have two middle names, have no mobile numbers, have no debt, have seventeen cats and five partners, be the one that can’t fit in a database because whoever designed the schema only had two brain cells and decided there’s only two genders
A very long overdue network for me to leave. It's been owned by Microsoft for a long time. It's corporate culture filled to the brim with AI slop is repellent.
But their bending of the knee to allow hate speech against transgender folks finally did it for me.
I've given the one month warning to folks who know me on LinkedIn.
If you're still on #LinkedIn perhaps consider leaving as well?
happy MOUSIE MONDAY 🎉✨ (new holiday i just invented to replace friday)
Have some rubber mouse maddies i dreamed up, and some quadrupedal interpretations of
@crashlapine 's mouse, sesh 🐭
if you run an online group (a discord etc), take five minutes to check that the permissions currently are what you thought they were. over time, stuff accidentally gets clicked when you're in a hurry, and platforms love to take the excuse of introducing changes to reset permissions to what they "think" you'd want.
I'm happy to report that the glitches that could happen in #curl when you did more than 2.2 billion transfers in a single invoke are now history.
2005: it takes 3 hours to build out a Windows PC and configure it to be secure, uninstall third party shovelware, and install software and set it up for a user.
2015: it takes one hour to build out a Windows PC and install software to make it ready for a user.
2025: it takes 3 hours to build a Windows PC, configure it to be private and usable, uninstall or block Microsoft spyware, and install software for a user.
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