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trivial_inanity
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glass half-empty kinda guy

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is this tail scale
a monkey sitting crouched on a ledge; its tail dropping from the ledge two markers 1. covering the monkey's body, 125pt 2. covering the monkey's tail, 182pt
August 27, 2026 at 10:42 PM
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oh the IRONY

aws re:Invent 2022, youtu.be/zZPzXEBW4P8?...

and us-east-1 going down oct 2025

aws.amazon.com/message/1019...
a pop-out video player with a presentation slide title: "Raw logs" "I'm seeing errors talking to Amazon DynamoDB." "Did the request make it to DynamoDB?" java.net.UnknownHostException: dynamodb.us-east-1.amazonaws.com: unknown error followed by a stack trace
July 30, 2026 at 12:12 AM
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delia 😭
a girl with a baseball cap at a dinner table, subtitles read: "and you can't call me sweetie when i don't like you"
July 16, 2026 at 6:32 PM
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dracut-sshd ;'(
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gsauthof/dracut-sshd/refs/heads/master/pubkey-login.dot a convoluted flow-chart detailing how to get pre-boot disk decryption working.
June 27, 2026 at 8:50 PM
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my genius confounds people
> "Are we playing tomorrow?" today is tomorrow when tomorrow is today
June 27, 2026 at 9:35 AM
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go watch obsession while it's still playing in theaters
spongebob standing against a wall, behind a plant.
June 21, 2026 at 10:13 AM
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a guy with a grey shirt and overcoat, captions say: "Lucky for you, I have no life."
June 15, 2026 at 9:14 PM
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pain peko
a display port cable, broken at the connector
June 12, 2026 at 7:22 AM
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a reply to this post, this is a fun fact because i have the worst policy for myself (the role) - sign in frequency = 4 hours - never persistent browser session the latter means no refresh tokens for me, all my tokens just valid for 1 hour IMAGINE having to relogin to `az`, `kubectl`, `$internalTool` every working hour of the day I HATE POLICY MAKERS AND WORSE YET I AM THE ONE WHO HAD TO MAKE THIS POLICY TO BE COMPLIANT WITH SOME GODFORSAKEN "MANDATE"
June 10, 2026 at 10:49 PM
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here goes nothing!
a bowl of kidney beans in gravy; with a spoon. on a plate. a pan with a lid in the background. a plate with ladles to the side.
May 17, 2026 at 10:05 PM
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gonna try making rajma (kidney beans) for the first time

it’s poisonous if cooked incorrectly (yay); let’s see how this goes

!remindme in 8 hours
May 17, 2026 at 12:39 PM
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salvaged, i guess
a plate full of rice mixed with a gravy mix of some kind; and a couple handfuls of kidney beans
May 6, 2026 at 6:24 PM
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a handful of kidney beans with a smattering of chopped cilantro
May 6, 2026 at 5:08 PM
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me when i copy a tailscale machine IP (dont have a custom tailnet name setup yet) and it gives me a notification
a tweet from jon bois (@jon_bois) level 1 idiot shit is texting a link to myself because i don't know an easier way to get it from my computer to my phone. level 44 idiot shit is hearing my phone buzz 1.5 seconds later and going "oh who's that"
April 25, 2026 at 6:20 AM
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lol someone actually listening that suggested revisions to estimates are unrealistic
maintenance worker: that'll be 24 hours, general, minimum general: i'll give you half that worker: no, sir, 24 hours is the best i can do general: then you'd better get back to it
April 5, 2026 at 9:21 AM
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wowowow
two people in a military uniform talking to an officer on the right; officer says subtitles, > do it (off screen) > how about filling me in?
April 5, 2026 at 7:49 AM
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😭😭😭

> they posses "artificial intelligence", yes?

< yes, that's how they can adapt

>
a person with military uniform subtitles read: "Which means they could adapt themselves right out of this facility"
April 4, 2026 at 3:45 PM
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carbon footprint

although i guess these compress pretty well
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March 27, 2026 at 12:20 AM
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the dynamics of this is sending me..

third party vendor's (mendral) promo post about a customer (posthog)

that uses clickhouse as the "main analytics backend"

replying to the CTO of clickhouse that flaky tests are ok.
zX41ZdbW> Two problematic statements in this article: 1. Test pass rate is 99.98% is not good - the only acceptable rate is 100%. 2. Tests should not be quarantined or disabled. Every flaky test deserves attention. > lab14 a test pass rate of 100% is a fairy tale. maybe achievable on toy or dormant projects, but real world applications that make money are a bit more messy than that.
March 17, 2026 at 11:45 AM
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me when the firewall i configured stops me from doing something
a surprised pikachu
March 17, 2026 at 4:06 AM
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i'm only doing this from here on out
a bunch of git commits with no 'message' in them.
March 4, 2026 at 6:57 AM
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a good article to start the day.. might leave you feeling bad/sad

www.scottsmitelli.com/articles/you...
“But the company—” Will you shut up. Companies value velocity and new launches and shipping first at all costs because of course they do; it’s table stakes. Speed of delivery is basically the number one corporate value of every organization whether they admit to it or not. They’ll say they value experimentation, but not as much as shipping. Or they’ll claim to be really into investing in people and fostering growth, but not to the extent that it should let the schedule slip. Maybe they’ll say something about embracing failure, unless it’s a failure to get the app redesign in users’ hands before the end of the fiscal quarter. Some places really, really mean it when they say “ship or GTFO,” and those organizations have a tendency to grind employees into dust and then burn the dust for fuel. But going purely on outcomes, it sure seems like most places don’t actually value velocity as much as they claim to, just like all the other corporate values that pad out their Careers page. I don’t actually believe that AI is coming for everybody’s jobs, by the way. I rather believe that greed and mismanagement are coming for the jobs, and that workers are being laid off as a direct consequence of leadership failures. AI is simply a convenient smokescreen for these feckless cowards to hide behind. See, if a CEO announces layoffs because the company’s earnings are in the toilet, that CEO looks incompetent. If a CEO announces a reallocation of resources to better leverage the rapidly evolving landscape of workplace automation and AI, they sound Very Smart. Who doesn’t want to sound Very Smart? Here’s your token budget, now go do three people’s work.
March 2, 2026 at 4:01 AM
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feels like i'm doing something shady lol
whatsapp web texts me: i need in the coming months; this month budget over march = 1x toshiba 1x wd apr = 2x wd 24 tb all seller: Okay !! Do let us know in advance we will arrange !! me: i will confirm 1st week of march can u back order and lock the price for me 3x wd and 1x toshiba now? for march and apr ? seller: We will need 10% advance to stock it. As prices will keep increasing every 2 day.
February 23, 2026 at 6:53 AM
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on-call rotations, runbooks, and training, and yet
a character looking at a mirror; text reads “despite everything, it’s still you.”
January 31, 2026 at 9:20 AM
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egg yolks really do bring out the color huh

(2 egg whites, 1 full egg)
an omlette on a plate; a cup of milk in the background, near the plate.
December 9, 2025 at 3:14 AM