@David Bremner
computer scientist, mathematician, photographer, human. Debian Developer, Notmuch Maintainer, Scuba Diver, #nobot
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OK, which one of you made so I have to plug the kettle in, _and_ turn it on, before I can have coffee?
Look, I know the tech industry is pretty dire, and probably needs to be demolished to make way for a hyperspace bypass, but can we not canonize Steve Jobs? The "good old days" were probably bullshit anyway, but to the degree that the tech world had cool stuff it wasn't made by CEOs.
the infosec people at my work are rioting because the Distant Corporate Overlord sent an email that scores 10/10 on the phishing scale (“We want to give you a present to thank you for all your hard ...
@nprofile1q... One of my petty pleasures is marking all of the emails from our infosec contractor as phishing attempts. They start with things like "You have been assigned" and I'm like, I don't work for you, red flag, red flag! Also they have a history of "fake phishing" people in order to chide them, so they are literally known bad actors. Welp, that's gonna be my story when they finally track down my boss and complain that I've been ignoring them for 6 years.
Salted nuts fried in soy sauce are really salty.
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I think I’m starting a two-column CV-of-joy: on the left, events that brought joy; on the right, whatever job(s) I happened to be doing at the time.
@nprofile1q... Sounds like an object lesson in correlation vs. causation.
That's twice in two days I've gone to buy an ebook but then noticed it was only available with #DRM and noped out. I guess authors don't have that much leverage (look at academics!), but consider asking your publisher to sell DRM free ebooks. Otherwise I might find a way to support the author, but the publisher isn't getting a cut.
Somebody(TM) should make #Ansible - branded espresso cups with the tagline “the coffee break generator”
(the tagline is not mine, it's from my sysadmin boss, who drinks espresso coffee instead of...
@Elena ``of Valhalla'' That doesn't seem like a very Italian sentiment. Is this a regional thing, or are you just a maverick tea drinker in a sea of tiny cups of strong coffee?
Cover of my new cyberpunk novel
Petition to change name of LLVM so I don't keep thinking compilers people have become stochastic parrot Bros.
@nprofile1q... I have every possible privilege short of being a member of the Trump family or a billionaire, but I won't be attending academic conferences in the USA for a while.