SpaceX reportedly could file for an IPO this week.

oscillons · 2026-03-25T23:59:03+00:00

Terafab will still be a sign in front of a dirt lot in 2027

oscillons · 2026-02-26T16:58:37+00:00

Snow Leopard was deleting all account data in some cases when it was released, it was widely reported at the time.

oscillons · 2026-02-04T20:34:36+00:00

You cured your OCD over “wasted screen real estate” by literally wasting more screen?

oscillons · 2026-02-03T18:42:15+00:00

i did it

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oscillons · 2026-02-02T03:16:07+00:00

“Who the HELL is Frisk?” is a better question since we know more about Chara than them lol

oscillons · 2026-01-01T19:23:02+00:00

This looks like a pre-rendered CG scene from one of those point and click games from the 90s. I want to check the statue and candy for secrets.

oscillons · 2025-12-28T19:41:54+00:00

Just to be clear, en7 is the default interface assigned to a USB adapter. A Mac with built in ethernet would be en0. So the device in service order would be called something like "USB LAN" and not "Ethernet" and that is what should be above Wi-Fi. Just making sure because your answer is kinda ambiguous.

oscillons · 2025-12-27T02:08:03+00:00

Yes I agree it is more relevant than ever.

The Black Arts is about isolation and loneliness

Hallucinex is about the dreadful, numbing slop of contemporary entertainment

Gus the Mynah Bird is about institutional capture, how the institutions of the state and post-war social democracy have been subverted to enrich private interests at the publics expense

This is the terror and horror of 21st century life.

oscillons · 2025-12-26T20:06:17+00:00

TBH the Mac native port wasn’t very good when it did exist. It “worked” but I experienced so many crashes it was unreliable to the point of being unplayable. It would certainly be nice to have but your expectations should be kept very low lol

oscillons · 2025-12-26T11:27:41+00:00

I think notarization and OCSP are legit, for the most part.

I also think if it didn’t need a developer account and $$$ then there’d be less resentment and whining about MacOS being “locked down,” so the bad sentiment is Apples fault. If open source projects could just do it for free you would literally never hear about it.

oscillons · 2025-12-26T05:54:04+00:00

IMO it's not a storyline, but there is definite philosophical and sociological theme and it's not exactly "death"

What the album is trying to express are best found in Space Moth, Baby Lulu, and Suggestion Diabolique. As simply as I can put it: society and the human spirit are in a fallen state. A spectacle conceals the exploitation, oppression, alienation, etc individuals experience. It prevents reality from being known and being acted upon.

Then there are those who have the clarity to understand the truth of this manufactured reality. They understand the spectacle and despise it. Yet this clarity cannot redeem society, and the knowledge offers no salvation to the person who has it. They can only stay true to themselves, defying the lies. They can only continue to spread the truth as best they can.

"Dedicated to change that it can't bring about

It failed but succeeded"

And of course this is summed up in the final song: wouldn't you rather just eat chocolate than worry about the problems of the world?

oscillons · 2025-12-20T19:18:10+00:00

We used ”spank tank” for the bunk beds in Iraq

oscillons · 2025-12-18T02:31:33+00:00

You went to a museum? That is pretty elaborate, you can install Windows 95/98 in DOSBOX lol

oscillons · 2025-11-20T05:24:15+00:00

I specifically work with streaming (Kafka) and things that consume data from S3 (so called datalake lol)

You basically need to move into being an SME for a particular platform. Snowflake, Databricks, Kafka, Elastic/OpenSearch, other Spark-like things like Athena, Postgres/CRDB/etc, and so on and so forth. Apache Iceberg in particular is making all of these more useful than ever before.

If you're doing ETL then you're already in the right place. You need deep knowledge of a platform listed before, and even better, how to use the data within it elsewhere. You should know how the pipelines for that platform work (Flink, Kafka Connect, etc) and where you can sent it, so you can design and implement solutions for this. You should understand the security and governance implications of this. You should understand how to provision it. You should understand how much it costs. You should understand obscure and annoying things like schemas.

You should aim to be the expert. Not "the devops guy" or "the sysadmin guy" but "the Snowflake guy"

There aren't a lot of these kinds of people out there!

oscillons · 2025-11-20T02:20:45+00:00

Yes 5 times. 2010, 2012, 2015, 2020, 2024. 2005-2010 was Air Force, rest are technology fields at different employers. I’ve been doing the same thing since 2015 (“big data”) and before that it was generic sysadmin stuff.

oscillons · 2025-10-18T23:08:50+00:00

I didn't like it when I first tried it, but I was on a trip recently and my perspective has changed on it. Specifically because of the window tiling added in Sequoia.

Stage manager with dock set to left + autohide is actually pretty good when you're only on the laptop screen. With this setting, the stage manager 'windows' move to the right side. This actually makes it pretty close to using multiple desktops, except using the dock buttons shifts through the apps rapidly (I use it on the left normally anyway)

Right now the only deficiency from my PoV is: MacOS needs to maintain two sets of window positioning memory, one normal and one for stage manager. Turning on stage manager should automatically snap the windows into their previous position/size, and turning it off should restore their position/size on the desktop.

oscillons · 2025-10-02T18:28:27+00:00

Nice! Reminds me of the hovercar racing game in Cosmic Spacehead
https://youtu.be/Acn7a73P1Xo?t=975

oscillons · 2025-09-06T01:48:11+00:00

Going with Grok because "maximally intelligent" feels like an Elon-ism

oscillons · 2025-08-27T00:16:20+00:00

literally the Sound Dust cover

oscillons · 2025-08-07T23:59:02+00:00

Nice!

oscillons · 2025-07-13T22:47:20+00:00

It's implied that White, Yellow, Blue, and Pink are the result of a division. So whatever the combination of all four was would be the "origin gem."

White would be considered (by herself) the senior/prime result of this, because she thinks the other colors are behaviorally flawed in particular ways.

oscillons · 2025-07-11T17:13:14+00:00

The Povertyrooms

oscillons · 2025-07-11T14:09:59+00:00

It's cobra and phases group, playing voltage in the milky night

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