Oh my gosh, I had 2 kids, went back to college, rocketed my fledgling IT career forward and gained a mortgage during the pandemic. Granted I probably would’ve done all those things without the pandemic, but many of the pandemic era policies helped make each of those steps much easier than they normally would have been

It’s for the safety of IT departments everywhere that furries’ need for travel is limited

Honestly I’ve only gone made it to 7 days when sick and feeling like a shower would be waterboarding myself and waited until I felt just well enough to actually shower

Remote work really lends itself to some bad habits. My body’s sweet spot seems to be showering every other day, and with remote work I can end up not leaving the house at all for long enough that I’ll get to as much as 4 days without showering (usually the point where I shower at lunch because holy crap I just want to not feel my skin being greasy

Doesn’t help that I do evening showers which relies on my getting ready for bed on time, and staying up too late can be made up for by simply getting up 5 minutes before work and eating breakfast over the work computer an hour later

All fediverse needs now is a solid, fully end-to-end encrypted, Facebook replacement (retro Facebook, where you just got posts from your friends, in order

Sounds like you’re describing Friendica. I made an account forever ago, realized I didn’t actually know anybody because I was a shut in who never left the computer chair and haven’t really thought about it in like a decade

My oldest is about ready for her first computer, so I have an ewaste laptop earmarked for Christmas that I’ll have to tweak the configuration a bit more on before then.

She’s been getting better at better playing Minecraft and learning how to ask us how to spell the names of things so she can search for them in Minecraft, and getting pretty good with the mouse and keyboard too

Bop it!

Seeing the extremely affordable insulin for sale on a dark web marketplace was my biggest takeaway from my quick poking around. That on its own should be incredibly damning

The only creature on earth smarter than dolphins are mice

Relevant XKCD

(happens to be one of my favorites too!)

If its anything like fainting (I have a bit of a history of fainting in medical settings) the going is very unpleasant and the coming back is far worse for the first 10 minutes or so while the body to normalizes again.

Most recently I happened to have my daughter with me while at a checkup which included a fasting blood glucose test. The nurse collected my blood and hurried off to process it and I started hearing and seeing static. When I realized it was not getting better I told her “go find someone and tell them daddy doesn’t feel good” and hearing the door followed by her saying “daddy doesn’t feel good” while my vision and hearing faded into pure static and pins and needles was surreal and honestly the kind of thing nightmares are made from

For every useless thing I learned in college, it at least had a decent reason to be in the curriculum, whether because it provided historical context to what I actually work with or because it provided a strong mental model to understand what the programs that automagically do the work for you are actually doing behind the scenes which is invaluable when troubleshooting edgecases and failures

Syncing can be through a peer to peer protocol such as sync thing where both devices would need to know each other’s Device IDs, and the Device IDs are basically just SHA256 hashes of locally generated keys.

Or if the user uses a program to sync over the local network or over USB it’s not necessarily online

I don’t know why everyone always goes for Mariah Carey version when its a weak and talentless vocal performance compared to the absolute best version of that song: https://youtu.be/2RtI5UEZlzU

Maybe he knows everything because he wrote it all but can’t friggin remember 1/4 of it now that its been a few aeons?

Hey now, its his first gig as a god, cut him some slack. Sure, he forgot to add special admin overrides to the physics simulation but he’s doing the best he can to fix the mess he created and bring the project back on track!

OneDrive could have been good, but instead they made it a mess…

Imagine if it just was a web location that files shadow copied to? Wouldn’t that be amazing? Instead we have *gestures incoherently*

Zoos tend to struggle with Step 7 and they have far better conditions than a beat up converted freighter

There’s growing research into positive tipping points for the climate. Biden’s historic investment into renewables put a finger on the scales tipping them for significantly more solar and wind investment, which will of course reduce the cost of building solar and wind and soon enough the federal government’s finger won’t even be needed on the scale to make solar and wind cost effective to build.

Other decarbonization efforts like pushing for more bike infrastructure leading to fewer car trips and more bike trips, and shifting cars to electricity rather than gasoline also have tipping points where it will make far more sense to do the cheaper thing that happens to be better for the climate than not

Talking with some female friends the bar for men is so incredibly low. Trim your hair, bathe regularly, brush your teeth and be non-creepy and you’re already in the top 50% or so