RSS is dead! Long live RSS!

I was so onboard with RSS (no acronym tag because no one can even agree what it stands for) back in the day. I wrote a blogging platform that stored data in RSS and used Python to render that into HTML for viewing. Subbing in an ‘.rss’ file extension would give you the raw RSS.…

Welcome to the aughts

It’s only 2018 and it’s not on by default but, hey, now you can eliminate the arcane 260 character path limit in Windows 10 (and presumably beyond). See howtogeek instructions.

The best words

I came across this descriptive noun for the Trump administration/entourage and wanted to share/save it for posterity. ‘Clownreich’ Fucking brilliant, that.

Slow AF

…which, inside joke, Slow Artifactory… VPN to desktop to Citrix to PAM gateway to RDC-to-server to Server Manager panel to Event Log viewing. Not enough layers of indirection. I can still scroll one line every seven seconds.

Pop culture references

Why doesn’t anyone ever get my Chilly Willy pancakes reference? More folks need to have watched this on a continuous loop: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xx4x56

A new project

The IRC bot project has become stable if not a little useful. There is much to do w/r/t writing new behaviors but the framework appears to be mostly in place. Hooray for that! Most days I’m in front of a computer you can find me on Freenode’s #fezchat channel. I tend to run the bot…

From the You-Can’t-Cheat-Math Department

https://www.metafilter.com/172992/Fear-and-Trembling-and-the-Sickness-Unto-Death#7347759 It is an open question as to where the money came from to pay off Stormy Daniels (Ms. Stephanie Clifford). Metafilter user 0XFCAF cobbled together a little regex and sprinkled in some n-gram logic to answer the question, were there payments from the Bawbag campaign to some organization with ‘Trump’ in the name within…

Torvalds on security

Angry old man yelling at clouds or shrewd evaluator of priorities? You be the judge[1]. Myself? I’m on the side of shrewdness. Security, while important, is not the most important priority necessarily. It’s all about context, severity, and disruption. And when a vulnerability requires physical access or root access or replacing microcode on the CPU…

Twatter

Can I just say that Twitter represents everything that is wrong with U.S. politics? There is no nuance. Chronology and threading are exceptionally difficult. Individual tweets are consumed without scepticism. The noun ‘tweet’. The shambolic nature of the company behind the platform. I’ve never really understood the platform’s popularity. I have an account, well two…

Doing support work while slightly buzzed is entertaining. I’ve recently used words like ‘abomination’ and ‘extreme rigidity’. Certainly the folks on the other end of these missives are deriving the same enjoyment…