28? That could very well be the most senior member of DOGE. Everyone older than that knows better.

dumbest person in the room

meerly

Without meer, I guess.

They are not ran by smart people

not ran

Glass house?

1. find something Lennart built. Eg. systemd
2. remove that
3. go to 1

fuck managing ssh key auth for hundreds of engineers.

You can pull the ssh key out of LDAP/AD. We did this 10 years ago. Really slick.

Now with modern config management (sit down, Ansible, you millennial junk) the keys update anyway in about a second.

no [overlap]

Where do you think they pick the internal investigations crew from? If you haven’t guessed ‘experienced cops’, then please consider again.

These guys hate cops

There’s only a few ways career cops leave the force: disgrace, homicide, suicide, ptsd, hating the force and everyone on it. The goal is to grab them between “no longer a fan” and “I quit”.

till

\sigh

AT BEST it’s gonna be some ridiculous npm svalbard worth of projects in one tree, require all new hardware, and declare bankruptcy on the way. Canada did this with the Phoenix Pay System, except didn’t have ‘efficient’ funding so it only sucked but didn’t die.

11 weeks ago, ‘2023’ was last year.

This isn’t a slump yet. If Dougie shuts off the power to three states, I hope he does it during a break between the “oh no unregulated drinking water had maaaaaaaassive e.coli in it” diarrhea outbreak right when the softwood tariffs have cratered the toilet paper supply the worst.

At that point in time, expect a stark realization of the state of things to cause some sadness to leak into the market too. I predict three northern states fighting for black market TP and shitting prolifically in the dark to really affect the market. But probably, still, not his numbers.

Wait 16 months.

It’s gonna go lower before it’s done, but at 18 months people will know how the midterms look, and the next chance to break this 3/3 lock on government by the aristocracy.

Then it’s either dump it back in or dump it in the Nikkei or something as you negotiate the sale of the smoking ruin you called a house and get on the boat.

No problem!

I forgot how a tax by Trump on Americans to line his $trumpcoin pockets is going to help Joe Busboy. #bootstraps?

Yeah, I bet they’re already gone.

But here’s where we leave checkers behind and go to chess: that’s the point. The regs demand those convos persist as a record.

3d chess? “Please produce records of previous conversations where” … and name some monumental decisions which should have a lot of ancillary chatter but now has no record.

You can’t see the whole iceberg, but I predict someone just turned on the sonar to see what’s down there.

Not raising taxes unless strictly necessary, lowering them if it is permissible according to the above.

The tax rate is never the issue. If the gov can push through a responsible plan for spending our consolidated resources so it costs less than we’d need to pay separately, then it’s a win. Fuckwit conservatives talk a about reducing taxes and conveniently omit how they’ll reduce costs to match. Hint: Here, it’s always food inspectors and anti-corruption.

Oh. It’s gonna get reeeeally frosty at their place for a decade.

Psst. Destroying a building to kill one guy is collective punishment on all the building residents and - yes - a war crime.

The proof is in print and, apparently, not classified.

The word ‘literally’.

It’s been abused and needs to now just die.

Additionally, anyone uttering that word must be slapped by everyone who hears it.

No, they just need to enforce PDFs for things that leave an office so everyone else isn’t locked into loading and running a bloated mess just to view a read-only spreadsheet.

The analogue to the printed chart isn’t an XLS6 attached to e-mail. It’s a PDF.

That’s it. Done.

Sleeping through the worst parts of the heat is not a bad idea.

In 2021 when the heat got oppressive here, we couldn’t sleep through any of it. it was 45c in one daytime, and with 90% humidity it was an actual killer. There was no sleep at night, no sleep all day, it was all just counting the hours until it was over – or we had an excuse to go to work where - for me - it was a cool basement attached to a cooler datacenter. We joked we should move desks into there, but our little group may have left a door open to the DC and let the chiller do an extra 10% space on those days!

“Nosferatu spiders” in Germany

Apparently they’re called Fox Spiders in other places. It looks like a ‘wolf’ spider from here, but that’s apparently a common mis-identification. The two species love to hang out in wood piles and in corners and chase prey.

It looked like a few of the formerly-Tenegeria spiders we have here - Domesticus, Agrestis and Gigantica - which now all have new groupings I don’t care to learn. Thankfully none of those jump. But, then again, the jumpers are the only cool ones (eg Salticus scenicus and other spider-bros).