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@GossiTheDog The dick-waving is real OMG

@stephanie Ugh ick! I don't know what that looks like, but I do know what a melted jar of Kraft peanut butter looks like when I turned the wrong burner on... Also do not recommend

This was written a year ago but might be relevant today for some reason https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/11/ai-with-90-error-rate-forces-elderly-out-of-rehab-nursing-homes-suit-claims/

Successfully handed off two of my ongoing projects to a coworker. This frees me up to focus on a couple of things:
* Tech lead for several security assessments from the service point of view (not the assessor for once). I look after gathering the evidence and the documentation
* Tech advisor […]

@stephanie My favourite screwdriver is a ratcheting 90' one, where you can get a LOT of leverage for a stuck screw. It's awesome!

@stephanie @casseagull AAAAARRRRRGGGGGHHHHH I feel your pain. I've seen so many engineers use their iron ring as an excuse to write like they're in middle school.

Thanks to a recommendation on here a couple of days ago, I picked up the Kindle edition of Elon musk - Enquête sur un nouveau maître du monde (French Edition). This required some shuffling of my Kindle account, because this book is only available on the .ca Kindle store, not the .com store […]

@chiefgyk3d A buggy rootkit no less, given the number of bugs I've seen over the years in games in general.

No thanks, I don't need kernel-level exploitable code on my system.

@stephanie I'm an engineer who can write pretty well, and it takes ALL my willpower to not go full English Teacher on documents I'm asked to review for technical content.

Back on track with #keto again, after raising my daily calories and updating the macros to increase protein and cut back on fat a tad. Still in ketosis, and it's easier to comply with the new macros.

And the IBS is back under control, which is the main point.

7% calorie deficit, 5% net carbs […]

@decodor I switched to Firefox a few months ago and haven't had issues; YMMV of course.

@cynthb notably, excluding the province of Québec :flagqc:

#Canada Tomorrow there will be a nation-wide test of the Emergency Alert System. Test times are here: https://www.alertready.ca/testing-schedule/

@eyrny.bsky.social I have two things going:

- a daily backup of Documents, Photos, etc. to the disk on my firewall (which is a homegrown Linux box) using Personal Backup by Dr. Ratlev

- Proton Drive - I use Proton Mail for email, paid family account, with 500Gb storage. I started using Proton […]

A screenshot of the Uninstalling... window for Microsoft 365 and Office, with a blue progress indicator.

Unsubscribed and uninstalled M365 in favour of Libre Office, and rebooted for good measure. I had it because of the ancient, arcane, macro-ridden Excel sheets in use by a nonprofit where I no longer hold that position. Saves me over CAD$150/year to boot.

Nope nope nope. Once again, I learn the hard way that ANY kind of fasting is 17 flavours of nope. Fortunately this was mid-morning and I was able to correct the issue.

Re-jiggered my food macros to try a protein-sparing modified fast, with 3 low days and 4 recovery days. My weight has been creeping up slowly again, after losing A LOT a couple of years ago.

I've had bad luck with previous attempts at intermittent fasting, but this way supposedly helps with […]

A female person with short hair and round black glasses standing in front of an open closet, holding their phone and wearing a silver necklace and a black T-shirt. The T-shirt has the words "A Woman's Place Is In The Resistance" in white, in the shape of Princess Leia holding a blaster.

@kb-murphy.bsky.social High five! This arrived Thurs, just before the CP strike.

It's mid November and G and I still need antihistamines. And it's 12'C out. This is unreal.

@kb-murphy.bsky.social Yeah, I had to do the same here too when I joined. Ditto for way back when Xitter was new.

New favourite tea: Osmanthus Wulong from World of Tea https://www.world-of-tea.ca/ Microfarmed teas, everything I've got from them has been excellent quality.

If you're local you can do curbside pickup from their Centretown store on Bank St. to save the shipping.

How do I explain to my Boomer in-laws that you can't just walk into an office, hand the receptionist your paper resume, and walk out an hour later with a job, like they did in the 1970's?

Any modern company would toss said paper resume in the shredder, after adding the name to their "Do Not […]

@GossiTheDog @oneunderscore__ Apparently they bought the diet supplement business too - onion flavoured diet supplements FTW! 🤣

If you're looking for an alternative to Spotify that doesn't pay Joe Rogan, I've been quite happy so far with Tidal. Subscription is in the CAD$11/month ballpark. I generally go month to month for these types of things to help with budgeting, and simplify cancellation if needed.

My tastes in […]

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