@gsuberland cat-like typing detected?

Have you heard the good news? Odin loves you

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general advice for anyone who finds themselves moving to another country in the near future for whatever reason:

1) it's more expensive than you think. yes, even after you take this into account. Don't be surprised or ashamed if you end up needing to borrow money from friends and family to cover the short-term spike in expenses.

2) get rid of as much Stuff as you possibly can. My employer gave me about $4000 for relocation expenses but that only covered one large shipping crate that fit my clothes, books, etc. It was way cheaper and easier to give away all my furniture and replace it on the other side.

3) That crate took something like nine weeks to arrive, it was absolutely worth it to pay for an extra suitcase on my flight to cram as many necessities into as possible.

A prayer for my enemies:

May the far side of your pillow be even warmer. May legos manifest under your feet. May your livestreams buffer at an inopportune moment, and may your Tesla require a firmware update when you are already running late

1) reminder that google drastically reduced their account retention and will delete an account after 2 years of no logins, so you should go log into that account you don't use often and set automated reminders to do so every few months.

2) reminder that the person posting this to mastodon does not control google's account retention policy and demanding that I justify it, fix it, or explain internal technical details I couldn't possibly know will only annoy your friendly neighborhood poster

when I was young, adults with authority over me loved to tell me that I'd agree with them when I was older, but as I approach 40 they're still wrong and I wish I'd picked more fights with them

Turns out that if you copy text from OneNote and paste it into something that can accept either text or images, it decides you must want a bitmap rendering of your text. I pasted the text into this posting box and got the image, then pasted it again into the image's alt text and got text. Incredible. 0/10 ux, principle of least astonishment maximally violated

me, suddenly overwhelmed with sleepiness towards the end of my day as a knowledge worker: I think I thank too many thunks

you: settling for the lesser of two weasels

me:

Outlook certificate errors be like:

The certificate is not signed by an authority you trust, and in fact is signed by the Alien Alliance for Human Destruction.
The certificate uses an algorithm deprecated in 1876 due to being solvable on paper by bright kindergarteners.
The expiration date is notated in a calendar unknown to our science.
The certificate has a valid name

reminder for all programmers, database admins and UX designers that people's birthdays can and do legally change (mine did: the government accidentally assigned me one year old at birth)

@rockyoubot if hunter was so good then why did they never—

I think we can break people who do bad things into two categories: those who could be fixed by three ghosts visiting them in the night with a lesson to impart and those who can't

"can't even be fixed by three ghosts" is the strongest assessment of moral failure yet identified

if white websites burn your eyes out but they didn't a few years ago, it might just be that you haven't noticed that screens have gotten way brighter the last several years and out of habit you turned your screen brightness up enough to overpower the sun

if you turn it down, it might look way too dim in the moment, but give your eyes a few minutes to adjust and it'll probably look perceptually the same again. People look at my screenshots and say "how can you stand light mode?!" but my laptop brightness is at like 40% and my iPad is often as low as 10%. Bonus: battery magically doubles in capacity

If you see someone who’s questioning Elon Musk for the first time because he obviously lied about having a top account on Path of Exile — do not mock them, do not shame them, do not complain that they should have figured this out years ago. That would just be pushing them back into the radicalizing environment they’re currently standing on the edge of saying “wait a moment…”

Radicalizing environments and cults pull people away from their friends and family and tell them that they’ll be mocked for embracing the truth but it’s worth it. The mockery then pushes them into the arms of the ones saying “shh shh, we understand… don’t worry, you’re the smart one here, they’ll be sorry.”

Yes, obviously lying about Path of Exile doesn’t even make his top one hundred worst sins. That’s not the point. The point is that this one is clear as day to the exact demographic he’s targeting — lonely young men. Once you conclude for yourself that someone is irrefutably a liar, it becomes easier to revisit what they said before and reevaluate it.

Odin’s ideal shopping trip: expressly for nothing but bacon

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@Gankra @munin the last time I complained about github search being completely bonkers broken, a github employee showed up and told me to opt into beta features so I could get the real search that more or less works, because they already stopped maintaining the shipped one. That was over a year ago but maybe it’s still in beta

@mcc it is mysterious to me that you’re being plagued by them and I haven’t been bothered by a single one, because I’m only a few places behind you on the “mastodon users with she/her in bio” list by follow count

but maybe they’re only targeting .social

me, clearing out my backup storage: Windows 95 and 98 isos? never know when having those handy will save the world. ... Windows ME? no, I think we can safely get rid of that one.

Odin likes to parade his new toy around like this

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