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1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 15-Apr-2024 11:48:58 EDT lnxw48a1
   Grandson_4 (age 3) saw some show with robots reciting the alphabet. He's been saying "ABCD Robot" in his best bot voice for over a week.
2. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 14-Apr-2024 23:53:23 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

   The fantastic Chinese orchestral interpretation of Ozzy Osbourne's "Crazy Train" from the city guard chase scene in "Kung Fu Panda 4"

   farside.link/invidious/watch?v…

   youtube.com/watch?v=ecft7LcGW1…
3. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 14-Apr-2024 20:27:40 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

   > Don't
   > Think
   > Just
   > ROCK 🤘

   
   #TShirtSpotting
4. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 14-Apr-2024 01:36:13 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

   • lnxw48a1

   @LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} Your nu.f.n active still active for a while longer? I thought you would have stopped posting by now, after you announced its end a while back.

   I'm assuming you're closing because you're not seeing a worthwhile way to upgrade it to AP GS?

   • lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 14-Apr-2024 10:54:14 EDT lnxw48a1

     in reply to
     @clacke The instance closes 2024-04-16. Primary reason is that the annual #VPS hosting payment is due and I cannot pay it. But upgrade and disk space are secondary but still important reasons.
     
     This is going to be the first time in many years that I'm not hosting anything.
5. Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Saturday, 13-Apr-2024 16:24:21 EDT Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
   I have Oracle-itis. Contact with any Oracle product induces a panicked "I'm trapped! I must escape!" feeling.
   • lnxw48a1 repeated this.
6. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 13-Apr-2024 09:24:58 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

   So funny when a music video has been around for 40 years and you suddenly see it for the first time.

   Never knew "That's the Way" (I Like It) was by Dead or Alive. Actually I think I've never heard the song itself before, only ever inserted as a jingle or background to other media.

   • lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 13-Apr-2024 12:54:53 EDT lnxw48a1

     in reply to
     @clacke I think I've heard the song once or twice, but this video ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llHhiiNnIjY https://farside.link/invidious/watch?v=llHhiiNnIjY ) is new to me.
     
     KC and the Sunshine Band's 1970s version ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0_H3F84Yjk https://farside.link/invidious/watch?v=O0_H3F84Yjk ) is far more familiar, because they dominated Top-40 radio in the US for a year or so.
   • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 13-Apr-2024 20:54:01 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

     in reply to

     • lnxw48a1

     Re: nu.federati.net/notice/3436994

     @LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} Oh yeah, you're right. When I saw the video I was thinking wow, this sound is so unmistakeably Dead or Alive, who could I have never noticed, but clearly what I've heard is the original K C & the Sunshine Band original, and the 80s cover is new to me.

7. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 13-Apr-2024 20:48:34 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

   Astrology influencer stabs boyfriend, throws kids out of moving car, crashes. The nine-year-old is the sole survivor.

   I cannot begin to understand the horror and the intense survivor's guilt the elder sibling must be tackling for the rest of their life, having seen their baby sibling getting crushed by traffic on the highway the elder sibling managed to get off. 😰

   independent.co.uk/news/world/a…
8. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 12-Apr-2024 18:04:23 EDT lnxw48a1
   I got a survey from #OPM asking me as a supervisor about my experience with #HR in the hiring process, as if field supervisors have anything to do with hiring. It was a complete waste, because exactly zero questions were relevant to my job.
   • lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 13-Apr-2024 00:38:59 EDT lnxw48a1

     in reply to
     I talked to both Kenny and S today. They both got the same survey. Where I was careful to emphasize how much was non-applicable to field supervisors, S emphasized how poorly the candidates sent by HR matched actual job requirements. Kenny emphasized how much $EMPLOYER emphasizes formal, official internal training programs rather than putting new employees with someone who can teach them to do the job, even if they can't sign it off in the person's training book.
   • lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 13-Apr-2024 11:27:48 EDT lnxw48a1

     in reply to
     Overall, the message was that HR isn’t really helpful in getting qualified & quality employees into the positions where they should be.
     
     But of course, this survey was sent to thousands of people, including those “incompetent headquarters employees” that I occasionally mention. This means that they are likely going to get a pat on the back and “good job” ratings from most of them.
9. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 13-Apr-2024 00:52:59 EDT lnxw48a1
   Currently, Tuesday 2024-04-16 is my intended quitting day. It is my expectation that my accounts will be turned off within an hour after I send in my resignation e-mail, and every day before then is already expected to be busy.
   
   I'll have to ensure that "personal" documents (such as tax forms and people's non-agency contact info) are copied off of the agency's equipment before I send in the resignation. That way, all I need is for them to send a shipping label (even better if Fedex will pick it up, because I don't know where their nearest storefront is).
   
