ambitiousslab

I use mythic beasts. They are not the very cheapest, but they offer predictable pricing and just charge a fixed increase compared to the price they pay their supplier. You can trust that they won't mess around with the renewal price or arbitrary extra fees.

For my .org domains I pay ~£15 per year, but if you don't care about the tld, you can get some for ~£6 per year (the costs on the website exclude VAT, but if you buy multiple years at a time, the amortised cost including VAT ~= the price excluding VAT).

I personally prefer browsing the web with JavaScript disabled, and using search engines like Marginalia to find simple websites. I don't see a big difference in experience between browsing these websites in lynx or edbrowse, vs using Gemini.

I get the appeal of having everyone on the network share the same culture and values, but I prefer to just find the people doing that in the wider network of the web.

Still, I'm happy it exists and that people enjoy using it. To each their own!

I worked at a bank at the time. We were moving to a new system and running recons against the old system to check the behaviour was the same. I had to run a manual recon of the old system vs the new 4 times per day. There was a lot of focus from management and users on the new system.

The week leading up to Christmas, I was the one person not on holiday yet, and also the most junior person on the project. I found that week so stressful, as I had to run these recons and quickly decide whether each break was real or not before reporting to the users. Despite having worked on that system, I had very little confidence and didn't have the same intuitive mental model of the system my colleagues had. I had to dig into each break case-by-case, but they seemed much more able to understand what was going on via a few simple queries.

Anyway, I get through the week and left for the holidays on Thursday evening. I'm just grateful that I've gotten through it. Then, around 3pm on the Friday, I see a missed call from the tech lead. I log in, and everything's on fire. I join the incident call, and it turns out that we hadn't processed a single trade in the new system that whole week. I discover that it was thanks to a config change I'd made several weeks before, that had just made it to production. No-one (neither the users, nor I) had realised! But we missed several hundred million pounds worth of payments in that week as a result.

It was so jarring, having been relieved that I made it to the holiday, then joining the incident call and struggling to work out what to do. I completely dissociated and my mind was blank. I remember being on the call and really passively and calmly walking around my room. I kept thinking "I need to do x, I need to do y" but my mind couldn't focus and I was just staring at the screen. At some point I just lay in bed with my laptop while on the call.

There had been a total failure of process: my change had been approved by two people, the nonprod environment was configured differently in a way that didn't expose the bug, the recon failures looked very similar to the false positives, and there were so many false positives that it was impossible to dig into all of them. Meanwhile, we didn't have basic queries monitoring that trades were flowing in, and the users weren't paying much attention either, until they realised that it was broken.

Still, I made a lot of mistakes. I should have just escalated that there were breaks instead of trying to figure it out myself. I shouldn't have been afraid to call the tech lead and bring them out of their holiday. And I shouldn't have been afraid of the confrontation with the users.

Anyway, that experience really messed me up mentally for a long time. I lost so much confidence and became so much more scared of production (not in a healthy way). It really was not the right environment for me.

I really like the fade from silver to black. It's like both of their colour schemes in one depending on which angle you're looking at it.

Was the curse playble in the end game?

I don't think so, since you have to be in a queue when you cast it (and therefore not in your hiding spot). I guess he could have played it while they were on the line to him, but I reckon the hiding zone is built up enough that they could've cleared it relatively quickly.

They also make a big deal about "Qualcomm® support until 2036" but the battery is not replaceable. So in reality, 4-5 years of use tops?

I though the final monologue was very funny, made all the better by him getting increasingly pixelated as the camera zoomed in :D

I would have liked to see the queue curse, but I think it's fair enough that he didn't take it, especially since they're on their way straight to him.

He was probably right to play it safe, but I was shouting at the TV to choose the hand expansion + draw one card! I know Sam's run got messed up for not having enough time bonuses, but it was so early in the round that the risk seemed worth it to me.

The first section where Adam just pestered Sam to give him Edinburgh facts was awesome. Could tell he'd had enough of hearing that Sam spent 4 years there 😂

There are a few such foundations!

• NLnet (among other things) donates to a lot of fediverse and similar projects, including multiple donations for lemmy.
• Software in the Public Interest acts as a fiscal host for its 45 member projects. You can make a general donation, or a donation to specific projects.
• The Software Freedom Conservancy, among other things, acts as a fiscal host for its projects. You can donate to individual projects, or make a general donation to conservancy and they will use it in whatever way best advances software freedom.
• Likewise, the FSF has a "Working together for free software fund" which has a few projects listed. I can't see a way to donate to the fund as a whole, but if you don't mind some (most?) of the money going to things that aren't directly developing software, you could make a standard donation to the FSF.

Nice to see that even in the virtual world, anti-immigration protesters are not "patriotic" enough to know what the flag looks like.

I never stop being amazed by running snac on the server, with toot and tuba as clients, and seeing everything work seamlessly with everything else. None of this software ever expected to interact with the others - and it all works!

I should have the same feeling about email, the web, XMPP etc, but I'm just so used to those that it isn't awe-inspiring to me anymore.

Personally, I'm pretty sentimental about my bike (also a beater, but single speed) and want to keep it going almost no matter what. I think only the frame has remained the same throughout, and at times, I've definitely spent more than the bike is worth to fix it up.

I know that with cars, there's a definite cliff edge where it becomes prohibitively expensive to maintain compared to a new one. But I feel like that's not really true with bikes, perhaps because there are just fewer parts to replace, and it's less invasive to strip out any given part?

I suppose it depends on a few things. Do you have any sentimental attachments to it, and is there anything you would change about the bike if you were buying a new one? Do you think you can get a better one for $200?

Thank you. Of those I think JOSM is the most appealing, if it can directly show the results on the map. I'll give it a go later just out of interest.

I also gave osmium tags-filter a go and it's meeting my needs for now.