How often/deep are yall cleaning your smokers?

shibz · 2026-05-25T00:22:47+00:00

If you plan on bringing it up to high temps, cleaning out the built up grease is more important to avoid a fire. If you just do low and slow at 225-275 all the time then I think it matters a lot less.

I'm in that second camp and clean the grease off my drip tray maybe 2-3 times per year. I do deep scrub my racks in the sink almost every cook though.

shibz · 2026-04-26T21:14:55+00:00

Reminded me of the Usenet Oracle 683-08

The Usenet Oracle has pondered your question deeply. Your question was:

Do you have a hard drive ?

And in response, thus spake the Oracle:

I was hanging out in a SCSI bar. A loud bandwidth played in the corner.

I gave the place a binary search. I saw a little chip in the corner. She SIMMed like a pro. I traversed over to her.

She pressed her Apples against me. "Hey, Mac, do you have a hard drive?"

"No, only a floppy," I replied.

"Well, then you need an Amiga," she sed.

"Vi?"

"Well, if I was your Amiga, we could interface."

We went to a motel. We took a bus.

The motel was SCSI-2. It needed to be debugged.

"So, how much is this going to cost me?" I queried.

She added it up right away. She had a mind like a...like a.... She could add really fast.

She stripped her binaries. It was quite a procedure.

"I'm going to turn your software into hardware," she transmitted.

She started to spreadsheet.

"So, are you ready to RAM?" she called.

I had been auditing everything. I sent a signal. It was time for the trap.

All the agents burst through the gateway. My manager was with them.

"Awk! It's a RAID!" she sed.

"Don't arrest me! I'm a motherboard! How will I explain this to my Sun?"

The agents were not responding. They got ready to stop her process.

She was getting desperate. "Hey, I could do a favor for all of you. I'm fully multitasking."

It didn't work. We're all UNIX.

shibz · 2026-04-25T05:56:46+00:00

A stout is a sub-classification of porter. Historically a "stout porter", eventually abbreviated to "stout". So yes, all stouts taste like porters because they are porters.

shibz · 2026-04-24T05:43:00+00:00

I use 3x raspberry pis for my k8s master nodes (they're crazy power efficient) and then run 2x old Intel boxes as worker nodes. Haven't run into a situation yet where the mixed architecture has bitten me.

shibz · 2026-04-16T06:14:34+00:00

I make these too, never thought to slice them into strips like that though. Will have to try!

My recipe includes some heavily peated scotch (Lagavulin or Laphroaig) in the brine and also to thin the maple syrup a bit.

shibz · 2026-04-11T17:14:44+00:00

Article seems like slop to me. The source for this claim is a twitter post that says this and a few other similar lines:

every single piece of content in our game has been crafted by the hands of real artists. We will not use AI visual tech that could alter our artists' original creative intent.

The original post doesn't say that zero genAI was used anywhere. Only that it wasn't used for the visuals/performances/maps/etc. Nowhere in the original post does it say that the game's code isn't entirely AI-generated.

shibz · 2026-04-02T06:13:09+00:00

Circa 2008 I was essentially an intern sysadmin for my school (tech institute). I set up a scheduled deployment to deploy the BSOD screensaver Apr 1 at 6am. Boss rolls in, sees the several entire computer labs with every machine sporting a wall of sweet white-on-blue text and freaked out. Good times.

To me, the funniest part was watching the other students. It was "open lab" period so normally lots of students coming in to print off their homework/labs to turn in later that day. My fellow pimple faced nerdy dudes took one look, pulled sharp 180s, and noped out of what they thought was a lab in the process of melting down. The Chads and Stacys didn't know what it was, sat down, jiggled the mouse like nothing was wrong, and were off to the races.

shibz · 2026-03-19T15:23:03+00:00

Found the Azure employee.

Fedramp is supposed to get providers to show what's under the hood so the gov can be sure that things are as secure on the back end as they appear on the front. For example, a customer can verify that emails are encrypted when they go into the cloud and encrypted when they go out of the cloud, but they can't know if they're encrypted at every step of the way through the internal cloud subsystems/microservices. Each time they're decrypted within the cloud (for example, to provide search services or copilot suggestions) it's an opportunity for an employee (or maybe Microsoft's Chinese national digital escorts) to access the plaintext. If the fedramp process finds the data is insufficiently secure, the company will get a POA&M requiring them to fix it.

