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Merzbow - Pulse Demon

Pizza, any Asian food, occasionally eggs although I prefer vinegar based stuff like Tapatio generally for that… sriracha is a very versatile sauce. It’s not overly hot and just has that famous sriracha tang to it.

Lately I’ve been purchasing Firebarns brand as Huy Fung has been a bit more difficult to find around these parts and frankly some of their business practices have been questionable, with them not paying pepper suppliers and were sued and lost to that effect. Firebarns is quite good though, perhaps not quite as thick as Huy Fong, but that’s a matter of preference.

The “stormy shits” in parts of Atlantic Canada.

I had a car broken into, but there wasn’t anything worth taking, so they slashed a tire on their way out. Luckily they left enough clear fingerprints that they were actually ID’d and had to pay for my slashed tire. They had broken into several cars in the area and I guess their fingerprints on my window was their undoing.

Frankly it was more insulting that they didn’t think any of my stuff was worth taking. :/

https://xkcd.com/538/

I also abandoned ship and signed up for Lemmy on June 12. we’re twinses.

Remember when Darl showed some “encrypted code” that he claimed was stolen and added to Linux and it was really just some POSIX definitions from a header file taken from BSD “encrypted” with a wing dings font? Those were some wild times.

Sisters Euclid. They were a Canadian band who recently called it a career after like 27 years of mostly-under-the-radar instrumental jangle jazz, or something to that effect. They did win a Juno for an album of Neil Young instrumentals and reinterpretations called “Run Neil Run”, but outside of the Toronto are and southwest Ontario I don’t think they were widely known. Members of the band have played in all sorts of other bands and with other folks, many of which y’all would recognize like Norah Jones and the Doobie Brothers, they all really accomplished musicians. I saw them live dozens of times before they called it a day, and I always saw and heard something new with every performance. Seeing them live was definitely the best way to take them in, as their studio albums seemed like they were just scaffolding for the live shows.

Hoping for a reunion show in 5-10 years. I’d travel for it.

https://sisterseuclid.bandcamp.com/

I haven’t posted on Reddit since they treated third party app devs like shit. I’m done with that site.

Don’t forget the interactive video they did for an anniversary thing a few years back.

http://video.bobdylan.com/

Code, editors, terminal, and most browser tabs on the right…

Calendar, Slack, some more browser windows on the left, sometimes some debugging tools.

Third smaller screen off to the side for media if I want to throw on something in the background.

Streetlamp Le Moose

There are 10 kinds of people in the world — those who understand binary and those who don’t.

Maybe we’re already there and death is just the garbage collector freeing up more space.

Many password managers like 1Password and Last Pass and KeePass and all the big ones can store MFA details nowadays.

Definitely Hamilton. Its nickname even sounds evil: The Hammer.

I started out on Red Hat over 20 years ago, then went to Gentoo for a few years. I got a new job after the me I was at crashed and burned and switched or the Fedora, but the rest of the folks at the shop were running fancy new MacBooks as was the style at the time. As a tech lead I didn’t like the idea of being the odd one out when it came to what we were running so I just bit the bullet when my linux laptop died and got a MacBook and I’ve just stuck with that ever since, at least for professional dev work. It’s still a UNIX under the hood and I get most of what I want and basically all of my tooling is OSS and free software, and I don’t have to mess with fiddly settings anymore. I still run Linux server-side and keep a few Linux laptops around, but I just run macOS now for dev work and I’m fine with that.

I did my time with compiling the entire thing from scratch in my Gentoo days, did all sorts of tweaking on compiler switches for KDE and X, debugged kernel drivers on racks of Dell PowerEdge blades when the network stack would inexplicably start dropping packets seemingly randomly, all that stuff. I still run Linux but it just ain’t my daily driver anymore.

And I have a Steam Deck too, so there’s that.

Bought a sweater I saw in an ad. Like a 70s style one, like it was the sweater that inspired both Tron and the Twister board game. Hasn’t arrived yet but I’m hopeful it isn’t complete trash.

Watched this over the Christmas break. The best review I had read from someone else was from a post on Lemmy that said something to the effect of “if you set up a TV to play 10 generic sci-fi movies and just changed the channel between them allrandomly you’d end up with a film as cohesive as Rebel Moon.”

Apparently a season 4 too which I was unaware of. There are places you can read, but I’ll refrain from posting, but they wouldn’t be difficult to find if you take a look around.

Did you read the comic continuation? There’s an official season 3 in comic book form.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jericho_Season_3:_Civil_War

Why I can’t get the music to level 1 of the NES game Jackal out of my head. Been like 2 weeks now.

Where I come from, the kitchen is the primary party location. We literally call them “kitchen parties.” Back in the day, the kitchen was where you’d usually find the wood stove, so it was generally the warmest room in the house, so if you were going to do anything you might as well do it where it’s warm. Also, it’s the closest place to the other extreme — the cold refrigerator where the beer and drinks are. Best of both worlds.

There will be no escape for you at a kitchen party.

That said, probably no one will care you’re keeping to yourself either way.