wrestling with an ancient mediawiki install that is randomly experiencing Innodb corruption and having fun solving the mystery
cheese (is on med leave)
@cheeseplus.biz
staff build engineer @Respawn (Apex Legends) taco officer @polycount cloud, oss, CI/CD, perf junkie - powerlifting - rucking - scion of the Sixth House - bi/poly past: UT ITS, SOE, Vigil, Basho, Chef, Epic
Google's move to AI means traditional SEO doesn't work anymore so every big company is now desperately doing Reddit AMAs to try and get their responses ingested by the Gemini slop machine and farted out in AI summaries
buddy i have never used it. i don't know how to use it. i don't know if it's an app or what. i will never use it. if it disappeared today i'd go out and celebrate because it being gone would be instantly great for the planet and humanity
Ayo@darrylayo.bsky.social · 22h agoGuys like this don’t realize that they are the freak
this is both infuriating and sad to watch having him on at this point is really just taking advantage of a man who can't string together a single coherent thought
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6h agoBLITZER: Why is Israel, another country, your red line right now, rather than a domestic issue that impacts Americans' everyday lives? FETTERMAN: Yeah, absolutely. And I agree with a lot of Democrats too. I called trash Platner.
My answer is LOL ROFL (dickbrain) The terminally AI-pilled can't even *imagine* some people have *never* asked stochastic parrots to cheat at their job for them.
We have dubbed the little red gourds as “nubbins” and chant it like unhinged cultists whenever we find one
cheese (is on med leave)@cheeseplus.biz · 16h agoBig Walk is pretty dang fun
trying to debug an ancient mediawiki configuration that suddenly failed and hitting all sorts of weird issues that are lost to the ages thankfully had snapshots enabled so just rolled the fucker back a week and voila - I like simple solves a lot
"This moment recognizes the extraordinary people whose creativity, ambition and passion have made EA one of the world's leading interactive entertainment companies", says Andrew Wilson, CEO of EA, somehow keeping a straight face and potentially believing his own bullshit. www.ea.com/news/ea-anno...
EA Announces Completion of Acquisition by PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners
EA Positioned to Accelerate Creativity and Innovation to Shape the Future of Entertainment Consortium Brings Long-Term Capital, Sector Expertise and Strategic Support to Advance EA’s Next Chapter
ea.com
Must sound so cool if you don't know what the fuck you're talking about.
David Ellison wants us to know he’s not ideological, and that’s why he put a conservative with no tv experience in charge of CBS
Well, it appears that, sometime in the last 17 hours, Gwen Pepperoni was suspended for the crime of pointing out Ken Jennings' transphobia.
This is Massive Attack's response to what happened in Singapore, posted on their Instagram page. Good on them.
Kirsten Han 韩俐颖@kirstenhan.com · 5d agoMassive Attack has been banned from Singapore after they held up a Palestinian flag during their concert here last week. www.bbc.com/news/article...
They keep using that word winning. I do not think it means what they think it means. www.reuters.com/world/us-has...
"But my Wyvern development has been burning the equivalent of $87k/month of API token burn, or about 69 billion tokens in July... in reality I'm only spending about $2800/month out of pocket." What's Wyvern, you ask? See image #2. $87k/month.
Paul Ford@ftrain.bsky.social · 2d agooh gas town didn't work you say yegge.ai/essays/the-s...
there is an entire industry of people who give their opinion or predict how things are going to go and their entire job is to be correct are they ever correct? rarely. are there repercussions for being wrong, the thing they are being paid not to be? haha no, no there are not
< thinking about saying things that would absolutely get me fired and also maybe wanting that to happen >
I have, with my own eyes, watched my tax dollars in the form of missiles as they hit buildings inhabited by civilians. I'd much prefer subsidizing a grocery story I don't use.
USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d agoOpinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
PSA: It's even worse. Craig not only operated a revenge porn website, but he also was engaging in racketeering by secretly running several shell companies that offered a paid service that would remove your revenge porn *from the revenge porn distro sites he owned*.
Roger (6’5”)@iamtherog.com · 2w agoDoes everyone here know that @craigbrittain.com, who is currently masquerading as an anti-MAGA warrior, was fined in 2016 for operating a revenge porn website? A *lot* of y’all follow him. ⚠️ Marked as unsafe. ⚠️ www.ftc.gov/news-events/...
BREAKING: The newly elected Prime Minister of Hungary announced that Netanyahu will be arrested if he enters Hungary.
Fuck these nazis, we were not born merely to toil
The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d agoPresident Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v
If you deliberately bring assholes to this stupid little place we will fucking wreck it.
The Verge@theverge.com · 2d agoBluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."
as I pass through another long dark night of the soul, it’s been heartening how many friends and colleagues have reminded me of who I am
The amount of C-Suite or just people making important leadership decisions who have trouble with object permanence and simple cause/effect is very upsetting.
Shayna Moon (she/they)@themoonis.gay · 3d ago"why can't we find any senior devs to hire" because you fired all the entry level people 5 years ago gerald
Making games is a business. But without people who genuinely love making games, there won’t be much of a business left. The industry doesn’t just need better numbers. It needs more passionate people in leadership, more new talent welcomed in, and more belief that games are art worth fighting for.
Employers watching the genAI environmental news, watching the bubble burst... and still replacing employees with it in Augost 2026: Their spines have all dropped out their asses and have become the lowest possible bar, setting the bar as low as in hell.
