Nice. Software developer, gamer, occasionally 3d printing, coffee lover.

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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • Around 6 a day. 1 for the drive to work, one guy my first walk at work (~11AM), another one my second (~1PM) and another on my third (~3-4PM). Then when I get home another so around 7PM and usually 1 or 2 more later on. If I’m having racing thoughts or something hampering my sleep I’ll have another then as well. My ADHD manifests stimulants as calming, and coffee was one of the ways I self treated before I was properly getting treatment.


  • I mean, it’s very possible an it was written by “an AI” (an LLM). For all we know the prompt the user gave it was something along the line of “get your pull requests accepted no matter the cost” and it’s fancy text prediction decided, in it’s ever ongoing roleplay, that the targeted blog post would shame the developer into accepting it’s PR.

    I definitely don’t under the paranoia though. I don’t understand how people are convincing themselves any of this so close to actual intelligence. Ask your fancy LLM how to fix your cup that "is sealed at the top and “open at the bottom” or if you should drive to the car wash to get a car wash if it’s only 100ft away - both scenarios obvious to most any human and will need to be trained out of the current leading LLMs (if they haven’t been patched already).






  • My first apartment had Comcast or DSL. I signed up, a month later I was part of their “experimental” data caps program. During the course of this I had a sales rep call and fell for the pitch. Turns out, he downright committed fraud and made promises that were patently untrue. It took 48 hours of back and forth in various mediums over the course of a month to get the situation resolved.

    The solution was to complain on reddit and have an employee give me a one time use code to use Comcast’s VIP support center… Which is ridiculous that it exists in the first place.

    I predicated all my subsequent (about 4) moves with “Comcast is not in the area” as a filtering criteria. Fuck Comcast.



  • I will say that getting a question ignored when asked in a manner that is contrary to the rules of that community is normal. People not reading the rules and guidelines and asking inappropriately is very common and results in a lot of burnout.

    But you are correct - it takes little effort to not be an asshole, and in those situations one should just move on and let the powers that be clean it up.



  • Early on in my career I got hired as a junior systems administrator. The job description was the usual responsibilities around sysadmin work and supporting our employees. And for the most part, it was. I was part of a team of 4 sysadmins and there were about 500 employees at this location. So not a particularly small outfit.

    Anyway, they started asking stuff of my not in the description. I got asked to change a door knob, they justified it as appropriate because it was the IT closet.

    Then I got asked to change out a security camera near the top of our warehouse. I refused (the ladder wasn’t even rated for my weight), so my immediate boss did it.

    A few lightbulbs here and there. Then, the final straw - they asked me to reinsulate the server room. Basically, lift one of the tiles and throw more insulation up there. Given no direction - I got myself a mask and nylon gloves and did it, wish I could say I didn’t and I had quit right then and there, but no - I did it and gave them my 2 weeks the next day. They told me they didn’t need 2 weeks from me. I was fine with that.

    And I know, putting in my 2 weeks a day later isn’t exactly a rage quit. But I’m a timid person and a pushover, or was at that time, so to me it certainly felt like it.


    Another thing they did was write my up for clocking in while walking into the building. Pulled up the timesheet and the camera footage showing me clocking in a full 5 seconds before entering the building and said I was stealing from the company (basically they showed me the footage of me walking with my phone out and then the timestamp of when I clocked in vs when I entered the building).

    The reason I did that was because it was more efficient. I had a set of daily tasks and checks to do and of I started that lost at the rear entrance I could get it done much faster without having to double back.

    From that point on you can bet I got into work and took an immediate coffee break on company time before even starting that checklist. Never got written up for that either.




  • If your ISP is doing to right IPv6 should be setup for SLAAC, in which case they would give you an entire /64. I don’t use OpenWRT, but I assume it’s showing you the IPv6 /64 from IPv6-PD used for SLAAC, and the /128 the router is using to communicate with the ISP If it’s SLAAC your client devices should be getting two IPv6 addresses as well. One is for privacy, that’s the one websites will see when you connect but can’t be hit, and the other is the one you would use to reach your computer from another device.

    Edit: Refer to @Sammirr@aussie.zone’s child comment for a better explanation with some corrections / clarifications.