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Cake day: January 16th, 2024

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  • but instead decided to make other calls to it directly.

    Like with command line tools? But that’d be hacking! Egads!

    Is it a B&E if the door is wide open…or would that just be an ‘E’?

    If you let your neighbor walk in to your house as he pleases…can you get mad at him if he walks in like Cosmo Kramer while you’re shagging your wife? Assuming you’re not into that, of course.

    What if he had noble intents…like he heard the moans and thought you were at work and he was about to break up an affair or stop a rape or have some leftovers?






  • Windows is only 6x slower in your environment?

    Consider yourself lucky.

    There are times when my computer just stops, entirely, for like 15 seconds at a time. Didn’t ask it to do much…just open Teams.

    And I know it’s 15 seconds because I have seconds enabled in my clock and it actually stops ticking.

    But I’m dailying an Ubuntu laptop at work now, and legit everything is faster. I mean like every day stuff like launching apps and switching windows and browsing webpages. Just an overall far more productive system.

    All those delays add up. Especially when mated with an ADHD-riddled admin like me who gets distracted and either moves into another task because Word is taking too long to open (excess context switching makes me anxious…but so does waiting for shit like word to open)…or start investigating it.

    Which is a whole other pain point in itself because shit like launching Event Viewer takes a solid 2 minutes. RSOP takes like 10 minutes to compile.

    It used to take ADUC 5 minutes to load before I found out that was DNS. Yeah, that was actually DNS.










  • Talk to some of the people that run the small web.

    I ran into an issue at work with a few FOSS projects that were blocking our cloud proxy service. I messaged one of their admins on IRC for the scoop…

    Turns out it was because too many of their (the cloud proxy) customers were setting out ai agents and scraping their websites, constantly. They can’t keep up with the “demand” on their limited budget while also keeping up with free software philosophies.

    I read a great article about this the other day…on my work computer. Its too much of a pain in the ass for me to pull up.

    Something will have to give. It’s a bit ironic, though, that free software is being stifled because it is too free. It’s almost like a corollary for the tolerance paradox.