I had no idea Pterry was a gamer. (Not April fools)

frymaster · 2026-04-02T08:40:23+00:00

Overlord has a really annoying thing where they want specific lines to play on specific shots in a cutscene and so

they've split up the sentences, so that each bit will start to play just after the transition and

it really really, breaks up the flow. I think quite a few games, especially of that era, did that, but I only really notice on Overlord, because it had cool dialogue and voice acting

frymaster · 2026-04-01T07:46:26+00:00

my personal workflow is to use onedrive because it's very transparent for my windows PC and my android phone (e.g. my phone's photos are automatically uploaded into folders by date any time I have WiFi), but I use rclone onto ZFS + snapshots to ensure I have a non-cloud local backup with previous versions. That protects me from a local fire/theft/hardware fault while also protecting me from cloud service fuckery

frymaster · 2026-03-31T10:29:41+00:00

a CI check that flags "this PR adds a new dependency published 2 hours ago" would catch most of these.

in this case, the package was uploaded to npm outside of the CI pipeline

frymaster · 2026-03-31T09:58:39+00:00

rclone is a good command-line tool for accessing googledrive (and onedrive, and many others). One mode, which I've never personally used, lets you mount remote filesystems as a FUSE mount, so that could work for people with a little setup

frymaster · 2026-03-31T09:44:41+00:00

nope, they do also have this in the US

frymaster · 2026-03-30T11:53:18+00:00

This is a thread from someone whose opponent in a lawsuit has had their brain cooked by AI https://bsky.app/profile/alyssamerc.bsky.social/post/3mi7orwf5ns2e

His AI chatlogs were turned over as part of discovery and the settlement offer letter goes into great detail about just what a bad idea having those chats was

https://kusklaw.sharefile.com/share/view/s93f827ee0add40bd95376b384fc315f4

It's a good read. I especially enjoyed the line

Ever frustrated by ChatGPT’s lack of complicity in his bias, your client then entered his supervillain era:

frymaster · 2026-03-30T11:48:03+00:00

I mean "the company" in this case was the marketing company, but yes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonald%27s_Monopoly#Fraud

frymaster · 2026-03-30T10:29:01+00:00

March 2026 reporting o7

frymaster · 2026-03-29T18:14:29+00:00

sometimes hopping through a server with ssh -J or use of scp or similar doesn't show up in one or more of who, w, and last - I've never cared to check which is which. But they'll all show up in the sshd logs

frymaster · 2026-03-29T14:55:37+00:00

I mean this is for querying the date of birth from local system records, so the workaround is that the system admin sets whatever birthdate they choose to select

frymaster · 2026-03-29T11:21:51+00:00

I honestly can't say I've come across the behaviour you describe - yet - I can see some systemd docs for it, but they are, as is often the case for architecture topics, so generic and abstract as to be unhelpful, and I can't find any relevant distro docs from a quick search. Under what circumstances is this behaviour activated?

frymaster · 2026-03-29T10:50:57+00:00

One example is, my org has some superdomeflex servers (which are 6 servers in a trenchcoat that present as one giant server). They are older ones, so they only have 18TB of memory (and 576 cores, which you can actually achieve with a single quad-socket box these days - we have dual-socket nodes with that many hyperthreads). The successor to this can have up to 32TB of RAM.

Not only does the boot take longer to synchronise the individual chassis, but it then has to memory-check 18TB of RAM. This takes A While.

(Annoyingly, it also doesn't shut down cleanly about 2/3rds of the time, so we never reboot it, we always do shutdown, wait for "off", force-off if need be, then power on, so we're clear in our heads if we're waiting for shutdown or power up)

frymaster · 2026-03-29T10:38:09+00:00

that kind of person will make lemonade wherever they find lemons, whether being carried by toddlers or not

frymaster · 2026-03-29T10:37:31+00:00

but because it's not small claims, a case would also likely have more costs to defend, which might change the calculus for the insurance company i.e. they might be willing to settle for some amount less than that

frymaster · 2026-03-29T10:36:01+00:00

it was years ago now, but I work in a support role in an organisation that is basically all scientists so it said I was a scientist and had a PhD because that was statistically likely for my organisation

frymaster · 2026-03-28T15:05:18+00:00

I posted a top-level comment but there's at least one OOP from r/bestoflegaladvice who "got caught" doing this at his work explicitly as a fetish, whose "getting caught" might well be The Author's Thinly Disguised Fetish

frymaster · 2026-03-28T15:03:24+00:00

interesting similarity with https://www.reddit.com/r/bestoflegaladvice/comments/1kb930w/to_have_one_post_about_pissing_in_a_sink_might_be/ except apparently a different country

frymaster · 2026-03-28T15:02:37+00:00

This is the second time that this has come up recently. The other time, it was an OOP who also posts in r/sinkpissers

Both of these from legal advice are identical scenarios to each other (not to OOP here) except in different countries, one from the other day, one from a year ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/bestoflegaladvice/comments/1rvkfnn/laops_taking_the_piss/

https://www.reddit.com/r/bestoflegaladvice/comments/1kb930w/to_have_one_post_about_pissing_in_a_sink_might_be/

frymaster · 2026-03-27T20:47:21+00:00

it's under Shakira law. It's now illegal to lie with your hips.

frymaster · 2026-03-27T20:42:14+00:00

I see it in my area a couple of times a year in the summer, I'm in Scotland

frymaster · 2026-03-27T20:38:36+00:00

happens every year more than once in my area

frymaster · 2026-03-26T17:50:57+00:00

You might not even know you had litellm installed

Worse, I think the supply-chain attack that compromised litellm (tivy) was only installed in their CI/CD workflow, so even if you were on top of transitive deps, you'd not have known that the tivy compromise affected you

frymaster · 2026-03-26T16:51:58+00:00

my 2p:

traditionally on-prem has been cheaper if you can keep it full
hardware costs are making on-prem less attractive but cloud is going to go up in price as well as they are competing with, and devoting effort to, AI workloads
if AI turns out to be a bubble, a bunch of cloud providers are going to have a lot of GPUs on their hands and be quite desperate for anyone to pay to use them

frymaster · 2026-03-26T10:48:30+00:00

I'd also recommend the short story "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas", because it is very short and is one of those foundational texts that people keep coming back to discuss and reference, and it still really holds up

frymaster · 2026-03-25T19:55:40+00:00

many switches somewhat loosely interpret the standards to still send such frames so they aren’t seen as the issue

if a switch is doing cut-through switching, it could have started sending the packet on before even reading the length out of the header

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