Alnarra the Druid Cat

@alnarra.com

37, Cybersecurity, World of Warcraft, Star Trek, and the like. Also a big dumb druid cat who just loves hugs pfp a very kind friend, banner by @royzilya.bsky.social On the hellsite as @alnarratweets He/him though honestly whatever is fine

Back in 2011 I worked for a company that used an F5 in Bermuda to charge 700% interest loans to people in New York, and somehow that was still more ethical than Klarna who I'm 95% sure employed most of our folks when New York shut us down.

Now would be an incredibly shit time for a Hurricane to form in the Atlantic or Gulf and beeline it towards Houston 51% of Russian Refinery Capacity Destroyed 4 Tankers attacked today Multiple attacks on the Saudi East / West Pipeline and a number of refineries.

The problem is, somewhere along the way, we allowed a statistician to convince business majors that an excel spreadsheet could tell them more about their business than just opening their eyes. We live in a world where Qualitative analysis is despised even with the worst quantitative

It is funny watching software companies get hoisted by their own petard as various models are being used to decompile their code bases to source and watch as the people doing it go "nuh uh isn't stealing! it's 'creatively recreating!'" Like did you think the thievery would stop at books and art?

AI is alive in the same way my fake olive tree is a plant It’s designed to look like something and if you aren’t being to discerning you’d be like “oh an olive tree” but under scrutiny you would realize it isn’t in fact a plant AI is an algorithm that spits out books and Reddit comments

The fact that the most dominant news about Forever has been WoW's unforgivably racist playerbase is one of the knock on side effects of removing servers. When you can contain folks to a single server they can set the culture but it will only exist on a single server, quarantining it.

Season 4x07 of Strange New Worlds goes from a bemusing gimmick to an absolute devastating gut punch by the end of the episode. Using humor to really make it clear just the level of grief being experienced, and bringing up a very real loss I had not even realized.

So Picked up a Steam Frame to play around with it, hopped into VRchat and was disappointed a little that I had to stream from the PC and when doing that i seemed to lose the immersion as the steam frame just puts it on a little thing like a TV in front of you.

So wait how did they get into the plane of air? Prior to the cataclysm the various elemental planes were sealed and only accessible to something at the level of death wing to open