Haunting. Jeff Goldblum looks like a gecko climbed in the transporter instead of a fly.

I thought the poster was AI art at first. Truly hideous.

The place I work for is on the hook for $800k per year increase from Microsoft unless we can get creative with licensing. My boss keeps complaining that other companies skirting the rules forced Microsoft to do this. It’s tough to keep my mouth shut.

I’m glad the company in the article is able to migrate. Sadly we’re in way too deep to escape, and management seems unable to imagine anything but being dependent on abusive mega-corps.

That’s what I wanted to know too. My emergency fund is all in T-bills since the pandemic started.

It looks like they dropped it a quarter of a percent, so now it’s roughly 4%.

*But only if you kids unplug all the smart devices first.

Nice job, they look great. In my experience, though, you either need the patch on the inside or be attentive when putting on the pants. I’ve got one pair I keep ripping open because I hook the patches with my feet. Yet I keep patching them on the outside because now it’d look silly to have half in and half out.

Is there something I’m supposed to be doing with Queen Anne’s Lace? It gets more out of control every year, but I just rip it out and compost it.

I always get the thought, “This can’t be normal. Guess I’m dying.”

You could say the same about Hannibal Lector, but I wouldn’t eat him. I do eat pork, though.

Make sure you get the original version of Ghost in the Shell. I recently decided to rewatch and could only find my 2008 remaster DVD, where they replaced some scenes with CGI. It was absolute trash, and my DVD didn’t seem to have the unaltered version available.

Gattaca and Children of Men are still my top two. Absolute masterpieces that should be seen by everyone.

Something I realized while reading this is that I can’t think of any quotes from it. Besides “Bazinga”, but that was designed to be intentionally annoying and then was used to mock the show.

I can think of references to basically every other sitcom I’ve seen, and I can vaguely remember some scenes from BBT, but nothing quotable. My spouse liked it, so I’ve seen every episode at least once, but it was honestly pretty forgettable.

My verdict was originally “not bad”. But maybe being forgettable was it’s best quality.

I have nothing productive to add, but I will say the same thing happens on my Windows 11 laptop from my work. And updates are forced by the management protocols, so every couple weeks I lose my screen until I restart. Classic Nvidia.

I promised a number of hours under any sane estimate and delivered four days over the estimate. Success.

Is that salami or raw ground beef?

That was the part that made me laugh.

“You’re free to join the conversation”

“Am I?”

How’s he going to drink that without dipping his nose in it?

In my opinion this is the biggest shortcoming of the ActivityHub ecosystem. That’s not to say it should have been solved by now, since I don’t know how to decentralize authentication safely. And after using it for a while I’m not sure I want a single account.

But it is a challenge facing newcomers and those trying to recruit them. This group of services is already tough to explain sometimes, and telling them it all interconnects just muddies the waters when you have to explain that it’s not the way they expect.

Chat, is this real?

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