Underwhelming experience of the day -- trying my best to add Ansible Lightspeed IBM WatsonX integration to vscode and failing.

The number of hoops I had to jump through just to get lost in the IBM WatsonX service/model/API screens is just... wow.

Umpiring a 18U-A game in full plate gear in +32°C (heat index +37°C) -- done that, do not recommend.

@minoru In my defence, these CI jobs are already broken -- which is why docs.kernel.org and docs.kernel.org/next are stuck. But I will just do a one-off manual build to get them refreshed and leave the permanent fix to next week.

I didn't do it.

@llvm weekends are a social construct! ;)

It's 3PM on a Friday. Push a huge change to CI jobs:

To boost Trump, prominent racist, transphobe, and con-man Elon Musk has launched a PAC that harvests voter data through a deceptive "voter registration" app. https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/02/elon-musk-pac-voter-data-trump-harris.html

@gerrymcgovern "organic diesel" -- technically correct, the best kind of correct.

Don't want to come across as begging but I'm scared. 130+ jobs applied for, 2 interviews, 2 rejections. I know it sucks for everyone right now but I really need work.

Laid off while recovering from long COVID. Remote worker since 2015, or blue state with relocation assistance. Project 2025 is on the horizon and fucking terrified because even if Kamala wins, I don't think she's going to protect trans people in red states. At this point a month left before both health insurance & money run out.

All the usual SRE stuff plus all sorts of indepth Linux stuff, actually enjoy cursed bash and regexes. Not the World's Greatest Rockstar Dev but can get by in Python, C, and Go. Lots of monitoring, observability, and big data stuff, also done some heavy security work in the past, plus AuDHD hyperfocus on demand and willing to learn anything.

Will fix any problem in a company, technical, political, or other. Maybe now finding team lead level confidence but also autistic af.

CV: https://siterelenby.net/CV-7.1-redacted.docx

#GetFediHired

I got into baseball to get my mind off coding, so your ad algorithm is way off on this one.

I'd like to wish everyone a very merry delete that platform.

Edited: apparently the tweet about "weird" being a slur is a fake and has been debunked, so I am taking it down (see, even I have to check my sources sometimes!) However, I am leaving the post up and replacing the fake tweet with a real one where he calls the word "cis" a slur and whines about how he will punish people who use it.

Me: uses Zoom once or twice a month
Zoom, every time: "I'ma going to stay in the taskbar, then, k?"

@jarkko I've used both -- my favourite feature in foot is the ability to follow links with a keypress, but I'm using kitty because I liked the themes better. ;)

@jarkko kitty is also a good wayland terminal.

Weird and weirder, it’s all they’ve got!

A reminder that everything being shared online about the Southport attacker is not real, and is being reshared by media outlets in Russia to peddle anti-migrant fears (and by IT people on LinkedIn).

The person also isn’t called Ali Al-Shakati, and did not arrive by boat.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cevwgqz0x41t?post=asset%3A41e0a685-70bf-4606-bcd4-013cdf5c3e1f#post

@dangillmor

In case any journalists are interested in a real story, this censorship of the Harris dudes is certainly it. In fact, the entire reason the richest man in the world bought the biggest social network is to assert improper influence on the upcoming election, and he is doing it. Over and over again. But you can't write about it because you are dependent on the social network he controls. Do you see the problem here? Isn't this a really good story? Except you can't write about it. 😳

@hazelnoot https://darkvisitors.com/agents and https://github.com/ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.txt

@major yeah, I'm a language nerd and proud. :)

(Also, I see what you did there.)

@major it's the same in European vs Québec French -- nobody calls them cacahuètes here (though it will be understood), but arachides.