RE: https://fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/117605130319433718

Oh no. Not Outlook, Sharepoint, and Teams. How awful.

(I suppose given my list of tech products I despise I should go ahead and say, no, I had nothing to do with this outage other than laughing at it and enjoying it.)

#gnomember let’s see gnome pics

I see a lot of people dunking on Jensen Huang, but I have a lot of compassion for people who lose their job, or make bad decisions and end up on hard times. If he showed up at my food shelf, I would offer him a wide variety of canned goods, rice and pasta, cereal, frozen meat, and fresh vegetables. We work really hard to keep it stocked. In the last 3 days I've tried to help two people who were evicted, one facing court-ordered payments to avoid eviction, several others already sleeping outside in Vermont in November or asking for support to get in a hotel to avoid that. If Jensen were facing any of those problems I would help him with no judgement even if he had a heroin habit, which I wouldn't even ask about. #JensenHuang

you like the leather jacket though, don't you? hmm? it dazzles, it excites

lol

went out for a coffee earlier then driving back there was a car wrapped around a tree, fire engine there cutting the roof off. i drive a fun car and sometimes with some enthusiasm but not without care obviously it's a bit much seeing that so i head on home and there was a horse and rider up ahead

so i slow down. the route i wanted to go was closed so i had to take the country lane, barely wide enough. I roll to a halt, wave in acknowledgement then put my palm up like "stay there" as she was at the only passing point along that stretch

she just rides at me so i stay put and she tries to get her horse to squeeze past my car and I say (window was already open) is there a reason we couldn't pass at the passing point (not being confrontational but just keen to know, a lot of my family ride horses etc and I try and be a good citizen?) and this old lady on the horse said

"because i don't do what anyone fucking tells me okay"

and I feel like that's going to stay with me

Palestinian baby dies from cold in Gaza amid Israeli restrictions on aid

The number of affairs can be modeled as 150 / 150 - x. This suggests that within just a few days, it will be revealed that Jenson Huang has shagged everyone on earth

I have never before asked AI to create an image, for some reason it never interested me, but this was fun in a juvenile sort of way.

Another tech service provider that has no idea what consent is.

We can no longer access our own data on this site unless we "consent" to marketing spam AND biometric data theft.

This is from canvaslite.instructure.com

Companies that do this need to get the shit sued out of them.

Critical Thinking is more crucial than ever. Every adult should take it upon themselves to actively learn and improve their critical thinking skills through formal or semi-formal education, whether that's an online/in-person course, or even just a series of youtube videos on the topic.

Reddit is going to require logging in to view content. If only there were a protocol for distributed, topic-based discussion lists.

#usenet

One of the most incredible Sonic cinematics I’ve seen in years https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yocC5AIQ5M

Anxiously waiting for the incident report about this #outlook outage. The schadenfreude of knowing that some senior dev vibe coded the pieces that led to this outage. Or let their agent loose on the production infrastructure. It'll be so satisfying.

#microsoft

"What outdated graphics, why did they do this in claymation instead of 3d CG" said reviews at the time, and I was so angery at those reviews then and still am now

A friend borrowed my copy of the videogame Magic & Mayhem in college and never returned it and I'm still low key bitter about it because that was one of the best games and best soundtracks I've ever encountered

My goal is to get from consuming ~43% of the solar we generate to over 60% by this time next year. Let's see how that goes!

Yesterday I dusted off a @homeassistant automation that tracks our grid power demand, and adjusts the EV charger to have it only send power to the car when there's solar to back it up. My guess is that it'll save ~2000kWh imported from the grid annually 🤔

We're on California's NEM2 solar plan, which means we get reimbursed for the retail rate for electricity we export, less ~$0.058/kWh for costs that can't be reimbursed by law. So there's still an incentive to reduce our grid electricity use. In our case, to the tune of up to $680 per year.

I think the best short review I can give of Big Walk is this: I would not have expected an hour of video game with far flung friends to be one of my favorite parts of every week, but recently it is.