@vocatan.bsky.social
Somewhat cantankerous computer geek with brief flashes of humanity. Don't ask me my political leanings, puh-lease. I came here to escape that nonsense.
Goodbye Washington Post -- new 'mandate' by Bezos is the final straw. www.cnn.com/2025/02/26/m...
Jeff Bezos announces ‘significant shift’ coming to the Washington Post. A key editor is leaving because of it | CNN Business
Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos on Wednesday announced a “significant shift” to the publisher’s opinion page that led David Shipley, the paper’s editorial page editor, to leave the paper.
cnn.com
So far here’s a list of companies reinforcing their commitment to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion: Apple Costco Bank of America Delta JP Morgan Marriott Microsoft Procter & Gamble Goldman Sachs American Airlines Southwest Airlines United Airlines Catholic Health
This is wild - divisbyzero.com/2024/11/30/m... -- hurts my eyes, but wild just the same. (NOTE: you'll need to view on a desktop, not a phone)
Make a “Magic Eye” image using Excel
I’ve been on a weird kick lately making images using Excel. [Here’s one post. I hope to post more soon.] If you add a background color to each cell in a spreadsheet and resize the cell …
divisbyzero.com
The OED got it wrong. "Slop" should have been the word of the year. It's the perfect term that links shrimp Jesus, 2000s-era content farms, "you won't believe what happened next..." clickbait, gross-out food hacks and basically EVERYTHING on the internet. wapo.st/4eVF32B
Sorry, Oxford dictionary nerds. This is the real word of the year.
The verbal encapsulation of 2024 explains everything from “shrimp Jesus” to disgusting viral recipes and clickbait headlines.
wapo.st
I just completed "Historian Hysteria" - Day 1 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/1
My sister forwarded me this parody video, so I get obliged to share it with BlueSky youtu.be/gJztkDaURJY
Zombie Claus - Psychostick (Rob Zombie Dragula Parody)
YouTube video by Psychostick
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My brother rigged up a fake event page for the purpose of luring my mother to a surprise birthday party. I wish I had anything close to his visual design skillz. :-)
@antwoman2.bsky.social welcome to BlueSky - I’ve been lurking here for a while. Much better UI than Mastodon
PSA: don't buy a Sears Home Warranty. Dirty thieves have been taking my money for years, and today refused to repair my dishwasher due to some technicality that my wife had to sit through 45 minutes of call transfers to have poorly explained to her. GRRRRRR...
SonicWall hates OpenAI, it seems.. We had an issue on our lab machines, in that they could only sporadically reach api.openai.com We reached out to SonicWall for support. They seemed as perplexed as we were - we finally figured out that it was being blocked by a Content Filtering rule. WTH
If you post a cute dog photo, I will like it. Let me start :).
A trip to the past -- Bob and Doug McKenzie - youtu.be/jO75Wrf-Phg
The McKenzie Brothers - Take Off, Eh!
Short documentary from the SCTV DVDs
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#Drone gone bad! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxFwMQs6-Pg great story
Anybody out there in BlueSky universe using Thunderbird to pull down email from Microsoft365? Stopped working (can't authenticate) starting beginning of this week, and I'm tired of pretending that the Microsoft Outlook client on Mac is usable.
So we run JumpCloud agent on our Mac computers, and today i found out that the Rapid Security Response from Apple (xref: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213825 ) somehow was conflicting with Jumpcloud -- I was unable to login to my mac after the patch!! had to uninstall the jumpcloud agent! eek!
So last year I participated in a #KickStarter campaign to help fund the #PiBox - which yielded a groovy little Raspberry Pi CM module in a delightful package with a webUI at https://kubesail.com/homepage Tonight I did a software upgrade, and locked myself out. >doh< see you tomorrow.
KubeSail | KubeSail
The Self Hosting Company, makers of the PiBox! Run a server in your home or office that runs apps, saves money, and respects your privacy.
kubesail.com
Anybody else wrestle with pre-vacation anxiety? Will they "burn down the shop" without me? LOL Feels like forever since I took a 'real' holiday.. Wish me luck!
