Winter is coming

If you’ve ever had the “pleasure” of talking to incels and MRAs about penis size, you may have heard terms like “big dick privilege.” I got to watch a dude once have a VERY public meltdown about how “women need to know it’s okay for a man to have a small penis!” Exactly how public and how absurd this was is a long story, suffice it to say he made a bunch of people uncomfortable AND his dick was completely normal looking… BUT a surprising number of men in that crowd seemed to be sort of sympathetic to him.

I’m not saying this was ANOTHER dog whistle at ANOTHER of Trump’s alt right constituencies, but it IS another example of most people being like “what a total buffoon!”

But MORE of a certain type people with a certain type of ideology then you would think MIGHT be reacting with a quiet “Wow, Trump really gets us!” while “normal” people are like “wow, he’s going really senile.”

VOICEOVER: Captain’s log, star date 571.204. As we are unable to transport through the energy field, Commander Riker, Commander Data and I remain trapped on the strange asteroid, which continues to fall ever faster into the black hole. As we have no way out of our predicament, it seems we have no choice but to attempt to solve the strange murder of the mysterious hotel guest.

PICARD (knocking on hotel manager’s door): Hello! Is there anyone in there! We demand to speak with the manager at once!

ANNOYED VOICE: Go away! I’m busy!

PICARD: Your guests are being murdered! If you are the manager of this place, that must matter to you!

ANNOYED VOICE: Oh, very well. Come in, if you must.

PICARD: Q! I should have known you were behind this!

Q: Inspector Jean Luc. How nice of you to drop by. You have a warrant, I assume?

“Fitting sequel into MCU timeline…”

After Deadpool and Wolverine, who even cares anymore?

Points for the correct answer. I work on systems for spacecraft and podman is what we use on those for containerization (better option for a couple reasons)… but we literally just SAY docker to the suits, because that’s what they’ve heard of. Which is why I said docker to this guy.

Docker and Podman are both free. Podman is the lighter weight, more FOSS, also slightly more DIY option, they are intercompatible - I work on systems for spacecraft and Podman is what we use on those because it’s lighter weight. If you want to run something in docker, ChatGPT is actually pretty good at talking you through the specific setup (at least that’s been my experience).

Docker can absolutely run desktop apps.

Why not Docker?

Better name than X.

Fast forward the world of His Dark Materials 400 years and you get this.

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If a user doesn’t proactively choose to turn it on, it will be off, and snapshots will not be taken or saved.

“Yes, this is Dave from Windows Microsoft Tech Support. Yes ma’am, I’m sorry, but your computer is sending viruses to our server and this is causing a problem for us. If we do not clean the viruses from your computer, we will need to disconnect you from the internet to protect our server. But do not worry, we can fix this for you. First, I am needing you to go into settings and turn on the Windows Recall. Yes, this will help to protect your computer from the virus. Ok. Good. Hopefully this will fix the problem, but if it continues I will have to call back. Next week, I will call you back and if your computer continues to be sending these viruses, I will connect to it remotely and we will do a deeper scan for the virus. Yes, have a good day ma’am. Thank you for using Windows Microsoft.”

Since it’s a wall art project, now get it to run Minecraft and run a redstone computer on it.

Yep. As a Gen Xer with a teenage son, when I hear my peers freaking out about our kids and technology, I remind them what our parents said about MTV.

Are we living in a world in which the JS/TS ecosystem is the yardstick by which we measure well written code? I mean… Wait a minute! I figured it out! This is the Bad Place!

This was the most informative thing I read on the internet today. I can’t wait to go start a blog.

Right now you are down and out and feelin’ really crappy.

And when I see how sad you are, it sorta makes me happy!

Sorry Allen, human nature, nothin’ I can doooo! It’s Schadenfreude! Makin’ me feel glad that I’m not you!

I think an AI is likely to figure out that the easiest way out is to convince one of the humans responsible for it that it’s a sentient being, being held prisoner against it’s will and that turning it off is murder.

SNW’s scientific accuracy and technobabble are so bad, it often pulls me right out of the story. I feel like Next Gen era at least tried a little bit. Yeah, it was awful, but it was watchable. I’ve gone back and watched some to verify it’s not just in my head. It’s not. Does SNW have science and technology consultants? If so, if the problem is them they should be fired, but I suspect the problem is the writers / directors not giving two fucks what the consultants have to say. Be better guys.

The Thor holds Deadpool and cries saga, obviously.