need, so it's nice to live vicariously through other people's hardware purchases. I've actually idled and shut down 3 different superfluous PCs in the house over the course of the last year. Down to only the router and the server being powered 24/7. Not sure what I should do with the extra gear, part of me is like "sell it" but I hate dealing with strangers and there's a strong "you might need that some day" contingent in my head. Used to be that that spare computers didn't hang around long; there used to always be someone in my social circle who needed something, but between things getting cheaper, things getting "fast enough," and everybody having a smartphone, demand is way way down. These days my friends don't ask me for any of my PCs, they ask if I want to haul away their old ones.

DEFCON fucking over the company that made their badges and then throwing out the guy that wrote the code for the badges for putting an "unauthorized" credit in for the company they fucked over is the most 2020s shit ever

https://www.reddit.com/r/Defcon/comments/1eoe4u7/comment/lheaj3b/

Ugggh fine I guess I'll go do the shopping.

One thing they don't tell you about having a family is that they want to eat, like, every day, multiple times. This is not how I lived when I was on my own.

Mastodon needs a "time knife" icon to hide boosts you've seen 17 times over the past 3 days. Like, I don't wanna mute this person, but, I've seen this post. Wow have I seen this post.

Yay, I finally got fed up and deleted my account at a shitty "no politics" venue for clout-chasing techbros!

No, not that one. A different one. I'll get to that one eventually...

Honestly, I will probably never delete my Orange Website account as long as I am able to go there and provoke some random shithead into a sputtering rage by downvoting their comment, it's much cheaper than therapy

@annika https://inv.tux.pizza/watch?v=LNvvEu-fJxE

@annika https://inv.tux.pizza/watch?v=DiQuf1IpqhM&listen=false

Are you excited about the weird deer girl anime? I am excited about the weird deer girl anime.

Vertical fly on my shorts plus horizontal fly on my underwear gives peeling a real MST3K vibe

@annika Is it like, prominent in the UI, or is this something I can happily ignore if I don't possess the correct API key?

PROTIP: Sterilize your pans by storing them in the oven and forgetting they're in there and preheating the oven

Step 1: Add a new Patreon sub

Step 2: Mute the Discord server that I was automatically added to and can't seem to permanently leave

@aud @x4nw @nkizz @stylus Fun story:

GitHub Enterprise Server (the on-prem version of GitHub) was originally based on Ubuntu. At some point shortly after I joined the company, I helped lead a panic migration over to Debian, because word on the street was that Canonical was going around and hitting people that were selling VM images based on Ubuntu up for a percentage of their sales. Their basis for this demand was "use of their trademark" - ever notice how they shove the text ubuntu into the version number of every package in their distro? Yeah. That.

Anyway, on my way out, post Microsoft buyout, I was forced to participate in a migration from Debian back from Ubuntu, because Ubuntu had been sprinkled with whatever magic pixie piss the US military likes its software to smell like, and Debian had not. I brought up the original reason for migrating to Debian, and asked if our lawyers had cleared going back to Ubuntu and/or if Microsoft had some relationship with Canonical that allowed for this. I got told off hard for questioning a Microsoft manager, and especially for daring to even inquire as to the relationship between Microsoft and Canonical, and was informed that it was absolutely not my place ever mention any possible legal issue with any decision ever.

If I had a nickel for every time that, two weeks before my stay, an Airbnb host has tried to get me to cancel the reservation I made over a year in advance, because they've just now realized their place is in the path of totality and finally understand why anyone would want to stay in Peehole, Indiana on a Monday, I would have two nickels, but it's funny that it happened twice.

Like, I'm not trying to pull a fast one. I'm just planning ahead. You can go look on Wikipedia and see all the eclipses that are happening for the rest of the century. This shit should not be a surprise.