David Machaj

@GossiTheDog is that a cybertruck?

@GossiTheDog
This ancient ice is irreplaceable

…

Let’s melt it!

A black and white goat, with his front legs on one side of a wooden bar, and his back legs on the other side, thoroughly stuck. He's inside a barn with a gate nearby and straw on the floor. He looks a little annoyed that he's stuck.

Remember my goat that we named Cybertruck because of his various safety issues? He's been doing great, until earlier when he went offroading (in the barn) and high-centered himself and had to be rescued, again living up to his name. All hail Cybertruck!

Hand drawn picture of a dumpster fire that says “this isn’t fine”.

I’m not sure if I’ve ever attended a real protest before but tomorrow that will change. I just finished making my sign.

I like to call this Dawson’s first law of computing: O(n^2) is the sweet spot of badly scaling algorithms: fast enough to make it into production, but slow enough to make things fall down once it gets there.

BREAKING: A bunch of U.S. Digital Service employees (including me) were fired tonight. It's still unclear exactly how many. There is no visibility whatsoever into what determined who was let go. Legacy USDS (i.e., pre-DOGE) leadership was not involved in the decision about whom to let go and […]

@randomascii.bsky.social
I’m glad my youngest kid has reached the point where they’ve had every dose of the MMR vaccine. So now the whole family is covered. Against measles, at least.

Sleeping Beauty would have been a much shorter story if she had a golden retriever. A “true love” kiss would have taken about 30 seconds once her face is low enough to reach.

Picture of a car tire with a screw sticking out of it

It’s a screw-in-car-tire kind of Saturday 😞

@DHowett
Have you seen @cyd?

Cartoonist Ann Telnaes leaves WaPo after someone above her killed a cartoon - the first that's happened in 16 years, she says.

The cartoon shows a bunch of oligarchs kneeling before and handing sacks of money to #Trump

#news #media […]

@jerry
A CPAP machine. That sounds like sleep apnea.

@jerry
If the birthday is on a Friday you can celebrate by pushing to prod and then logging off

@jerry
Are the instances with unrestricted signups ones that you could block entirely? If the ratio is bad enough that seems like ample justification to do so.

Earlier today I finished switching over my wife’s business’s website from Wordpress to @eleventy. The site has always had static content so a full WP install has been overkill. The editor was the real appeal for her. Now that WP is falling apart it is definitely worth it to switch over to […]

@ivory
I’ve been using the free trial for a while now and it definitely made Mastodon feel more fresh and interesting. The visualization of my timeline is simply more appealing. I’m happy to say I finally hit the subscribe button.

Important reminder, if you own a domain name and don't use it for sending email.

There is nothing to stop scammers from sending email claiming to be coming from your domain. And the older it gets, the more valuable it is for spoofing. It could eventually damage your domain's reputation and […]

Thank you @jerry for approving my usage of your relay so quickly. It already seems more lively on here.

Finally published a little writeup that I wrote a long time ago but never posted online. This is for a very specific problem but it will help if you ever have that problem.

https://www.machaj.info/posts/powershell-dump.html

The upgrade process wasn’t too bad, fortunately. There were some breaking changes (years ago 🙄) that required manual migration of some Plex stuff. And then a second more recent set which means the upgrade had several steps and interim versions. The Plex docs were good and it went ok when […]

I’ve had a Synology NAS for a few years now that has worked pretty well for our basic needs. It was “fully up to date” on DSM6 with an “optional” update to DSM7 available.

What I didn’t realize is that it is only “optional” if you want security updates. It apparently hadn’t installed any […]

@jerry

@TechConnectify can probably hook you up with a happy fun ball. See https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dHskIsOYZ8s&pp=ygUWdGVjaG5vbG9neSBjb25uZWN0aW9ucw%3D%3D

Is there a German word for when you tell your kids to let you do something so they don't mess it up... and then you utterly fucking botch it.

I totally did that recently opening some cereal. My wife was asking which animal dug into it like a raccoon and I raised my hand.

For all the Americans out there, it is more important than ever to vote this year.

I am happy to confirm that my ballot has been received and counted. (I really like the all vote by mail system in Washington state)

Panorama photo of mountains in Washington

Panorama photo of mountains in Washington

Washington state can really be so beautiful