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Cake day: September 26th, 2023

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  • Are they based out of the PNW? Now that I think about it, I may actually have interviewed with them at one point.

    ETA: Yeah, pretty sure it was them, they’re PT and have a 425 DID for sales, and the company name is wholly unrelated to the product. Had forgotten about them entirely, and would have had the same reaction as OP to getting that email now.

    And it probably is the sw product the email was referencing, since Bartender is capitalized.


  • IWW comes to mind. They’re not aligned with any particular trade etc, unlike most unions.

    Also…. See “You Deserve a Tech Union” recently published. If cost is an issue there is an arrangement that can be made, see author’s masto acct.

    Personally, I was hired fully remote, and would fight like hell right beside you any attempt to drag me back. I’m fortunate to be four plus hours from the office I’d likely work in otherwise, so I do t expect to need to fight - I lived here when they hired me.

    Whatever you learn and whatever options you find, please come back and post as it will help others.




  • The local utility co tried to give me a free google thermostat. Nooooope.

    Three decades ago, as a kid, the electric co-op put a device on our water heater that would limit energy to that specific device at times of high load. That was sensible, and had zero listening capabilities. It’s also as close as I want to get to (commercial) voice assistants.




  • All the damn time. If I’m I. The same room and we’re both awake, I speak, but if she’s asleep or I’m working and can’t escape from a vid meeting…. Signal it is.

    For various reasons, my memory isn’t worth a damn, so there’s an added benefit of “yes, I told my wife that important thing” in the history

    We live on one floor, with a bedroom, an office, a living room, and a kitchen. It’s definitely not that I’m too lazy to take the ten or twelve steps across the house lol


  • I’d have taken her gladly, over TFG, but you are abs not wrong. She was never going to be another Bill - a lot of his appeal in campaigning was that he felt approachable even on TV.

    She never had that skill, and didn’t seem capable of developing it.

    Can relate, lots of my work and face to face interactions are basically by rote - I’ve honed the scripts over the years to get a thin veneer of spontaneity and make it believable rather than robotic, but…. That works because I lean waaaay into it. Hillary feels scripted and robotic.

    Don’t ask me how we rejected her, but our friends across the pond elected the May-Bot tho. While their politics are diametrically opposite, Hillary and Theresa are very similar personalities - or lack thereof.

    FWIW, if anyone is aware of a book that meaningfully compares the two, I’d love to know about it. The handful of serious authors who approach UK political bios that I’m aware of don’t do so in a comparative way.






  • Boxes that physically live in my home are mostly Manjaro. They’re also not externally accessible from the internet.

    Anything in the cloud I standardize on Debian. Two distros and consistency makes maintenance much easier.

    Anything in a container runs whatever it was built on because porting a docker compose file from, say, Alpine to anything else is just not worth the time and energy.




  • Seems reasonable to me - I got my state’s id card for ownership of a firearm, and just haven’t felt compelled to take the 16 hour class for a carry permit.

    TBH, I have some concerns about the intersection of fed law and legal marijuana states that I’d rather not risk being the test case for.

    You bring up a very valid point about funding of the course and equity. On further reflection, anyone who wants to learn ought to have access, whether they want to own/carry, or not.

    The more educated and responsible citizens, the fewer sanctimonious fools who think “good guys with guns” stand a chance of stopping a motivated shooter with an assault rifle.