Been horrifying teammates by referring to undocumented information that's held only in people's heads as "locked in meat storage".

Please use this with your teams/projects and report back on how they like it?

On this day in 1978, the rainbow flag first flew as a symbol of pride. It was raised at San Francisco Gay Freedom Day.

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A person stands supporting the bottom of a huge flag being hoisted. The flag is a rainbow with eight stripes of pink, red, orange, yellow, green, turquoise, indigo and violet.

News out of New York has convinced me of the need to primary established leaders. I am therefore challenging my five-year-old for the governorship of our house.

@da_667 @catsalad

Really great work from @rgadellaa compiling a (non-exhaustive!) history of business-critical bugs in Safari.

These bugs heavily impact websites and web apps that are trying to build more sophisticated experiences on the web. They affect a wide variety of platform features which Apple itself claims to be stable and fully-supported. Safari is the *only* major browser that consistently ships bugs this nasty, and especially the only one that leaves them there for years.

https://webventures.rejh.nl/blog/2024/history-of-safari-show-stoppers/#anchor--showstoppers-by-year

I am begging solarpunk artists to do some back-of-the-envelope math regarding solar irradiance and the heating/cooling/transport/industrial energy requirements of their hypothetical structures before drawing one more lush cityscape filled with greenery instead of 500 square kilometers of solar panels

have The Talk with your friends:

• no, artificial intelligence isn't real now, nor is it just around the corner
• we need laws to prevent capitalists using LLMs to try to circumvent labor laws; we don't need laws to stop "rogue AI" because that's sci-fi bullshit with absolutely no bearing on reality
• no, "ai" is not "inevitable" -- the bullshit word extruders that are being positioned as the next big thing right now are snake oil garbage, and not even profitable snake oil garbage, and there's no path to develop them into anything else because that's just how they work
• if you hear someone talking about how "ai" is going to change everything, treat them the same way you'd treat a scientologist talking about whatever the fuck scientologists believe in: it is bullshit cult nonsense for marks and rubes
• remind them to ponder the question of "cui bono" -- who benefits from the narrative that "ai" is the "next big thing"? the answer: mostly filthy rich american fascists, filthy rich chip manufacturers, filthy rich data center operators, and filthy rich silicon valley entrepreneurs

do your part to counter bullshit fucking propaganda from capitalist scumbags 👍

Edit: this seems to have resonated with a lot of people and I've rejected a lot of nonsense replies or people being contrarian and annoying I don't care if you disagree! Write your own post about it! :')

Since Dovecot 2.4 is dropping replication, I'll definitely need to rework my mail servers and those for BSDMail. I think I'll be going back to Cyrus, which I last used over 20 years ago. The problem is my memories have long faded, so it'll be like studying it again from scratch. And that makes me happy, because it'll be like learning something totally new!

Special thanks to @h3artbl33d for the heads up!

#BSDMail #OwnYourData #MailServer #Dovecot

Found online years ago...

The entire Dune cycle is based on a terrible pun.
1. The spice is called melange.
2. The spice confers power and longevity.
3. Melange is a French word for variety.

In other words, variety is the spice of life.

Why does no one ever talk about this?

What makes OpenBSD so nice is that when you look up how to do a thing, the reaction upon finding out how to do the thing is almost always "oh right, that makes sense".

A spectacular sight 1225m (4019 ft) beneath the waves off Baja California as E/V Nautilus encounters the amazing Halitrephes maasi jelly.

Full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9D0eyl7-XQA

#ocean #nature #science

This is about increasing crop yields and preserving soil quality, you hare-brained Luddites.

watching "castle" and it still bugs me that they say GSW (which is 5 syllables) as supposedly faster than gun shot wound (3 syllables). lord knows tech has way too many acronyms but really?

whoami 🤣

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A funny but older tweet (X) screenshot from Bruno Borges that uses a series of Linux commands to describe nested computing environment, ending with 'No. Fucking. Clue.' when asked how it got there. This explains with the complexity of modern cloud infrastructure we all see and deal with every single day.

Same.

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Sign: AT THE END OF THE DAY, I'D RATHER BE EXCLUDED FOR WHO I INCLUDE THAN BE INCLUDED FOR WHO I EXCLUDE.

Where I get my ideas from

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An artist is at his desk. Another man says where do you get all your ideas from? What’s your secret? The artist replies there really is no magic secret. It’s just hard work patience and dedication. The artist then says “it’s a disappointing answer I know but it’s the truth“ the other man leaves and says “OK I’ll see you later” the artist replies “bye!” A moment passes then the artist looks around and says “did he leave” a hatch opens from the floor, and a large pig pop its head out the artist yells at the pig “idea pig! Give me an idea!” The pig replies “you should make a viral comic about raisins!”

This week's comic: A dangerous invasion of warblers, orioles, and hummingbirds

#immigration #birds #cartoon #uspol #comic

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FEDS CRACK DOWN ON SPRING MIGRATION DEPT. OF HOMELAND SECURITY OFFICIAL: A BILLION BIRDS SNEAK ACROSS THE BORDER EVERY NIGHT UNDER COVER OF DARKNESS! "LEGIONS OF WINGED MIGRANTS ARE INVADING FROM THE SOUTH TO BREED IN OUR COUNTRY, STEALING INSECTS AND NECTAR FROM AMERICAN BACKYARDS." MAP OF NORTH AMERICA SHOWING AVIAN CARAVAN BORDER PATROL AGENT: WE CAUGHT THIS YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER TRYING TO SLIP ACROSS THE MEXICAN BORDER. IT'S STRAIGHT TO GUANTANAMO FOR YOU, LITTLE JAILBIRD! A SOLUTION IS PROPOSED. OFFICIAL ON TV: WE NEED A $2.7 TRILLION NET TO ENCLOSE ALL OF AMERICAN AIRSPACE. WOMAN: WHY DON'T THESE BIRDS JUST STAY WHERE THEY CAME FROM? BUILD THE NET!

Every US institution should keep a copy of this letter around, for use as a template when the Trump Administration sends a letter full of ridiculous and illegal demands

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/cleveland-browns-letters/

#USPol

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Cleveland Stadium Corp. Cleveland Stadium, Cleveland, Ohio 44114 Phone: 781-5600 November 21, 1974 Dale O. Cox, Esquire Roetzel and Andress 20th Floor One Cascade Plaza Akron, Ohio 44308 Dear Mr. Cox: Attached is a letter that we received on November 19, 1974. I feel that you should be aware that some asshole is signing your name to stupid letters. Very truly yours, Cleveland Stadium Corp. James N. Bailey, General Counsel cc: Arthur B. Modell

Trump has now mentioned getting himself elected Pope several times in the last week, which means that the Vatican is in for years of frivilous lawsuits, death threats against Cardinals, and even weirder-than-usual papal conspiracy theories when the white smoke goes up and it's someone else on the balcony.