Concert photos: Curse Mackey, the Bellwether Syndicate, and Clan of Xymox
There are few better ways to kick off the holiday season than with a good concert. 2018 was no exception in this regard - the DNA Lounge brought in a trio of goth heavy hitters spanning the last 40...
View ArticleLinux on the Dell XPS 15 Touch (9570)
UPDATED: 18 March 2019 - External display adapters that actually work with this model (and Arch Linux) added. For various reasons, I found that I had a need to upgrade Windbringer's hardware very...
View ArticleNeologism: Rotten egg dependency
rotten egg dependency - noun phrase - A service that a mission-critical application relies upon that nobody knows about but brings everything to a screaming halt when something happens to it. In a...
View ArticleNeologism: Maintenance contention
maintenance contention - noun phrase - When there is only one bathroom but two people need it for the exact same urgent thing.
View ArticleNeologism: Technical heresy
technical heresy - noun phrase - Openly demonstrating the imagination to come up with actual uses for a platform or application that it is currently popular to hate.
View ArticleNeologism: Taxonomic debt
Taxonomic debt - noun phrase - The time you spend learning arbitrary jargon at a new job. Source: Bradford Stephens
View ArticleNeologism: Trapdoor goalposts
Trapdoor goalposts - noun phrase - When two or more requirements are set up so that meeting one automatically means failing another. This is a bad faith argument whereby it is impossible to meet the...
View ArticleNeologism: Proper channels excise tax
Proper channels excise tax - noun phrase - The markup paid on commonplace things when you go through proper channels at work to do something rather than going rogue, buying it yourself and filing an...
View ArticleNeologism: @here grenade
@here grenade - noun phrase - The act of tagging a message @here (meaning, everyone) in a crowded Slack channel (users >= 100), causing everyone who's busy but monitoring to drop whatever they're...
View ArticleWar walking with a Raspberry Pi 0 W.
You've probably noticed from the datestamps of my last couple of weeks worth of posts that they were autoposted by an agent. This is because work has taken a turn for the extremely busy and I haven't...
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Getting the US Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade is the entire point.
Source: https://twitter.com/ilyseh/status/1126632534253735938
View ArticleNotes from Thotcon 0x0a.
My notes from Thotcon 0x0a: Hacking Con Badges for Fun and Profit Given by an EE Badge hacking started with DC23, HHV. Turned his DC23 record-badge into an analog clock. AND!XOR's DC24 independent...
View ArticleAccelerating a RAID-5 array with a solid-state hard drive.
A couple of weeks ago, one of my co-workers mentioned in passing that he'd surprised himself by adding an SSD (solid state drive) to his file server at home. To recap a bit, Leandra, my primary...
View ArticleNeologism: Disasterbation
disasterbation - noun - Idly fantasizing about possible catastrophes (World War III, EMP strikes, nexus collapse, civil war, simulation hypothesis system shutdown, full-blown hyper-blight) without...
View ArticleAnother .plan file update.
Yup, I've updated my .plan file yet again. The usual warnings about NSFW content apply.
View ArticleHave you tried turning it off and back on again?
Disclaimer: The content of this post does not reflect my current employer, or any of my clients at present. I've pulled details from my work history dating back about 20 years and stitched them into...
View ArticleHacking around memory limitations in shared hosting.
Longtime readers are aware that I've been a customer of Dreamhost for quite a few years now, and by and large they've done all right by me. They haven't complained (much) about all the stuff I have...
View ArticleIt's been a while. Summer vacation, if you like.
I haven't actually been on vacation lately, not really. I decided that I needed to go off and do some different stuff for a while. I've been in a rut lately and decided that I needed to shuffle some...
View ArticleGot some new hardware installed.
For a couple of years now, I've had my eye on the community of people who've had RFID or NFC chips implanted somewhere in their bodies, usually in the back of the hand. If you've ever used a badge to...
View ArticleNeologism: Checkers and chess
checkers and chess - noun phrase - A situation where two or more actors in a situation are using entirely different strategies, working toward two entirely different goals, or are following entirely...
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