that’s a rough choice on a tight timeline

if you’re open to suggestions: take the severance package

anecdotally (including my own anecdatum) a PIP is just a step in building a case for constructive dismissal, especially if your workplace is a factor in your burnout. do you really want to have to work even harder for a chance at staying there?

take some time to recover from burnout (even if it means having less funds for a bit), then try and find something to do for employment thay doesn’t suck so hard

myself, I chose disappearing in the bureaucracy of a multinational enterprise for a reduced salary and title. getting away with only a few hours of work most days, and spending the rest of the time living my life

Was going to say the same thing.

The accident was … that they tested the original Default Brown TM, found it gave people motion sickness, and refined it? Or that the art director directed the artists to make the game stand out from the generic brown crowd?

mentlegen

The web’s dying. The FSF’s dying. Windows 11 is made out of people. Dont you see? It’s people. They’re making our software out of people. Next thing, they’ll be breeding us like cattle for training data. You’ve gotta tell them. You’ve gotta tell them!

CentOS 3.6

the off-white background and low contrast font color are signs for sure

there are also subtle differences between each usage of a given character (the serif on each “e” and the apostrophes stand out most to me) and inconsistent kerning

when I was but a baby sysadmin, my boss did that to a production server

kkzzt Pick up that coredump.

SCP-1484

… Z

that error is coming from I2P, not nginx

so good news? your nginx configuration is probably fine

bad news? I know fuck all about I2P. assuming you’re intending to reach the “router console”, you could probably follow the suggested configuration change in the error message to Do That Thing

Pokémon Universal Basic Income?!

TIL

that was fascinating in a horrifying sad kind of way

thank you for sharing

brb falling down a rabbit hole of looking up other countries’ … I don’t even know how to typify this. self identity narratives? national copium?

what i’m taking from this is that Polish morality tales basically go “you do anything, you die, probably ironically”

everything that adheres to evolution

viruses? prions? self-optimizing computer programs? societies?

the metabolism that is caused by living beings

scientists have identified a single-celled microbe that lacks all metabolic functions / genetics and outsources that to other bacteria. is it alive?

chinotto

fwiw i think you were (mostly) in the right there

it’s the same logic imo behind “we don’t misgender quote bad unquote people”

if it’s a shitty thing to do – and imo attacking someone’s physical ability is a shitty thing to do – justifying it because you think the target somehow deserves it doesn’t make it not shitty

it also makes anyone vulnerable to that behavior because others have decided it’s justified, that they are part of whatever “other” group

(there are parallels here to death penalty or prison abolition arguments)

(also we have to hold space for the paradox of tolerance. nazi punks fuck off, etc.)

the only thought I have to the contrary here is that what AOC said (“maybe if you channeled this anger into swimming faster …”) can be read as critical of the transphobe’s behavior and choices – where she’s choosing to direct her anger – and not her physical ability

anyway

people sure can be shitty and defensive about it, huh

I hope you can take some time doing nourishing things away from the internet and feel better. all warriors need a break from the front lines, SJW’s included

edit: this happened on a blahaj community? wow. I am disappointed in my peeps. otoh queer communities, like all besieged communities of vulnerable people, are understandably sensitive and kinda bitey toward anything that might threaten them. everything is complicated

it’s one latte, michael. what could it cost, $80?