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After the trough of disillusionement comes the plateau of productivity.

The graph starts at birth, when the chance of shitting your pants is 100% and then steeply declines as the person ages, until around 21 when experimenting with drinking or other drugs causes a brief surge in the chance of shitting one's pants, then it normalizes and steadily raises until death, when everyone again has a 100% chance of shitting their pants.

This graph plots a person's age against their percentage chance of shitting their pants.

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Created a Starter Pack for Network Automation Folks.
Let me know who I missed :)

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Tom Rorschach to be specific

Everything is binary & nothing is binary. At individual choice, everything is binary. If you're not faced with a binary decision, you haven't drilled down far enough. At system/tendency/trend, nothing is binary. Every phenomenon creates a gradient. Can only be understood when viewed as a gradient.

"Both what you run from and what you yearn for are within you."
~ADM

I sometimes see people walking around with the flashlight on, in their pocket, shining through their pants (it's usually pants, can't think of a time it was a dress or skirt or shorts)... I have to admit I judge them ("how do they not know") and I'm sure this will last until I do it myself.

Pretty sure this is an article about AI art, written by AI. The loop is complete. We are redundant.

essentialist.ai/calling-all-...

If you haven’t heard, Cisco IOS-XE has a pretty nasty vulnerability (CVSS of 10) in their webserver that is being exploited. If you have “ip http server” or “ip http secure-server” in your configuration, you will want to disable it immediately. www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...

"Don't let anyone define you, you define yourself."
~BJK

"An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself."
~AC

I hate that every useful application (Dropbox, Zoom, Zencastr, etc) wants to be an all-encompassing platform. Just stop. Make your core product great, charge for it, and get out of the way.

A 78 rpm player in the foyer of the Internet Archive.

Read our full statement about the recording industry lawsuit against our library: https://blog.archive.org/2023/08/14/internet-archive-responds-to-recording-industry-lawsuit-targeting-obsolete-media/

Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.
~R

"Don't believe everything you think. Thoughts are just that - thoughts."
~AL

Haven't been somewhere this green in quite some time. Made for a beautiful run this morning too... (Hotel room view @ Midwest Peering Summit 2023)

Values are principles or standards of behavior that you choose to live by based on what you judge important in life. When you consistently live by your values, you have integrity. When you, on the other hand, attempt to enforce your values on others, you're just an asshole. It's a form of violence.

It's almost like Meta doesn't care at all about their users, and looks at them simply as content generating/consuming cattle to feed their advertising machines... Almost.

Midwest Peering Summit 2023 | July 17, 2023 - July 18, 2023 Interconnect and Peering Summit in the Upper Midwest

Next week I'll be in Iowa, talking interconnection and automation!

Because even now Meta cares even less about its users privacy, wellbeing, and frankly existence outside of generating data for advertising. I.e. because it's Meta.

Fuck your taxes, Georgie boy, we out ✌️🇺🇲🦅🏈

"Make deep connections, not deep attachments."
~YP

Federation Developer Sandbox | AT Protocol We're releasing a developer sandbox for federation. Read our sandbox guidelines and set up instructions here.

Developers, the sandbox environment for federation is now ready for you! Help us test out the technical infrastructure for federation 🪄

Please read our sandbox guidelines and instructions here:

https://atproto.com/blog/federation-developer-sandbox

My eldest and I are about to finish reading the sixth and final Dune book (Chapterhouse) and we've decided to dive into The Count of Monte Cristo next.

After a bit of research we decided on the Robin Buss translation (unabridged, modern English) and I'm digging the clothbound Penguin Classics book

A counter argument: libraries are safe spaces that do not charge you money to be there. Librarians help those without access to the web to apply for jobs and housing, provide access to accurate information without payment, including physical or e- or audiobooks.

What can I say about expertise, experience, and mistakes? Well, I've been wiping my own ass every day for forty years, and sometimes I still get poop on my hand.

Is this thing on?

Now to figure out what to do with it...