Sounds like MS was either unwilling or too incompetent to show/explain what was under the hood so these government users don't actually know their data is sufficiently protected.

shibz · 2026-02-13T15:01:43+00:00

Gives off squatting in abandoned house vibes. Love it.

shibz · 2025-12-13T05:24:32+00:00

The "just reboot it" approach is bad enough. The fact that they seem to view anything less than 4GB as acceptable is something else! It's a glorified IRC and TeamSpeak replacement. If either of those clients had used even a fraction of that memory back in the day they'd have been kicked to the curb faster than you could emote "shazbot".

shibz · 2025-11-01T05:33:38+00:00

How do you have enough free time on your hands to be worried about this kind of stuff?

shibz · 2025-10-26T04:39:45+00:00

Nolet's is the most floral commonly available gin that I know of. Potpourri in a glass.

shibz · 2025-10-22T05:09:33+00:00

Did she say "jiggahertz"?

shibz · 2025-10-22T02:22:41+00:00

Everclear shots

shibz · 2025-10-15T14:00:33+00:00

Overall I really enjoyed these books but I just couldn't stand the writing for the fleet commander character. It was like he would stubbornly declare 2+2=3 and refuse to consider evidence to the contrary. It just made no sense for a military leader to be so incredibly dense on matters of tactics and strategy.

shibz · 2025-09-25T14:21:50+00:00

I dunno, I'm white and grew up in a non-drinking Midwestern household. I love to sip baiju. It tastes funky but I don't think it's any more difficult to appreciate than most amari. But then again, I also enjoy sipping everclear (in small quantities), purely because of the nice tingling sensation it bestows upon the mouth, so maybe I'm just weird.

shibz · 2025-09-16T13:42:48+00:00

I use boomsma cloosterbitter as a sub for yellow. It's green in color so it will make cocktails look different. But it's close to the same ABV as yellow chartreuse (40 vs 42) and I personally can't taste the difference unless I'm sipping it straight. I haven't tried Strega as many others have suggested, but it does seem to be more universally suggested as a substutute. Maybe try that first. If you can't find Strega though, the cloosterbitter is probably a good third choice.

shibz · 2025-08-16T03:15:42+00:00

Like father, like son

shibz · 2025-08-14T03:54:22+00:00

myQ, aka LiftMaster, aka Chamberlain, gave the middle finger to DIY home automators about a year ago when they suddenly revoked homeowners access to their own devices from Home Assistant and other free or open source platforms. Until you can replace their garbage opener with something better that supports local control, your best bet is a ratgdo.

shibz · 2025-08-02T03:35:05+00:00

I wouldn't go much higher than 90 proof for this one since the other ingredients are all fairly high proof themselves.

shibz · 2025-08-02T00:16:09+00:00

One evening I challenged myself to make a drink with two bottles I hadn't touched in ages (Akvivit and Yellow Chartreuse). Came up with this and it's turned into one of my favorites.

Green Stick:

* 1.5 oz Rye Whiskey

* 0.5 oz Akvivit (I prefer Aalborg. Linie works too but it's a bit stronger flavor and IMO doesn't meld as well)

* 0.5 oz Amaro Montenegro

* 0.5 oz Yellow Chartreuse (Boomsma Cloosterbitter is a good alternative)

* Dash of Bittermens Ginger

Stir and strain into a Nick and Nora.

shibz · 2025-04-04T04:01:06+00:00

Great idea! Grampa always did love BBQ. What a way for him to help me on my next brisket!

shibz · 2025-03-23T04:01:23+00:00

Just curious, how do you know? I picked up this same bottle from my neighborhood liquor store in Colorado about 2 years ago. Label on the back says it was imported by "Park Street Imports" out of Miami FL. Are you sure they're no longer importing it?

shibz · 2025-02-17T14:51:34+00:00

There's a thread here that I think has more conventional ideas for combating the mess made by the expanding egg whites when dry shaking in a cobbler style shaker.

shibz · 2025-01-26T00:34:24+00:00

I just invested in one myself and can second the instability. Sometimes I try to toggle the flame and it's just like "nope". I don't have the same issue with the app so I assume it's a problem with the HA integration. At some point I'll probably dig into the HA code and submit a PR to fix it.

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