Alistair Young @cerebrate@qoto.org
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Science fiction writer. Entrepreneur. Speaker to minerals. Consensualist. Illeist (pronouns: none). Pony and kanmusu stan. Can call spirits from the vasty deep!
Joined Apr 2023
Good afternoon, my fellow Americans!
(He says, with a citizenship now roughly 2 minutes old…)
Increasingly convinced that Maris from _Frasier_ is, in point of fact, a Deep One.
Increasingly convinced that Maris from _Frasier_ is, in point of fact, a Deep One.
Today's hot take:
Accepting e-mail at the SMTP level and then silently dropping it thereafter, however rationalized, is a dick move, and anyone who designs systems that do so should be drowned in an enormous vat of shredded RFCs.
@Smingleigh @adorkable @nyrath
Also useful to give you some traction on the walls in microgravity.
@nyrath @cstross On another note, while I don't think we're quite to the point of having to consider literal heat emissions as a prime contributor to global warming, ridiculously inefficiently cooled space data centers do at least have the advantage that people bitching mindlessly about how AI is going to drink the Great Lakes dry have to find some other gross misunderstanding to whinge about.
@nyrath @cstross It's petty of me, I admit, but I'm reasonably confident in my security against people without physical possession of my hard drives, and the thought of making the buggers spend obscene quantities of money to get said hard drives down from orbit only to discover that they contain nothing even slightly criminal gives me a nice warm spiteful glow.
It is time once again to remind people sending e-mails, admittedly mostly spam, to say "Your Attention Is Requested" rather than "Your Attention Is Required".
Only overlings can require. Underlings may only request.
And my overlings? Those sumbitches ain't been born.
"One of these lives has a future, Mr. Baggins, and one of them does not."
Insecuring Security
Whether or not it exists, it works.
Insecuring Security
Whether or not it exists, it works.
YOU KNOW WHAT THE SUPPLY CHAIN IS? IT'S THE CHAIN I GO GET AND BEAT YOU WITH UNTIL YOU GIVE ME MY RUTTIN' SUPPLIES!
(Of course, I could machine my own damned God-fearing American heatsink, but first, I need a heatsink.)
And it's not just that tariffs are a moronic economic policy in ways that should be pristinely obvious to houseflies and cheap plastic forks, it's that at some point after I place this order, I'm going to get Official Mail as Homeland Security go about collecting their $0.12.
Spending, by the time we're done, probably something like $50 in postage, bank fees, and general overhead to get it, which makes it, let's see, revenue-negative for the government by a factor of approximately 416.
(i.e., exactly what the _de minimis_ exemption was to avoid)
Thanks all to hell for protecting us from approximately a thimbleful of foreign aluminum. You absolute scurfwads.
A $0.12 TARIFF ON A $0.48 PART!!?
...mutter mutter use some dumb fuck's scrotum as a heatsink...
Just life
I am not any sort of medico, but having experienced basically identical symptoms in the past, it sounds very much like a severe depressive episode.
(I apologize if this falls into the unwelcome and unasked-for advice category, but having spent much of my life dealing with those, it'd feel awfully remiss of me not to try and shorten any possible sufferers' path to the Eleven Secret Drugs and Supplements.)
“Crem!”, swore Conan. “I’ve cut my muddy swath!”
What, I ask you, is the nut-growing equivalent of an orchard?
(Don’t tell me that it’s a nut orchard. That’s a linguistic bastardry like “armored cavalry”.)
Buffalo wings are a clear indication that Iolithae Septimian is back on her bullshit.
- writing
- @index@eldraeverse.com
Science fiction writer. Entrepreneur. Speaker to minerals. Consensualist. Illeist (pronouns: none). Pony and kanmusu stan. Can call spirits from the vasty deep!
Joined Apr 2023
