K‮ly‬e @khird@qoto.org

@Infrapink happy New Year to you too!

Off the top of my head, I can't think of any complaint a Baha'i would have with the days of the week changing. Baha'i dates are computed relative to the spring equinox and the eighth new moon following it. The seven-day week does exist, but it doesn't affect the placement of any holy days.

@mitch he definitely hit the nostalgia buttons there. Makes me sad for the old Flash content that never made it to modern formats, kinda like a childhood VHS you'll never view again. At some point you watched it, put it back in its cardboard sleeve, and that was the last time, only you didn't know it then.

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@mitch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBPH6O68UY4

@mitch it has one-time passwords as a second factor. What do you mean by passkeys, key-based authentication like you get in SSH? I'd like that.

@freemo historically, this is the sort of thing one used [conky](https://github.com/brndnmtthws/conky) for. Maybe there's something more modern now.

@Colarusso at ten and eleven, my favourite books were Garth Nix's Abhorsen trilogy. I can't think of a reason not to recommend them.

I have an unopened soft drink can sitting in a fairly cold part of my home, and at night it's now cold enough to reduce the pressure of the carbon dioxide inside the can to almost exactly atmospheric pressure. Each time the heat cycled on or off, it caused a metallic ping as the slightly domed lid inverted to equalize the pressure.

Wasn't until this morning that I figured out where that noise was coming from.

@mitch you have to tarof a bit for politeness though.

Happy birthday @mitch!

Happy birthday @freemo!

@freemo it's great, for sure. I just have a funky network setup on account of some physical and historical limitations of the property. So I generally expect that, at some point, I'm going to have a segment of the network become unreachable until I go over with a patch cable and reconfigure some setting that got overwritten or needs to be renamed for the new version or whatever. My upgrade plan succeeding without any such contingencies feels very strange.

Just upgraded multiple nodes on my home network to the new @OpenWrt@floss.social version... and nothing broke. I did my homework and tried to avoid known pitfalls, sure - but that never happens. It feels like the laws of nature are suspended today.

@ceoln I tracked down why it's doing this, but it'd take a code change to fix it and I'm not really knowledgeable enough about the codebase to figure out how. It's a problem in the web frontend, so if you use something like [Halcyon](https://halcyon.cybre.space/login) or [Pinafore](https://pinafore.social) it won't show up (but then you don't get the extra features that have been added to QOTO's frontend, of course).

QT: https://qoto.org/@khird/110743110511955766

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@NunavutBirder Your second idea's a good one, but the first one opens a pretty big loophole.

Suppose there are two teams that are both in the market for a head coach. Both have enough to spend the full coaching cap on their staff, but Team A has a substantial excess that Team B does not (that is, in the absence of the cap, Team A could afford to spend much more on coaching than Team B). If fired coaches are exempt from the cap, Team A can offer longer contracts to outcompete Team B for talent. The downside to a long contract - you have more dollars left owing on the books if you fire him - prevents Team B from matching Team A's offer, because Team B would need that money to pay the replacement, while Team A can afford to pay both the fired coach and his replacement.