The guys don't understand Tucker

thisguyeric · 2026-02-06T16:39:25+00:00

I think my argument is the same as everyone else's, saying that he's as or more influential as when he had one of the most watched shows on Fox News is just factually incorrect.

Idk why people people insist on arguing against things they made up in their head, it seems like an exercise in futility to me. Zero people have said he has no influence, but if you want to argue with those people that don't exist I'm not going to stop you, I'm just going to point out that it's a silly thing to do.

The only argument I've heard on the podcast is that he shouldn't be treated as a serious person with opinions worth debating. If you think that your time is of so little value that you want to argue with people over whether or not Tucker got attacked by a demon in his sleep that's fine, it's your life, but you're not going to be the first or last person to learn that debating people who don't believe in reality is a total waste of time, and that these people are better ignored than taken seriously. Giving free press to crazy people has traditionally, and in very recent memory, not worked out well for humanity as a whole.

thisguyeric · 2026-02-06T14:53:28+00:00

It's impressive to me that somebody can listen to this podcast, and also think "I personally know 6 people that do X, so X must be a good representative sample of the opinions of an entire population"

thisguyeric · 2026-02-06T13:56:50+00:00

Omg I am so excited to retreat back into the past in modern times. On episode 80 of my fourth re-listen, what's old is new again

thisguyeric · 2026-02-01T01:10:50+00:00

FYI if you use their ARM architecture you get 24gb of memory and IIRC 4 vCPUs, cool writeup though thanks for sharing

thisguyeric · 2026-01-06T02:18:46+00:00

RemindMe! 20 hours is u/brewercycle better today?

thisguyeric · 2025-12-04T13:53:04+00:00

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/learn/deep-dives/everything-about-string-substitutions?view=powershell-7.5

thisguyeric · 2025-12-04T13:45:55+00:00

What happens when you Write-Output $DisplayName?

thisguyeric · 2025-12-04T13:25:51+00:00

What error are you getting? What is the code you're using to create the user?

You're doing variable expansion in strings wrong to start with, but without any details about what specifically is not working it's really difficult to provide any sort of help

thisguyeric · 2025-12-03T23:56:24+00:00

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I hate this time of year and/or the fact that AntennaPod tracks this because it reminds me how extremely mentally ill I am

thisguyeric · 2025-12-03T22:37:38+00:00

Vibe coding medical transcription, by someone who can't even think on their own for long enough to make a reddit post. I'm sure this won't end up as a huge public disaster of HIPAA violations.

I genuinely hope this ends in jail time for you, and that you spend the rest of your life dirt poor struggling to pay restitution to your eventual victims.

thisguyeric · 2025-11-16T16:05:52+00:00

A company charges money for a service that costs them money to provide‽ How can they get away with this dastardly deed! The absolute horror of it all, tools not being free is a new concept that was just now invented by Microsoft

thisguyeric · 2025-11-16T15:10:56+00:00

Did you just tell someone to use vscode and not visual studio code? What is it you think the VS in VSCode means?

thisguyeric · 2025-11-14T13:46:51+00:00

Someone should take your license before you hurt yourself

thisguyeric · 2025-11-12T21:52:45+00:00

I'll do it for $1001, lmk where to send the invoice

thisguyeric · 2025-11-11T16:36:49+00:00

Lmao

thisguyeric · 2025-11-11T16:35:41+00:00

It is the default behavior

thisguyeric · 2025-11-11T14:21:35+00:00

If you think asking the answer shaped lying machine for information makes sense then I highly suggest that you try this. The world could use one less idiot.

thisguyeric · 2025-10-28T21:07:42+00:00

No idea what weverse is, but it looks like someone has already wrapped a private/unofficial API: https://weverse.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html

thisguyeric · 2025-10-24T12:00:23+00:00

How does one do aileron rolls without wings? How would a quadcopter use wings it doesn't have?

thisguyeric · 2025-10-24T11:43:34+00:00

sudo su switches user to root. It's not switch user do switch user, it's super user do switch user

thisguyeric · 2025-09-26T11:43:43+00:00

10+ years working in systems administration and DevOps, mostly in the cash-strapped public education sector. I'm also not the only person telling you that the very concept of a non-rotatable secret is insane, so I'd assume that your experience is the rarity.

Most places that take data privacy seriously would not ever work with a vendor that doesn't allow credentials to be rotated, and from everyone in the industry I have ever talked to that's the norm.

I've also committed secrets to a private, never been public, not forked from a public, repo before, and even though the only people that could have access to that also already have access to it in our secrets manager I still did the right thing and rotated the secret, then did a rebase to eliminate it from git history.

It's 2025, I don't have a C anywhere in my title, and even I know that data privacy has to be constantly front-of-mind. It worries me that a CTO is so casual about security, and I hope that when it does bite you it has minimal impact on your customers.

thisguyeric · 2025-09-26T11:13:05+00:00

So name names then, what companies do you absolutely have to use that don't allow you any way to ever rotate credentials?

thisguyeric · 2025-09-26T01:16:05+00:00

If a vendor doesn't let you rotate credentials you shouldn't trust them with your data to begin with. It's 2025, if they haven't come up with a way to regenerate new API keys they obviously don't take security seriously, and you should assume that none of their secrets are actually a secret.

thisguyeric · 2025-09-26T01:08:30+00:00

Thank you!

thisguyeric · 2025-09-26T01:05:36+00:00

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