I feel lied to and taken advantage of. Nicole, I thought we were pals!?

I just got one the other day too! I’m very excited to make new friends like Nicole on this website.

One way ticket to Flavor Town.

I sometimes wonder if my current car will be my last new car. My car has some tracking that I can supposedly disable, so I understand the appeal of classic cars more. I might have to pick up a mint condition early 2000s car for my midlife crisis.

Tragic. Just tragic.

Welcome to the boycott!

They have access to priceless, otherwise unobtainable, data with no ethics. They’ll unfortunately get paid one way or another.

It’s a modern day enterprise fizzbuzz: https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpriseEdition

This is really sad for an easily preventable disease. Below the fold, they mention this (which a lot of people won’t see without reading the article)

The outbreak is largely spreading in the Mennonite community in West Texas, where small towns are separated by vast stretches of oil rig-dotted open land but connected due to people traveling between towns for work, church, grocery shopping and other errands.

Flavored water does feel like cheating. It’s really just water.

I have bad news about Mark Lanegan…

You need to do damage control. Being short in all caps to a friend trying to speak with you is rude. The only real move is to apologize.

Two doses of the measles vaccine are approximately 97% effective at preventing measles. Certainly not 100%, but not too shabby.

Podcasts are super popular right now. Theo Von, Joe Rogan, Kill Tony, Shane Gillis, Matt McCusker all have a huge audience. They are all pro Trump; Tony famously spoke at a Trump rally, and Rogan is constantly pushing a pro conservative message.

Social networks have all gone to the right, as their leadership stands to benefit. Most of our major newspapers and entertainment networks are also owned by billionaires.

They own the messaging right now, and people aren’t thinking critically because they are either distracted or don’t know how.

I killed Instagram and Whatsapp recently when Mark started buddying up to Trump.

Deleted Twitter shortly after Elon took over, which bummed me out since it was a good place for software development information.

Quit reddit after the API ordeal when I didn’t want to use the official client.

I was a long time user of each platform, and I was bummed when I had to leave each.

Now I have bluesky, lemmy, mastodon, and some occasional discord servers I hangout on. I miss Instagram as a time waster, but I’ll survive without funny dog videos and fitness models.

He’s deeply troubled by all of this, and incredibly disappointed. The Republicans are really going to need to consider that.

I’ve worked on projects for the government as a contractor. There is SQL; SQL as far as the eye can see. I’m sure the NSA has some novel solutions to crunching shittons of big data, but day to day, at least in my experience, it is a lot of relational CRUD and reporting queries.

For the curious, it does clearly exist:

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/govcloud-us/latest/UserGuide/govcloud-rds.html

Hopefully it wasn’t deleted, deleted. Normally I feel like there would be backups, but I could see our fearless leader ordering it ALL to be permanently wiped such that recovery would be impossible.

I agree, people need to be able to focus on something else for a few hours on a Sunday.

Save us plumber!