The very second I found out that Disney had bought the rights, I swore I would never watch any material they might produce. First, because it’s Disney. Second, well, you know, Palpatine exploded in E VI, so there really was no story to tell after that.

On a weird kind of metaphysical level, I feel that, at the end of the day, it’s up to the fans, and not necessarily the producers, to decide what’s canon and what’s not. And I’ve declared for myself that there is no such thing as a canon sequel trilogy. Normally, I would simply pirate stuff from companies I don’t like, but Disney doesn’t even deserve that treatment. I’m not watching the stuff, and that’s final.

This really happened to someone I know. Her child is indeed an asshole, so when she got the test results all negative and basically saying that the boy is nothing but a spoiled brat, it was a surprise for no-one but her.

Best (and most existential) one I’ve seen in quite a while.

Orosound Tilde Pro. Made in France. Pretty good sound and microphone quality.

Austrian Audio used to produce in Austria, not anymore.

For those who haven’t had the joy of killing Barney, I’ve got you covered.

‘If powerful assholes don’t find you ‘arrogant’, it means you’re doing something wrong.’ - N.N. Taleb.

This used to be one of my favourite phrases, until I realised that, actually, it is written by the one side that has better PR/marketing. It is mostly, but not always, the same as the winners.

Did you mean and angering the Orange Maggot?

Not necessarily ‘lying’, but always ‘defending their own interests’. If your country’s interests align with them, that’s little more than a nice side effect. If not, well, that’s that.

I used nsupdate for years and it worked just fine. I remember it being down, one time only, for like five minutes. For a project that depends entirely on donations, the service and availability they provide are just awesome.

I used MEGA for a while and was pretty happy because their free plan is (or was back then) very generous, and they had a BSD command line client. Out of the blue, my account got blocked, and when I logged in, something along these lines appeared on the screen:

‘You are using the same password for MEGA and other services. This is a security risk and is not allowed’.

That’s one of the shadiest fucking things a cloud company could write. First, not true, second, even if that were true, how would you know it.

On the other hand, most middle managers are unable to actually understand the fact that most employees are motivated more by non-financial stuff. You spend, if you’re lucky, A FUCKING THIRD of every workday at work. The whole ‘package’ must be at least acceptable to the employee or she’ll go. It’s really that simple.

You might laugh, but the first time I made Lebanese-style yoghurt (the one with mint and cucumbers), I simply added salt in the same amount I would have added sugar for a sweet yoghurt. Needless to say, I couldn’t eat it…

Um. What? Does anyone actually identify with this? I live in one of the least friendly countries on earth, and I spent a nontrivial amount of time in children’s playgrounds in the last couple of years, and I would have very much appreciated it if anyone, ever, started a conversation there.

Depressing, but not surprising. Even before the AS hype, I had long noticed that many people I regularly talk to (including a member of my immediate family who has been a teacher for decades) make horrendous spelling and grammar mistakes that they wouldn’t make if they picked up at least one book, at least once every few months. So: people were already forgetting how to write, spell, and even read coherently way before chatbots.

Sounds familiar: didn’t the AWS outage last month also nuke 3,000+ USD ‘smart beds’?

‘They know everything anyway’

Toilet cameras. Every time I think to myself that humanity’s intellectual capacity has hit a new low, reality proves me wrong.

A (poorly written) Shell check if the process was able to write to the production database which in some, not all, cases threw the gem:

!!! SQL ERROR !!!