Alistair Young @cerebrate@schelling.pt
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Science fiction writer. Speaker to minerals. Consensualist. Illeist. Pony and kanmusu stan. Can call spirits from the vasty deep!
Joined Jun 2023
It perhaps says something about the declining state of literacy that there are multiple excellent media library apps, while every e-book library app is absurdly horrible in its own unique way.
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You know what really screams insecure?
Http://
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ethernet pride flags.
the orange represents the orange wire
the green represents the green wire
the blue represents the blue wire
the brown represents the brown wire
the striped wires represent their respective striped wires
the crossover one represents a crossover cable
the orange represents the orange wire
the green represents the green wire
the blue represents the blue wire
the brown represents the brown wire
the striped wires represent their respective striped wires
the crossover one represents a crossover cable
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You can liven up a boring family party by teaching small children to say words that sound like swearwords but aren't, then aiming them at the easily offended. My favourite word to teach them is "parabolics"
“It would be terrible if humans ever conquered death, or even lived a few decades longer! Society couldn’t cope!”
“THEN PERISH.”
- me, carefully avoiding political arguments over Thanksgiving
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It's not my homelab, it's my emotional support production environment.
Lots of amateur worldbuilders complain about crystals being used to make the technomagic or sci-fi tech work.
My brothers in creativity, what do you think makes all our modern real-life technology work?
(He said, torturing the cultural translators some more.)
At one point in the development of organic/biotech computing devices, it was necessary to provide indicators of their internal state for their operators.
The resulting bioluminescent demi-fungus was named, inevitably, "blinkenlichen".
Look, just because you're fighting a nightmare _in_ the Solomons doesn't mean that you're fighting the Nightmare _of_ the Solomons.
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Nom - https://eldraeverse.com/2024/11/24/nom/
The diet of states.
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A request for MoronMail:
https://open.substack.com/pub/randombytes/p/things-that-should-exist-moronmail
The MTA for tired people and dumb internal applications.
I shall hire a bunch of reformed evil AIs, and I shall call doing so "Project Paperclip Maximizer".
So this never occurred to me before:
What do they do if they need to deport someone on the no-fly list? Put them on a boat?
I am begging you, with tears in my eyes, to write some better, meaning existent, diagnostics.
To clarify my k8s cussin', it would appear I blamed flannel unfairly. Well, mostly. It's this bloody thing:
https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/123120
Which means that a router glitching its prefix delegation post-power-failure over *here* can show up as k8s refusing to come up over *there*, in a miracle of intuitive obviousness.
- Fiction
- https://eldraeverse.com/
- Tech Blog
- https://randombytes.substack.com/
- Random Stuff Blog
- https://noiseinmysignal.substack.com/
- avatar@arkane-systems.net
Science fiction writer. Speaker to minerals. Consensualist. Illeist. Pony and kanmusu stan. Can call spirits from the vasty deep!
Joined Jun 2023
