A cat that goes outside more than 0.0% has a drastically-reduced lifespan. Feeding it encourages bad habits that may get it killed.

Ultimately it’s not yours and you have no idea its status, needs, allergies or history. There’s a risk to you (rabies, roundworms, heartstrings) but the risk to the cat is way more severe.

If it has a shaved patch then it’s seen a vet recently.

Leave it alone.

rightaway

Not a word. Spell-check should have told you.

Twice.

Twenty things Mozilla the company killed and they didn’t mention ITS OWN NAMESAKE APP. It’s didn’t ‘evolve’ into Firefox: they split the baby in half and cut away the connective tissue.

Nope. We shed a lot of mentor-types in the great layoffs after Y2K, and a generation of nerds ran without any oral history and then taught that to their successors.

What they don’t know they don’t know is not only What best-practice is, but Why best-practice is. And there’s little demonstrated effort to adhere.

I look over installation docs that do Very, VERY bad things, for instance. Build processes with no artifact validation, a toxic cargo chain, builds in prod, and so much more.

I can’t blame the devs, as they didn’t learn better. I blame the c-suites who canned the pricy experienced nerds who were also raising their successors properly.

Now we get to re-learn all that at great pain and hope to regain some of what we had before the next board of defectors guts another carefully-rebuilt culture of adequacy.

Nah. A good team will desert a bad company. And if their main interface is some pencil-pusher with a DENIED stamp, they’ll be a good dev for a better company soon.

See, that’s okay though. The MSP who can’t read PDFs being filtered out is kinda okay. Been there, ain’t going back.

In 5 steps it violates ISO27002 3 times.

I’d say any setup result is purely accidental on the way to something far more exciting.

I like how when someone basically says “Don’t be the vegan at the party”, you double down with the thing that most pushes buttons.

It’s good at removing doubt.

Yeah, I’ve spent some time with a similar proselytist. My cousinas are all vegan, one of them a crusader. After that incident she’s not on my friends list any more.

But you be you.

Imagine what smartphones would look like if they still had to be powered by AAA batteries.

That’s a false comparison. We have Lithium and NiMH batteries available off the shelf for common things that aren’t phones. The technology is available for a COTS phone battery replacement, as long as it matches a common form-factor.

And if phones can’t work around a common battery form-factor but yet all look like fucking candy-bars, then I call bullshit.

You’re talking to each other’s ears, not tonguing them

Shrews were tamed like this.

what the hell is the deal with people that walk around in public on speaker phone, with the phone held 2 inches from their head

Like they’re eating a pizza or they’re some reality TV episode?

It’s because they’re stupid. Just stupid.

Engineers and designers spend their days optimising the mic and speakers for people holding the phone LIKE A PHONE and these halfwits hold it like a slice of pizza, shouting over the loudspeaker that we all can hear but they can’t because they’re shouting.

Like an idiot.

My oncle sailed into early COVID season with late non-hodgekins and not long to go. He thought of his pregnant daughter and her child, and the risks of attending treatment, now daily, and took a voluntary.

Our med system made this horrific decision slightly less so by handling everything but the go button; and while we miss everything about him to this day, we’re grateful.

It’s important work, even when we don’t win.

Meanwhile, a person like me who lives in an apartment and must charge his car during the day

Why not use the outlet at your parking space? That’s in the building code now.

Microsoft requires a proof of presence through Windows Hello.

… which requires a hotmail account or something, right?

So no. The only interaction I’ll have with this is coding cinc.sh to remove it.

Pointless – you need to beep through 4 doors to get to my unit. Hell, the elevator won’t even take you to the right floor unless you can get a fob from one of my neighbours so that button will work. Stairs are locked to get ONTO a floor, so they’re only good as exit stairs without another key that only firemen get, and you can’t get in by rappelling onto my patio either, Ethan Hunt.

My sister got the one where the scam says her son got into a car accident and - mumbling through ‘a broken jaw’ so thats why the voice is off - Officer Peterson needs to arrange bail, but off the books.

It was surprisingly effective, and my sister had a freakin’ heart attack as any parent would, and THOSE people can rot in a hell made of mealworms, ticks and black flies.

I’m torn between asking them to put up or shut up, and maybe just not confirming they got an address that still works.

React OS is awesome, and I need it to run stable on some metal.

And also play WoW, because I don’t trust linux to run whatever copy-protection crap is on there and not brick my account through no fault of its own.

I feel like most everyone

Beware the false consensus. Not all birds are seagulls, but get a plate of chips and that’s all you’ll see.