Notices by jornuary (jordan@sometimes.social)

February in Chicago and the oranges are in bloom

@skinnylatte I hate that San Francisco bread, and every sandwich shop across the nation grabs a loaf of the crappiest version of it when they want to "fancy up" a sandwich

At this point, if I see a startup job that's not remote, and the company isn't working on something physical, I assume it's run by fools who like to waste money

Maybe the fact that you need $30 million for a spare Bluesky to be viable is a sign that it's not the technology you should be trying to billionaire-proof

Like I don't know how you get more billionaire proof than a bunch of little city-states filled with freaky little goblins, many of which are run by people motivated by things other than money

It's weird that a bunch of people that definitely know ActivityPub exists want $30 million to build a second "billionaire-proof" Bluesky, right?

@skinnylatte I would be so hungry all the time if I worked at an aquarium

@vaurora Really think WoW has it right with airships that constantly do a circuit of major cities

Be the uncle that brings weed to the family function that you want to see in the world

@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