Administrator @mdm@mcnamarii.town

I swear -- there is no more temperamental syntax than using YAML as a template for AWS CFT deployments.

One _hour_ of debugging, just to find out that you need _spaces_ on each side of a bracket. Nothing I've found in any docs says this -- not to mention.... why?

Have a new agile coach. He's one of those "does everything in an Excel file" guys... 🙄

I find it hilarious when the VM I'm remoting into at $WORK gives me an error message about "Cannot connect to Internet."

I'm like, "mf -- you _are_ the Internet"

Those... bastards. They finally went and did it.

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...waiting just a _little_ longer for GPU prices to come down to try to get a new GPU. I don't think we've reached the bottom yet.

May 25, 2022: I finally got a full version of VS Code working on a Chromebook with an ARM chip, using Google's built-in Linux environment (no "developer mode" ChromeOS needed). Awesome.

It is now illegal in three US states to ban someone online for "hate speech," at least until this is appealed or there is an injunction:

https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/11/23067002/texas-netchoice-paxton-hb20-social-media-law-fifth-circuit-appeals-court-grant-stay-ruling

Not to mention the ugly elephant in the room -- there's the issue of former disgraced Premier Trump. Trump has a good shot of being the next President again, and all this man wants to do is get back on Twitter. He's tried to recreate Twitter twice since he was kicked off (and failed -- his personal "blog" and "Truth Social"). Owning Twitter at this point is playing the long game (something Elon Musk _is_ good at) at basically having a _huge_ influence on the potential next POTUS. 6/6

Basically, whether we like it or not, who controls Twitter controls the public discourse, and now that's Elon Musk, which is interesting, because (as anyone knows if you've seen a presentation done by Musk), "communication" is *NOT* one of Elon Musk's core competencies. 5/6

Twitter is _enormously_ valuable, and still distressingly relevant. A thing can be both of these things, _and_ still be "bad".

4/6

These people have stuck with Twitter throughout the years, during the harrassment campaign scandals, when Trump was using it as his personal soapbox, and even today, when it's bought and made into a private company by the world's richest individual. 3/6

Twitter is about 350 million (its actual userbase is not that big) incredibly _addicted_ individuals who _crave_ attention. These people include many celebrities, business leaders, "thought leaders", _huge_ numbers of politicians, world leaders -- these people are pathologically addicted to attention. They will do anything to get it. They _need_ people to hear their voice. 2/6

Tried to explain to someone today that Twitter can still be "bad" at the same time it can be enormously relevant. 1/6

Seen recently on discord after the Musk acquisition of Twitter:

"I may even leave Twitter because of this. I don't know how Twitter is worth that much money."

Friend -- if you're still on Twitter after everything's that's happened during the past few years, A) you're not going anywhere and B) you're _exactly_ the reason Twitter is worth $40billion

@hugo Any load issues happening today because of the influx of users to Mastodon, or A) the influx isn't that much, or B) your infrastructure is ready? :)

AMD crams a bunch of L3 cache into a (slightly) cheaper chip, and the gaming performance goes way up (at 1080P) : (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/04/review-ryzen-7-5800x3d-is-an-interesting-tech-demo-thats-hard-to-recommend)