   Since the agency's cellphone is still en route from #SoCal to #SWMO, I would wait up to a week longer. Except there are several deadlines coming up very soon, including one that would require them to spend hundreds of dollars (that they don't need to spend if I'm leaving) and one which involves some anticipated policy changes that I don't agree with.
10. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 13-Apr-2024 00:01:02 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
    """R. L. Shaffer of IGN called it "a painful, unfunny, unoriginal, sloppy mess of a movie", while Brad McKay of Collider stated, "It’s not funny or entertaining." Brian Orndorf of DVD Talk recommended that his readers not "give Craig Moss your time or your money. Watch coverage of the BP oil disaster instead. I guarantee it's funnier."
    """
11. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 12-Apr-2024 17:40:26 EDT lnxw48a1
    Today, we watched a few videos about Krakatoa and Anak Krakatau. Grandson_3 is currently building volcanoes in the yard out of gravel.
    
    He was impressed when they talked about the weather effects of the 1883 eruption.
12. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 12-Apr-2024 11:19:43 EDT lnxw48a1
    Audio of imagined dinosaur sounds = dinosaurus roarus
13. Ute Hauth (miradlo@pirati.ca)'s status on Friday, 12-Apr-2024 00:49:34 EDT Ute Hauth

    ♲ @wurstaufbrot@pod.geraspora.de: ♲ diaspora.psyco.fr/posts/e767eb… @beaubobobonobo@diaspora.psyco.fr:
    
14. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 11-Apr-2024 05:55:01 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

    I'm Swedish and as a small nation we always proudly point out hey did you know famous person so and so is Swedish.

    But I had no idea Rebecca Ferguson, a k a Rebecca Louisa Ferguson Sundström, is Swedish! Ferguson is her mother's name. Her dad is a Swedish business man and her mom is English, but spent her adult life in Sweden. The mom seems vaguely in the music industry and translated some ABBA lyrics in the 70s. Rebecca grew up in Vasastaden in Stockholm and started her career in a Swedish soap opera.

    Even when she played Jenny Lind in The Greatest Showman nobody pointed this out to me!

    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 11-Apr-2024 05:57:06 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
      I learned of it when someone pointed out that hey, Lady Jessica being a Harkonnen is supposed to be a plot twist, and then they hired two Swedish actors for the Baron and the Lady. 🙂
    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 12-Apr-2024 00:12:34 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

      • Fitheach
      @Fitheach Noted!
    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 12-Apr-2024 00:16:40 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

      • Dewoo Alt
      @Dewoo Alt-dog Maybe you didn't know they're Swedish, but I think you've heard of Dolph Lundgren (Universal Soldier, Rocky IV) and Peter Stormare (Fargo, Armageddon, American Gods).
15. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 11-Apr-2024 03:34:57 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

    "Applicants must also have extensive knowledge of Unix, although they should have sufficiently good programming taste to not consider this an achievement."

    -- Hal Abelson

    azquotes.com/quote/769064

    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 12-Apr-2024 00:19:14 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
      @soaproot Around that time. I'd say the culture is Lisp Machine culture, which I suppose is the CSAIL culture of the time, so maybe the overlap is pretty significant.
16. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 11-Apr-2024 22:12:03 EDT lnxw48a1
    Dang! I want to build a computer now. https://www.amazon.com/AMD-RyzenTM-ThreadripperTM-7980X-128-Thread/dp/B0CK2R6DVS/ref=sr_1_2 .
    • GeniusMusing likes this.
17. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 11-Apr-2024 21:27:44 EDT lnxw48a1
    S told me how I can delay the necessity to quit, but her solution doesn't solve the major problems (namely that my needs and their needs are different and moving farther apart quickly).
    
    R also spoke up and said he advises "don't quit $EMPLOYER, make $EMPLOYER quit you" ... but that sounds like "don't quit, get yourself fired" which is probably the worst advice ever.
    
    K asked when my last day is. I told him I hadn't announced it, but that my plan is to send in my resignation "with immediate effect" one morning next week. The irony is that I'm on the list of people that were recommended for a merit increase. Potentially, the raise could finish processing the same day I quit.
18. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 11-Apr-2024 20:59:44 EDT lnxw48a1
    Well, one good thing:
    
    The total solar eclipse was not accompanied by 3 days of global darkness (there were several YouTube videos saying this would happen; don't ask me why).
    
    There also hasn't (yet) been a catastrophic earthquake along the New Madrid Seismic Zone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Madrid_Seismic_Zone (or its #IL & #IN extension, the Wabash Valley Seismic Zone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wabash_Valley_Seismic_Zone )
    
    Yes, several YouTube videos also forecasted a major quake ... though some said the quake could come a few months to a few years after the eclipse. Way to hedge one's bets.
19. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 11-Apr-2024 20:57:33 EDT lnxw48a1
    LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} deleted notice {{tag:nu.federati.net,2024-04-12:noticeId=3436947:objectType=note}}.
20. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 11-Apr-2024 20:48:09 EDT lnxw48a1
    Having praised the FIDO2 security keys, I have to say that if you lose it, you may not ever be able to get back into your accounts.