eRac

joined 2 years ago
[–] eRac@lemmings.world 3 points 5 days ago

The empanada is the hotdog of the future!

  • The guy who keeps trying to sell me more empanadas.

It's a calzone. Come on, this is basic cube rule stuff.

[–] eRac@lemmings.world 3 points 6 days ago

My favorite version of God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen is the version by The Quiggles which appears on the Nitronic Rush soundtrack.

[–] eRac@lemmings.world 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It's the same writers for the books and the show. While the two aren't identical, I found them to be equally good.

I thought Amos was excellent. The only problem is that you never get to see things from his perspective, which is where he gets a lot more depth in the books.

[–] eRac@lemmings.world 27 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (14 children)

Cross-instance linking is a mess. You linked to an ad for your mobile app, which links to a kbin instance, which links back to lemmy.world... The app page devotes most of its space to download links while kbin demands the viewer log in before it will show them anything.

Technology Connections are great, but this doesn't feel very connected.

[–] eRac@lemmings.world 7 points 1 week ago

It bothers me. There are too many things that are either not standards-complient or support different parts of the USB feature set that compatibility is a wildcard.

I carry a large backup battery when I travel for work. It can keep my laptop going under load all day, allowing me to not care at all about proximity to outlets when working. It also allows me to painlessly recharge phones by just handing it to someone.

Last week, I was running something from someone else's laptop (enterprise HP, like mine, but different model). It got low, so I pulled out my battery. Plug it in... No power. I could see the voltage fluctuations of it negotiating, but nothing after that.

[–] eRac@lemmings.world 10 points 1 week ago

Look at this nerd with his airline industry operating model jokes.

Consumers greatly prefer the kernal-to-kernal operating model.

[–] eRac@lemmings.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Pumpkins are a subset of squash. Likely works for any of them.

[–] eRac@lemmings.world 5 points 1 week ago

There's more changes. Those are just being called out as likely driven by racism.

[–] eRac@lemmings.world 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I think the culprit is a clock in the background. I grabbed some clocks off image search, collaged them, and halftoned them. The numbers are bad, entirely possible I grabbed an Al clock and wasn't paying attention.

Stock and royalty-free image sources are getting so flooded with generated imagery that basically nothing will be 100% AI-free going forward.

[–] eRac@lemmings.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Charlotte has an international airport. That makes everywhere near it part of the border zone!

That hogwash has given Border Patrol jurisdiction over nearly everyone in the country. They have enhanced powers over other law enforcement because they are limited to operating near the border, so declaring everywhere the border makes them incredibly powerful.

[–] eRac@lemmings.world 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)
[–] eRac@lemmings.world 2 points 1 month ago

It was actually the system Cloudflare uses to catch and block bots that went haywire.

They had a fake database you could query that would pull content from a bunch of different shard databases. They updated the config so that systems querying it could see the shards in addition to the main dummy DB. The tool that pulled data out of it assumed that it could only see the dummy, however, so it just asked for everything when it pulled a report to pass to the filtering system.

The filtering system assumed the report it received would be properly formed and crashed if it got one that was malformed.

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